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- Music is an open message to the world.
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Music has no color.
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You hear it and you love it.
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- Today's, he took cash
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the foundations of a multicultural society
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in fact, a long time ago, on the dance floor
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laid down in the late 1960s,
In the early 70s.
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- No one knew it was coming.
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We knew Soul.
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We knew Tamla Motown.
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But it just sneaked in,
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like a trojan horse.
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- The Trojan has a huge collection
collected from Jamaican gold.
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These records mean gold to me.
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The history of TROJAN RECORDS is part of England,
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but it began on a remote island.
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There is no JAMAICA.
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There is no JAMAICA. There is no TROJAN.
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There is no TROJAN.
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BMG presents
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Come on, baby
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Let 's have a good time
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Come on, baby
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I shake your soul
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Come on, baby
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Let 's have a good time
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All night
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Come on, baby
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♪ Yes, that's it ♪
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Él I live, it can not be missed ♪
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Come on, baby
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Let 's have a good time
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All night
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Come on, baby, as long as the blood is hot
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Come on, baby
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It 's fun now
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Come on, baby
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Let 's have a good time
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All night
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- This is the Caribbean.
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It is made up of thousands of islands.
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Let's see Jamaica, one of the larger islands.
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FIRST CHAPTER
THE Trojan
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- Duke Reid, of the Trojans,
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started as a police officer and after retiring,
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opened a liquor store.
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TREASURE ISLE
ITALBOLT
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Duke is even open
could also leave the store door.
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No one would have stolen from there.
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It could not be taken for granted.
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Duke Reid had the best
and most severe soundsysteme
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In Jamaica.
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Don't ask yourself again
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♪ Leave the fencing ♪
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- Duke Reid's voice was himself, the Trojan,
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probably after the Trojan van.
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Don't ask yourself again
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♪ Leave the fencing ♪
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- The sound system attracted everyone,
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they danced and celebrated together.
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It has become a part of life.
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Bunny Lee
Music producer
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- Duke helped me early in my career,
gave free studio time.
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Most frontrunners have a soundsystem
from his prehistory he is no longer with us.
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Only a few of us live.
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- Here comes the Trojan!
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Here comes the Trojan!
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Here comes the Trojan!
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Here comes the Trojan!
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- At night, in the Foresters
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to the music of the great Duke Reid, the Trojan
you could dance.
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They could have been lords of Jamaica if they wanted to.
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As the melodies spoke,
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everyone raced in competition with each other.
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I'm with my baby
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He has big red legs
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"Sir Coxson's Downbeat was there."
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♪ But she is my baby ♪
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♪ And I still love him ♪
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"King Edwards, the Giant, was there."
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Another soundsystem.
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He is still alive.
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♪ Caldonia! ♪
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♪ Caldonia! ♪
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- The soundsystem has fundamentally changed it
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the concept of entertainment.
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Instead of live music, the records dominated.
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Mom has no idea,
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♪ what they know in Caledonia. ♪
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I'm going to Caledonia
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- Nobody seems to know reggae
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He grew out of Reid's sound system.
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But those songs
in Jamaica in the 50s
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they were American plates.
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When the rhythm and
blues blew,
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they started making their own records,
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and they spoke from the sound systems.
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It has become an industry.
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- His name was Little Richard,
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because I imitated Little Richard.
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They said, "Richards,
did you hear
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that Duke Reid
are you doing auditions? "
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I say, "yes, where's Duke Reid?"
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"On Band Street and Charles Street."
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I say, "okay."
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There wasn't a song then.
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I went there, I told him
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"Mr. Reid, I hear
organizes a hearing for musicians. "
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He said, "can you sing?"
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I say, "Yes."
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To this he said, "Then sing."
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I say, "okay."
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I want a girl to dance with
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I want a girl for love,
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I want a girl to care for,
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♪ Oh dear, are you coming with me? ♪
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♪ Oh, oh, my beautiful baby, are you coming to dance? ♪
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- He was picked up on Thursday.
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I want a girl to dance with
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I want a girl for love,
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♪ A ... ♪
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- One Saturday
I heard my own song
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first on the radio.
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♪ ... to care, ♪
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I bounced up and down.
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I called everyone.
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"Listen to this!
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It's me, Derrick!
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I sing! "
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God, I felt in heaven.
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I thought this was heaven,
God, let it end here.
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♪ ... are you coming to dance? ♪
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- In those days
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hitmaker and hit killer
they were called because of all the songs
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he was at the top of the top list.
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- Duke Reid knew what he wanted.
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Duke is in charge of Jamaica
for his many great hits.
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Derrick Morgan started.
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We called him the King of Ska.
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CHAPTER TWO
SKA
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The name "Ska" comes from a style called Clue J.
When they played with his band,
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tried to explain to members
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for guitars to speak ska ska.
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To this, one member said
then we play ska-san, Ska is his name.
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- Ska is fast music.
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You need something that bounces.
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♪ ... brings misery
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We added it with the guitar
that bouncing sound.
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But behind that is there
based on the bassist theme.
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- If you hear it, you have to move.
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Rhythm takes your feet.
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- Ska is live music.
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To hear the jingle in him,
the bounce, ska, ska,
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ska.
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Ska is the spine.
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If it’s not in it, it’s not Jamaican music.
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You don't need light to
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♪ To see how much dust you stir. ♪
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- The air is full of waiting,
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as the moment approaches, His Majesty,
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Royal Princess Margaret arrives
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Jamaica's independence
for the opening ceremony.
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- When Jamaica became independent in 1962,
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everyone was there.
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They danced all night, people close
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and they had a great night.
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- Kingston
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It was good.
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Love permeates Jamaica.
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Many came here to England.
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In my youth, I attended many farewell parties.
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- For the first time in my life
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people knew
that they only have to exchange tickets to
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to travel to England.
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- We can see it here
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more than 400 happy Jamaican arrivals.
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They came to England for job opportunities,
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and ready for any job
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which helps the motherland to prosper.
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They came hopefully,
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so we welcome them with much love,
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at the dawn of their new lives.
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- And most of our records,
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Jamaican local music
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and the whole soundsystem culture
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He moved to England.
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They continued what we started.
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CHAPTER THREE
IMMIGRANTS
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Between 1955 and 1963
more than 100,000 people
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EMIGRATED from Jamaica
To Britain.
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- My mother...
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he lived in a bad marriage.
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He had had enough and went to London.
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I followed him two years later.
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It was hard at times.
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Largely due to the weather.
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There is something you will never forget.
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DANDY LIVINGSTONE
MUSICIAN AND PRODUCER
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I remember when I arrived.
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Maybe it was Victoria Station.
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I remember,
that my mother was not there.
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I thought what was going on here?
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I waved a cab
and I went to Forest Gate.
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- London is the change
and the city of opposites.
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The river Thames
the dark centuries of our history,
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and the radiant pose reflects life.
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According to Dr. Johnson
if you get tired of London,
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bored with life.
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- I've heard,
that there is a lot of money in England
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and many opportunities
that it is paved with gold.
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LLOYD COXSONE
SOUNDSYSTEM-OWNERS
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My parents decided
to be transferred to England.
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I didn't want to come.
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When they brought me over, they got into trouble with me,
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I wanted to go back
To Jamaica, I didn't like it here.
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There are plenty in my youth in Jamaica
it was a fruit tree I could climb on.
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I could swim in the sea by the river
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we played cricket with my friends.
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He missed excruciatingly
my childhood in jamaica.
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- I was a Rude Boy, but he was also very ambitious.
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I moved to places where they could kill me,
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or imprisoned.
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So they took it out of there, brought it to England.
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At the time, I thought I was going to have a better life.
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But it was worse.
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The young whites didn't know what to think.
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They are not used to blacks.
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His name was Golliwog, the brushhead.
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Bananas and hazelnuts at school
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scattered on the bench.
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Young people did that at the time.
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Young people are crazy, aren't they?
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It was a very bad experience,
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but solidified.
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Because that's why I started boxing.
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- Straight out, okay,
now give it a try.
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Straight.
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- The others were boxing from sports,
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I was driven by revenge.
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Like animals,
if you breed a dog for a long time
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it will bite sooner or later.
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- Boom.
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- They're uncomfortable.
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If one wants to
walk past them on the street
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they do not move.
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- So you wouldn't be happy
if one of them became his neighbor.
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- Why should I be happy?
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- I would deport them.
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Pests are here, nothing else.
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- When school
I became a champion, it was over.
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They were no longer offended.
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I was "the Champion."
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I won respect with my fists.
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And it was a pretty good result.
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I'm still alive, some of my friends are already dead.
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The Teddy Boys killed many at the time.
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- When I came here,
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I signed up for the exchange program in Balham.
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I loved it so much
would have gone back to Jamaica.
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But I had to find a job.
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One day I pulled out a card.
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It read "NCP."
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Color-skinned No.
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It was on all the cards.
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As a Jamaican, I didn’t get a job.
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Jamaican music has given us strength.
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If we wanted to know
what music is in Jamaica right now,
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we had to turn to the sound systems.
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And at the same time, just the soundsystem
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kept our culture alive.
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We went to cellars.
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That's where it all comes from.
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It could have been any pig.
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We cleaned up, we brought some sound boxes.
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Some unpacked their houses.
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- Every second week
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we had a dance party.
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They took out the furniture.
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And they brought in the sound boxes,
bang, the dance began.
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♪ You say ♪
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♪ You are walking in a flag fire. ♪
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You couldn't go to the white clubs.
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There could be no question of it.
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It was natural.
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You had fun in your own way.
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You've sung everything before
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♪ And now we move, but you say ♪
288
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I remember the neighbors
the cops called us.
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"They play jungle music!"
290
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I'm not kidding.
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♪ But when I was with you ♪
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The music gave me strength
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in everyday life.
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To live and let live
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If you were young Jamaican in England,
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but you could come from anywhere, as a black person
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music was your refuge.
298
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That's true.
299
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♪ ... you're on fire. ♪
300
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Yes, alone in music
301
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we could have a good time.
302
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And so the plates became
303
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becoming more famous, so they spread.
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Sound system started,
305
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people fell in love.
306
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You know what I mean?
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Sticks and stones
308
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♪ They break a bone if you are also a king. ♪
309
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♪ But the word is straight in two. ♪
310
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♪ What can you do like that, old man? ♪
311
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First in 1963
I met Lee Gopthal.
312
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That's when I finished school.
313
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We can say that we became friends.
314
00:19:55,270 --> 00:19:58,727
He operated a mail order, plenty
315
00:19:58,727 --> 00:19:59,935
He sold a West Indian record.
316
00:20:04,230 --> 00:20:09,400
Owen Gray, Jackie Edwards,
Prince Buster, Derrick Morgan--
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the big guns.
318
00:20:13,270 --> 00:20:16,270
Lee gave a crate plate.
319
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I sold them all over the weekend.
320
00:20:19,210 --> 00:20:22,060
I remember calling Lee on Tuesday.
321
00:20:22,060 --> 00:20:23,770
I say, Lee, the records are out.
322
00:20:23,770 --> 00:20:26,350
To this he said, "What?"
323
00:20:26,350 --> 00:20:28,660
He said, let's meet over the weekend,
324
00:20:28,660 --> 00:20:30,220
and I will give more of it.
325
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We met and the next
326
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I also sold them over the weekend.
327
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A Jamaican music
it was a piece from our home.
328
00:20:45,830 --> 00:20:49,010
- I met Chris Blackwell,
329
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with the founder of Island Records.
330
00:20:50,510 --> 00:20:56,740
I am partly specialized
I worked as a record salesman.
331
00:20:59,620 --> 00:21:03,820
Lee had a building,
at 108 Cambridge Road.
332
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When we moved in
to the Island Records building,
333
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very early
he saw an opportunity in us,
334
00:21:11,950 --> 00:21:14,244
because with Jamaican music
we were a dealing company.
335
00:21:15,994 --> 00:21:18,910
You boy, my little lollipop
336
00:21:18,910 --> 00:21:22,312
My heart descends from you
337
00:21:22,312 --> 00:21:26,200
♪ Sweet as candy. ♪
338
00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:29,602
♪ You sugar boy ♪
339
00:21:30,965 --> 00:21:33,090
- Millie Small's "My Boy Lollipop" song
340
00:21:33,090 --> 00:21:34,960
sold 4 million copies worldwide.
341
00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,575
It was also taken in Ecuador.
342
00:21:37,575 --> 00:21:40,630
♪ Because I'm dying. ♪
343
00:21:40,630 --> 00:21:41,570
My heart
344
00:21:41,570 --> 00:21:43,660
- Lee was Asian-Jamaican,
345
00:21:43,660 --> 00:21:47,320
and businessman, but from a certain point of view
346
00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,417
obviously in the West Indies
market was also interested in
347
00:21:50,417 --> 00:21:53,410
because he thought maybe
348
00:21:53,410 --> 00:21:55,640
so you can despise it
set foot in the record trade.
