1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:04,840 Tonight we revisit memories born in the smoke and sweat of the 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:10,360 cool mod clubs of the 1960s. Everyone of us carries a story 3 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:15,880 carved out of those nights, and tonight this one is mine. 4 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,680 I'm sure you all have a tell to tell about your experience of 5 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:47,080 the Northern scene. Well, this is mine and it was 6 00:00:47,080 --> 00:00:52,920 way before the torch, the Wigan Casino and the Blackpool Mecca. 7 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:57,440 It goes right back to 1967. What we're? 8 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:02,720 Going to do right here is go back way back back into time. 9 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:24,640 If you think you can hurt me just by running all round round 10 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:29,120 round. If you think you can break my 11 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:33,280 heart just by putting me down down, down. 12 00:01:35,360 --> 00:01:40,520 And if you think that you can make me cry and leave me all 13 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:43,800 alone and down, I've got this for you. 14 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:49,520 I've got this for you. I've got this for you. 15 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:54,440 And if you think about the love, I'll make you happy. 16 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:03,560 And if you think I'm not a love baby, it's gonna be true. 17 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:06,360 Yeah. And when you find yourself, I 18 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:11,680 don't know, thinking there's a place for you back home. 19 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:15,520 But I've got news for you. News for you. 20 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:21,760 I've got news for you. And in the morning, when you 21 00:02:21,920 --> 00:02:25,680 look, nobody's going to be there. 22 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:32,800 Here comes the birthday. This time you're going to pay. 23 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:53,350 You're going to pay. 24 00:02:53,350 --> 00:02:56,110 Yeah. And where you find yourself all 25 00:02:56,270 --> 00:03:00,800 alone, thinking there's a place for you back home. 26 00:03:01,640 --> 00:03:04,640 I've got news for you, News for you. 27 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:09,880 I've got news for you. You can't help me no more, baby, 28 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:16,520 I've got news for you. Oh baby, I've got news for. 29 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:24,920 Being a teenager in Manchester in the 1960s, music was 30 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,280 everywhere. Pouring out of shop doorways, 31 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:32,560 transistor radios, passing cars. It was part of everyday life. 32 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:37,280 I enjoyed all kinds of music, but you never forget the first 33 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:41,600 soul record that you heard. A friend of mine had a older 34 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:44,920 brother and to us he was a proper DJ. 35 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:49,560 He had double decks, lights and a crate full of imported 36 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:54,680 records, music that hadn't travelled across town but across 37 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:58,320 the Atlantic. One night he took us along to 38 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:00,720 one of his gigs. It was a church hall, not 39 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:03,760 upstairs, this was down in the basement. 40 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:08,920 Low ceiling echo on the walls, that familiar dam smell and 41 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:13,440 something in the air. Then the music hit. 42 00:04:55,840 --> 00:05:07,800 Got to find somebody, got to find somebody, got to find 43 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:14,080 somebody. But I could never, never, never. 44 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:39,780 No, we don't come back here. None. 45 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:26,240 There was Motown loud. Proper loud. 46 00:06:26,240 --> 00:06:29,600 The sound of Motown Records bouncing off those walls like it 47 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,680 belonged there. I was only 15, probably too 48 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:36,800 young if we're honest. It was meant to be a 16 to 18 49 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:39,520 year old knight. There was no alcohol, no 50 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:44,760 distractions, just music and a room full of people completely 51 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:48,160 lost in it. Proper dancing, not posing, not 52 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:50,640 shuffling, but movement with intent. 53 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,960 Every beat felt and every note lived. 54 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:58,120 And those voices, those black American voices coming through 55 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:19,440 the speakers at full volume. In my shoes this her side is too 56 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:23,120 much for me. Just walk in my shoes. 57 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:32,240 You see I love the love it used to be Try my hearty go ahead and 58 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:38,080 try it on the side. Just walk in my shoes and you'll 59 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:43,360 see through someone else's eye what you've done to me. 60 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:48,480 You have my love when you walk down and I just can't get myself 61 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:52,640 together anymore. I need a new love that we have. 62 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:59,080 Don't you walk in my shoes? Walk in my shoes and I play You 63 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:03,280 remember where? Just walk in my shoes. 64 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:06,680 What you say you want my love again. 65 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:13,800 Try on each new day. Welcome to rolling inside the 66 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:18,560 world. Just walk in my shoes and to see 67 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:21,880 how much I love you. So walk in my shoes. 