Craig Charles presents a documentary looking back at Liverpool’s Mardi Gras Club and the special relationship it had with 1960’s soul music tomorrow night on Radio 2.
The Mardi Gras opened in Liverpool in 1957 and went on to become a gathering place for a post-war generation of young music fans. It pre-empted the Northern Soul movement and the cavernous, former cinema presented a royal rosta of suited greats with the likes of Ben E King, Al Green and Arthur Conley taking to the stage.
The Mardi Gras also became home to Brian Epstein's most famous lost act: Toxteth-raised doo-wop masters, The Chants. The members only Mardi also developed into a highly competitive DIY academy for aspiring local outfits such as The Vocal Perfection, later to become chart-toppers The Real Thing.
Craig tells the story of a time when the black and white youth of Liverpool mixed and strutted together on the same dance floor, and hears the vivid recollections of musicians and the legendary comperes during those Tamla Nights.
Motown On The Mersey is on Tuesday 6 March, 8.30-9.30pm on BBC Radio 2
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