Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Film / Music Train leaving the station
Posted by J.R. Jones on 02.01.12 at 03:15 PM
Soul Train creator Don Cornelius died this morning of a gunshot wound, apparently self-inflicted, in his home in Encino, California. He was 75. If you've never read Jake Austen's fine 2008 cover story on the early Chicago days of Soul Train, do yourself a favor and check it out. There's also a jubilant hour-long documentary, Soul Train: The Hippest Trip in America, that was broadcast on VH1 last year and screened theatrically at the Gene Siskel Film Center in September, with Cornelius taking questions afterward.
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There's a "Soul Train line" at 9:30 tonight, starting near 1540 N. Milwaukee, in Cornelius's honor. https://www.facebook.com/events/3142299652…
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Philip Montoro
on 02/01/2012 at 5:48 PM
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