It all started in 1960s Hitsville, USA - the birthplace of Motown. The soul explosion took off around the world, but then everything went quiet and it seemed as though it had dropped off the radar.

It is my first experience of time travel, and a little unsettling. It is a grey autumn morning in 2012 when we park near the Swinton Palais, a faded dance hall in Salford, but when I walk inside I am ...

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Many of the musical genres of the 1970s have long gone, but one remains. Here, our reporter looks at Northern Soul and a remarkable film that celebrates a subculture that has endured in Scotland for ...