349
00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:58,180
In fact, that's how it happened.
350
00:21:58,180 --> 00:21:59,629
♪ ... I'll let you go. ♪
351
00:21:59,629 --> 00:22:00,802
Oh, my son, my little lollipop
352
00:22:00,802 --> 00:22:02,510
- Millie Small record,
353
00:22:02,510 --> 00:22:06,366
a "My Boy Lollipop,"
a processing.
354
00:22:06,366 --> 00:22:09,782
♪ You cover the world on fire. ♪
355
00:22:09,782 --> 00:22:10,675
♪ You are ... ♪
356
00:22:10,675 --> 00:22:12,550
But he ran in.
357
00:22:12,550 --> 00:22:17,690
It was good to see a Jamaican girl
From Clarendon to the top list.
358
00:22:29,654 --> 00:22:33,140
♪ I love you, I love you,
I love you so. ♪
359
00:22:33,140 --> 00:22:35,340
- To Lee to such an extent
360
00:22:35,340 --> 00:22:41,090
started the business to open
a record store on Willesden Lane.
361
00:22:41,090 --> 00:22:45,750
I think to Musicland
it was called and consisted of six shops.
362
00:22:45,750 --> 00:22:51,990
He lives in England
it was a mecca for Caribbeans.
363
00:22:51,990 --> 00:22:55,610
At that time the plates
364
00:22:55,610 --> 00:22:56,765
they were carried like sugar.
365
00:23:02,710 --> 00:23:04,840
- Lee Gopthal helped a lot,
366
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:06,400
to start my music career.
367
00:23:16,696 --> 00:23:20,723
[MUSIC - JUSTIN HINDS and THE
DOMINOES, "NO GOOD RUDIE"]
368
00:23:21,220 --> 00:23:25,632
I want to know
369
00:23:25,632 --> 00:23:30,612
Why we gathered here
370
00:23:30,612 --> 00:23:35,078
♪ I want to know
why we gathered here ♪
371
00:23:37,832 --> 00:23:40,905
History is one
hottest summer in Kingston
372
00:23:40,930 --> 00:23:43,703
Is suffering from an ECONOMIC CRISIS,
the streets are dominated by VIOLENCE.
373
00:23:44,041 --> 00:23:47,119
♪ As if there were some gathering here ♪
374
00:23:47,420 --> 00:23:52,020
- Well, I know a lot about the Rude Boys.
375
00:23:52,020 --> 00:23:53,300
I grew up back then.
376
00:23:58,020 --> 00:24:01,680
Rude Boy does a lot of things.
377
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:03,990
The old Rude Boys
378
00:24:03,990 --> 00:24:07,340
Duke Reid, Coxsone Sound
379
00:24:07,340 --> 00:24:09,800
and were followers of King Edwards.
380
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:11,050
There was a thief among them.
381
00:24:11,050 --> 00:24:12,360
There was a released prisoner among them.
382
00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:15,210
There were some of them converted.
383
00:24:15,210 --> 00:24:18,820
At that time they were the gods, the kings.
384
00:24:18,820 --> 00:24:24,496
♪ It is good that you know what is good and what is bad. ♪
385
00:24:24,496 --> 00:24:26,515
The wise are sure
386
00:24:26,515 --> 00:24:30,000
- A Rude Boy at the time
387
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:34,200
he meant a tough boy.
388
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,610
They took off their caps, barely ...
389
00:24:37,610 --> 00:24:41,190
... they could be recognized.
390
00:24:41,190 --> 00:24:45,360
And he makes
whatever he wants, when he wants.
391
00:24:47,028 --> 00:24:48,511
DERRICK MORGAN
ARTIST AND COMPOSER
392
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- I knew one.
393
00:24:53,740 --> 00:24:54,770
His name was Buzzbee.
394
00:24:57,820 --> 00:24:58,960
Rude Boy.
395
00:25:03,082 --> 00:25:05,520
He came to me, he says, listen.
396
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:07,380
Everyone is singing about the Rude Boys.
397
00:25:07,380 --> 00:25:11,570
But you haven't sung about them yet.
398
00:25:11,570 --> 00:25:15,930
I want you to sing one
Rude Boy song about me.
399
00:25:15,930 --> 00:25:17,540
This weekend.
400
00:25:20,390 --> 00:25:25,390
Because he wanted to hear it
about yourself a song at the party.
401
00:25:29,110 --> 00:25:31,840
That's when I wrote the
"Rudies Don't Fear."
402
00:25:36,620 --> 00:25:42,050
I gave it to the DJ at the dance party.
403
00:25:42,050 --> 00:25:44,570
♪ Now the Rudies are coming, boys ♪
404
00:25:44,570 --> 00:25:46,630
♪ The Rudies are coming ♪
405
00:25:46,630 --> 00:25:47,825
♪ The Rudies are coming ♪
406
00:25:47,825 --> 00:25:51,700
The guy picked up the record at midnight,
407
00:25:51,700 --> 00:25:53,340
and he said, "Give me a can of beer."
408
00:25:53,340 --> 00:25:57,125
♪ Now they have the word. ♪
409
00:25:57,125 --> 00:26:01,915
♪ I order that all ♪
♪ Stand Rude Boy. ♪
410
00:26:01,915 --> 00:26:03,290
And when it came to that
411
00:26:03,290 --> 00:26:05,400
"They're tougher than everyone,
strong as a lion, "
412
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,108
grabbed the beer, slammed it against the wall,
413
00:26:08,108 --> 00:26:11,037
and said "Iron!"
414
00:26:11,037 --> 00:26:13,175
♪ Rougher than everyone. ♪
415
00:26:13,175 --> 00:26:16,030
♪ Tougher than everyone. ♪
416
00:26:16,030 --> 00:26:20,690
♪ Strong as a lion,
we are made of iron. ♪
417
00:26:20,690 --> 00:26:23,020
♪ Rudies are not afraid of boys. ♪
418
00:26:23,020 --> 00:26:24,402
♪ The Rudies are not afraid. ♪
419
00:26:24,402 --> 00:26:26,610
Street girls stood on the stairs.
420
00:26:26,610 --> 00:26:29,940
He went upstairs and splashed them with a beer.
421
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:39,473
I saw a young boy
he held a pistol in his hand.
422
00:26:39,473 --> 00:26:40,490
"Are you Buzzbee?"
423
00:26:47,952 --> 00:26:50,160
He saw the child with the pistol in his hand,
424
00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,530
the little boy's hand shook.
425
00:26:53,530 --> 00:26:56,380
Meanwhile, from a different direction
they also took a gun to his head,
426
00:26:56,380 --> 00:27:00,445
and was shot.
427
00:27:00,445 --> 00:27:03,120
♪ Rudies are not afraid of boys ♪
428
00:27:03,120 --> 00:27:05,371
♪ The Rudies are not afraid. ♪
429
00:27:05,371 --> 00:27:08,105
♪ Rudies are not afraid of boys ♪
430
00:27:08,105 --> 00:27:11,322
♪ The Rudies are not afraid. ♪
431
00:27:11,322 --> 00:27:13,925
♪ Rougher than everyone else
they are tougher than everyone else. ♪
432
00:27:13,925 --> 00:27:15,425
- Increasingly in England
433
00:27:15,425 --> 00:27:19,145
more could be heard about the RudeBoy.
434
00:27:19,145 --> 00:27:24,830
After a while, everyone
RudeBoy wanted to write songs.
435
00:27:24,830 --> 00:27:27,820
At one point I thought
why shouldn't I try too?
436
00:27:27,820 --> 00:27:29,750
♪ Leave hardening. ♪
437
00:27:33,350 --> 00:27:35,400
♪ It's time to gather yourself. ♪
438
00:27:38,550 --> 00:27:40,340
♪ Ba ba da ba da da. ♪
439
00:27:43,340 --> 00:27:45,742
♪ Da da da da da. ♪
440
00:27:48,910 --> 00:27:52,295
♪ Leave hardening. ♪
441
00:27:52,295 --> 00:27:54,240
♪ Mm-hmm. ♪
442
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,052
♪ It's time to gather yourself. ♪
443
00:27:59,430 --> 00:28:06,556
♪ Leave hardening, trouble mixing. ♪
444
00:28:06,556 --> 00:28:12,630
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, Rudy, yeah. ♪
445
00:28:12,630 --> 00:28:15,147
♪ That's what I'm sending you, Rudy. ♪
446
00:28:18,150 --> 00:28:20,000
♪ This is what I am sending you. ♪
447
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:23,110
My song didn't polish
448
00:28:23,110 --> 00:28:24,760
the Rude Boy.
449
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:28,060
I told them to cool off,
450
00:28:28,060 --> 00:28:29,060
think about the future
451
00:28:29,060 --> 00:28:30,140
something like that.
452
00:28:30,140 --> 00:28:34,706
♪ That's what I'm sending you, Rudy. ♪
453
00:28:34,706 --> 00:28:36,540
♪ This is what I am sending you. ♪
454
00:28:40,196 --> 00:28:41,958
Like this.
455
00:28:41,958 --> 00:28:43,750
- I remember calling you once
456
00:28:43,750 --> 00:28:44,912
Lee Gopthal.
457
00:28:44,912 --> 00:28:46,120
He wanted to meet me.
458
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:49,380
He said, "I'm starting something now,
and I want you to board. "
459
00:28:49,380 --> 00:28:50,830
I said good, of course.
460
00:28:50,899 --> 00:28:54,496
CHAPTER FIVE
TROJAN RECORDS
461
00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,930
Island and Lee
Gopthal, two styles,
462
00:29:10,930 --> 00:29:13,770
who came together.
463
00:29:13,770 --> 00:29:17,450
Lee Gopthal was a gentleman.
464
00:29:17,450 --> 00:29:21,410
And I knew his grandfather from Jamaica.
465
00:29:21,410 --> 00:29:25,180
I also knew in the music industry
466
00:29:25,180 --> 00:29:29,480
he was a gentleman
he helped us a lot, he
467
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:30,803
and Dave Betteridge.
468
00:29:34,050 --> 00:29:36,860
When I came to England,
469
00:29:36,860 --> 00:29:40,160
many of my childhood friends also came over.
470
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,444
Here we had the opportunity to do more.
471
00:29:43,444 --> 00:29:45,361
♪ Leave hardening ♪
472
00:29:45,361 --> 00:29:50,560
Trouble mixing
473
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:56,250
I came in February 1968.
474
00:29:56,250 --> 00:30:01,240
It was weird because I got cold.
475
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,540
When someone laughs, it looks like
like blowing cigarette smoke
476
00:30:04,540 --> 00:30:08,110
but in the meantime it was so cold.
477
00:30:08,110 --> 00:30:10,200
Great Dave Betteridge, I'm telling you this
478
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:13,820
he came in with a small MG car.
479
00:30:13,820 --> 00:30:15,700
We went to Cambridge Road.
480
00:30:21,187 --> 00:30:23,020
- The 1960s were years of recovery.
481
00:30:23,020 --> 00:30:25,800
For the first time in a long time
he had some money again
482
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:26,940
for the people.
483
00:30:26,940 --> 00:30:31,170
In fact, everything was for sale.
484
00:30:31,170 --> 00:30:37,710
We decided
to unite our musical affinities.
485
00:30:37,710 --> 00:30:41,700
It was a matter of course for all of us.
486
00:30:41,700 --> 00:30:47,570
We simply found it
each other, as is often the case.
487
00:30:47,570 --> 00:30:50,510
"I first met Bunny Lee."
488
00:30:50,510 --> 00:30:53,400
We came out well
and Lee had some ideas
489
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,792
to the name of the company.
490
00:30:56,792 --> 00:30:58,860
- At one point we broke our heads
491
00:30:58,860 --> 00:31:00,962
what should be the name of the company.
492
00:31:00,962 --> 00:31:02,670
Bunny looked at me,
493
00:31:02,670 --> 00:31:03,870
and I to him.
494
00:31:03,870 --> 00:31:05,890
And he asked
what do you say to Trojan Records?
495
00:31:11,180 --> 00:31:12,320
I said yes, great.
496
00:31:14,540 --> 00:31:15,680
And that was it.
497
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,852
Bang.
498
00:31:17,852 --> 00:31:20,960
- The Trojan was the most appropriate,
499
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,720
Duke Reid, because of the Trojan.
500
00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:26,520
Duke Reid made good records.
501
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:33,170
So when it was formed
at Trojan Publishing, it also helped.
502
00:31:33,170 --> 00:31:35,870
Working in an English publishing house
503
00:31:35,870 --> 00:31:38,180
it can be great.
504
00:31:38,180 --> 00:31:40,250
The first shot so
I did it in two months
505
00:31:40,250 --> 00:31:42,910
To Lee Gopthal.
