Stuart Cosgrove
Author
Series
Publisher
Birlinn Limited
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
First in the award-winning soul music trilogy-featuring Motown artists Diana Ross & the Supremes, Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, and others. Detroit 67 is "a dramatic account of twelve remarkable months in the Motor City" during the year that changed everything ( Sunday Mail ). It takes you on a turbulent journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in 1967 and tore it apart in personal, political, and interracial disputes. It is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Birlinn Limited
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Second in the award-winning soul music trilogy following Detroit 67 -featuring Memphis artists Isaac Hayes, Mahalia Jackson, Otis Redding, and others. In the 1950s and 1960s, Memphis, Tennessee, was the launchpad for musical pioneers such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Al Green, and Isaac Hayes, and by 1968, it was a city synonymous with soul music. It was a deeply segregated city, ill at ease with the modern world and yet to adjust...