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The Fabulous Sylvester: The Legend, the Music, the Seventies in San Francisco – Joshua Gamson, 2006

This affectionate biography of Sylvester is an unexpected delight. Gamson, a lecturer at the University of San Francisco, is a brilliant prose stylist (a rare gift in academia) bringing Sylvester and the West Coast of the 1960s and ’70s to vivid life. Quite comfortably the best book on that vilified genre hi-NRG.
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Ian Levine

Ian Levine was resident DJ at Blackpool Mecca, a key club in the development of northern soul. Levine was primarily responsible – along with Colin Curtis for guiding the scene away from its oldies-only policy and towards modern soul and disco. Later, as resident at Heaven and producer of hits for Miquel Brown, Divine and many others, he went on to forge the sound known as hi-NRG. He also produced Take That.

 

Where were you born?

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Robbie Leslie

OK, tell me about your background.

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