506
00:31:42,910 --> 00:31:43,850
I think the ...
507
00:31:43,850 --> 00:31:47,480
One of my albums was the first one
508
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:50,270
the Trojan was released, if I remember correctly.
509
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:56,260
- Then I went back to Jamaica,
510
00:31:56,260 --> 00:31:59,570
and I wrote a lot of songs.
511
00:31:59,570 --> 00:32:02,440
- It was good to start Trojan.
512
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:06,180
We could say yes,
reggae found a home here.
513
00:32:09,018 --> 00:32:13,224
- We want Enoch Powell!
We want Enoch Powell!
514
00:32:13,224 --> 00:32:15,267
We want Enoch Powell!
515
00:32:15,267 --> 00:32:16,760
We want Enoch Powell!
516
00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:18,720
We want Enoch Powell!
517
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:19,200
We want Enoch Powell!
518
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,694
In 1968, Trojan Records
year of its foundation
519
00:32:22,719 --> 00:32:26,013
Prime Minister ENOCH POWELL in a speech
responded to the issue of increasing IMMIGRATION.
520
00:32:26,460 --> 00:32:30,450
- In this country within 15 or 20 years
521
00:32:30,450 --> 00:32:33,960
blacks will be whipped
522
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:37,260
white people.
523
00:32:37,260 --> 00:32:44,550
I can almost hear the indignant crowd.
524
00:32:44,550 --> 00:32:49,275
How dare I say such horror?
525
00:32:49,275 --> 00:32:53,006
- Of course I had to deal with prejudice.
526
00:32:53,006 --> 00:32:56,132
"There's too much of you here."
Yes.
527
00:32:56,132 --> 00:32:56,840
It was a cold shower.
528
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:58,110
We want Enoch Powell!
529
00:32:58,110 --> 00:33:02,060
- Why did you say that?
Enoch Powell such a speech?
530
00:33:02,060 --> 00:33:04,840
It is still visible from this speech
531
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,000
a trail on the streets of England.
532
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,630
Then we couldn't stand him.
533
00:33:09,630 --> 00:33:11,562
- We want Enoch Powell!
534
00:33:11,562 --> 00:33:12,511
We want Enoch Powell!
535
00:33:12,511 --> 00:33:13,011
Enoch Powell ...
536
00:33:13,252 --> 00:33:15,044
♪ Shut up, sir! ♪
537
00:33:16,889 --> 00:33:17,827
CHAPTER SIX
REGGAE
538
00:33:17,897 --> 00:33:21,230
♪ Listen, sir. ♪
539
00:33:21,330 --> 00:33:23,650
- Rocksteady had a slower pace.
540
00:33:23,650 --> 00:33:25,900
♪ Put your hands high, sir. ♪
541
00:33:25,900 --> 00:33:27,567
Reggae soon took over.
542
00:33:30,060 --> 00:33:32,550
♪ And you're not in trouble, sir. ♪
543
00:33:32,550 --> 00:33:33,372
♪ No, no, no. ♪
544
00:33:33,372 --> 00:33:34,830
I am a different kind
545
00:33:34,830 --> 00:33:38,370
I'm Rude Boy, a musician Rude Boy.
546
00:33:38,370 --> 00:33:42,344
And I figured out the
"reggae" word.
547
00:33:42,344 --> 00:33:44,314
♪ I say yes. ♪
548
00:33:44,314 --> 00:33:44,814
♪ I say yes. ♪
549
00:33:44,814 --> 00:33:46,790
♪ Listen. ♪
550
00:33:46,790 --> 00:33:47,778
♪ Listen. ♪
551
00:33:47,778 --> 00:33:48,766
♪ Can't you hear? ♪
552
00:33:48,766 --> 00:33:49,754
♪ I say yes. ♪
553
00:33:49,754 --> 00:33:50,742
♪ I say yes. ♪
554
00:33:50,742 --> 00:33:53,232
♪ Listen. ♪
555
00:33:53,232 --> 00:33:53,855
♪ Listen. ♪
556
00:33:54,055 --> 00:33:57,774
Published in Jamaica
a new SOUND and the Trojan started
557
00:33:57,799 --> 00:34:01,958
REGGAE disks can be imported to
sells them on the GROWING ENGLISH MARKET.
558
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:08,500
♪ And if so, ♪
I would ask you to arrest me
559
00:34:08,500 --> 00:34:10,139
- Reggae has been around for a long time
560
00:34:10,139 --> 00:34:13,030
said before anyone knew
561
00:34:13,030 --> 00:34:16,030
that reggae.
562
00:34:16,030 --> 00:34:18,540
♪ I'm not a fool,
to hurt myself. ♪
563
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:20,623
We had a slang word
564
00:34:20,623 --> 00:34:22,600
In Jamaica, the "streggae."
565
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,159
If you didn't look good
It was called "streggae."
566
00:34:25,159 --> 00:34:29,070
So maybe
from that word reggae came to me.
567
00:34:29,070 --> 00:34:33,070
♪ Yes, give it to me, once. ♪
568
00:34:33,570 --> 00:34:36,190
- Well, I've heard from many
569
00:34:36,190 --> 00:34:38,460
about the path of reggae.
570
00:34:38,460 --> 00:34:42,310
Bunny Lee says he's the first
Toots says he's first.
571
00:34:42,310 --> 00:34:44,530
Everyone wants to be first.
572
00:34:44,530 --> 00:34:47,429
Some people think
i am the inventor of reggae.
573
00:34:47,429 --> 00:34:49,120
That I did my first reggae
574
00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:50,920
number, "Seven Letters."
575
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:53,449
I don't know if that's true because of me
576
00:34:53,449 --> 00:34:55,150
I do not care about this.
577
00:34:55,150 --> 00:34:56,472
I just sing to the beat.
578
00:34:58,222 --> 00:35:00,606
♪ This is my last letter, baby. ♪
579
00:35:04,580 --> 00:35:06,806
♪ I can't write to you anymore. ♪
580
00:35:10,694 --> 00:35:12,820
♪ My poor fingers will break off. ♪
581
00:35:12,820 --> 00:35:16,138
- This is one of the very first reggae tunes.
582
00:35:16,138 --> 00:35:18,471
♪ I just walk around. ♪
583
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:24,550
I remember when I put up this record,
584
00:35:24,550 --> 00:35:28,110
it was one of Trojan’s early albums.
585
00:35:28,110 --> 00:35:31,170
♪ I discarded my favorite discs. ♪
586
00:35:31,170 --> 00:35:33,100
- Music can't be left out.
587
00:35:33,100 --> 00:35:37,300
Ska, bass and drums are the base.
588
00:35:37,300 --> 00:35:38,440
And the infiltrating organ.
589
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:41,676
This is called "reggae reggae" on the organ.
590
00:35:41,676 --> 00:35:44,800
That was the new voice back then.
591
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:49,540
It was the sound of reggae, the bouncing organ.
592
00:35:49,540 --> 00:35:53,860
He can't stand who says this, he's lying.
593
00:35:53,860 --> 00:35:57,093
If you don’t have that bounce in it, it’s not reggae.
594
00:35:57,093 --> 00:35:59,218
♪ I was lonely and sad. ♪
595
00:36:03,210 --> 00:36:06,186
♪ I wrote again on Tuesday, baby. ♪
596
00:36:06,186 --> 00:36:09,073
♪ I wrote to no one
I don't like anyone either ... ♪
597
00:36:09,073 --> 00:36:10,490
- More and more often
598
00:36:10,490 --> 00:36:13,210
the word reggae appeared
599
00:36:13,210 --> 00:36:15,990
reggae, reggae, reggae.
600
00:36:15,990 --> 00:36:18,100
Jamaican music came through.
601
00:36:18,100 --> 00:36:21,100
But there was an effort to
602
00:36:21,100 --> 00:36:25,540
that sounds English
make Jamaican music,
603
00:36:25,540 --> 00:36:27,622
and so we did.
604
00:36:29,830 --> 00:36:33,340
♪ Reggae, reggae, reggae, reggae. ♪
605
00:36:33,340 --> 00:36:36,154
♪ Reggae, reggae, reggae, reggae. ♪
606
00:36:36,154 --> 00:36:41,074
♪ Ma'am, start betting. ♪
607
00:36:44,026 --> 00:36:49,950
♪ Ma'am, start betting. ♪
608
00:36:49,950 --> 00:36:52,668
♪ Come on, let the reggae, ♪
♪ reggae gets into your blood. ♪
609
00:36:52,668 --> 00:36:57,160
♪ Come on, let the reggae, ♪
♪ reggae gets into your blood. ♪
610
00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:00,100
- We developed our own reggae variety,
611
00:37:00,100 --> 00:37:02,930
and was adored by the young English.
612
00:37:02,930 --> 00:37:07,347
Like "Red Red Wine,"
"Reggae in your Jeggae."
613
00:37:07,347 --> 00:37:11,453
♪ Ma'am, we don't want anything wrong. ♪
614
00:37:13,868 --> 00:37:18,215
♪ Ma'am, we don't want hatred. ♪
615
00:37:19,690 --> 00:37:22,206
Hogy Just make reggae, ♪
♪ reggae gets into your blood. ♪
616
00:37:22,206 --> 00:37:30,100
- I'm only from 1968
or I worked for the Trojan from 1969.
617
00:37:30,100 --> 00:37:32,980
I first worked as a production manager,
618
00:37:32,980 --> 00:37:35,140
I supervised the production,
619
00:37:35,140 --> 00:37:38,560
I ordered the records,
labels, covers
620
00:37:38,560 --> 00:37:41,320
and the rest.
621
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:44,680
Pirate radios played all the time
622
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:49,206
the records if they did well in the clubs.
623
00:37:49,206 --> 00:37:53,280
- This is Wonderful Radio 1 on 247.
624
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,150
- But the fact that the BBC is playing the discs,
625
00:37:55,150 --> 00:37:57,790
it was problematic from the beginning.
626
00:37:57,790 --> 00:38:04,440
The music industry didn’t keep it
a lot of this kind of music.
627
00:38:04,440 --> 00:38:09,580
- Reggae at first
he encountered a lot of resistance.
628
00:38:09,580 --> 00:38:15,130
From the 70s to the big radio stations
they didn't even want to hear about reggae.
629
00:38:15,130 --> 00:38:19,060
Even Tony Blackburn
said that reggae eyes,
630
00:38:19,060 --> 00:38:23,710
We forced it here in England because
631
00:38:23,710 --> 00:38:25,120
because we loved it.
632
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:26,620
- You think he's holding it back
633
00:38:26,620 --> 00:38:29,230
the music is the way it is fashionable
634
00:38:29,230 --> 00:38:31,900
discarded by disc jockeys?
635
00:38:31,900 --> 00:38:34,720
- I think only the newspapers bring it that way,
636
00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:37,420
in accordance with BBC standards
637
00:38:37,420 --> 00:38:39,510
classified or something.
638
00:38:39,510 --> 00:38:41,442
They classify reggae,
639
00:38:41,442 --> 00:38:43,150
but I don't think so
the audience is interested in this.
640
00:38:43,150 --> 00:38:45,660
If they like it, they buy it.
641
00:38:45,660 --> 00:38:48,030
- Trojan all
642
00:38:48,030 --> 00:38:51,060
I will receive your publication.
643
00:38:51,060 --> 00:38:54,550
If I go to the Trojan's office,
644
00:38:54,550 --> 00:38:56,320
they give it to me.
645
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,472
I don't have to pay for it.
646
00:39:02,936 --> 00:39:05,320
The Jamaican music industry
647
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,540
one of the wonderful elements
648
00:39:07,540 --> 00:39:09,850
pre-release disc.
649
00:39:09,850 --> 00:39:13,150
In limited numbers
printed discs with a white label,
650
00:39:13,150 --> 00:39:14,380
which is empty.
651
00:39:14,380 --> 00:39:18,160
This is the Jamaican of the 50s
tradition of sound systems.
652
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:20,350
Taken to sound systems,
653
00:39:20,350 --> 00:39:22,240
it was trial marketing.
654
00:39:22,240 --> 00:39:24,604
Blinds came with me, ♪
655
00:39:24,604 --> 00:39:27,430
To tell the teddy bear
656
00:39:27,430 --> 00:39:31,588
♪ The teddy bear approached with a wide smile. ♪
657
00:39:31,588 --> 00:39:33,130
In the late 60s
658
00:39:33,130 --> 00:39:35,620
we printed this and that before release,
659
00:39:35,620 --> 00:39:37,600
to see if the sound systems would play,
660
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:41,110
whether the clubs like it.
661
00:39:41,110 --> 00:39:43,900
Lee was primarily a businessman, but ...
662
00:39:43,900 --> 00:39:49,870
I think he had good ears
for the records to be sold, for the good melodies.
