Led Zeppelin and Jimmy Page took heavy inspiration from the world of American blues music, but one classic track also drew from soul sensation Wilson Pickett.

The Sixties Show is the longest-running music program on WMNF ... Meanwhile Atco, Motown, and Stax were creating Soul Music, and James Brown invented Funk. There were girl groups and classic Doo Wop.

In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, soul and R&B music dominated the charts in America. With the massive success of Detroit, New ...

Exploring the life and times of Cassiano, the Brazilian artist who pioneered the sounds of funk and soul during the late ...

Join Slate pop critic Jack Hamilton for a bold re-examination of the music of the ’60s. Hamilton and his guests ... tangled relationship between pop and soul, music and politics, entertainment ...

The Staple Singers, whose early 1960s protest soul had inspired Bob ... and gospel to contribute to the founding of soul music in the 1950s. He had a profound influence on a number of highly ...

That genre consists, skeletally, of the interaction between disco and the Sixties soul-music sensibility. It also places far more importance on wordplay than most current disco. It is, bluntly ...

Here are Radio 2 listeners, Jacki, Clive, Paul, Steve and Mark discussing the joys of discovering northern soul music.

"The atmosphere is vibrant, welcoming, and full of good vibes," she adds, "whether you're a long-time 1950s and 1960s music fan, or just discovering it for the first time." The inaugural Soul A Go ...

The Soul Connection are on a mission to bring the magic of classic 60s soul music to the masses. With spine-tingling vocals, a driving rhythm section, and tight horns, this group doesn't just play ...

For April we have Parka Pat as our guest DJ from Montreal (Modtreal & Addicted to the Needle podcast)! Expect to hear 60s soul, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, girl-groups, funk, mod, garage ...