Manchester has become famous for the Manchester Music movement based mainly round Factory Records, The Hacienda and groups such as The Happy Mondays and Joy Division.
However, what many people fail to realize is that the activists behind the music such as Tony Wilson and Martin Hannett, learned much from the previous incarnation of Manchester Music, the soul movement. Hannett used to frequent the Twisted Wheel as I can attest – we both attended Xaverian College and I knew him well.
Manchester - home to Soul Music - Northern Soul as it is termed now began here in Manchester in the ...
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SOUL CITY MANCHESTER and MUSIC - Manchester’s youth, the Soul Mods started the appreciation of Black American music in the ...
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Manchester Then - in the Sixties - Matchstick figures, dirt and grim, black, black buildings, smoking chimneys and more smoking ...
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Mr Smiths was a Manchester 60's Night Club that had live soul and blues artists amongst the acts that appeared ...
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Palace Theatre Manchester The Spring of 1967 saw the arrival in Manchester of the Stax European tour 1967. Held at ...
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Pubs - Manchester - The Nags Head and The Rising Sun were both close to the Brazennose Street Twisted Wheel ...
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1964 saw the first ever FANZINE for Blues and Soul music and its artists. R & B Scene - Roger ...
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Granada TV Manchester 3 Scene At Six Thirty was a local news and entertainment show in the 1960's. It had ...
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The first night at the very first Twisted Wheel had the Manchester pop group The Karl Denver Trio performing Wimohwey ...
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