663
00:39:49,870 --> 00:39:52,160
♪ ... he was there with me. ♪
664
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:57,900
With the mistress on my side
♪ We went through the valley. ♪
665
00:39:57,900 --> 00:40:01,802
The Count and the Countess in the evening
♪ ran reggae, reggae, reggae. ♪
666
00:40:02,452 --> 00:40:05,627
Although mainstream radio stations do not
played Trojan Records records
667
00:40:05,652 --> 00:40:08,987
the PIRACY RADIOS are getting
more Jamaican music was BROADCASTED.
668
00:40:15,194 --> 00:40:18,160
- When the pirate radios started,
669
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:20,355
it was like
as if the lights were on.
670
00:40:20,355 --> 00:40:22,730
I will never forget when one summer
671
00:40:22,730 --> 00:40:25,880
we sat at one end of the playground
672
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:32,220
at our apartment,
and "007," sounded from the radio.
673
00:40:32,220 --> 00:40:33,426
Desmond Dekker.
674
00:40:43,632 --> 00:40:56,245
♪ 007, 007, at Ocean 11. ♪
675
00:40:56,245 --> 00:40:58,830
Like another
we would have caught a message about the planet.
676
00:40:58,830 --> 00:40:59,940
Listen to this.
677
00:40:59,940 --> 00:41:01,130
This is great.
678
00:41:01,130 --> 00:41:02,880
I liked it so much because
679
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,617
because it was completely different.
680
00:41:05,617 --> 00:41:10,407
♪ Rude Boys don't make mistakes. ♪
681
00:41:10,407 --> 00:41:12,430
♪ Because otherwise the probationary period will come. ♪
682
00:41:12,430 --> 00:41:15,870
This music is a very
found a targeted audience
683
00:41:15,870 --> 00:41:18,070
obviously the blacks,
684
00:41:18,070 --> 00:41:21,300
but the working class
also white young people.
685
00:41:21,300 --> 00:41:22,713
He told us.
686
00:41:22,713 --> 00:41:25,364
♪ They rob, shoot, cry. ♪
687
00:41:25,364 --> 00:41:27,292
♪ In the slum. ♪
688
00:41:27,292 --> 00:41:29,220
♪ Rude Boys get a trial period. ♪
689
00:41:35,772 --> 00:41:38,490
In the summer of 1968 very
I cut my hair short
690
00:41:38,490 --> 00:41:39,760
as everyone.
691
00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:41,380
Tom, a hairdresser a
Maple Road
692
00:41:41,380 --> 00:41:43,765
was an expert on this hairstyle.
693
00:41:43,765 --> 00:41:47,138
CHAPTER SEVEN
SKINHEAD
694
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:03,550
- The Skinheads were young,
695
00:42:03,550 --> 00:42:06,230
they wore braces and big boots.
696
00:42:06,230 --> 00:42:09,740
They were the Rude Boys of England.
697
00:42:09,740 --> 00:42:11,976
They sensed the wavelength.
698
00:42:12,249 --> 00:42:13,889
- West Indians have approx. 80 percent
699
00:42:13,890 --> 00:42:15,560
it was a job.
700
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:18,330
And the Skinheads were also young jobseekers.
701
00:42:29,044 --> 00:42:31,990
- It was a period
702
00:42:31,990 --> 00:42:34,650
when everyone longed for something again.
703
00:42:38,499 --> 00:42:40,020
ROYSTON EDWARDS
ACTOR AND SKINHEAD
704
00:42:40,100 --> 00:42:43,970
We actually rebelled against the long-haired
705
00:42:43,970 --> 00:42:46,560
and crappy flower power against music.
706
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:49,740
- How are hippies different from you?
707
00:42:49,740 --> 00:42:54,020
- They're dirty, stinky and have long hair.
708
00:42:54,020 --> 00:42:56,020
- We felt like we belonged together.
709
00:42:56,020 --> 00:42:58,470
You were a member of the Skinhead group.
710
00:42:58,470 --> 00:43:01,360
And you gave it your all.
711
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:03,220
You have not deviated from the road.
712
00:43:03,220 --> 00:43:06,340
Now that I think about it,
it was like an army.
713
00:43:06,340 --> 00:43:08,710
You had friends right away.
714
00:43:08,710 --> 00:43:11,227
And if you traveled to another city,
715
00:43:11,227 --> 00:43:13,810
there was also a group
with whom you came out immediately.
716
00:43:13,810 --> 00:43:16,010
- It wasn't cheap.
717
00:43:16,010 --> 00:43:18,560
Another Ben Sherman
also had 3 guineas.
718
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:22,420
In the Squire Shop
a pair of shoes was 8 guinea.
719
00:43:22,420 --> 00:43:24,697
As a jobseeker, this is more than a two-week salary.
720
00:43:24,697 --> 00:43:27,030
- If you worked eight o'clock, it's half your salary.
721
00:43:30,201 --> 00:43:32,660
- The Skinheads brought out the music
722
00:43:32,660 --> 00:43:34,040
about the Jamaican market.
723
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:36,000
But in the beginning it was still quite small.
724
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,930
And they listened to layered music,
725
00:43:38,930 --> 00:43:42,235
which did not get beyond the walls.
726
00:43:42,235 --> 00:43:43,610
- The reggae music
727
00:43:43,610 --> 00:43:50,210
appropriate because
it was distributed and loved by the Skinheads.
728
00:43:50,210 --> 00:43:54,530
We wanted to play for those who love it.
729
00:43:54,530 --> 00:43:55,670
Then came the Skinheads.
730
00:43:55,670 --> 00:43:58,380
And I liked the Skinheads.
731
00:43:58,380 --> 00:44:01,282
They showed up because they loved reggae.
732
00:44:01,630 --> 00:44:04,762
♪ Je, je, je, je, je, je, ♪
733
00:44:04,762 --> 00:44:06,184
♪ je. ♪
734
00:44:06,184 --> 00:44:08,080
♪ Je, je. ♪
735
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:11,475
- The music has been there since I was a kid,
736
00:44:11,475 --> 00:44:13,350
when even a little
I was Rude Boy in Jamaica,
737
00:44:13,350 --> 00:44:15,680
even then, my mind was only on the music.
738
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:18,540
One of our main goals was to
to contract with Trojan,
739
00:44:18,540 --> 00:44:21,130
as the best Jamaican musicians
740
00:44:21,130 --> 00:44:22,827
they were all with the Trojan.
741
00:44:22,827 --> 00:44:26,470
♪ Walk the MoonHop. ♪
742
00:44:26,470 --> 00:44:29,169
♪ Walk the MoonHop. ♪
743
00:44:29,169 --> 00:44:30,507
♪ Now jump like a kangaroo. ♪
744
00:44:30,607 --> 00:44:34,078
The Trojan SKINHEAD CULTURE
spent all over England,
745
00:44:34,103 --> 00:44:37,400
and Jamaican MUSIC is new
market was emerging.
746
00:44:39,192 --> 00:44:40,695
- Derrick Morgan
747
00:44:40,695 --> 00:44:43,565
ran in with his song "Moon Hop",
748
00:44:43,565 --> 00:44:47,100
just when the first
man has arrived on the moon.
749
00:44:47,100 --> 00:44:50,430
Graeme Goodall once said:
750
00:44:50,430 --> 00:44:52,560
"So many skinheads love you.
751
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:55,380
Why don't you write something about Skinheads? "
752
00:44:55,380 --> 00:44:59,230
I swear on my life
kill me here if it didn't,
753
00:44:59,230 --> 00:45:00,760
nothing was written from the text.
754
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:04,970
I just went into the cabin
and I started talking.
755
00:45:04,970 --> 00:45:08,400
I want,
to get all Skinhead to get up.
756
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:12,510
Pick it up
braces, boots and dance legs,
757
00:45:12,510 --> 00:45:17,070
and trample the moon well.
758
00:45:17,070 --> 00:45:20,640
It was also released the same week.
759
00:45:20,640 --> 00:45:22,305
He fired.
760
00:45:24,780 --> 00:45:26,265
♪ Get ready. ♪
761
00:45:29,730 --> 00:45:34,680
♪ The moon is 3 million miles away. ♪
762
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:37,155
♪ So let’s start to rejoice. ♪
763
00:45:37,155 --> 00:45:38,660
♪ Are you ready? ♪
764
00:45:38,660 --> 00:45:43,404
♪ Je, je, je, je,
je, je, je ♪
765
00:45:43,404 --> 00:45:45,500
♪ Je, je. ♪
766
00:45:45,500 --> 00:45:50,747
♪ Je, je, je, je,
je, je, je ♪
767
00:45:50,747 --> 00:45:51,247
♪ Je, je. ♪
768
00:45:51,247 --> 00:45:53,372
- "Skinhead Moonstomp" was an anthem,
769
00:45:53,372 --> 00:45:54,492
issued by the Trojan.
770
00:45:54,492 --> 00:45:56,450
There were skinheads on the album cover,
771
00:45:56,450 --> 00:45:57,760
That's why they took it.
772
00:45:57,760 --> 00:45:59,044
But the number was the point.
773
00:45:59,044 --> 00:46:01,826
♪ All right, listen. ♪
774
00:46:01,826 --> 00:46:04,530
Jük Before we reach the moon, buddies, ♪
775
00:46:04,530 --> 00:46:06,010
We need to make sure
776
00:46:06,010 --> 00:46:07,177
♪ that everything clicks, okay? ♪
777
00:46:07,177 --> 00:46:08,760
- It belonged to the good side of the Skinheads,
778
00:46:08,760 --> 00:46:10,730
that they did not beat blacks.
779
00:46:10,730 --> 00:46:13,520
According to the Skinheads
blacks are like them
780
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:15,740
because their hairstyle was taken from us,
781
00:46:15,740 --> 00:46:17,090
we brought it from Jamaica.
782
00:46:17,090 --> 00:46:17,980
We called it "Skiffle."
783
00:46:17,980 --> 00:46:19,060
Brush your teeth,
784
00:46:19,060 --> 00:46:23,073
because the moon is different
man looks like on earth.
785
00:46:23,073 --> 00:46:25,490
Thanks to the English Skinheads,
786
00:46:25,490 --> 00:46:28,090
that reggae was not forgotten.
787
00:46:28,090 --> 00:46:32,770
♪ My name is Caleb. ♪
788
00:46:32,770 --> 00:46:34,160
♪ That's right. ♪
789
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:37,500
♪ I'm the boss, remember. ♪
790
00:46:37,500 --> 00:46:38,075
♪ You can see. ♪
791
00:46:38,075 --> 00:46:40,760
♪ You can see, watch my boots
or my foot, call me ♪
792
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:43,895
Whatever you want,
♪ I have the biggest boots. ♪
793
00:46:43,895 --> 00:46:46,269
♪ God have mercy. ♪
794
00:46:46,269 --> 00:46:46,769
♪ Now! ♪
795
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:54,480
- I brought some records with me.
796
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:57,470
I'll ask you some.
797
00:46:57,470 --> 00:47:03,250
This is "Tighten Up"
from Untouchables.
798
00:47:03,250 --> 00:47:05,855
This is an early Lee Perry record.
799
00:47:08,565 --> 00:47:11,710
- Island Records
he just thought he could pull it off.
800
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:17,560
Trojan Records picked up,
and re-crowned.
801
00:47:17,949 --> 00:47:20,978
LEE SCRATCH PERRY
LEMEZPRODUCER
802
00:47:23,943 --> 00:47:25,550
Get up, get up and shake.
803
00:47:30,470 --> 00:47:33,480
My name is Lee "Scratch"
Perry, the Upsetting Upsetter.
804
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:36,190
Look at my rings.
805
00:47:36,190 --> 00:47:39,140
I'm the star of Trojan Records.
806
00:47:39,140 --> 00:47:42,991
My songs go to the people of London.
807
00:47:42,991 --> 00:47:50,710
Baby, cheer me up, ma'am ...
808
00:47:50,710 --> 00:47:55,130
- We started in 1969
the "Tighten Up" single series.
809
00:47:55,130 --> 00:48:01,193
Best bought of the month
was a selection of reggae singles.
810
00:48:01,193 --> 00:48:02,860
- "Tighten Up" brought money.
811
00:48:02,860 --> 00:48:04,620
It was a gold mine.
812
00:48:04,620 --> 00:48:08,742
We put together a
selection and was a great success.
813
00:48:08,742 --> 00:48:13,830
- Well, the "Tighten Up"
on discs all the numbers were good.
814
00:48:13,830 --> 00:48:15,525
All to one thread.
815
00:48:15,525 --> 00:48:17,400
I think these are the
records were the best,
816
00:48:17,400 --> 00:48:19,897
which were issued.
817
00:48:27,690 --> 00:48:31,328
- "Return of Django" became a hit.
