soul boys

SOUL BOYS.

DATE STARTED – 1970 - 80

ORIGIN – United Kingdom

INFLUENCES – American Soul and Funk music

‘Soul Boys’ were a sub culture that grew in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. It was coined my the working class youth in England that were fans of American soul and funk music. The movement originally was started in the north west of England, as the northen soul event attendees began to take more interest in the modern funk and jazz funk sounds, from artists such as Lonnie Liston and Smith Roy. Simualtaneuosly, nightclubs in the south of Englan became to introduce the scene. The casual sub culture wore sideways fringed wedge hairstyles, and were hugely influenced by American funk acts.