#Don Letts

[theunderestimator-2]

Neneh Cherry, Andi Oliver & Paul Simonon captured by Adrian Boot backstage during the shooting of Big Audio Dynamite video for the band's 1986 song "Medicine Show", directed by Don Letts and featuring himself as well as Joe Strummer and Simmo in cameo appearances as cops, plus John Lydon and the two girls/former members of Rip Rig + Panic by that time.

In the wise words of Serge Gainsbourg "You're under arrest, 'cause you are the best".

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[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

Mick Jones and Don Letts (Big Audio Dynamite)

[meetmeinthesandbox]

Strummer / Letts / Jones

[thespliffbunker]

[theearlofmelancholy]

[slaterinc]

don letts & bob marley

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Sinéad O'Connor’s and Don Letts by Ben Beauvallet

[mickjonesteeth]

[popclture]

Don Letts & Bob Marley in London, United Kingdom (1975)

[bloomfish]

this is such a good article. Don Letts literally what an icon. reggae/dub/ska haters can have fun with their shit taste but they literally wouldn't have the music they enjoy now without it.

When the punk bands started to get deals and release singles, I started to slip 'em in, but the punks said I should just keep spinning the reggae. We became closer by revelling in our differences, not by trying to be the same. They dug the basslines, beats and attitude of the tunes I played - not to mention the ready-rolled spliffs that you could buy at the bar (the punks couldn't roll their own). I remember a punk asking the dread behind the bar for two beers and one spliff, but after a moment's thought he changed his order to two spliffs and one beer - we're talking serious cultural exchange here!

Many of the techniques that were pioneered in Jamaican recording studios - putting the drum and bass centre-stage, the DJ/toasters phenomena, the use of the mixing desk as an instrument - have had an audible influence on dance music today. And the sonic striptease of dub continues to inspire a whole new generation of sound pioneers such as Leftfield, the Thievery Corporation, Roots Manuva and the Basic Channel releases.

[goodblacknews]

MUSIC MONDAY: "AfroPunk: Reggae Meets Punk" Playlist (LISTEN)

by Marlon West (FB: marlon.west1 Threads: @stlmarlonwest IG: stlmarlonwest Spotify: marlonwest) While Reggae is a true import from Jamaica, it really gained a global footing in England. It and Punk both arose out of the economic depression and social inequality in the late 1960’s and 1970’s. Many Reggae songs of the time like Bob Marley’s “Punky Reggae Party” and “Concrete Jungle” were overt…

[marian-1122]

Big Audio Dynamite , London , UK , 8th July , 1986 .

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[medullam]

Don Letts of Big Audio Dynamite Big World Cafe [London, 1989]

[picspammer]

The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin

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Sid Vicious with Don Lett’s brother Desmond Coy at the Roxy Covent Garden 1977

[shadow27]

Secret History of Black Punk by Reaghan Buchanan

Biographies combined with great design and illustrations.