Keep On Burning

"Like all great mods, Eagle was a snob, a purist. His mission was to play a wide musical vista that also took in blues and ska. This laudable approach would have worked had the majority of his crowd not been out of their minds on speed, demanding faster and faster music to dance to. Eagle gallantly resisted until bowing to the inevitable and moving to the Staxx Club on Fountain Street. Again, his timing was spot on: obscure soul music was now being demanded by the crowd and, thankfully, America was full of the stuff."

Paolo Hewitt in The Guardian retraces Britain's Northern Soul scene.