Blue Eyed Soul

Blue-eyed soul (also called white soul) is rhythm and blues (R&B) and soul music performed by white artists. The term was coined in the mid-1960s, to describe white artists whose sound was similar to that of the predominantly-black Motown and Stax record labels. Though many R&B radio stations in the United States in that period would only play music by black musicians, some began to play music by white acts considered to have "soul feeling"; their music was then described as "blue-eyed soul." 

Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen (1982)

Simply Red - Holding Back the Years (1985) 

Style Council - You're the Best Thing (1984) 

Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up (1987)

ABC - When Smokey Sings (1987)

Spandau Ballet - True (1983) 

Steve Winwood - Higher Love (1986) 

Paul Young - Come Back and Stay (1983)

Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) (1983)

Sam Brown - Stop! (1988)

Dexys Midnight Runners - Geno (1980)



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