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The Wigan Casino was a nightclub in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Operating between
The Wigan Casino was a nightclub in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Operating between 1973 and 1981, it was known as a primary venue for northern soul music. It carried forward the legacy created by clubs such as the Twisted Wheel in Manchester and Golden Torch in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent. It remains one of the most famous clubs in Northern England.[1]
This England, a TV documentary about the venue, was filmed in 1977. In 1978, the American music magazine Billboard voted Wigan Casino "The Best Disco in the World", ahead of New York City's Studio 54[2]. Russ Winstanley and Dave Nowell wrote a history of the club, Soul Survivors, The Wigan Casino Story, which was published in 1996. A stage play by Mick Martin about the Wigan Casino years, Once upon a time in Wigan, debuted in February 2003 at the Contact Theatre in Manchester, and has since toured nationally.
[edit] History
Wigan Casino was the name of the last incarnation of a Wigan ballroom called the Empress.[3] The venue, previously called The Casino Club, was operated by Gerry Marshall as a cabaret club in the early 1970s. Alan Caine approached Marshall about running a soul music night in the Beachcomber Bar at the back of the club, to which Marshall agreed. Mike Walker recognised that at a local rugby club, Russ Winstanley had a similar evening that was more professionally operated than the one founded by Caine. Walker brought Winstanley from the rugby club to the Casino Club, and Wigan Casino opened in September 1973, with Winstanley as the DJ. Many famous soul performers performed there, including Jackie Wilson, Edwin Starr and Junior Walker.
Young people from all over the UK regularly made the trek to Wigan Casino to hear the latest northern soul artists and to dance. Queues to get in were sometimes five or six people deep, and stretched round the corner up into the town centre. The second dance floor, called Mr. M's, stayed open until 6am and played oldies songs from a variety of DJs. Every all-nighter traditionally ended with three songs that became known as the 3 before 8: "Time Will Pass You By" by Tobi Legend, "Long After Tonight Is Over" by Jimmy Radcliffe, and "I'm On My Way" by Dean Parrish. Parrish is still active on the northern soul circuit.
Amphetamine and other drug abuse led to the downfall of the club, with pressure from the police and the local authority forcing it to close in 1981.[citation needed] The final night of Wigan Casino in its northern soul state was DJed by Winstanley, and the 3 before 8 were played three times consecutively at the end of the night. The crowd refused to leave, so according to Winstanley, to "break this spell of hysteria" he picked a 7" at random from his box and played that. This final Wigan Casino song became one of the most famous northern soul songs of all time, Frank Wilson's "Do I Love You". The Wigan Casino building burned down a year after it closed.
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b. 4th April 1941, Winterville, Mississippi, U.S.A.
d. 3rd September 1994, Decatur, Georg
b. 4th April 1941, Winterville, Mississippi, U.S.A.
d. 3rd September 1994, Decatur, Georgia,U.S.A.
Major Lance was born in Winterville, Mississippi.
As a child he relocated to Chicago, where he was initially raised on the west side of the city, before he moved near the north.
While studying at Wells High School, Lance began boxing.
Curtis Mayfield and Jerry Butler also went to the same school.
His interests soon veered towards music and this new interest led to him forming the group the Floats with Otis Leavill and Barbara Tyson.
Lance also sang with the Five Gospel Harmonaires.
His dancing earned him a spot on a local program hosted by disc jockey Jim Lounsbury.
His 1959 Mercury release, 'I Got A Girl', was written and produced by Curtis Mayfield, a high school contemporary, but Lance's career was not truly launched until he signed with OKeh Records three years later.
In the meantime he took various jobs to supplement his income.
'Delilah' opened his OKeh stint, whilst another Curtis Mayfield song, 'The Monkey Time', in 1963, reached number two on the R & B charts and number eight pop
The partnership between singer and songwriter continued through 1963-64 with a string of US pop chart hits: 'Hey Little Girl', 'Um Um Um Um Um Um', 'The Matador' and 'Rhythm'.
'Ain't That A Shame', in 1965, marked a break in his relationship with Curtis Mayfield as its commercial success faded.
Several singles followed, notably 'Investigate' and 'Ain't No Soul (In These Rock n' Roll Shoes)', however, Lance left OKeh for Dakar Records in 1968 where 'Follow The Leader' became a minor R & B hit.
Two 1970 releases on Curtom, 'Stay Away From Me' and 'Must Be Love Coming Down', marked a reunion with Curtis Mayfield.
