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Richard Searling Book - Setting The Record Straight - News

Richard Searling Book - Setting The Record Straight - News magazine cover

News is about that signed deluxe hardback copies of the forthcoming book from Richard Searling are now available for pre-order from Anglo American.

Titled 'Setting The Record Straight' and with it having taglines such as 'Music & Memories from Wigan Casino 1973-1981' and 'The Sounds That Shaped My life' and being billed with enticing descriptions such as... 

'This unique account reveals many closely guarded secrets and delivers a fascinating insight into the thrill of finding rare American soul records and life behind the turntables in that most hallowed of halls...' 

...this book does seem to have the potential to be an addition to the must purchase list of 'Northern Soul' related books .

It's out in September 2018, guess we will find out then...

Promotional Blurb

Over 250 pages and 150 exclusive records that defined the glory years of northern soul 1973-1981

Renowned DJ and broadcaster Richard Searling relives the records that defined his career at the world famous Wigan Casino between the years 1973 to 1981.

Pre-order Details

The Deluxe Hardback Edition is now available for pre-order signed by the author. £29.99 (INC UK P+P)

Available from Anglo American https://www.raresoulvinyl.co.uk  Phone: 01 706 81 8604

See flyer below for more ordering info

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Just finished reading the book. interesting things about some of the records but the best part for me was the last chapter  from soulies sharing their  memories from the Casino.  Hope the follow up book is more focused on that side of the Casino. Overall I think it's a book similar to the top 500 only from Richard,s personal record plays and discoveries point of view. Overall I think it's a good book 

Steve 

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I  thoroughly enjoyed Setting The Record Straight. There was no ‘kiss and tell’ which i think is of great credit.

 I thought i’d read Richard’s book whilst playing each of the tracks at the same time. I’m glad i did... comments such as the one he made about “School of Life” p 216 was so touching, especially as the record plays. And there were many more.

 How many of us over 60yrs of age (now) would have thought (back then) we would be able to listen to all these records in our own homes?

 I then thought...how much would these all cost to own today? So i gave it a go - here’s the results.

Value, price, cost, rarirty, obscurity, fashion, and availability all have their own individual charachteristics. Put subjectivity, rareity, obscurity, fashion, condition and which sources you use to make ‘value’ judgements into the mix, and you get a heady combination when trying to figure out ‘how much you might have to pay for a particular 45 listed in the book’ in today’s market.

 

Notes:

  1. Data collected from 4th Nov 2018 to 13th Nov 2018
  2. Data Collected on: From page 26 The Admirations - TO - page 234 Z.Z. AND Company
  3. Data Collected on 154 Records = £139,367

Some are just priceless! So add your ‘value’ for these. EXCLUDED are: All Acetates (p33, 37,38, 52, p82-83, p144-145, 161, 174, 217, p219-220), Big Bee 778 and Tie 101.

  1. Data= Sold or for Sale (no guesswork as such): 1st Call on Discogs, then checks on Soulsource,Popsike, and others. So for example, Approx 84 from Discogs entries used and checked elswhere, 2 from Richard’s book itself, 28 from Soul Source and checked elswhere, and so on. Only a minority of the data (rarer issues e.g. Sussex 213,Peaches 6271, Awake 502,) came from years prior to 2016. For Discogs data the HIGHEST sold figure was taken, and in fact the MEDIAN was not that much different (at the top end).
  2. The Highest 10 = £49,894
  3. The Lowest 10 = £216
  4. LP’s =7

Along the way, going back and forth, i did notice some anomolies. Mostly to do with Labels. But this wasn’t ever meant to be a reference book, and i’m thankful for that. Again...great read.

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7 hours ago, Kenb said:

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thanks for posting that, very interesting and confirmed it's a millionaires thing now really

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