Various Club Classics - 50 Years Of Northern Soul (2-LP)

(Charly) 28 tracks, gatefold cover
The ultimate introduction to Northern Soul with more than 70 minutes of ground filling anthems from the birth of the scene in Manchester's Twisted Wheel, through its heyday at the Wigan Casino and Blackpool Mecca, to the current weekend phenomena.

The 28 club classics that make up this important collection have all been remastered from the original master tapes for the first time and are presented on double vinyl in an elaborate fold-out sleeve.

Club Soul traces the birth, development and eventual commercialization of the world's most enduring underground music movement:
Northern Soul.
Born in the postwar urban club scene, brought to life by the hot new sound of American Rhythm & Blues, Northern Soul developed into a unique genre of its own, capturing the imagination of the nation's youth, seducing them with its secret world of night dancing, a world alien to their parents and even their peers.

Club Soul offers hundreds of rare soul and R&B tracks from the archives of both legendary and lesser-known American record companies. Here are hits, standards, rarities, obscurities, and here these very tracks are researched, compiled and commented on like never before.