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🗓️ 26 April 2021
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0:34.4 | Today's Lovejoy Hour is 15 questions to Don Letts. Now, Don Letts is a British filmmaker, musician, DJ, broadcaster and social commentator who they say helped introduce reggae to the British punk scene in the 70s. He certainly had a hand in it. He's best known for directing all of the Clash Music's videos and for his films, |
0:56.4 | the punk rock movie and the Clash Westway to the world, |
1:01.1 | which he won a Grammy for in 2003. |
1:04.6 | Since 2009, he's hosted a slot on BBC Radio 6 music called Culture Clash every Sunday from 10 to 12. |
1:12.6 | He's recently released a book There and Black Again, |
1:15.1 | where he looks back on an exceptional life and tells tales of him befriending Bob Marley |
1:20.3 | and becoming one of the UK's most highly regarded video directors during the MTV Boom. |
1:25.8 | He directed music videos for musical youth, psychedelic, psychedelic first, |
1:29.4 | the pretenders, Bob Marley, Fun Boy 3, Elvis Costello, the list carries on and on and on and on. |
1:34.4 | In fact, if I listen to the things he'd done, it would take up the whole hour. So let's just talk to him |
1:39.6 | instead. Let's meet him. Here's Don Letts. |
1:47.3 | Hi, Don. how are you? |
1:49.2 | Not too bad. Thank you. Hanging in there. |
1:51.6 | Good stuff. |
1:53.7 | First thing I've got to say is thank you for doing that Skinhead documentary. |
1:57.4 | I briefly mentioned it when you're on Sunday brunch, but I loved it. It made a bit of |
2:01.7 | sense of what I was doing in my youth. So I did, I thoroughly enjoyed that. It was a really good |
2:07.6 | documentary. No, I thought it was important to clear up the confusion because a lot of people |
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