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Well, as a teenager I wasn’t bothered about what a poster above rightly called Motown's ‘blue collar’ appeal or credentials. Nor did I “want to conform but couldn’t”. I simply couldn’t identify...

Sure, variety is the spice…

Yours is an interesting bio. I guess such a wide range if influences is quite rare. I wish I’d had a similarly broad education, musically speaking. My granddad played...

Hi sotosound,

The thread is about why Motown became popular in the UK, and I think that if you accept that a particular kind of music is the product of a particular type of...

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Probably the whole country listened to BBC Radio 1 back then since there wasn't any other station for younger people to listen to. So we all listened to the Tony Blackburn...

Why did Motown become so big in the UK? Seems to me the main reasons are social and economic.

During the 1960s black Americans enjoyed massive social advancement and equality, thanks mainly to...