#Don Letts

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Strummer / Letts / Jones

#joe strummer #don letts #mick jones #big audio dynamite #timeless cool

[theearlofmelancholy]

#don letts #universal works

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Don Letts, Amy Winehouse & Terry Hall - The Brewery, London, June 18, 2007

#don letts #amy winehouse #terry hall #the specials #the clash #big audio dynamite #music #musician #musica #rock music #rock #singer #rock singer #punk rock #ska #2 tone #jazz #reggae #blues rock

[orangetruckercap]

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

#Sinéad O'Connor #don letts

[slaterinc]

don letts & bob marley

#don letts #bob marley #slaterinc

[marian-1122]

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

©️ Steve Rapport/Getty Images

#greg roberts #don letts #mick jones #leo williams #dan donovan #big audio dynamite #BAD #post punk #alternative dance #dance rock #funk rock #hip hop #reggae fusion #london #england #1986 #steve rapport #getty images

[picspammer]

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

#london calling #the clash #don letts #topper headon #joe strummer #mick jones #paul simonon

[lisamarie-vee]

#don letts #rocco macaulay #b&w #1970s #hatshop #rock and roll hall of fame

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

#sid vicious #Don Letts #punky reggae party

[tygerland]

Big Audio Dynamite (BAD); left to right: Leo Williams, Greg Roberts, Mick Jones and Don Letts.

#fashion #style #alternative #80s #big audio dynamite #rock #punk #post punk #new wave #the clash #retro #culture #reggae #hip hop #musicians #black tumblr #music #don letts #mick jones #dance #leo williams #greg roberts #🚨🚨🚨 #👽

[shadow27]

Secret History of Black Punk by Reaghan Buchanan

Biographies combined with great design and illustrations.

#reaghan buchanan #punk #punk rock #illustration #graphic novel #biography #don letts

[victusinveritas]

Don Letts, Mick Jones, Joe Strummer, and Ari Up enjoying themi backstage.

#ari up #don letts #mick jones #joe strummer #the clash

[burlveneer-music]

Don Letts - Outta Sync - he's been around so long it's hard to believe this is his first album as an artist

Don Letts’ philosophy has always been that another day brings a new opportunity. And so, at the age of 67-years-old, the musician, DJ, film director, radio broadcaster, author and honorary doctorate today completes the one creative endeavour that he has not yet pursued: the release of his debut album ‘Outta Sync’. ‘Outta Sync’ is a glorious experience that traverses across Don’s myriad array of musical passions, taking in elements of cosmic reggae, psych ska and kaleidoscopic pop, coloured by Hammond, sitar, melodica, glockenspiel and an a-list synth line-up of Minimoog, Arp Odyssey and Korg MS20. It’s also a record full of inspired collaborations with a range of creative forces, many of whom have an intriguing connection to his storied career. A quick roll call: producer, solo artist and worldbeat pioneer Gaudi; Grammy-winning producer and Killing Joke bassist Youth; Hollie Cook, Zoe Devlin Love, Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips and, of course, Don’s daughter Honor. But at the centre is the voice of the man himself, his mellifluous vocals, raps and spoken word sharing hopes and fears born from his years of experience… albeit with the lyrical disclaimer, “I’ve finally come to realise I might not be so old and wise.” Don says, “This album is totally me. The sum total of my whole cultural journey is on this record, and it reflects the duality of my existence, which is Black and British. It’s essentially a soundtrack to my mind, with some wicked bass lines.” And that’s the ‘Outta Sync’ album. The west Londoner, who has worked with everyone from The Clash to Sinead O’Connor, Bob Marley to Paul McCartney and multiple others on assorted adventures in between, has now made an album of his own. But as tomorrow is another day and another opportunity, the question that remains is: what next for the Rebel Dread? 

#Bandcamp #Don Letts #reggae #punk #uk #london #2023 #cooking vinyl

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"THE QUALITY OF THE PICTURES WAS SO GOOD. I HAD A STINT OF HAVING IT WITH ME ALL THE TIME."

PIC(S) INFO: Mega-spotlight on behind-the-scenes Polaroids of English post-rock/post-punk/experimental music group PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED, c. 1980-'81. 📸: Jeannette Lee.

