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Christmas is coming and we are fast running out of Limited Edition copies of the books with the Tamla Motown Appreciation Society 45.

When planning the book we had numerous discusssions about...

manifesto, the leading Soul magazine in the UK, are carrying a review of the book in their latest issue.

Here is a snippet of the review by Ian Stebbings: -


"This book is a treasure of never...

We have had a rush of orders in last few weeks, clearly for Christmas presents.

If you are about to order from USA and want the book as a present, please note that as we are sending out from the...

We set the cost based on the price of publishing it,ie obtaining the rights, paying for it to be prepared [[which took a long time), printing it on high quality paper, and marketing.
We could...

The recent Al Abramns TV interview on Fox in Detroit can now be seen in the "Hype & Soul" section of our web site -

www.soulvation.biz


The site has also been updated with more photographs...

For anyone looking to purchase the book via Amazon, it is for sale on our Amazon shop in the UK. When you add postage and packing is same price as via our web site.

URL to get to our Amazon shop...

On behalf of Robert Bateman have just licenced his classic release on HIB, Exus Trek by Luther Ingram Orchestra, to the online web ad for the film. Exus Trek will also be used in the film.
Some...

I remember as a teenager in the UK buying an import of his single "Stealing In The Name Of The Lord" and just loving it.
Then we started to infiltrate clubs we were too young to legally go to, where...

What a shame.
RIp Donnie.
CHA are one my favourite groups ever.
I promoted them at an All-Dayer at Blackpool Mecca in the late 1970's and it was an amazing event. Just closed my eyes and can see...

The book now available on Amazon in UK via the publishers web shop.

The book came out 2 weeks ago and is definitely not out of print. Don't know where Amazon got that info from, but they are incorrect.
Only the first 500 books contain the bonus TMAS single, and the...

All pre-orders mailed out 2 weeks ago.
It will be delivered by regular mail.

Thanks - Neil

Just to confirm ALL orders have gone out.

The books are on the way.

It has gone down very well with UK purchasers, so hopefully it will be get the same reaction from everyone outside the UK...

John Manship who owns the world famous John Manship Records mail order operation is a hard man to please.

He has today on their site described "Hype & Soul" as possibly the best Motown book he...

Your order will have gone out this week, ie the book and record together.

All The Best,

Neil

Thanks to everyone for the great reviews. Much appreciated after all the work that went into this project.
Re the price issue - the actual price is £34.99. We believe the high quality of the book...

[QUOTE=motown_david;66019]Al Abrams' book "Hype And Soul" arrived this morning and I've just emerged from reading it this evening.

I can't give it high enough praise. Full of great photos, a lot...

Just confirming that all orders have been sent out.
Look forward to your reactions.

To me, the attraction of Hype & Soul is that it is not either a coffee table book full of great photographs and other memorabilia or a piece of fine journalism - it is both. Al writes a series of wow...

Update - all books will now be despatched tomorrow, Tuesday, not Wednesday.

Yes, the first 500 books have the bonus single, and that stock is still available.

Now we have the book we have checked out the actual postage costs & they are even higher than we anticpated.
So for anyone thinking of orderng a copy, if you do so now pre-publicaton you are getting...

Thank you very much indeed Paul for the kind comments. As we were working on the book we knew we had something very special, but the finished result is something else, Al has come up with a unique...

Here's a quick update.

Last night we got a handful of copies of the book to approve. We have done so, and the stock will be delivered to us early next week so we will be able to post out Tuesday...

Hi there,

The regular issue in black vinyl has big hole, like a USA import, but not same size.So looks petty much like USA import.
The limited edition Audition Copy discs - 150 copies only in...