There and Black Again: The Autobiography of Don Letts - Softcover

Letts, Don; Peachy, Mal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1915841429 ISBN 13: 9781915841421

Verlag: Omnibus Press, 2025

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Don Letts – filmmaker, musician, DJ, broadcaster, social commentator,husband and father – has always defied conformity. A British-born sonof Windrush parents, he seamlessly pivoted between London’s punk andreggae scenes – earning his reputation as the ‘Rebel Dread’.In There and Black Again, Don Letts looks back on his exceptional life, whichhas seen him befriend Bob Marley after sneaking into his hotel, join TheClash’s White Riot tour as manager of The Slits and become one of the UK’smost highly regarded video directors just as the MTV boom hit.Told in part as scenes from a movie shot on location in London, Kingston,New York City, Los Angeles, Windhoek, Salt Lake City and Goldeneye, Thereand Black Again co-stars a cast of hundreds, including Joe Strummer, JohnLydon, Bob Marley, Chrissie Hynde, Chris Blackwell, Paul McCartney, NelsonMandela, Keith Richards, Patti Smith, Chuck D., Malcolm McLaren andVivienne Westwood.With reflections on the Black Lives Matter movement and the highs andlows of personal relationships, this impactful book includes moments of civilunrest, live music, humour and political struggle. There and Black Again is therefreshing and often unexpected story of a man who has never been afraidto tread his own path.

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Don Letts is as old as rock 'n' roll (b. 1956) and has lived a life infused with music, style and attitude. As DJ at London's premier punk venue The Roxy (1977) Don introduced punks to reggae, and Bob Marley to the punky-reggae party. He made his first film while working at The Roxy (The Punk Rock Movie) using a hand-held Super-8 camera. Twenty years later Don directed the most successful Jamaican movie of all time, Dancehall Queen. In 1979 he directed the video for 'London Calling' by The Clash, after which he became renowned as one of the world's most prolific and successful music video directors, going on to make more than 300 promos for artists as diverse as Elvis Costello, P.i.L and Ratt. Don co-wrote four hugely successful and influential Big Audio Dynamite albums and toured the world in the 1980s, performing in front of thousands of people. The band played sell-out gigs around the world on a reunion tour in 2011.

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• Verlag: Omnibus Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1915841429
• ISBN 13: 9781915841421
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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