We're gonna do some kind of a introduction ourselves, you know.

There it comes.

You are listening to the BBC.

You are listening to the BBC World Service. Many people here in my own country

Zambia say I don't need no introduction.

So I'll let my music do the talking.

If you haven't already guessed, this song is called Introduction.

That's me confronting the band who recorded it, which, short for we intend to cause havoc.

This is the first song on the first commercially produced album in Zambia,

released in 1971. Yes that's right. What you are listening to is a piece of rock and

raw history. My name is Emmanuel Jagari Chanda.

And for nearly 10 years,

myself and my fellow bands's mates spearheaded a music scene that came to be known as

Zamrock.

Let me also extend the hand of friendship of Zambia to all those other countries

over the world who believe in the International Brotherhood of Men.

In the wake of Zambian independence from British room in the mid-60s,

a new sound emerged mixing Western rock with

Zambian rhythm right at an exciting time for our country's history.

By the early 1970s, a whole host of bands were touring up and down the country playing to thousands of avid fans in the booming

copper belt in the north in the Rocca'sito Lusaka, even right down in Livingston near the Victoria Falls in the south.

It wasn't easy forging a career as a rockeraster in a new country struggling with

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