(Pretty busy tomorrow, so here goes nothing)........

........Last song - Shame, Shame, Shame by Shirley and Company was a lovely example of soul gospel pop from the 1970s.
Can't say that I know too much about the people involved on it, so no obvious links jumped into my head.
However, gospel has proved a decent starting point for much Soul music which I have a jones for.

Rock guitar music is less so enamoured with the gospel sound or lyrics, but one surprising song sprung up in the very early 90s, on the back of some Manchester influence on Indie guitar meets dance crossover.
Movin On Up by Primal Scream certainly captured a feeling of the time. Not sure how natural this Indie-dance sound always was to them, and not really my band, but fair play for chucking out a decent church groove. Not quite t_he sheer contradiction of worship and rampant up yer bum, gerrit down yer neck and dance hedonism_ of gospel in disco music, but Mani liked them enough to join a few years later, so that's another tick for them as a band.

Not picked their version though, but a cover from an ITV interview programme called The Assembly from 2025 featuring Danny Dyer (who does seem to have resurrected himself (religion angle) from a one-dimensional Cockney wanker to a surprisingly okay bloke).
Watched it at the time, and again recently, and it touched something in my mind.
Maybe it's the great singer and arrangement, maybe it's the special needs people who are on the show, or maybe just me getting old and getting played to being a little bit sentimental.
Whatever it was, here it is.
I love this version.

There was another beautiful cover on the programme, this time when David Tennant was on it.
However, the best version of it has, as we all can agree, been done already by the Hibs fans at the 2016 SFA Cup Final.