Gloria Richetta Jones is an American singer and songwriter who first found success in the United Kingdom, being recognized there as "The Queen of Northern Soul". She recorded the 1965 hit song "Tainted Love" and has worked in multiple genres as a Motown songwriter and recording artist, backing vocalist, and as a performer in musicals such as Hair. In the 1970s, she was a keyboardist and vocalist in Marc Bolan's glam rock band T. Rex. She and Bolan were also in a committed romantic relationship and had a son together.
Jones in 2014
Jones performing with T. Rex in March 1976 in Glasgow, Scotland
Jones with her son Rolan in 2014
Northern soul is a music and dance movement that emerged in Northern England and the Midlands in the early 1970s. It developed from the British mod scene, based on a particular style of Black American soul music with a heavy beat and fast tempo.
The clenched fist logo came to represent the Northern soul movement in the 1970s.
The site of the Twisted Wheel, in 2013
Commemorative plaque on the site of The Golden Torch
Tommy Hunt appearing at a Wigan Casino reunion event in 2002