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'Northern Soul': Excitement In U.K. With U.S. Records

Peter Jones, Billboard, 31 May 1975

LONDON — It is spoken of, in grateful but astonished tones, as Northern Soul. It is a frantic, energetic, money-spinning soul scene, based in the industrial north of England.

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