From there, Lance moved to Volt, Playboy and Osiris, the last of which he co-owned with AI Jackson, a former member of Booker T. And The MG's.
There was a two-year stay in Britain (1972-74), during which Lance recorded for Contempo and Warner Brothers.
Shortly afterward, his career took a turn for the worse, when in 1978 he was convicted of selling cocaine.
Lance spent the next four years in prison.
Upon his release, he began playing the Beach Music circuit on the Carolina coast (a revival of his earlier work prompted the liaison).
Tragedy hit again in 1987, when a heart attack prevented him from re-launching his career.
In 1994, he performed at the Chicago Blues Festival, a show which turned out to be his last.
Major Lance died of heart failure on 3rd September 1994, at the age of 55, leaving a fine legacy embedded within the fabric of Soul Music.
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Skinhead is of purely British origin, it was not until well into it's existence that it wa
Skinhead is of purely British origin, it was not until well into it's existence that it was recognized as such by the Jamaican music industry, and then became part of a feed-back loop connecting the British Isle's to Jamaica. What is Skinhead in a Jamaican music context? In truth it could be said that almost all music, known collectively as Reggae, from the late 1960s until about c1972 could be claimed as Skinhead, because Reggae was the Skinheads music of choice, they identified with its content and form and adopted it with pride. As with all styles and movements the story reaches back into its pre-existence. Three defining characteristics of a Skinhead, the mode of dress, the type, or class, of person, and the music, had all existed before the Skinhead had been codified. The most defining characteristic of the Skinhead is, of course, their appearance, and the hair in particular. As is well known many of the very first Skins were at one time Mods who were, for numerous reasons, many to do with fashion, disinclined to dress and behave in the evolving style and attitudes of the Hippie, a predominantly American (West Coast) middle class situation. The haircut and all of the clothes that became standard dress for the (male) Skinhead were worn previously, at one time or another, by Mods. This is not to take anything away from the style of the Skinhead, it just reinforces their commitment to some of the class values inherent in the Mod movement.
Only when Skinhead's had asserted their existence were they able to claim the preceding (Jamaican) music as their own. This was partly because it had shared these same characteristics, and had inadvertently helped to define the Skinhead. The early Jamaican music that the Skin's identified mostly with, were cuts like: Derrick Morgan's Fat Man, and Eric Morris's Humpty Dumpty, both on the Blue Beat label, and: Forward March Derrick Morgan, Miss Jamaica by Jimmy Cliff and Housewife's Choice Derrick & Patsy, all on the Island label, it was these, and others in a similar strident or assertive vein, from the pre Ska period that would have later become part of the lexicon of Skinhead Reggae. Yet it was with Ska and the first mention of 'Rude Boys' that the embryonic Skinhead had matured into a recognizable entity.
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Northern Soul is the term used in the UK for a type of mid-tempo and uptempo heavy-beat so
Northern Soul is the term used in the UK for a type of mid-tempo and uptempo heavy-beat soul music (of mainly African American origin) that was popularized in northern England in the mid 1960s. The term also refers to the associated dance styles and fashions that emanated from the Twisted Wheel club in Manchester and spread to other dancehalls and nightclubs; such as the Golden Torch (in Stoke-upon-Trent), the Blackpool Mecca, and (in 1973) the Wigan Casino. Northern soul dancing was usually athletic, resembling the later dance styles of disco and break dancing. Featuring spins, flips, and backdrops, the northern soul dancing style was inspired by the stage performances of visiting American soul acts such as Little Anthony & The Imperials and Jackie Wilson.
A large proportion of northern soul's original audience came from the mod movement. Some mods started to embrace the freakbeat and psychedelic rock of the late 1960s, but other mods - especially those in northern England - stuck to the original mod soundtrack of soul and blue beat. Some mods transformed into what would eventually be the skinheads, and others formed the basis of the northern soul scene. Early northern soul fashion included bowling shirts, button-down Ben Sherman shirts, blazers with centre vents and unusual numbers of buttons, Trickers brogue shoes, baggy trousers or shrink-to-fit Levi's jeans. Many dancers wore badges representing membership to clubs organised by dance halls.
The first nightclub that effectively defined the northern soul sound was Manchester's Twisted Wheel Club. Other early clubs were the The Mojo in Sheffield, The Catacombs in Wolverhampton, Golden Torch in Stoke, Room at the Top in Wigan, the Wigan Casino, the Blackpool Mecca and Va Va's in Bolton. The music reached its peak of popularity in the mid to late 1970s,
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