The wave of the blue-eyed British soulstress started in the mid-Sixties with Dusty Springfield (the Queen of British soul) and has had two distinct boom periods. The first was in the mid Eighties and went hand in hand with the “New Romantic” MTV period that spawned soul influenced acts like Simply Red, Spandau Ballet and Wham! Worthy successors to the throne of Dusty were found in the likes of Annie Lennox, Tracey Thorn and Alison Moyet. Twenty years after the […]