R&B

Since when did R&B mean corporate banalities in a soul style?

Way back when, R&B was Chuck Berry, John Lee Hooker and, at a pinch, Clapton. I spent some of the weekend at the Jazz Club on Dover Street, where 'dinner jazz' was followed by the type of crappy disco soul that I used to have to put up with when I was 16. Not funk, as advertised, but hour after hour of high-NRG 'R&B'. Balls.