Northern Soul is the debut album by British house music band M People. It was originally released in November 1991. After the release of the single Excited, a new song not originally included on the album, it was re-released with an updated track listing in late 1992, reaching number 53 on the UK albums chart. Following the success of Elegant Slumming and Bizarre Fruit, this second version was re-issued in October 1995 and charted at number 26.
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“I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)
“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.)