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Motown On The Mersey

Another chance to hear Craig Charles celebrate the heyday of Liverpool's Mardi Gras club.

Another chance to hear Craig Charles celebrate the heyday of Liverpool's Mardi Gras club, which in the 1960s played host to high-calibre black performers such as Ben E King, Al Green , Arthur Conley , Clyde McPhatter and the Chants, and aspiring locals such as the Vocal Perfection (later the Real Thing). The club became the music mecca for a postwar generation of white and black lovers of the Stax sound.
Recalling the glory days of the Mardi Gras are singer Geno Washington , Eddie and Chris Amoo (of the Real Thing), trumpeter Kenny Ball , journalist Paul Du Noyer and Tamla Nights comperes Billy Butler and Chris Wharton.

57 minutes

Last on

Sun 25 Aug 2019 03:00

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  • Sun 25 Aug 2019 03:00

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