As host of US TV’s quintessential black / dance music show, Soul Train, Don Cornelius, who died today, aged 75, was an iconic black music figure. Everyone who was anyone in the Soul and Funk world appeared on the programme during its ’70s heyday. Film director Spike Lee would aptly describe it as an “urban music time capsule.”
Don Cornelius
By Greg Wilson on February 1, 2012 in Black Culture, Disco, Hear, Records, RIP, The Eighties, The Seventies, TV, Video
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