Last July, Jean-Paul ‘Bluey’ Maunick hosted a very special concert at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire to celebrate the 35th anniversary of his musical creation,...
In 1972 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles embarked on their 'farewell tour'. Smokey would later leave the group, retire from performing and concentrate on his ...
On this day in 2004 the King of Punk-Funk Rick James passed away at the age of 56 at his home in Los Angeles.
After spending two years in prison and being re...
‘Lot of people can’t do nothing but start some s***, that’s why I own that word s***.’
There’s very little we can say about this new single and the video for...
The story of R&B singer, songwriter, and guitarist Eban Brown is a pretty incredible one, but one that most people probably haven’t heard or read about. As ...
This October marks five years since the death of the King of Rock & Soul, Mr Solomon Burke. One of the creators of early R&B, Solomon Burke was quite li...
“I was born in Louisiana,
And at the age of two
My Mama told my Papa,
Our little boy has the blues”
Firstly, yes we know: Buddy Guy pays the blues n...
This August sees the release of an excitingly ambitious project from Cleopatra Records in the form of a ‘new’ album from the late, great Teddy Pendergrass which...
When we first started TFSR at the beginning of this year we thought we knew many of the top soul and funk artists in the business, but as started to build an au...
Five months ago this gig went on sale, and for five months the anticipation slowly built for what promised to be one of the most exciting soul gigs in Newcastle...
Brought up on a healthy diet of soul and funk, Haff's dream was to become the first British member of The Temptations. Realising that his dream could never come true, he now curates The Funk & Soul Revue with website administrator Will.