I don't think you can. If you could you wouldn't put words into people's mouths to then knock down the straw man you created.
Don't be daft. The best soul band ever never got paid what they were worth. Very few know their names and some died in poverty and neglect. Yet they appear on every major 1960s compilation and I suspect you have hundreds of songs with them playing.
Good music was hard to come by in the 1960s? There was never such an explosion of music of all types as there was from 1962. God knows what your dad was doing with his time.
Exactly, the 60s was arguably the most important, culturally and artistically, decade in music history.
Booker T and The Memphis Horns didn't die in poverty or neglect. Or the lads at Muscle Shoals. Who are you referring to, Obi?
The one's you haven't mentioned. I'd be surprised if you haven't got a fair few singles with them playing. Finding the answer is easier than finding a needle in a haystack.
It wasn't just musically, Quill. First time that teenagers had money of their own and freedoms their parents didn't have. Low unemployment, access to consumer items in a way never seen before, barriers being broken down in entertainment and arts, young people and working people getting opportunities in ways previously unknown. Some of it caused problems we are suffering from today, a sense of entitlement, lack of respect and so on but it was the best time to grow up. I remember on three consecutive Saturday nights at Bridlington Spa seeing The Who, The Small Faces and The Spencer Davis Group, the last one on the night England had won the World Cup. City had just rampaged through Division 3. I thought can life get any better? And the answer was no.
I don't wish to speak ill of the dead, but I don't get Whitney Houston - all that yelling and yodelling her way through dreary ballads
So from the 60's to now, what ethnicity generally makes up a Rock band? Ergo the Beatles have a lot to answer for.
Do you mean the Motown lads? (I don't classify Motown as soul, that to me is Stax, Atlantic etc...) I remember watching a documentary about the first Motown tour, which wasn't well attended,though they went down a storm, until they featured on the Dusty Springfield Motown special (first time I had seen the Temptations who weren't on the tour but brought over for the show). The backing musicians were amazed that these white kids knew all about them as no one did back home. The freedom to go in anywhere they wanted and mix with anyone made a lasting impression on them and made them more determined to see change in the USA.
For what? Black people aren't in general fans of rock music. Next thing is you will be saying the likes of Motown only had artists of one colour. Is that the Beatles fault as well? Let's ignore the fact that recording Please Mr Postman, You Really Got A Hold On Me and others introduced more people to Motown music than anything else.