818
00:48:38,980 --> 00:48:42,480
- Scratch was a genius.
819
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:46,270
He knew exactly what he wanted.
820
00:48:46,270 --> 00:48:51,900
Also that one
he couldn't play an instrument either.
821
00:48:51,900 --> 00:48:56,624
He knew exactly
to explain what he wanted.
822
00:48:56,624 --> 00:48:58,650
- It's a dream.
823
00:48:58,650 --> 00:49:02,250
I can make music, magic music.
824
00:49:07,842 --> 00:49:11,700
- Everyone had it
"Tighten Up" 1 and 2.
825
00:49:11,700 --> 00:49:14,010
They were all on it -
826
00:49:14,010 --> 00:49:17,340
"Return of Django," "Long
Shot (Kick the Bucket). "
827
00:49:17,340 --> 00:49:22,633
Everyone was there under his arm.
828
00:49:22,633 --> 00:49:26,200
Much of this
thanks for this music,
829
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:28,370
not because of radio charts,
830
00:49:28,370 --> 00:49:30,888
but because wherever you went,
831
00:49:30,888 --> 00:49:32,680
there was a "Tighten
Up, Volume 2. "
832
00:49:40,789 --> 00:49:46,400
- He appeared suddenly
a new style of reggae.
833
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:52,190
And we were just in time
in a good place to milk.
834
00:49:52,190 --> 00:50:00,090
We once recorded "Long Shot
(Kick the Bucket) "- et.
835
00:50:00,090 --> 00:50:01,530
Once.
836
00:50:01,530 --> 00:50:04,350
Oh, and for me a
"Long Shot (Kick the Bucket)"
837
00:50:04,350 --> 00:50:09,870
well known in London,
and the whole ... In the universe?
838
00:50:09,870 --> 00:50:11,172
Big number.
839
00:50:13,770 --> 00:50:16,690
Rugged, rugged,
massive, massive.
840
00:50:16,690 --> 00:50:17,750
And they still carry it.
841
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:22,893
CHAPTER EIGHT
INTEGRATION
842
00:50:41,303 --> 00:50:44,454
- I've never heard ska music before,
843
00:50:44,454 --> 00:50:47,250
I did not grow up in such an environment.
844
00:50:47,250 --> 00:50:50,010
My parents were older and white,
845
00:50:50,010 --> 00:50:51,195
I was adopted.
846
00:50:51,195 --> 00:50:55,560
What mourners and sobs
847
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:56,930
♪ in Caymanas Park. ♪
848
00:50:56,930 --> 00:51:01,394
♪ Big boy, kick up the bucket. ♪
849
00:51:01,394 --> 00:51:05,460
♪ Big boy, kick up the bucket. ♪
850
00:51:05,460 --> 00:51:09,000
Because it was me
the only black in my school
851
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:11,310
first from the Skinheads in Dagenham
852
00:51:11,310 --> 00:51:15,090
I heard ska music.
853
00:51:15,090 --> 00:51:18,270
On the fifth or sixth floor
854
00:51:18,270 --> 00:51:20,580
there was a room they played ska.
855
00:51:20,580 --> 00:51:24,909
♪ Kick up the bucket. ♪
856
00:51:24,909 --> 00:51:26,840
♪ Big boy, kick up the bucket. ♪
857
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:29,950
- There was an old red Dansette.
858
00:51:29,950 --> 00:51:33,425
They brought disks, often Trojan disks.
859
00:51:37,655 --> 00:51:39,760
He had a good mood,
860
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:43,330
because of the unusual music
for some reason one turns to dance.
861
00:51:45,723 --> 00:51:49,810
It doesn't matter if they are black,
whether whites or Asians dance to it.
862
00:51:49,810 --> 00:51:53,380
I think that was
what ska music, rocksteady,
863
00:51:53,380 --> 00:51:55,670
reggae music, call what you want
864
00:51:55,670 --> 00:51:59,080
this is what he brought to this country;
865
00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:06,100
its bloodless,
post-war, gray, quite unhappy
866
00:52:06,100 --> 00:52:07,723
to a desalinated country.
867
00:52:09,765 --> 00:52:13,250
♪ Well, I need to talk about this. ♪
868
00:52:13,250 --> 00:52:21,232
I get up in the morning, drive for the insert,
869
00:52:21,232 --> 00:52:27,730
♪ that all rumen
fill it for my money. ♪
870
00:52:27,730 --> 00:52:30,333
- It was depressing.
871
00:52:30,333 --> 00:52:33,160
Desmond Dekker woke him up
872
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:36,668
the general public
the existence of musical individuality.
873
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:42,740
- The atmosphere was exciting,
which he created on stage.
874
00:52:42,740 --> 00:52:45,406
The adrenaline jumped from him.
875
00:52:45,406 --> 00:52:47,406
I get up in the morning,
876
00:52:47,406 --> 00:52:54,378
♪ I drive for the insert to every rumen ♪
♪ fill it for my money. ♪
877
00:52:54,378 --> 00:52:58,362
♪ We poor Israelites. ♪
878
00:52:58,362 --> 00:53:03,670
- I knew it was our music
it wasn’t just about entertainment.
879
00:53:03,670 --> 00:53:10,618
♪ I say, woe, we poor Israelites. ♪
880
00:53:10,618 --> 00:53:13,615
- We waited at the venue before the show,
881
00:53:13,615 --> 00:53:17,700
Desmond was made for the stage.
882
00:53:17,700 --> 00:53:22,740
He was wearing a nicely knitted tie.
883
00:53:22,740 --> 00:53:24,540
I said,
"Desmond, take off your tie."
884
00:53:24,540 --> 00:53:26,910
- "No, man,
you have to get dressed for a stage. "
885
00:53:26,910 --> 00:53:29,390
- "Yes, but you look like him,
like a sugar boy. "
886
00:53:29,390 --> 00:53:34,980
As soon as he went on stage,
a group of young children
887
00:53:34,980 --> 00:53:40,710
white kids flooded the stage
and his tie was clenched.
888
00:53:40,710 --> 00:53:41,690
'Ah, Desmond!'
889
00:53:45,610 --> 00:53:49,810
I haven't seen it yet
black with red head before.
890
00:53:49,810 --> 00:53:53,282
♪ Nurse. ♪
891
00:54:03,202 --> 00:54:05,516
I get up in the morning,
892
00:54:05,516 --> 00:54:10,642
♪ I drive for the insert to every rumen ♪
♪ fill it for my money. ♪
893
00:54:10,642 --> 00:54:14,724
♪ We poor Israelites. ♪
894
00:54:14,724 --> 00:54:16,900
- That brought the breakthrough.
895
00:54:16,900 --> 00:54:21,260
It was the first really big reggae record.
896
00:54:21,260 --> 00:54:22,543
♪ ... to see. ♪
897
00:54:22,816 --> 00:54:25,368
Between March and June 1969
Desmond Dekker "THE ISRAELITES"
898
00:54:25,393 --> 00:54:27,426
plate of more than one million
sold in copies.
899
00:54:29,100 --> 00:54:32,040
♪ T-shirt torn, pants nowhere. ♪
900
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:34,490
♪ I don’t end up like Bonnie and Clyde. ♪
901
00:54:34,490 --> 00:54:40,245
- I lived in Rock Bay, went TV,
902
00:54:40,245 --> 00:54:41,620
I had a small antenna for it.
903
00:54:44,830 --> 00:54:46,901
Desmond Dekker was on the show.
904
00:54:46,901 --> 00:54:51,200
♪ We poor Israelites. ♪
905
00:54:51,200 --> 00:54:53,200
As I saw it, I thought
906
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:55,080
"Oh, there's a black guy on TV."
907
00:54:57,780 --> 00:55:00,900
You didn't see it then
black singers on tv.
908
00:55:00,900 --> 00:55:02,890
He dominated the stage.
909
00:55:02,890 --> 00:55:04,490
I know he is too
It was Rude Boy,
910
00:55:04,490 --> 00:55:06,510
but not that gangsta Rude Boy.
911
00:55:06,510 --> 00:55:08,920
She looked like Rude and dressed as Rude.
912
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:11,390
It was cool, I wanted to be like him.
913
00:55:13,875 --> 00:55:17,851
Oh poor poor
poor poor Israelites.
914
00:55:25,306 --> 00:55:28,650
- I was a troublemaker when I was young.
915
00:55:28,650 --> 00:55:31,440
"Neville, rude boy, bad boy,"
916
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:34,560
my father always said that.
"Behave, boy."
917
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:37,620
Rude boy, why are you like that?
918
00:55:37,620 --> 00:55:39,660
Rougher than everyone
harder than everyone.
919
00:55:42,580 --> 00:55:43,950
♪ Hey! ♪
920
00:55:43,950 --> 00:55:46,550
♪ I'm on my way to Bambria. ♪
921
00:55:46,550 --> 00:55:49,150
"Monkey" comes from the Maytals.
922
00:55:56,280 --> 00:55:59,190
[MUSIC - THE MAYTALS,
"MONKEY MAN"]
923
00:56:07,435 --> 00:56:08,890
♪ I say, baby. ♪
924
00:56:08,890 --> 00:56:11,385
♪ The big ape will come to you. ♪
925
00:56:11,385 --> 00:56:13,130
- When I came here,
926
00:56:13,130 --> 00:56:16,700
I felt that
black English are treated differently.
927
00:56:16,700 --> 00:56:18,233
My father talked a lot about this.
928
00:56:18,233 --> 00:56:19,400
You have to behave.
929
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:20,692
It's not like Jamaica.
930
00:56:24,380 --> 00:56:27,183
♪ The big ape will come to you. ♪
931
00:56:27,183 --> 00:56:29,330
♪ I don't know where you are. ♪
932
00:56:29,330 --> 00:56:30,210
♪ I just heard ... ♪
933
00:56:30,210 --> 00:56:33,180
Racism was very strong at the time,
934
00:56:33,180 --> 00:56:37,230
caution for white parents
they warned their children
935
00:56:37,230 --> 00:56:40,543
to hang out with black kids.
936
00:56:40,543 --> 00:56:41,460
That was one thing.
937
00:56:41,460 --> 00:56:45,210
But as children,
we had a great time together.
938
00:56:45,210 --> 00:56:46,238
I found them.
939
00:56:46,238 --> 00:56:47,280
They are me too.
940
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:48,238
I have such a gift.
941
00:56:48,238 --> 00:56:49,895
I came out with everyone.
942
00:56:49,895 --> 00:56:51,562
♪ I understand now. ♪
943
00:56:51,562 --> 00:56:55,237
♪ Now you set the monkey on it. ♪
944
00:56:55,237 --> 00:56:56,820
We played a lot of songs
945
00:56:56,820 --> 00:56:58,710
from the Trojan.
946
00:56:58,710 --> 00:57:01,630
Many white young people also liked it.
947
00:57:01,630 --> 00:57:03,730
They also wanted to attend the party.
948
00:57:03,730 --> 00:57:05,400
It was good because that's how we knew it
949
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:08,263
to integrate with each other.
950
00:57:08,263 --> 00:57:10,728
♪ It's not a lie. ♪
951
00:57:10,728 --> 00:57:13,562
♪ It's not a lie. Just say ... ♪
952
00:57:13,562 --> 00:57:16,020
We didn't think it would be that big.
953
00:57:16,020 --> 00:57:17,850
We did it because we felt that way
954
00:57:17,850 --> 00:57:21,303
as young people, so we grew up.
955
00:57:21,303 --> 00:57:23,540
♪ The big ape will come to you. ♪
956
00:57:23,540 --> 00:57:25,990
♪ I know now. ♪
957
00:57:25,990 --> 00:57:27,460
♪ I understand now. ♪
958
00:57:27,460 --> 00:57:30,890
♪ You set a monkey on it. ♪
959
00:57:30,890 --> 00:57:32,360
♪ I know now. ♪
960
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:34,810
♪ I understand now. ♪
961
00:57:34,810 --> 00:57:37,750
♪ You set a monkey on it. ♪
962
00:57:42,170 --> 00:57:43,110
♪ Hi, baby. ♪
963
00:57:43,110 --> 00:57:45,254
♪ The big ape will come to you. ♪
964
00:57:46,124 --> 00:57:48,894
SON LETTS
DJ AND FILMMAKER
965
00:57:48,998 --> 00:57:51,960
- I think early Jamaican music
966
00:57:51,960 --> 00:57:54,090
reminded my parents of their home
967
00:57:54,090 --> 00:57:58,334
the place they would return to.
968
00:58:00,751 --> 00:58:02,700
But the music that over time
969
00:58:02,700 --> 00:58:05,010
from the scab and rocksteady
970
00:58:05,010 --> 00:58:07,580
grew up and the Trojan
make up a large part of its repertoire,
971
00:58:07,580 --> 00:58:09,370
it was the music of my generation
972
00:58:09,370 --> 00:58:11,566
and that generation stood still.
