It is my first experience of time travel, and a little unsettling. It is a grey autumn morning in 2012 when we park near the Swinton Palais, a faded dance hall in Salford, but when I walk inside I am ...

It all started in 1960s Hitsville, USA - the birthplace of Motown. The soul explosion took off around the world, but then everything went quiet and it seemed as though it had dropped off the radar.

Inside a two-story venue in central Bristol, England, the early May air was warm and humid as dozens of people grooved on a dance floor, nary a phone in sight. Onstage, a DJ spun vinyl records as a ...

This audio is no longer available. It's been 40 years since the first all-night R&B party at the Wigan Casino nightclub outside Manchester, England. The doors didn't open until 2 a.m., and its ...

Many of the musical genres of the 1970s have long gone, but one remains. Here, our reporter looks at Northern Soul and a remarkable film that celebrates a subculture that has endured in Scotland for ...