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An oral history of the forgotten dancers that set London on fire in the late ’70s An extensive essay from Terry Farley celebrating the legendary dancers that made the London club scene what it was in the late ’70s. In the course of the research, Farley and Roual Galloway interviewed a number of these forgotten club […]

The first stars of the UK dance music scene weren’t DJs or club runners. They were the dancers. Dance music authority Terry Farley pens a tribute to the forgotten legends of the late ’70s and early ’80s September 17, 2015 By Terry Farley MARK ROMAN’S CRACKERS CLASSICS The Crusaders – Stomp and Buck Dance The Brecker Brothers […]

Nightclubbing is a series on RBMA where we tell the story of the spaces that have forever changed the world of music. In this edition, Stephen Titmus writes about Crackers, the oft-forgotten London club that helped popularize jazz-funk in the UK By Stephen Titmus March 11, 2013 A. I. E. (A Mwana) – Black Blood From […]

  “ YOU GOIN’ CRACKERS ? ” NORMAN JAY MBE REFLECTS ON THE LEGENDARY LONDON CLUB It was deep down in the basement of No: 203 Wardour Street on the edge of Soho that back in thwinter of 1975 the seeds of urban London club culture were first sown.   I first went there towards […]