Talk:British soul

British Soul entry

I have concerns about the quality of this article. I accept that some hard work went into it but it makes certain assumptions that are contentious. It mentions a string of artists who were influenced by soul music but who can't be described as soul singers ie.Tom Jones. It fails to mention a number of legitimate British soul acts such as Jimmy James & The Vagabonds (active in the 60s/70s), The Real Thing (a pop group yes but surely more akin to Soul Music than say David Bowie or Simply Red), Delegation (successful in the UK & USA) or Hot House (who cut one of the best British soul LPs . If one looks closely the 60s only produced a handful of soul/R&B records from England. There were more in the 80s with groups like Light of the World and solo acts like Junior the latter who had a huge no 1 in the USA.

There is a body of opinion that argues that Soul Music as a seperate entity was subsumed by other genres and I'm in this camp. The article mentions the British soul invasion - Some fine singers but its not soul music - that morphed into something else around 1980.

Just a suggestion but why not ask the author Clive Richardson to write an article or perhaps John 'Soul' Smith. They were around in the 60s and understand what went on. dorkinglad (talk)

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Wrong information on British Soul entry--------------

I agree. This article is clearly written by someone who knows very little about the Late 70s Jazz Funk movement in the UK.The author was most certainly not a Jazzfunkateer or a Soulhead as we used to be called. No mention of Billy Ocean, Freeze, Atmosphere, Shakatak, Second Image,The Ebony Brothers, High Tension, Imagination,Total contrast,The Uk Players, Linx,or David Joseph when he went solo... Incognito did not emerge in the 90s i have Incognito vinyl from the 80s just after they parted company with LOTW. We had loads of Jazzfunk/Soul bands in the UK. Commercial pop acts like Style Council,Culture Club, Phil Collins or the eurythmics are NOT and were never considered Soul bands.The idea that stuff like that would ever have been played in a 70s/80 Soul club Like All Nations, Gullivers or Gossips is frankly laughable. And how can one speak about British Soul without mentioning Rod Temperton? This Article needs to be re-edited

Soulhead1981Soulhead1981 (talk) 17:57, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

I don't think we should have pictures of on this page

I think its very biased and an unfair representation of other artists to have pictures of some but not others. For instance you have a picture of Adele not Amy Winehouse, a picture of Tom Jones not Dusty Springfield. I think this will cause friction among people as there will be some people who are upset that their favourite soul artists are being left out. Also you can't say which artist is more prominent, one can have higher sales another can be more influential, for instance Bieber has had greater sales than Hendrix but who is more influential. I propose we remove all of the pictures on this page that way we don't make out some are more prominent than others and that way we also won't get people changing them to being their favourite artists in future.