Soul Music Monthly
Soul Music Monthly was the second name of Soul magazine, a UK fanzine started in 1965, which aimed to cover the whole 'soul' scene, from the earliest recorded blues artists to later commercial or pop rhythm and blues.
17 articles
List of articles in the library
Otis Redding at Tiles: 16.09.1966
Live Review by Bill Millar, Soul Music Monthly, October 1966
OTIS SHOULD receive a mention in the Financial Times this year. The attendances on his recent our, especially in the London area, were quite phenomenal. ...
Robert Parker: Shakespeare Hotel, Woolwich, London
Live Review by Bill Millar, Soul Music Monthly, January 1967
THE NUMBER OF blues and blues-based artistes touring the UK in the autumn months is quite absurd and not everybody will have the time or ...
Profile by Bill Millar, Soul Music Monthly, February 1967
Edwin Starr was born Charles Hatcher in the country-music capital of Nashville, Tennessee, on 21st January 1942. Neither his mother, Amanda, nor his father, William, ...
Live Review by Bill Millar, Soul Music Monthly, February 1967
HAVE PITY on the unfortunate rhythm and blues enthusiast for whom the West End of London is the most convenient place to get to; inevitably ...
The Coasters: Eleven Years of Coastin’: The Coasters
Discography by Bill Millar, Soul Music Monthly, February 1967
Several years ago The Coasters were internationally known and much has been written about them. Whilst I do not wish to regurgitate facts that are ...
Discography by Bill Millar, Soul Music Monthly, February 1967
Had Little Esther been born in the 1920s instead of the 1930s, I feel sure she would have become as widely admired as that other ...
Solomon Burke: The Marquee, London, 18th July 1966
Live Review by Bill Millar, Soul Music Monthly, February 1967
JUST OVER a year ago, Solomon Burke made his first appearance at the Marquee and was greeted with incredible scenes of enthusiasm. Before he had ...
The Coasters: Whisky A Go Go, London
Live Review by Bill Millar, Soul Music Monthly, February 1967
Cornelius, Bobby and Nathaniel took the stand around 11 p.m. and those unacquainted with the team could be excused for thinking that they were about ...
Frankie Lymon And The Teenagers
Profile by Bill Millar, Soul Music Monthly, March 1967
It could not have been uncommon to have to wander around the poorer suburbs of New York City in the early 1950s, especially in the ...
Little Richard: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Bill Millar, Soul Music Monthly, March 1967
Little Richard has recently achieved considerable publicity and one may assume that Brian Epstein nudged the Press and ITV into action. However it was caused, ...
Discography by Bill Millar, Soul Music Monthly, April 1967
When a hit recording by a male singer emanates from the Atlantic label or one of its subsidiaries, it may be assumed, almost without exception, ...
Chuck Berry: Streatham Locarno, London
Live Review by Bill Millar, Soul Music Monthly, April 1967
I WOULD HAVE LIKED to have reviewed Chuck at the Savile Theatre, where initial audience reaction was such that his short-lived performance reached an all-time ...
Inez & Charlie Foxx: Inez And Charlie Foxx: The Flamingo, London
Live Review by Bill Millar, Soul Music Monthly, April 1967
On the two or three previous occasions Charlie and Inez have played the Flamingo, the club has been packed to capacity. On the 25th the ...
Maxine Brown: The Ram Jam Club, London
Live Review by Bill Millar, Soul Music Monthly, 2 December 1967
AFTER AN HOUR-LONG, musicianly performance of their own, the 'Q-Set', led by Miss Brown's own musical director, accompanied the artist we had all come to ...
Obituary by uncredited writer, Soul Music Monthly, 1968
THE IRONY of Otis Redding was his personal ambition — to fill the gap left in the soul world by the shooting in 1964 of ...
Frankie Lymon: I’m Not A Juvenile Delinquent: The Death of Frankie Lymon
Obituary by Bill Millar, Soul Music Monthly, 8 March 1968
THE LAST TWO months have been sad times for blues, rock and soul fans all the world over. All three idioms have had their brutal ...
Ike & Tina Turner, Tina Turner: The Ike And Tina Turner Revue: Streatham Locarno, London
Live Review by Bill Millar, Soul Music Monthly, 25 April 1968
IN SEPTEMBER 1966, some seven thousand people saw the Rolling Stones and like & Tina Turner at the Royal Albert Hall and – judging by ...
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