Hewan Clarke
…they'd been to America and they'd seen places like Paradise Garage and the Loft and all these places which had brilliant magnificent sound systems, you know, they brought it back to Manchester, they brought the size and the idea but they didn't bring the sound system with them. That was the main thing that let the Hacienda down…
Les Spaine
…I think a lot of real Soul fans who were into the Northern scene were used. I could see very little difference between the way the people who ran the Northern Soul scene carried on, and drug dealers with junkies. Now that might sound extreme but you analyse it. They had their market, they got it hooked and they kept it hungry…
Stu Allan
…and you think ‘oh God’, but the nightmare about that is you go to Legend on the Wednesday and you get your giro the next day, so that means you’ve got your 46p to get into Manchester and then buy bleeding imports, you know…
Norman Cook
…Until House came along I don’t think the English made very good dance records, you know, there were very few really good English Rap records, whereas once House came along all of a sudden we started and now I think we probably lead the world, and have overtaken America in dance music…
Dave Clarke
…I remember the first time I saw an 808 drum machine was actually when I was recording for R&S. I always thought that the cowbell was someone hitting the outside of a space shuttle out in space…
Tony Williams
For The Love of Love Money
…I remember distinctly the bass player, Errol, and I said Errol,
I need you to put two bass lines on this track for me
. He looked at
me and said, Mr Williams, you can’t put two bass lines on a record
.
I said, why not?
and he said, it’s not done, man!
…
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