OVERVIEW: "In late 1978, one year after the tumultuous break up of the SEX PISTOLS, John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten) launched his new band, PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED, featuring his childhood friend Jah Wobble on bass, and Keith Levene, former guitarist for THE CLASH, on guitar. Lydon had had a rough time of it; by the time the Sex Pistols disintegrated, he had no money, no privacy thanks to the band’s enduring notoriety and no real control over his punk past (former manager Malcolm McLaren had staked claim to the SEX PISTOLS’ image, forbidding Lydon to use the name Rotten for future endeavours). As a result, he deemed that Public Image Limited would be different: a band-cum-company comprised of trusted co-collaborators.

Shortly after founding the band he approached Jeannette Lee, now best known as the co-director of iconic independent label Rough Trade Records, inviting her into the PiL fold as a “non-musical member” of the group to help with press, promotion and general administration. Thus ensued a magical period of innovation and cooperation which saw PiL rise to greater and greater heights, blazing an avant-garde, post-punk trail. Now, a new limited-edition book of Polaroid photographs taken by Lee during her three or four-year tenure with the group, and published by IDEA, sheds candid light on this formative period of the band’s history.

Lydon and Lee had met through Don Letts, the then-manager of famous punk-reggae clothing store Acme Attractions on the King’s Road (where Lee also worked), and bonded over a shared love of reggae and their north London council estate backgrounds. “He came to me and said, "I’m starting this new thing. I want to work with people that I trust. I don’t want to work with any more idiots,"" Lee recalls in an interview with Jarvis Cocker – a close friend, whom she also manages and who helped her compile the publication – for the book’s accompanying text. “There was no real job description: just like-minded people joining forces.” Alongside the key band members, these included Don Letts, Sheila Rock, Judy Nylon and Plaxy Locatelli, among others, all of whom set up office in Lydon’s house in Gunter Grove, between Fulham and the King’s Road, and spent their days, in Lee’s words, "making manifestos and then living according to them."

It is in this intimate setting that many of Lee’s pictures are staged, taken from 1980 onwards, after the purchase of her Polaroid SX-70 camera on a trip to New York. “The quality of the pictures was so good. I had a stint of having it with me all the time. Taking pictures everywhere I went,” she tells Cocker. Lee was a natural photographer, her snapshots rendered in dreamy hues and boasting compelling compositions. Some of the images from the book will be recognisable to PiL fans – such as the brilliant photograph of Lydon gazing furtively into a spiderweb-etched mirror, which was used as the cover for the "Flowers of Romance" single – while many more have never been seen, and offer viewers wonderful insight into the very private world of PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED. There’s a picture of one member tenderly clasping a puppy, one of Levene sitting in front of a strawberry milkshake, traces of its froth forming a moustache across his top lip, another of Lee and a boater-topped Lydon grinning goofily into the camera: the softer, sillier side of punk."

-- ANOTHER MAG, "Behind-the-Scenes Polaroids of Public Image Limited’s Heyday," by Daisy Woodward, c. May 2017

Source: www.anothermag.com/art-photography/9825/behind-the-scenes-polaroids-of-public-image-limiteds-heyday.

#PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. #PUBLIC IMAGE LTD #PUBLIC IMAGE #PUBLIC IMAGE LIMITED #PiL #Post-rock #John Lydon #Polaroids #Photography #Experimental Music #1981 #Keith Levene #Jeannette Lee #Post-punk #Flowers of Romance 1981 #Experimental #Flowers of Romance Sessions #Don Letts #PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. Flowers of Romance #PUBLIC IMAGE LTD Flowers of Romance #Flowers of Romance #Polaroid Photos #Polaroid photography #1980s #Polaroid

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#don letts #timeless cool #big audio dynamite #film director #dj #punk rock

[marian-1122]

Big Audio Dynamite , 1988 .

©️ Suzie Gibbons/Redferns

#greg roberts #don letts #mick jones #leo williams #dan donovan #big audio dynamite #B.A.D #post punk #alternative dance #dance rock #funk rock #hip hop #reggae fusion #1988 #suzie gibbons #redferns