973
00:58:11,566 --> 00:58:13,060
♪ Oh, yes. ♪
974
00:58:13,060 --> 00:58:17,044
Wonderful world,
♪ Beautiful people. ♪
975
00:58:17,044 --> 00:58:22,522
You and your girl,
♪ dreams can be beautiful. ♪
976
00:58:22,522 --> 00:58:25,520
♪ But there's a secret behind it all. ♪
977
00:58:25,520 --> 00:58:27,800
My first Trojan disks
978
00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:30,493
at the local youth club
I heard it in Stockwell.
979
00:58:30,493 --> 00:58:32,660
They are like "Double
Barrel, "" Liquidator, "
980
00:58:32,660 --> 00:58:34,310
"Long Shot (Kick the Bucket)".
981
00:58:34,310 --> 00:58:36,063
That's what they said at our Skinhead parties,
982
00:58:36,063 --> 00:58:37,730
because Skinhead was cool at the time.
983
00:58:37,730 --> 00:58:39,188
Now I'm talking about the fashionable version,
984
00:58:39,188 --> 00:58:43,409
not about the later fascist version.
985
00:58:43,409 --> 00:58:52,150
♪ Look around, how are things going? ♪
986
00:58:52,290 --> 00:58:54,340
Black and white youth
987
00:58:54,340 --> 00:58:57,080
got together
because they loved music and style.
988
00:58:57,080 --> 00:58:59,460
And Trojan disks
they played a big role in this.
989
00:58:59,460 --> 00:59:01,372
♪ ... a better direction. ♪
990
00:59:01,372 --> 00:59:04,103
If we unite our love ...
991
00:59:04,103 --> 00:59:07,270
I am a first generation in England
i am born black.
992
00:59:07,270 --> 00:59:08,870
We didn't really know where to fit.
993
00:59:08,870 --> 00:59:10,120
Then we tried Jamaica.
994
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:13,500
Because we come from there,
but we weren’t quite Jamaican either.
995
00:59:13,500 --> 00:59:16,540
it took a while
until "black" and "english"
996
00:59:16,540 --> 00:59:17,939
develop as a concept.
997
00:59:17,939 --> 00:59:22,181
Wonderful world,
♪ Beautiful people. ♪
998
00:59:22,181 --> 00:59:26,672
You and your girl,
♪ dreams can be beautiful. ♪
999
00:59:26,672 --> 00:59:34,656
♪ But behind it is the secret, ♪
♪ which should not be told to anyone. ♪
1000
00:59:40,644 --> 00:59:45,420
Young, talented and black ...
1001
00:59:45,420 --> 00:59:50,640
♪ Oh, what a beautiful, uplifting feeling. ♪
1002
00:59:50,640 --> 00:59:55,410
♪ Young, talented and black. ♪
1003
00:59:55,410 --> 00:59:58,848
♪ Look at yourself and no question. ♪
1004
01:00:01,860 --> 01:00:05,940
You know, all over the world
1005
01:00:05,940 --> 01:00:15,360
Million boys and girls young,
♪ talented and black. ♪
1006
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:16,930
♪ And this is not a fairy tale. ♪
1007
01:00:16,930 --> 01:00:19,261
♪ ... dear dream. ♪
1008
01:00:19,261 --> 01:00:22,388
CHAPTER NINE
YOUNG, TALENTED AND BLACK
1009
01:00:24,010 --> 01:00:25,373
Open your heart ...
1010
01:00:25,373 --> 01:00:26,790
- In Jamaica at the time
1011
01:00:26,790 --> 01:00:31,950
the power of blacks was in the public consciousness.
1012
01:00:31,950 --> 01:00:34,335
Everyone had an afro.
1013
01:00:34,335 --> 01:00:36,235
♪ ... boys and girls. ♪
1014
01:00:36,235 --> 01:00:38,210
I think it was my idea
1015
01:00:38,210 --> 01:00:40,914
to process that song.
1016
01:00:40,914 --> 01:00:42,366
♪ And that's a fact. ♪
1017
01:00:45,270 --> 01:00:48,850
The song ran in, everyone liked it.
1018
01:00:48,850 --> 01:00:51,680
I've also heard from musicians
that they should listen
1019
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:53,200
sometimes a little Marcia.
1020
01:00:53,200 --> 01:00:56,488
♪ A whole world is waiting for you. ♪
1021
01:00:56,488 --> 01:01:00,925
♪ Your journey is just beginning. ♪
1022
01:01:00,925 --> 01:01:05,855
If you are sad, yes,
1023
01:01:05,855 --> 01:01:08,320
There 's the truth, think about it
1024
01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:11,340
"Life in Romford was weird."
1025
01:01:11,340 --> 01:01:13,800
... talented and black, ♪
1026
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:16,025
♪ Strong soul. ♪
1027
01:01:16,025 --> 01:01:17,900
The National Front
1028
01:01:17,900 --> 01:01:19,700
I called it a hotbed.
1029
01:01:19,700 --> 01:01:22,790
I knew a lot of people who
1030
01:01:22,790 --> 01:01:25,220
they were the same
like the other white working class,
1031
01:01:25,220 --> 01:01:27,590
however, they had a racist attitude.
1032
01:01:27,590 --> 01:01:29,562
"Time, weather and ..."
1033
01:01:33,506 --> 01:01:35,240
- A "Young,
Gifted, and Black "
1034
01:01:35,240 --> 01:01:39,350
sent a positive message
to that many black young people
1035
01:01:39,350 --> 01:01:41,240
in the country.
1036
01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:44,138
♪ Young, talented and black. ♪
1037
01:01:44,138 --> 01:01:47,036
♪ No fairy tales. ♪
1038
01:01:47,036 --> 01:01:49,200
At first it was then that I felt
1039
01:01:49,200 --> 01:01:53,170
that being black can be good.
1040
01:01:53,170 --> 01:01:54,170
It was like a song.
1041
01:01:54,170 --> 01:01:55,587
Inalienable.
1042
01:01:55,587 --> 01:02:01,130
Young people need to know
1043
01:02:01,130 --> 01:02:03,505
A whole world is waiting for you ...
1044
01:02:03,505 --> 01:02:10,880
"26 April 1970
Empire Pool, Wembley, London.
1045
01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:13,100
The show: the Reggae Festival.
1046
01:02:16,420 --> 01:02:20,400
10,000 came from all over the country.
1047
01:02:20,400 --> 01:02:23,210
10,000 black and white youth. "
1048
01:02:23,210 --> 01:02:26,072
Ó - Oh, young ♪
Fiatal - Young, talented, ♪
1049
01:02:26,072 --> 01:02:27,503
♪ and black. ♪
1050
01:02:27,503 --> 01:02:30,842
♪ Oh, I so want to know the truth. ♪
1051
01:02:30,842 --> 01:02:32,980
- Sing this song ...
1052
01:02:32,980 --> 01:02:34,540
Wow.
1053
01:02:34,540 --> 01:02:36,400
I felt in heaven.
1054
01:02:39,830 --> 01:02:43,541
I think reggae music lately
1055
01:02:43,566 --> 01:02:47,071
personal freedom
and expresses a sense of life.
1056
01:02:47,447 --> 01:02:48,635
They sing about life.
1057
01:02:51,220 --> 01:02:55,598
After all, we are all one.
1058
01:02:55,598 --> 01:02:56,640
- Yes.
1059
01:02:56,640 --> 01:02:59,300
Those were good times.
1060
01:02:59,300 --> 01:03:00,830
The music was there.
1061
01:03:00,830 --> 01:03:02,590
The musician was there.
1062
01:03:02,590 --> 01:03:04,955
Respect, humility ...
1063
01:03:04,955 --> 01:03:08,470
it was so appropriate.
1064
01:03:08,470 --> 01:03:13,815
And the audience ...
My mother.
1065
01:03:13,815 --> 01:03:17,640
"I've never seen such a crowd in my life."
1066
01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:21,150
The place was full of black and white.
1067
01:03:21,150 --> 01:03:23,920
One side is white,
Skinheads, Skinhead Girls,
1068
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:25,550
Mods and others.
1069
01:03:25,550 --> 01:03:28,930
They are black on the other side.
1070
01:03:28,930 --> 01:03:31,620
But everyone shouted at once.
1071
01:03:31,620 --> 01:03:34,305
It was a fantastic sight.
1072
01:03:47,468 --> 01:03:49,300
When I went out on stage,
1073
01:03:49,300 --> 01:03:51,670
I came out like a Rude Boy.
1074
01:03:51,670 --> 01:03:55,250
Shirtless,
in braces and boots.
1075
01:03:55,250 --> 01:03:56,801
And I sled.
1076
01:04:01,130 --> 01:04:02,050
I didn't sing.
1077
01:04:02,050 --> 01:04:05,410
It was instrumental,
I danced and shouted
1078
01:04:05,410 --> 01:04:07,005
like U-Roy.
1079
01:04:11,628 --> 01:04:16,220
It was visibly felt by the audience.
1080
01:04:16,220 --> 01:04:18,540
The musicians also had a good time.
1081
01:04:18,540 --> 01:04:21,340
You really had to be there,
so you know what I'm talking about.
1082
01:04:21,340 --> 01:04:24,250
It felt great.
1083
01:04:24,250 --> 01:04:30,840
And that makes me always feel good.
1084
01:04:30,840 --> 01:04:34,410
I've done something in my life,
which addresses the world.
1085
01:04:38,258 --> 01:04:40,745
- There were booming times.
1086
01:04:40,745 --> 01:04:43,160
Many were hit,
1087
01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:46,960
reggae has grown explosively.
1088
01:04:46,960 --> 01:04:50,270
The two years
1969, 1970, 1971 ...
1089
01:04:50,270 --> 01:04:52,420
It was great
in the history of Trojan Records.
1090
01:05:05,048 --> 01:05:08,465
CHAPTER TEN
SUCCESS
1091
01:05:11,980 --> 01:05:16,520
- It was also a sign of a cultural change.
1092
01:05:16,520 --> 01:05:19,810
From the settling population
1093
01:05:19,810 --> 01:05:22,720
included in the total population.
1094
01:05:22,720 --> 01:05:24,010
We had a lot of things to do
1095
01:05:24,010 --> 01:05:25,975
We sold so much.
1096
01:05:25,975 --> 01:05:27,610
- We were completely surprised,
1097
01:05:27,610 --> 01:05:30,010
that it has become such a huge success,
1098
01:05:30,010 --> 01:05:34,090
since we started it all out of necessity.
1099
01:05:34,090 --> 01:05:38,035
And at one point
we became a mainstream record label.
1100
01:05:38,035 --> 01:05:42,160
- Many times we didn't even pack new records,
1101
01:05:42,160 --> 01:05:45,960
because we knew it very much
they will be taken away quickly.
1102
01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:48,850
We had an infinitely great record,
1103
01:05:48,850 --> 01:05:54,305
it seemed unstoppable.
1104
01:05:54,305 --> 01:05:55,930
- We had a chance to negotiate
1105
01:05:55,930 --> 01:05:58,270
start with the bbc
1106
01:05:58,270 --> 01:05:59,695
that it is going very well now.
1107
01:05:59,695 --> 01:06:01,330
- Top the chart for six weeks.
1108
01:06:01,330 --> 01:06:02,530
Very good feeling,
1109
01:06:02,530 --> 01:06:05,535
that we have a brand new hit,
especially if it is so good.
1110
01:06:05,535 --> 01:06:07,840
Dave and Ansel Collins with their hits,
1111
01:06:07,840 --> 01:06:10,810
whose title is "Double Barrel," right?
1112
01:06:10,810 --> 01:06:11,660
Good.
1113
01:06:11,660 --> 01:06:12,702
You forgot, right?
1114
01:06:12,702 --> 01:06:14,121
So come on.
1115
01:06:17,905 --> 01:06:21,720
- We went to Joe Gibbs' studio.
1116
01:06:26,780 --> 01:06:29,230
They played the song.
1117
01:06:29,230 --> 01:06:30,560
I did not feel.
1118
01:06:30,560 --> 01:06:31,880
Somehow I didn't find myself in it.
1119
01:06:31,880 --> 01:06:33,202
I tried.
1120
01:06:35,910 --> 01:06:40,020
His brother said:
Dave, imagine
1121
01:06:40,020 --> 01:06:44,280
that you are standing on the highest mountain in the world.
1122
01:06:44,280 --> 01:06:45,230
And you're huge.
1123
01:06:52,280 --> 01:06:57,720
Having said that, it occurred to me that
"I am the mighty lord,
1124
01:06:57,720 --> 01:07:00,270
my way to the blade-crate,
1125
01:07:00,270 --> 01:07:03,430
the storm-stirring voice of the soul watches out! ”
1126
01:07:08,512 --> 01:07:11,879
♪ I'm still here. ♪
1127
01:07:19,094 --> 01:07:24,530
Work, work, work, work,
♪ work, work, work, work. ♪
1128
01:07:24,530 --> 01:07:28,030
- I got the twenty dollars and went out.
