It all started in 1960s Hitsville, USA - the birthplace of Motown. The soul explosion took off around the world, but then everything went quiet and it seemed as though it had dropped off the radar.

Five key tracks to get a northern soul party going. The northern soul movement had such a huge impact on working class kids from the northern region of the UK. With the Australian release of Northern ...

Fifty years ago this weekend, the Wigan Casino nightclub hosted the first of its legendary all-nighters, which made it the epicentre of the Northern Soul scene. As midnight approached every Saturday, ...

This audio is no longer available. It's been 40 years since the first all-night R&B party at the Wigan Casino nightclub outside Manchester, England. The doors didn't open until 2 a.m., and its ...

Get ready to move! Northern Soul BCC Prom is about to hit the road for Northern Soul Orchestrated - full details and how to get tickets below. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Sunderland ...

In the late Sixties, a new youth movement burst on to the scene. Combining a passion for soul music and an appreciation of talented dancers with a love of amphetamines – in the unlikely setting of ...

Long before the legendary Wigan Casino All-Nighters, The Room at the Top was already hosting all-night Soul and R&B sessions, spinning the early sounds of Motown, Stax, Atlantic, and '60s Mod Beat.

England's "Northern Soul" music scene of the 1970s is re-created in Elaine Constantine's long-aborning first feature. The working-class “Northern Soul” milieu of England’s 1970s, which seeded much of ...