68 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:36,559 Walk in my shoe what you've done to me. 69 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:42,000 You are all when you walk down and I just can't get myself 70 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:46,000 together anymore. To me and me, the love that we 71 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,480 have. Why don't you walk a walk, a 72 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:52,320 walk in my shoe. Walk in my eyes and I'll tell 73 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:56,240 you remember when and then the shoe fence. 74 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:00,080 What if you send you are not there again. 75 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:16,080 Walk in my shoe. Walk in my shoe. 76 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:21,440 The funny thing is I heard that track by the Magnificent Men, 77 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:25,440 just walking my shoes, which is a cover of the terrific Gladys 78 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:30,280 Knight and the Pips song, and it just filled the room. 79 00:09:30,760 --> 00:09:33,880 In fact, the room, it just owned it. 80 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:38,360 And I remember asking the DJ, which was my friend's older 81 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:43,720 brother, what is this music? He just said it's so Colin and 82 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:47,800 it makes you feel good and that was it just. 83 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:06,200 Because you've got a problem let you know you've got to face. 84 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:10,480 Keep on moving girl. You can't stop now 'cause the 85 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:16,280 world is a happy place and you try and work out every angle, 86 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:21,800 knowing that you didn't succeed. Your love turned you down. 87 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:25,280 You're upside down. Sooner later, baby, you'll see 88 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:31,960 in dark, Miss, I'll bring you light, help you to see into the 89 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:36,720 night, show you a world to journey, to live the dream of 90 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:39,640 tomorrow for you, we go to the sunshine girl. 91 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:47,760 Open up your heart, we go to the sunshine girl. 92 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:54,680 Rise to a brand new * You think that you're all alone in a world 93 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:58,400 I've hurt again. Believe in me. 94 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,720 Take my hand together, we'll chase away pain. 95 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:07,960 You need a helping hand because you feel that you can't. 96 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:13,120 Go on baby, I'll be there. So take that stand. 97 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:18,040 Just remember to look for the dawn in darkness. 98 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:23,760 I'll bring your light, have you to see into the night, show you 99 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:28,200 a world to journey to. There's a dream of tomorrow for 100 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:30,200 you. Wake up to the sunshine girl. 101 00:11:32,160 --> 00:11:38,080 Opening up your heart. Wake up to the sunshine girl. 102 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:49,520 A rise to a brand new *. As you cross through life's 103 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:52,800 horizon, there's a rainbow of happiness, and for all the pain 104 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:58,960 and all the hurt, there's a pot of gold you possess. 105 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:04,840 When you're given to the one you love, you'll be able to gaze at 106 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:07,120 the sunrise. You'll feel the warmth and all 107 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:14,720 the love he has shining through his eyes in darkness. 108 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:20,160 I'll bring your light through the sea into the night, Show you 109 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:24,520 a world to journey to. There's a dream tomorrow for 110 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:27,040 you. Wake up to the sunshine girl, 111 00:12:28,240 --> 00:12:34,240 open up your heart. Wake up to the sunshine girl. 112 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:40,840 Rise to a brand new * We go to the sunshine girl. 113 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:56,360 Open up your heart. In the area I used to live, the 114 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:00,560 place to go for Seoul, in those days especially, Nor the Seoul 115 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:04,240 was a place called the Bird Cage, and it had its own 116 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:07,200 reputation. A proper local hotspot with the 117 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:12,960 sound always on point and the crowd knew exactly why they were 118 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:15,360 there. Different nights, different DJs, 119 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:19,560 but the same energy. That feeling of everyone chasing 120 00:13:19,560 --> 00:13:24,280 the next record, the next moment and the next dance floor high. 121 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:29,200 It wasn't just another club, it was part of the circuit and if 122 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:33,920 you were into Seoul in that area, you ended up there sooner 123 00:13:34,160 --> 00:14:06,000 or later. The. 124 00:14:47,580 --> 00:15:21,210 The. The. 125 00:15:41,860 --> 00:15:45,860 Now by the time I started work and college on a day release, I 126 00:15:45,860 --> 00:15:49,940 began meeting people who felt the same way about music as I 127 00:15:49,940 --> 00:15:54,300 did, and that's when things really started to take shape. 128 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:58,080 There was Eddie now. Eddie was soul man. 129 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:02,480 He had the Crombie coat, the two toned trousers Bros you could 130 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:06,520 see your face in, and always sharp, always with his 131 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:10,560 girlfriend Adele. But more than the clothes, Eddie 132 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:15,680 knew his records and he introduced me to a place called 133 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:19,760 the Bower Club. And those Northern Soul Knights 134 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:35,400 there, they were electric. Baby, don't leave me. 135 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:39,000 If you do, you break my heart into nothing. 