1129
01:07:28,030 --> 01:07:30,042
I forgot about it.
1130
01:07:30,042 --> 01:07:32,810
♪ Once. ♪
1131
01:07:33,310 --> 01:07:36,320
Me, The
Sensations and Johnny Osbourne,
1132
01:07:36,320 --> 01:07:40,900
we were street musicians.
1133
01:07:40,900 --> 01:07:43,930
We were called from the Trojan.
1134
01:07:45,280 --> 01:07:48,642
I think it was Lee Gopthal.
1135
01:07:48,642 --> 01:07:52,600
After Winston hung up,
1136
01:07:52,600 --> 01:07:53,715
came out to us.
1137
01:07:56,565 --> 01:08:02,020
He said, "The Trojan called,
1138
01:08:02,020 --> 01:08:04,990
it seems the
"Double Barrel"
1139
01:08:04,990 --> 01:08:08,802
it will soon be at the top of the leaderboard.
1140
01:08:14,574 --> 01:08:18,002
♪ Yours, if you really want to. ♪
1141
01:08:18,072 --> 01:08:20,218
In May 1971, Dave
and Ansell Collins ’DOUBLE BARREL
1142
01:08:20,243 --> 01:08:23,618
topped the English charts; it became the
Trojan's first TOP LEADER single.
1143
01:08:25,149 --> 01:08:27,880
♪ But strive, strive for it. ♪
1144
01:08:27,880 --> 01:08:32,330
- The Trojan at the time
was the Motown of reggae music.
1145
01:08:32,330 --> 01:08:36,226
♪ Gets together once. ♪
1146
01:08:38,661 --> 01:08:42,808
- We came to conquer
the world to blow out Motown.
1147
01:08:42,808 --> 01:08:44,433
♪ ... you have to be scared. ♪
1148
01:08:44,433 --> 01:08:47,382
If you win, if you lose,
♪ you get yourself. ♪
1149
01:08:47,382 --> 01:08:50,990
- Reggae is unconscious
quantities.
1150
01:08:50,990 --> 01:08:52,414
Ruthlessly.
1151
01:08:52,414 --> 01:08:57,790
- We created a generation,
who listened to reggae because they loved it.
1152
01:08:57,790 --> 01:09:01,880
Alton Ellis was released by Trojan,
John Holt, say a name.
1153
01:09:01,880 --> 01:09:03,484
Trojan had every musician.
1154
01:09:03,484 --> 01:09:08,797
- I remember once
There were 5 Trojan disks in the top 40.
1155
01:09:08,797 --> 01:09:10,130
That's not so bad, is it?
1156
01:09:10,130 --> 01:09:13,270
♪ Strive, strive for it. ♪
1157
01:09:13,270 --> 01:09:14,460
♪ Gets together once. ♪
1158
01:09:14,460 --> 01:09:17,210
- I was in the studio day and night,
1159
01:09:17,210 --> 01:09:22,300
because the Trojan released them, you know.
1160
01:09:22,300 --> 01:09:26,388
♪ Rome was not built in a day. ♪
1161
01:09:26,388 --> 01:09:29,675
♪ There is also one that will break up. ♪
1162
01:09:29,675 --> 01:09:31,050
- So fast
1163
01:09:31,050 --> 01:09:33,779
it all happened, i didn't have time
1164
01:09:33,779 --> 01:09:36,990
to stop and ask myself
1165
01:09:36,990 --> 01:09:38,490
how did we get here
1166
01:09:38,490 --> 01:09:41,450
By this time we had been touring all of England.
1167
01:09:41,450 --> 01:09:44,434
Yours if you really want to.
1168
01:09:44,434 --> 01:09:46,809
- We traveled through the country.
1169
01:09:46,809 --> 01:09:48,529
I don't even remember all of them.
1170
01:09:48,529 --> 01:09:50,890
We went to Durham County.
1171
01:09:50,890 --> 01:09:52,590
- Birmingham, Leeds.
1172
01:09:52,590 --> 01:09:54,180
- Land's End, Penzance.
1173
01:09:54,180 --> 01:09:56,175
- Manchester, Sheffield.
1174
01:09:56,175 --> 01:09:59,170
"I remember going to Newquay once."
1175
01:09:59,170 --> 01:10:01,750
Just a little
I put my foot in the water
1176
01:10:01,750 --> 01:10:05,700
and I screamed in the middle of summer.
1177
01:10:05,700 --> 01:10:09,504
- We had a great time.
1178
01:10:09,504 --> 01:10:12,848
It can be yours if you really ...
1179
01:10:12,848 --> 01:10:14,390
- The Trojan brought money.
1180
01:10:17,120 --> 01:10:20,330
So what happened to the money,
then you ask me in vain.
1181
01:10:20,330 --> 01:10:22,292
I have no idea. Okay?
1182
01:10:25,748 --> 01:10:27,290
- I don't really remember
1183
01:10:27,290 --> 01:10:28,707
whether reggae was said on the radio
1184
01:10:28,707 --> 01:10:31,940
until the 1970s, when the Trojan
1185
01:10:31,940 --> 01:10:34,015
one after another squeezed out hits.
1186
01:10:34,015 --> 01:10:35,390
And they were smart because
1187
01:10:35,390 --> 01:10:39,750
the original Jamaican
they put strings on the sound.
1188
01:10:39,750 --> 01:10:41,815
The strings soften the music.
1189
01:10:41,815 --> 01:10:43,190
- Instead of
1190
01:10:43,190 --> 01:10:47,570
they would have done concentrated reggae,
1191
01:10:47,570 --> 01:10:50,660
they even sweetened the music with the strings,
1192
01:10:50,660 --> 01:10:57,830
like powdered sugar
on the cake, then he could go.
1193
01:11:01,750 --> 01:11:04,261
♪ You say "yes." ♪
1194
01:11:06,850 --> 01:11:09,840
♪ But you don't mean it. ♪
1195
01:11:09,840 --> 01:11:17,787
♪ You say "no." ♪
♪ And meanwhile you are unyielding. ♪
1196
01:11:18,010 --> 01:11:20,410
- Music and market trading
1197
01:11:20,410 --> 01:11:23,470
we targeted your page.
1198
01:11:23,470 --> 01:11:27,030
It was a business, for the most part.
1199
01:11:27,030 --> 01:11:31,269
Igen Let it be yes, ♪
♪ and not not now. ♪
1200
01:11:34,095 --> 01:11:38,680
- Almost with strings
it has pop music sound.
1201
01:11:38,680 --> 01:11:41,570
If there are strings in a reggae number,
1202
01:11:41,570 --> 01:11:45,392
it's already like soul music.
1203
01:11:45,392 --> 01:11:47,700
♪ ... from head to toe. ♪
1204
01:11:48,250 --> 01:11:51,616
- Strings ruin reggae.
1205
01:11:51,616 --> 01:11:54,056
♪ ... and not your gender. ♪
1206
01:11:54,056 --> 01:11:55,630
-Maybe "Young, Gifted and Black"
1207
01:11:55,630 --> 01:11:58,960
was the first thing we put on strings.
1208
01:11:58,960 --> 01:12:01,840
We also did a lot of Jimmy Cliff songs.
1209
01:12:01,840 --> 01:12:04,910
If we sugared the number a little,
1210
01:12:04,910 --> 01:12:06,910
they were more likely to play.
1211
01:12:06,910 --> 01:12:09,960
It was a common business trick.
1212
01:12:09,960 --> 01:12:12,906
A little like
than when you ask for a pay raise.
1213
01:12:12,906 --> 01:12:15,820
- Then there was a demand for records
1214
01:12:15,820 --> 01:12:19,850
In 19'70 and '71
Proud Skinheads for 18 months
1215
01:12:19,850 --> 01:12:22,590
everywhere, everyone thought
1216
01:12:22,590 --> 01:12:24,280
- but not everyone -
1217
01:12:24,280 --> 01:12:28,870
that you should
to enter the musical mainstream.
1218
01:12:28,870 --> 01:12:32,566
♪ Yes, yes ♪
1219
01:12:32,566 --> 01:12:33,952
♪ And your gender is not. ♪
1220
01:12:33,952 --> 01:12:37,600
- While the young English,
1221
01:12:37,600 --> 01:12:43,190
puppies, skinheads,
they loved hardcore reggae.
1222
01:12:43,190 --> 01:12:44,920
Until then, radio stations did not.
1223
01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:48,340
On the radio it was considered
to make violent music.
1224
01:12:48,340 --> 01:12:51,610
So the producers tried to sell
1225
01:12:51,610 --> 01:12:54,220
that they made the music very tip-top,
1226
01:12:54,220 --> 01:12:57,610
with strings, sheet music.
1227
01:12:57,610 --> 01:12:59,470
Sometimes a very special record comes up,
1228
01:12:59,470 --> 01:13:01,330
like "Everything I Own."
1229
01:13:01,330 --> 01:13:05,530
You protected from the storm,
1230
01:13:05,530 --> 01:13:09,842
♪ You warmed up. You warmed up. ♪
1231
01:13:12,670 --> 01:13:18,815
♪ You gave my life, you set me free. ♪
1232
01:13:18,815 --> 01:13:21,370
- If you play music, you have to be strong.
1233
01:13:21,370 --> 01:13:22,870
You have to persevere.
1234
01:13:22,870 --> 01:13:28,020
♪ The most beautiful tear I have ever seen. ♪
1235
01:13:28,020 --> 01:13:29,440
♪ Oh, my God ... ♪
1236
01:13:29,440 --> 01:13:32,505
You do what you have to do.
1237
01:13:32,505 --> 01:13:33,630
And you have to.
1238
01:13:35,338 --> 01:13:40,070
I would give all my possessions,
1239
01:13:40,070 --> 01:13:45,760
♪ my life, my heart, my home. ♪
1240
01:13:45,760 --> 01:13:48,250
- Trojan released the record in England,
1241
01:13:48,250 --> 01:13:51,240
and I received a telegram,
that "Everything I Own"
1242
01:13:51,240 --> 01:13:54,010
is on the top list.
1243
01:13:54,010 --> 01:13:57,470
I went home,
and I watched Top of the Pops.
1244
01:13:57,470 --> 01:13:59,940
It was the 19th.
1245
01:13:59,940 --> 01:14:03,240
He was already in the top 10 in the next section,
1246
01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:06,530
then it came in fifth,
1247
01:14:06,530 --> 01:14:08,285
and the first in a broadcast.
1248
01:14:08,285 --> 01:14:14,068
♪ I would give all my possessions. ♪
1249
01:14:14,068 --> 01:14:20,360
♪ My life, my heart, my home. ♪
1250
01:14:20,360 --> 01:14:28,530
I would give all my possessions,
1251
01:14:28,530 --> 01:14:33,232
♪ To be here with me again. ♪
1252
01:14:34,615 --> 01:14:37,220
- From the two proudest days of my life
1253
01:14:37,220 --> 01:14:41,000
one was
when Jamaica became independent,
1254
01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:43,670
and a song by Ken Boothe at the top of the Top of the Pops.
1255
01:14:47,140 --> 01:14:49,120
An evergreen reggae hit.
1256
01:15:02,134 --> 01:15:03,690
- It was really a gold rush,
1257
01:15:03,690 --> 01:15:06,950
if you were a record producer.
1258
01:15:06,950 --> 01:15:08,860
The problem started there ...
1259
01:15:08,860 --> 01:15:11,380
We didn't realize what was really going on.
1260
01:15:11,380 --> 01:15:16,430
This golden age lasted 18 months,
1261
01:15:16,430 --> 01:15:20,660
at least that
as for the Jamaican music market.
1262
01:15:20,660 --> 01:15:23,180
Many figures
1263
01:15:23,180 --> 01:15:25,880
it came at a good time, with good numbers.
1264
01:15:25,880 --> 01:15:29,030
And that's why they were on the charts, but ...
1265
01:15:29,030 --> 01:15:33,410
Unfortunately, the momentum weakened at one point.
1266
01:15:33,410 --> 01:15:36,960
- They were very excited then.
1267
01:15:36,960 --> 01:15:38,668
They wanted to give everything out,
1268
01:15:38,668 --> 01:15:40,900
six to seven plates per week were printed.
1269
01:15:40,900 --> 01:15:42,775
And at one point, that was a lot
1270
01:15:42,775 --> 01:15:45,640
to an independent small company.
1271
01:15:45,640 --> 01:15:49,302
And maybe that’s the reason for the decline as well.
