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Originally Posted by Alan Gilmartin
It was people like us Wyn (in the UK )who embraced soul in the 60s & 70s, we didnt give a toss about colour, it may have come out of the USA but it was ours. Well thats why they made all those covers because black wouldnt sell. The bands in the UK covered them in admiraton of what they were doing. God bless Obama. I never had flowers in my hair.
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Quite right, Al. Here's Otis at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. The American rock crowd knew nothing about him before then, yet he'd already toured Britain twice, appeared on Ready Steady Go and had hits in the UK charts. We loved their music better than they did!