Valerie Holiday

Not the most critically lauded Philadelphia International act (they were, notoriously, Prince Charles's favourite group ), The Three Degrees were nonetheless crucial in the breakthrough of Gamble & Huff's uptown soul sound, just as, a decade earlier, The Supremes had been in the vanguard of Motown's move from R&B chart supremacy to pop chart residency. Read More

"You're my favourite" may be phrase now synonymous with Bruce Forsyth and Strictly Come Dancing but it's been used before - by Prince Charles to The Three Degrees. Read More