Stuart Cosgrove originally from Perth, was a fanzine writer on the northern soul scene before joining the black music paper Echoes, as a staff writer. He became media editor with the NME and a feature writer for a range of newspapers and magazines. In 2005 he was named Broadcaster of the Year in the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards and in 2012 he won numerous awards including a BAFTA and Royal Television Society award for Channel 4’s coverage of the London Paralympics 2012. He is the author of Young Soul Rebels (Polygon, 2016).
'Sheer poetry . . . it truly is a personal history, but it weaves
its way through our own history as well. Buy the book, you won't
regret it'
*soul-source.co.uk*
'Cosgrove recalls [the Northern Soul scene] with a passionate
honesty that never shirks, laying bare the dark side behind his
personal eulogy to a whole musical genre… there are many striking
moments that provide continuing food for thought. That’s what I
call a good book'
*Congleton Courier*
'A thoughtful and impassioned memoire, complete with sociopolitical
analysis'
*Herald*
'it simply scintillates'
*Record Collector, 5 Stars*
'an enjoyable account of the northern soul scene...It's not just
first-hand memories here, we also get a detailed history from the
scene's root to the present day...fascinating'
*Mojo, 5 Stars*
'Not so much a book, but an LP with pages and pictures. Cosgrove
gives northern soul the loud, upbeat voice it deserves'
*The Skinny, 5 Stars*
'Witty . . . and hard-hitting in equal measure'
*Scootering Magazine*
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