136 00:16:40,240 --> 00:16:44,720 You is my life. If you leave, you'll take my 137 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:50,680 life with you. My baby, don't leave me. 138 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:57,560 You were satisfied. Baby, don't leave me. 139 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:05,839 Baby, tell me why. Baby don't leave me. 140 00:17:05,839 --> 00:17:11,400 After all we've been through and I'll die. 141 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:14,560 But now you're saying we are through. 142 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:21,319 And baby, if you leave me be like a child without his toy, 143 00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:27,520 baby don't leave me. You take away the life that I am 144 00:17:27,520 --> 00:18:28,720 gone. And really, you've got to 145 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:32,320 realise that that particular time the Twisted Wheel was still 146 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:36,640 going in Manchester, Wigan Casino hadn't yet become what it 147 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:40,640 would be and the torch was still on the horizon. 148 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:45,000 But inside the Bower Club, we had everything we needed. 149 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:49,240 There was a dance floor, a sound system and records that really 150 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:52,440 meant something. We'd dance, we'd talked, we 151 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:56,760 swapped stories about imports, who'd found what, where it came 152 00:18:56,760 --> 00:19:01,000 and how rare it was, and everyone claimed they'd got a 153 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,480 bargain. Northern Soul really wasn't 154 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:06,280 about charts. It was about discovery. 155 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:09,160 Ownership of a sound, your sound. 156 00:19:09,520 --> 00:19:13,120 And somewhere in all of that, a thought took hold. 157 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:18,600 One day maybe I want to be up there behind the decks. 158 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:46,440 Then came 1974 you. Are my sunshine, you are my you 159 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:51,000 are my happiness, you are my faith. 160 00:19:51,640 --> 00:20:02,400 Don't ever need. If you believe me, it would all 161 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:09,120 obey. I'd go inside it for you. 162 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:19,240 All my everything. Everything, everything, 163 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:23,360 sweetheart. You, You are everything. 164 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:32,760 You are everything. Your eyes are my eyes. 165 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:40,880 Without you, how could I see? Without your shoulder to lean on 166 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:46,040 long, what would I be? Don't deceive me. 167 00:20:48,560 --> 00:20:55,520 Please don't deceive me. My heart would be a day. 168 00:20:57,360 --> 00:21:02,200 I'd never be the stable man for you. 169 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:10,360 All my everything. Hey you all my heart. 170 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:30,280 You're my daughter, you're my mother, you're my mother, you're 171 00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:37,760 my sister, you're my brother. And I've never, never, ever done 172 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:41,640 you. You are my everything. 173 00:21:47,440 --> 00:21:53,800 The Showman and your Everything Now 1974 was a huge year for the 174 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:57,360 northern scene and a life changing one for me because this 175 00:21:57,360 --> 00:22:01,920 was the year it all became real. I started D Jing at the Power 176 00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:07,200 Club, I was working at the Cavern and also the famous soul 177 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:10,080 seller. I was doing cabaret clubs and 178 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:13,960 working with artists like Jimmy James, Edwin Starr and JJ 179 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,920 Barnes. From watching it to living it 180 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:21,080 from the edge of the dance floor to right in the centre of it 181 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:24,720 all. And also 1974 saw the launch of 182 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:30,280 Piccadilly Radio, Manchester's first commercial radio station. 183 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:40,560 And through connections, I found myself invited onto the Late 184 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:44,960 Show talking about soul music. I was sitting in a studio, 185 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,440 microphone live, going out across the city. 186 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,640 The show was hosted by a guy called James Stanage. 187 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:57,120 He was very controversial, but he had more listeners than 188 00:22:57,360 --> 00:23:00,160 anyone else. And there I was talking about 189 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,960 music that has started in a basement. 190 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:07,320 Sadly, I heard he passed away just a couple of weeks ago. 191 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:12,080 And it makes you stop and think because people like that were 192 00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:31,600 part of the story. Hey girl, I want you to know I'm 193 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:36,920 going to miss you so much if you go. 194 00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:51,240 And hey girl, I tell you no lie. Something deep inside of me is 195 00:23:51,240 --> 00:24:16,520 going to die if you say so. If this is goodbye, Oh hey girl, 196 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:24,800 this can't be too. How am I supposed to exist 197 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:35,680 without you? Hey girl, now don't put me on. 198 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:42,600 What's going to happen to me when you're gone? 199 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:53,160 How will I live? How can I go? 200 00:24:53,160 --> 00:25:25,730 How can I go? Hey girl, now sit yourself down. 201 00:25:25,850 --> 00:25:43,680 I'm I'm not the same to get down on the ground and beg you to 202 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:55,600 stay. Don't go. 203 00:26:19,120 --> 00:26:24,760 And also in 1974, we also opened our family record shop, and 204 00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:26,920 really that just changed everything. 