1272
01:15:52,557 --> 01:15:54,140
- We released a lot of records,
1273
01:15:54,140 --> 01:15:56,678
there was what was carried, there was what was not.
1274
01:15:56,678 --> 01:15:58,970
We produced so much
1275
01:15:58,970 --> 01:16:02,720
there was what was left on us after pressure
1276
01:16:02,720 --> 01:16:04,310
went to the shelf and finished.
1277
01:16:08,370 --> 01:16:11,530
Storage space is a great value.
1278
01:16:11,530 --> 01:16:16,620
Not good with a set
upload what they don’t carry.
1279
01:16:16,620 --> 01:16:21,070
Each record had to be taxed.
1280
01:16:21,070 --> 01:16:24,015
We had to destroy them.
1281
01:16:30,342 --> 01:16:32,050
- Do business often
1282
01:16:32,050 --> 01:16:36,790
a team starts out as a family.
1283
01:16:36,790 --> 01:16:39,580
Trojan Records was like that at first.
1284
01:16:39,580 --> 01:16:43,600
But money is a tricky thing.
1285
01:16:46,710 --> 01:16:51,530
- The company has grown huge,
and the expenses also became huge.
1286
01:16:51,530 --> 01:16:55,879
It couldn't be anymore
go back to 1968 times.
1287
01:17:00,910 --> 01:17:02,490
The Trojan was in ruins.
1288
01:17:02,490 --> 01:17:04,730
I took my share of it in the same way,
1289
01:17:04,730 --> 01:17:07,070
none of us were responsible.
1290
01:17:07,070 --> 01:17:09,480
We didn't think it would go that way.
1291
01:17:09,480 --> 01:17:12,290
It is also a path to success and failure
1292
01:17:12,290 --> 01:17:14,840
is successfully paved.
1293
01:17:14,840 --> 01:17:21,752
No one dared to say that
"Not anymore."
1294
01:17:25,585 --> 01:17:26,960
Lee, a lot ... you know.
1295
01:17:26,960 --> 01:17:31,250
There was never big money in the company.
1296
01:17:31,250 --> 01:17:33,500
It was a big problem.
1297
01:17:33,500 --> 01:17:35,610
And of course
1298
01:17:35,610 --> 01:17:37,530
unfortunately we derailed.
1299
01:17:40,890 --> 01:17:45,332
- By 1975, the Trojan had almost disappeared.
1300
01:17:45,332 --> 01:17:47,040
It was different in public life as well.
1301
01:17:47,040 --> 01:17:48,457
People wanted something different.
1302
01:17:48,457 --> 01:17:50,165
Jamaican music is sudden
1303
01:17:50,165 --> 01:17:51,930
became harder, more combative,
1304
01:17:51,930 --> 01:17:54,667
with greater political emphasis.
1305
01:17:54,667 --> 01:17:58,590
- He died with the strings.
1306
01:17:58,590 --> 01:18:00,780
There came a line of roots of music.
1307
01:18:00,780 --> 01:18:04,400
More and more roots number
exploded into the public consciousness.
1308
01:18:04,400 --> 01:18:09,030
They could not adapt to the changing world.
1309
01:18:14,790 --> 01:18:18,360
- Lee Gopthal was a great man,
1310
01:18:18,360 --> 01:18:20,470
kneaded from a good material.
1311
01:18:20,470 --> 01:18:24,380
It changed my life.
1312
01:18:24,380 --> 01:18:26,700
They played him.
1313
01:18:26,700 --> 01:18:29,840
They got rid of him.
1314
01:18:29,840 --> 01:18:34,950
It was very sad to see
1315
01:18:34,950 --> 01:18:37,030
this end result because
1316
01:18:37,030 --> 01:18:43,060
single financial controller
was for the group.
1317
01:18:43,060 --> 01:18:46,160
In Soho Square
met with the liquidator,
1318
01:18:46,160 --> 01:18:48,460
for one last meeting.
1319
01:18:48,460 --> 01:18:53,320
Everyone was invited,
to see who stays, who gets out.
1320
01:18:53,320 --> 01:18:56,290
At that time we did not know
to take over the company.
1321
01:18:59,610 --> 01:19:03,170
Lee was then called and said:
1322
01:19:03,170 --> 01:19:05,270
"-Lee, I have a question for you.
1323
01:19:05,270 --> 01:19:06,580
Are you Indian? ”
1324
01:19:06,580 --> 01:19:07,910
"- Yes, I'm Indian."
1325
01:19:07,910 --> 01:19:10,340
To this: "As Indians,
1326
01:19:10,340 --> 01:19:12,560
why do you want an empire for yourself
1327
01:19:12,560 --> 01:19:16,015
You should drive a greengrocer. "
1328
01:19:16,015 --> 01:19:17,890
Tears welled up in Lee Gopthal's eyes.
1329
01:19:17,890 --> 01:19:19,690
He stood up and did not move.
1330
01:19:23,942 --> 01:19:25,650
- One day I was freaking out.
1331
01:19:25,650 --> 01:19:28,470
I remember on North Circular Road.
1332
01:19:28,470 --> 01:19:33,180
I parked, someone did that
he said the Trojan had so much.
1333
01:19:33,180 --> 01:19:34,670
I ask, what is it?
1334
01:19:34,670 --> 01:19:36,378
Yes. It was liquidated.
1335
01:19:39,190 --> 01:19:45,490
I met in Kingsbury
With Lee, in a pub.
1336
01:19:45,490 --> 01:19:48,670
They said, "Dandy, I'm sorry
I don't know what could have happened. "
1337
01:19:48,670 --> 01:19:51,230
"But then we'll gather ourselves."
1338
01:19:51,230 --> 01:19:56,510
But of course there was nothing left to gather.
1339
01:19:56,510 --> 01:20:01,240
It was very sad for everyone.
1340
01:20:01,240 --> 01:20:04,340
The only black record company in England.
1341
01:20:08,268 --> 01:20:11,894
A TROJAN RECORDS
He filed for bankruptcy in 1975.
1342
01:20:16,048 --> 01:20:20,552
Duke Reid, A TROJAN died for a year.
1343
01:20:38,450 --> 01:20:41,980
- The name Trojan will always be there
1344
01:20:41,980 --> 01:20:45,620
in reggae music because they were there
1345
01:20:45,620 --> 01:20:47,788
from the beginning.
1346
01:20:47,788 --> 01:20:51,310
- It was important to
to our culture, to art.
1347
01:20:51,310 --> 01:20:54,870
And I was absolutely sure
1348
01:20:54,870 --> 01:20:57,970
that they will be collected for a very long time
1349
01:20:57,970 --> 01:21:00,342
these discs.
1350
01:21:00,342 --> 01:21:02,050
- The Trojan is the country
1351
01:21:02,050 --> 01:21:05,800
one of the defining social
part of the music, this is not in dispute.
1352
01:21:05,800 --> 01:21:08,130
Bringing people together.
1353
01:21:08,130 --> 01:21:11,020
- The Trojan had an indescribable effect.
1354
01:21:11,020 --> 01:21:14,110
They started with Jamaican music
1355
01:21:14,110 --> 01:21:18,669
presentation
to the majority of the English population.
1356
01:21:39,375 --> 01:21:42,260
- Because the Trojan gave it first
1357
01:21:42,260 --> 01:21:45,350
English multicultural movement,
1358
01:21:45,350 --> 01:21:48,335
the Skinheads are under the music, somehow
1359
01:21:48,335 --> 01:21:51,230
it survived until the turn of the millennium.
1360
01:21:51,230 --> 01:21:54,410
When the 1970s
punk rock came towards the end
1361
01:21:54,410 --> 01:21:56,795
those figures put in
they knew the whole Trojan catalog.
1362
01:21:58,990 --> 01:22:00,740
- I think Clash was the first,
1363
01:22:00,740 --> 01:22:05,340
who strongly advertised
that they are white and black
1364
01:22:05,340 --> 01:22:07,830
they can also play music together.
1365
01:22:07,830 --> 01:22:11,430
And Two Tone
I think it solidified that.
1366
01:22:11,430 --> 01:22:13,020
White and black
1367
01:22:13,020 --> 01:22:16,640
in a band on a stage.
1368
01:22:16,640 --> 01:22:20,580
- The black and white line was strange.
1369
01:22:20,580 --> 01:22:24,679
But once it spread, it didn't matter anymore.
1370
01:22:24,679 --> 01:22:29,910
♪ I say if you fall, oh, you will feel it. ♪
1371
01:22:29,910 --> 01:22:32,490
- Lots of musical experimentation
1372
01:22:32,490 --> 01:22:35,040
built into popular music,
1373
01:22:35,040 --> 01:22:38,220
the focus is on the pace
has been, the rap has started,
1374
01:22:38,220 --> 01:22:40,950
and most importantly, the bass.
1375
01:22:40,950 --> 01:22:42,450
♪ ... and the pressure. ♪
1376
01:22:42,450 --> 01:22:46,450
♪ pressed, oh, they're pushing,
the pressure presses well. ♪
1377
01:22:46,450 --> 01:22:50,788
- came from Jamaica,
and proclaimed love.
1378
01:22:50,788 --> 01:22:52,138
The key is love.
1379
01:22:52,138 --> 01:22:53,680
♪ ... pressed. ♪
1380
01:22:53,680 --> 01:22:55,126
♪ It's you. ♪
1381
01:22:55,126 --> 01:22:57,460
- Music is like water.
1382
01:22:57,460 --> 01:22:59,540
It has no color.
1383
01:22:59,540 --> 01:23:03,535
That way anyone can love.
1384
01:23:03,535 --> 01:23:05,868
♪ It's you. ♪
1385
01:23:05,868 --> 01:23:06,850
♪ Yes. ♪
1386
01:23:09,250 --> 01:23:11,250
If nothing else, the effect of reggae
1387
01:23:11,250 --> 01:23:13,950
evidence of culture
1388
01:23:13,950 --> 01:23:15,797
you can also bring people together.
1389
01:23:15,797 --> 01:23:17,130
The churches did not do this.
1390
01:23:17,130 --> 01:23:18,213
Neither do governments.
1391
01:23:18,213 --> 01:23:19,640
Nor is politics.
1392
01:23:19,640 --> 01:23:20,420
Just the music.
1393
01:23:20,420 --> 01:23:22,336
♪ ... well pressed. ♪
1394
01:23:22,336 --> 01:23:26,168
If it 's on you, you feel it
1395
01:23:26,168 --> 01:23:28,563
You did something wrong
1396
01:23:28,563 --> 01:23:30,648
I say if you're on it ...
1397
01:23:30,648 --> 01:23:32,190
- Finally, Trojan Records
1398
01:23:32,190 --> 01:23:33,732
he did something good, didn't he?
1399
01:23:54,868 --> 01:23:56,852
♪ I say, they're down. ♪
1400
01:23:56,852 --> 01:23:58,340
♪ Oh, they're pushing. ♪
1401
01:23:58,340 --> 01:24:01,812
♪ Yes, the pressure is well depressed. ♪
1402
01:24:01,812 --> 01:24:04,246
♪ I say, they're down, ♪
1403
01:24:04,246 --> 01:24:04,788
♪ Oh, they're pushing, ♪
1404
01:24:04,788 --> 01:24:08,260
♪ Yes, the pressure is well depressed. ♪
1405
01:24:08,260 --> 01:24:11,236
♪ It's you. ♪
1406
01:24:11,236 --> 01:24:14,708
♪ Yes. ♪
1407
01:24:14,708 --> 01:24:18,180
♪ It's you. You. ♪
1408
01:24:18,180 --> 01:24:21,652
♪ Yes. ♪
1409
01:24:21,652 --> 01:24:24,628
♪ It's you. You. ♪
1410
01:24:24,628 --> 01:24:27,604
♪ Yes. ♪
1411
01:24:27,604 --> 01:24:30,084
♪ I say, they're down, ♪
1412
01:24:30,084 --> 01:24:31,076
♪ Oh, they're pushing, ♪
1413
01:24:31,076 --> 01:24:34,548
♪ Yes, the pressure is well depressed. ♪
1414
01:24:34,548 --> 01:24:36,532
♪ I say, they're down, ♪
1415
01:24:36,532 --> 01:24:37,524
♪ Oh, they're pushing, ♪
1416
01:24:37,524 --> 01:24:40,810
♪ Yes, the pressure is well depressed. ♪
1417
01:24:40,810 --> 01:24:45,010
♪ I say if you fall, you will feel it. ♪
1418
01:24:45,010 --> 01:24:49,210
Pressure, pressure, pressure,
♪ pressure, pressure drop. ♪
1419
01:24:49,210 --> 01:24:51,310
♪ Oh, pressure, pressure, ♪
1420
01:24:51,310 --> 01:24:55,210
Pressure, pressure, pressure, I say
1421
01:24:55,210 --> 01:24:57,910
Oh, pressure drop,
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