Everything: The Real Thing Story

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Everything: The Real Thing Story charts the rise of Liverpool’s musical pioneers, who fought discrimination to become the biggest-selling black group in UK pop history.

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Everything: The Real Thing Story charts the rise of Liverpool’s musical pioneers, who fought discrimination to become the biggest-selling black group in UK pop history. This is a tale stranger than any fiction – an untold story of home-grown talent, painted against a backdrop of politics, funk and race, where four proud black boys took on the world, and changed British music forever.

BBFC certification: 15

Further reading and viewing

The Real Thing: Liverpool’s alternative Fab Four
Arwa Haider / BBC Culture / 11 Feb 2020

 

Eddie Amoo interview from 2015
Kevin Cooper / UK Music reviews / 10 Aug 2015

 

Blinded by Your Grace (Stormzy cover) Radio 2 Piano Room
Youtube / 16 Jan 2020

 

Interview and performance on This Morning
Youtube / 8 May 2020