The Northern Soul Top 500
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This book is really aimed at record collectors. Kev Roberts has identified what he considers to be the most important five hundred northern soul records of all time and compiled them into this list. Each entry is illustrated with a scanned image of the record label. The information given about each record is the position in the top five hundred, the original label and the current value. Kev makes a short comment about each one mainly explaining why it occupies the position that it does. He also includes a quotation from some soul aficionado about each entry explaining its relative merits. The top one hundred are given a page of their own, whilst numbers one hundred and one to five hundred are given half a page. At the back of the book Kev gives some other lists including: important records that didn't make the top five hundred, essential CD purchases (and no, they're not all Goldmine), top ten sounds from the years 1967 to the present day, Northern soul records to make the pop charts, top ten soul venues, top ten live performances plus a lot more. These pages are well illustrated with posters, pictures of artists, advertisements and plenty of other memorabilia. The choices made are by definition very subjective, because they are the personal choices of Kev Roberts, but this cannot be avoided. One must accept that there are few people on the scene more qualified to compile it. A little more ominous is that politics and personal wrangles seem to have tainted the selection. Most obviously is the omission of 'Manifesto', the top selling Northern Soul magazine at the current time. This one criticism apart this is an interesting book and one which I wish had been published earlier. If it had I might not have sold my collection quite as cheaply as I did. |
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