“In all my negotiations for singing at five venues in England and Scotland in May, not one person – myself included – thought about asking if I needed a work permit for these engagements. “I guess I have told this story 1,000 times already. You wrote a bit about it on your website, but if the memories aren’t too painful, try and tell us what happened and why you were refused entry.
So Judy, everything went a little awry last time you turned up in England. Judy was born in Indiana, discovered in Arizona and recorded in California before settling in Nashville, Tennessee, where I caught up with her before her re-arranged UK trip. That B-side has never been out of fashion since, and although only 1,000 copies were initially pressed, it is rated among Northern Soul’s finest moments. The Tennessee resident only recorded two songs in the 1960s, yet passed into the annals of soul history thanks to Hollywood-based songwriting legend HB Barnum.Ĭult 45: You Turn Me On/What, the original 1968 pressingĪs a sweet teen – just turned 19 – she delivered slow-burner You Turn Me On and seminal dance track What in 1968, the flip-side of the single going on to catch the imagination on Wigan Casino’s legendary all-nighter scene around five years later. Judy remains something of a cult hero on the scene after recording one of Northern Soul’s most-coveted tracks of all time 45 years ago. That has now become a reality, with the performer set to headline the next Preston’s Got Soul show at 53 Degrees on Friday, October 3.
The singer and music teacher was devastated by that turn of events, although moves were soon afoot to rearrange part of that visit for later in the year. That scuppered a planned five-date visit for the Nashville-based Northern Soul cult legend, the promoters of her Preston’s Got Soul special appearance apologising for a situation they said was ‘out of Judy’s and our control’. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Four months ago, it was announced that Judy Street – the subject of a feature on this blog barely a week earlier – had been turned back on arrival at Manchester Airport ‘due to an inadequate work permit’. In 2005 he was named Broadcaster of the Year in the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards and in 2012 he won numerous awards including a BAFTA and Royal Television Society award for Channel 4's coverage of the London Paralympics 2012. A graduate of Hull University, he completed a PhD in modern American theatre history. He became media editor with the NME and a feature writer for a range of newspapers and magazines. Stuart Cosgrove, originally from Perth, was a fanzine writer on the northern soul scene before joining the black music paper Echoes, as a staff writer.
'an enjoyable account of the northern soul scene.It's not just first-hand memories here, we also get a detailed history from the scene's root to the present day.fascinating' **** -Mojo About the Author: 'it simply scintillates' ***** - Record Collector 'A thoughtful and impassioned memoire, complete with sociopolitical analysis' - Herald Buy the book, you won't regret it' -Dave Rimmer, .uk it truly is a personal history, but it weaves its way through our own history as well. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Young Soul Rebels nails a scene that is as popular today as it was in its heyday in the 1970s. Books have been written about northern soul before but never with the same erudition and passion. The book sweeps across fifty years of British life and places the northern soul scene in a social context: the rise of amphetamine culture, the policing of youth culture, the north-south divide, the decline of coastal Britain, the Yorkshire Ripper inquiry, the rise of Thatcherism, the miners strike, the rave scene and music in the era of the world wide web. ' The opening line of Stuart Cosgrove's Young Soul Rebels sets up a compelling and intimate story of northern soul, Britain's most fascinating musical underground scene, and takes the reader on a journey into the iconic clubs that made it famous The Twisted Wheel, The Torch, Wigan Casino, Blackpool Mecca and Cleethorpes Pier the bootleggers that made it infamous, the splits that threatened to divide the scene, the great unknown records that built its global reputation and the crate-digging collectors that travelled to America to unearth unknown sounds. 'Nothing will ever compare to the amphetamine rush of my young life and the night I was nearly buggered by my girlfriend s uncle in the Potteries. SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC PRIZE 2017
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