Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Northern soul" in English language version.
Soul Wars: Wigan Casino versus Blackpool Mecca
Soul Wars: Wigan Casino versus Blackpool Mecca
A Genre Built From Failuresd
Fighting for the soul of soul
Reissues and Commercialisation
A Genre Built From Failures
The world's rarest record
Northern Soul: The First Rave Culture
From Northern Soul to Nu-NRG"
Wigan's Ovation's cover version of a rare northern Soul song became a major top 20 chart hit in 1975. I think Wigan's Ovation's Skiing In The Snow was bad for Northern Soul. Terrible cover version of The Invitations' classic. That was when it was no longer underground. Everybody knew about it. 'I was into Bay City Rollers last year. Now I'm into Northern Soul'. You'd be speaking to work colleagues, they'd be saying, 'What are you into?', you'd say, 'Northern Soul', and they'd go, 'Oh, like Wigan's Ovation?'... 'No! How many times do I have to explain, that's as far away as it can possibly be?'... It horrified the purists. None of us at the venues were very happy about it, but what it did, it put Northern Soul on the music map for the industry.
