Not at all Pete, I'm saying that as DEFINITIVE HISTORY (and that's what it was billed as), it came up extremely short in my opinion is all and I'm afraid I found it very boring. Same old people droning on and on about what THEY perceive as the history of soul in UK. It's more like THEIR history in my opinion. No mention of the music at all hardly, it was just background. Egos out front, music at the back. Not much changed there then eh?
"The majority of the people were Northern labourers for whom the Mecca was a fantasy from their dull as dishwater lives." - Romanticism gone wild.
The James Brown comment sort of summed it up. I'd say the description should have said 'potted history". That would have been nearer the mark.