Being brought up with soul music in the 60ts I felt it had run its course in the early 70s not knowing that a club in Wigan was going on, I was married in 73 and our first house had a hotel/bar nearby, one Saturday night I noticed 2 guy's standing at the bar with holdalls with soul badges on them, politely asking them what it was all about they told me about the Casino to which i immediatly turned my nose up at , one of the guy's said he would make me a tape and sure enough it was left behind the bar for me, on getting home I eagerly put it on and was horrified at what I was hearing and dismissed it out of hand, on meeting up with them again the following week I told them it all sounded like white pop music that had been recorded in a toilet , but forgive this fool as it turned out the track listing was as follows--
Turning My Heartbeat Up
Queen Of Fools
The Statue
Wait A Minute
well you don't want to hear the rest do you? , but instead of going and sussing it out I continued to turn my nose up at it, it was'nt until the invent of the CD that I realised what i'd been missing, not just at the Casino but Wheel, Mecca etc, I rate that as one of my biggest mistakes
Lenny