Spanning three different cities across the United States, Stuart Cosgrove’s bestselling Soul Trilogy blends history, culture and music to paint a vivid picture of social change through the last years of the 1960s.

Strap in for a journey through urban riots, escalating war in Vietnam, police corruption, the assassination of Martin Luther King, the rise of musical pioneers such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, the arrest of the Black Panther members and their controversial trials, and much, much more. Award-winning and critically acclaimed, these are books that no soul music enthusiast should be without.

‘Cosgrove's lucid, entertaining prose is laden with detail, but never at the expense of the wider narrative’ – Clash Magazine

Titles included in this bundle are:

Detroit 67Memphis 68 Harlem 69

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Detroit 67
  • Contents
  • Heart and Soul
  • January: Snow
  • February: Crime
  • March: Home
  • April: Love
  • May: Strike
  • June: War
  • July: Riot
  • August: Ordeal
  • September: Surveillance
  • October: Collapse
  • November: Law
  • December: Flight
  • Bibliography
  • Author
  • Index
• Memphis 68
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Roosevelt Jamison’s Blood Bank
  • Carl Cunningham’s Cardboard Requiem
  • Echol Cole’s Long Hard Day
  • Wilson Pickett’s Ferocious Temper
  • Albert King’s Strange Morning
  • Larry Payne’s Day Off School
  • Ben Branch’s Solemn Promise
  • Agent 500’s Busy Afternoon
  • Ernest Withers’ Blood Vial
  • Johnnie Taylor’s Sexual Dilemma
  • Guy Canipe’s Record Store
  • Booker T. Jones and the Paris Riots
  • Al Bell’s Big Thermometer
  • Juanita Miller’s Long Walk to DC
  • Dino Woodard’s Trip to Miami
  • Sonny Yancey’s New Job
  • Bill Hurd’s Fastest Race
  • Mahalia Jackson’s Glori-Fried Chicken
  • Jim Stewart’s Christmas Party
  • Epilogue: The Final Pay Cheque
  • Bibliography
  • Index
• Harlem 69
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • January: Fat Jack Taylor’s Curious Empire
  • February: The Black Panther Conspiracy
  • March: King Curtis and the Ghetto Odyssey
  • April: Bitches Brew
  • May: Freddie’s Dead
  • June: Sophisticated Cissy
  • July: The Apollo Mission
  • August: The Black Woodstock
  • September: Return of the Voodoo Child
  • October: Prisoners of War
  • November: The Boogaloo Revolution
  • December: King Heroin
  • Epilogue: The Future of Soul
  • Bibliography
  • Index