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The Animals, The Rolling Stones: English Artists Find 'Soul' Music Is More Than Skin Deep

Louise Criscione, KRLA Beat, 4 September 1965

THE SOUL of today's music, the place "where it's at" is rhythm and blues. The type of music, this "soul", has been around the U.S. for decades now and it has always captured a small number of hard core fans, but it has only recently gained acceptance by the whole pop scene.

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