1. Like earlier critical turning points that did not come as mere accidents, the current opportunities for democratic transition or dangers for continuing authoritarian rule often arrive as crystallised consequences of processes amongst the multiplicities of possible outcomes through protracted, often unplanned and intractable internal conflicts and struggles with the addition of equally contradictory backings for the internal feuding groups from the wider world.

2. KE 32 Otis Redding Otis Blue (1'65) Until Stax Records and Otis Redding arrived, the Southern states were a place you had to leave to make it (unless you were a country singer). Recorded weeks after the death of Redding‘s idol, Sam Cooke, the album cast Otis as Cooke‘s successor, an embodiment of young black America with white appeal – alongside Cooke‘s ‘A Change is Gonna Come‘ was the Stones‘s ‘Satisfaction‘. With terrific backings from the MGs and the Markeys horns behind Otis‘s rasping vocals, it defined ‘soul‘. Without this ... no Aretha Franklin singing ‘Respect‘, no Al Green, and no Terence Trent D‘Arby.

3. KE 32 Otis Redding Otis Blue (1'65) Until Stax Records and Otis Redding arrived, the Southern states were a place you had to leave to make it (unless you were a country singer). Recorded weeks after the death of Reddings idol, Sam Cooke, the album cast Otis as Cookes successor, an embodiment of young black America with white appeal - alongside Cookes A Change is Gonna Come was the Stoness Satisfaction. With terrific backings from the MGs and the Markeys horns behind Otiss rasping vocals, it defined soul. Without this ... no Aretha Franklin singing Respect, no Al Green, and no Terence Trent DArby.