Plastic soul
Plastic soul is a term coined by an unknown black musician in the 1960s, describing Mick Jagger as a white musician singing soul music.[citation needed]
Paul McCartney heard the comment and later said that the name of the The Beatles album Rubber Soul was inspired by the term "plastic soul".[1] In a studio conversation recorded in June 1965 after recording the first take of "I'm Down", McCartney says "Plastic soul, man. Plastic soul."[2] David Bowie described his own funky, soulful songs released in the early-to-mid 1970s as "plastic soul". These singles sold well, and Bowie became one of the few white performers to be invited to perform on Soul Train.[3] In a 1976 Playboy interview, Bowie described his then-recent album Young Americans as "the definitive plastic soul record. It's the squashed remains of ethnic music as it survives in the age of Muzak, written and sung by a white limey."[3]
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- ^ The Beatles (2000). The Beatles Anthology. San Francisco: Chronicle Books. p. 194. ISBN 0-8118-2684-8.
- ^ (1996) Album notes for Anthology 2 by The Beatles [booklet]. London: Apple Records (34448).
- ^ a b "Interview with David Bowie". Playboy. September 1976. http://www.teenagewildlife.com/Appearances/Press/1976/0900/playboy.html.
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