205 00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:30,240 Instead of chasing records, they were coming to us. 206 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:35,280 Boxes of imports arriving, unknown labels on her tracks, 207 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,960 people coming in asking what's new, what works. 208 00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:42,920 And there you are behind the counter, giving recommendations 209 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:45,880 with confidence because belief mattered. 210 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,480 The record shop quickly became its own world. 211 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,800 And it wasn't just a business, it was a meeting point. 212 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,520 People just didn't come in to buy records. 213 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:59,600 They came in to talk about them, argue about them and discover 214 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:02,480 them. Sometimes they'd stop mid step 215 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,800 when something came on and just say what's that. 216 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:11,400 And that question never got old. That was the whole point. 217 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:15,440 And I want to be honest, I never heard Do I love you? 218 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,000 Indeed I do. By Frank Wilson in any of the 219 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,880 clubs on any nights I ever went out. 220 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,680 It was so rare. It just wasn't around on the 221 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:29,200 floor to the places that I went to. 222 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,600 But now when you watch TV documentaries, it's always 223 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,520 there, almost as though it was played every night. 224 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:40,280 And the truth is, it wasn't like that in real time. 225 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:43,880 That's the difference between living the scene and looking 226 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:45,520 back at it. Back then. 227 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:50,320 It was about what worked in the room in that moment, and really 228 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:56,160 that's what made it real. The feeling is real. 229 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:04,800 I can't conceive. The pain in my heart keeps 230 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:14,400 telling me to quit. But why are you trying to keep 231 00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:22,480 us apart? You breaking my heart, Breaking 232 00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:30,760 my heart. You don't love me, but what can 233 00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:36,480 I do? The love in my heart keeps 234 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:46,040 crying hard for you. But why are you trying to keep 235 00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:54,320 us apart? You're breaking my heart, 236 00:28:54,360 --> 00:29:03,400 breaking my heart. Ever seen in life that you 237 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:19,160 cannot miss something? Or sometimes looking back at the 238 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:30,480 things that you miss and the feel feeling is just as bad in 239 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:39,440 their sympathy. And I'm so pity and deep in your 240 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:43,080 heart. I pray there's some for me. 241 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:51,040 So please stop trying to keep us apart. 242 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:54,880 You're breaking my heart, breaking my heart. 243 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:06,880 You're breaking my heart, baby. Don't break my heart. 244 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:11,360 You're breaking my heart, darling. 245 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:17,760 Don't break my heart. You're breaking my. 246 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:20,960 Heart. And that's where we leave it 247 00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:23,400 tonight on the Secret Soul Saturday. 248 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:27,400 From stompers to sleepers, from rare custard dance floor 249 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,840 killers. That's the sound and that's the 250 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,600 feeling and that's what it's always been about. 251 00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:37,200 No headlines needed, no myths or rewrites of history. 252 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:42,280 Just records, clubs, people and that moment when the beat takes 253 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,920 over. If you've been there, you know 254 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:48,640 exactly what I mean. And if you haven't, well, maybe 255 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:53,600 tonight you have a taste. Until the next time, bye bye. 256 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:21,240 Gotta try to forget her fire cool hard on me some get a new 257 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:27,880 faces gonna take them, step them up and they said got to get that 258 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:33,960 way, get away. Cool, I'm the old man. 259 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:49,480 To a strange neighbourhood. Never thought I would be 260 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:58,360 misunderstood. Wanna leave those memories 261 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:02,480 behind me? Wanna go somewhere they'll never 262 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,800 find me? Got to get away. 263 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:10,760 Get away. Good, I'm the old neighbour who 264 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:29,320 oh she you are true life and within my heart my life and 265 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:52,080 someone. Now I look, I've got to be going 266 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:56,200 before I'm not looking on the edition. 267 00:32:56,200 --> 00:33:05,040 We've got to live away and the only move?