Many consider the birthplace of soul music to be northern United States inner cities, particularly Chicago.

In Chicago, Curtis Mayfield helped develop the sweet soul sound that later earned him a reputation as the Godfather of northern soul.

The phrase northern soul was coined by journalist Dave Godin and popularised in 1970 through his column in Blues and Soul magazine.

The term refers to rare soul music that was played by DJs at nightclubs in northern England.

Modern soul developed when northern soul DJs began looking in record shops in the United States and United Kingdom for music that was more complex and contemporary.

In the United Kingdom, the Motown Sound became the basis of the northern soul movement.

The band opted to record a radically reworked cover version of " Tainted Love ", an obscure 1964 northern soul track sung originally by Gloria Jones ( the girlfriend of Marc Bolan at the time of his death ) and written by Ed Cobb of The Four Preps.

Musically, the band fused indie pop guitars with a rhythmic style that owed much to house music, funk, and northern soul.

The latter has achieved cult status with northern soul fans and remains a favorite.

Northern Stomp was widely well received, with DJ Magazine giving 4 stars saying " This is a fully-blown band album dripping with ( northern ) soul.

Brown moved to Hulme, and attended northern soul " all-nighters " across the north of England in the early 1980s as the scene faded.

The northern soul movement, however, generally eschews Motown or Motown-influenced music that has met with significant mainstream success.

As the favoured beat became more uptempo and frantic, by the early 1970s, northern soul dancing became more athletic, somewhat resembling the later dance styles of disco and break dancing.

The phrase northern soul emanated from the record shop Soul City in Covent Garden, London, which was run by journalist Dave Godin.

The venue most commonly associated with the early development of the northern soul scene was the Twisted Wheel in Manchester.

Although Wigan Casino is now the most well known, the best attended northern soul all-night venue at the beginning of the decade was actually the Golden Torch, where regular Friday night soul " all-nighters " began during the latter months of 1970.

Contemporary black American soul was changing with the advent of funk, disco and jazz-funk, and the supply of recordings with the fast-paced northern soul sound began to dwindle rapidly.

Whilst the tempo was similar to the earlier Motown Records-style recordings, this shift in emphasis heralded a slightly different style of northern soul dancing and dress styles at Blackpool Mecca and created a schism in the northern soul movement between Wigan Casino's traditionalists and Blackpool Mecca's wider approach, which accepted the more contemporary sounds of Philly soul, early disco and funk.

After a `` busy '' overture, the curtain rises on a farm scene -- the Ranavan Valley in northern Maine.

Once again, Panipat was the scene of a confrontation between two warring contenders for control of northern India.

The Low Countries were the scene of the early northern towns, newbuilt rather than developed from ancient centres, that mark the reawakening of Europe in the 12th century.

Final changes in the geography were caused by the intensification of the scene of the Battle of the Pelennor Fields: the distance between Osgiliath and Minas Tirith was reduced by four times ; the northern regions became guarded by " Tol Varad ( the Defended Isle )", later renamed Men Falros " place of foam-spray " and then Cair Andros ;< ref > the inhabitants of the newly introduced Drúadan Forest enabled the Rohirrim to pass freely to Minas Tirith ; and the hills of Emyn Arnen ( originally Haramon " southern hill ") justified creating a bend in Anduin so that the revelation of Aragorn and his reinforcements occurred closer to the battlefield, at the quays of Harlond ( at first Lonnath-ernin " Arnen-havens ").

A scene of the Texas Hill Country in northern Uvalde County

After the war, the Soviet Union annexed northern East Prussia, and the until-then German town of Preußisch Eylau — the scene of the 1807 battle — was renamed Bagrationovsk in his memory.

The western and much of the northern ramparts still exist and form the scene of an annual theatre known as Nyborg Voldspil, which is Denmark's oldest outdoor theater.

A particular genre that developed was the nocturnal scene lit by candlelight, which looked back to earlier northern artists like Geertgen tot Sint Jans and more immediately to the innovations of Caravaggio and Elsheimer.

The valley, especially in the lower northern section, was also the scene of bitter partisan fighting as the region's inhabitants were deeply divided over loyalties and Confederate partisan John Mosby and his Rangers frequently operated in the area.

The heath was the scene of the unconditional surrender of German forces in northern Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands to the Allies, under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, on May 4, 1945, at the end of World War II in Europe.

The river canyon was the scene of the successful Salween Campaign in World War II, a battle fought by the Chinese against Japan in 1944 – 1945 in order to open up the blockaded Burma Road supply route from India, in combination with a second campaign to remove Japanese forces from northern Burma.

Ancient Egyptian carved scene of circumcision, from the inner northern wall of the Temple of Khonspekhrod at the Precinct of Mut, Luxor, Egypt.

A scene in the BBC series Sherlock episode The Great Game takes place beneath the bridge's northern side, where members of Sherlock's homeless network congregate.

The Quebec metal scene also produced other fine bands such as Kataklysm ( northern hyperblast ), Despised Icon ( deathcore ) and Cryptopsy ( death metal ).

However, the northern army could not arrive quickly to the scene, as they had not expected the call and would have to pass through enemy territory ( Argos and Orchomenus ).

* in the western part of the northern gallery, again unfinished, a scene of royal entertainment including athletes, jugglers and acrobats, a procession of animals, ascetics sitting in a forest, and more battles between Khmer and Cham forces ;

* in the northern gallery, past the doorway to the courtyard, a scene in which the Khmer flee from Cham soldiers advancing in tight ranks ;

As the 1970s progressed, the northern soul scene expanded even further nationally.

When Wigan Casino closed in 1981, many believed that the northern soul scene was on the verge of disintegrating.

Many of these labels were set up by DJs and collectors who had been part of the original northern soul scene.

The 1980s — often dismissed as a low period for northern soul by those who had left the scene in the 1970s — featured almost 100 new venues in places as diverse as Bradford, London, Peterborough, Leighton Buzzard, Whitchurch, Coventry and Leicester.

In June 2010, theatre director Fiona Laird wrote and directed Keeping the Faith, a musical based on the Wigan Casino scene and featuring northern soul music.

According to northern soul DJ Ady Croadsell, viewed retrospectively, the earliest recording to possess this style was the 1965 single " I Can't Help Myself ( Sugar Pie Honey Bunch )" by The Four Tops, although that record was never popular in the northern soul scene because it was too mainstream.