Shelved for over 20 years, Sam Cooke's Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963, stands alongside Otis Redding's Live in Europe and James Brown's Live at the Apollo as one of the finest live soul albums ever made. It also reveals a musical, spiritual, emotional, and social journey played out over one night on the stage of a sweaty Miami club, as Cooke made music that encapsulated everything he had ever cut, channeling forces that would soon birth “A Change is Gonna Come,” the most important soul song ever written. 

Join author Colin Fleming to explore how this towering soul artist and agent of change reconciled so many disparate elements on a Florida stage on a winter night in 1963 - a stage that extended well into the future. 

Colin Fleming is the author of eight books and myriad forms of fiction who is also an expert in--and writes widely on--film, literature, music, art, and sports, with his op-eds on current and cultural events and ideas featuring in many major newspapers.

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