The islander my life in music and beyond
"Chris Blackwell, like the paradigm-shifting artists he came to support over his sixty-plus years in the music business, never took the conventional route. He grew up between Jamaica and London, crossing paths with Ian Fleming, Noel Coward, and Errol Flynn. After being expelled from an elite Br...
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New York
Gallery Books
2022
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Prologue: nearly the end...
- School versus Errol Flynn
- The fifties, Jamaica: finding a purpose
- The sixties, London: making contact
- Hits, misses, and the human host
- Folk: new allies and new sounds
- Meeting Cat Stevens
- Meeting Bob Marley
- Voices, visionaries, and videos
- The seventies: St. Peter's square, Hammersmith
- The eighties: compass point, the Bahamas
- Timing: Grace Jones and the all stars
- Meeting U2
- The nineties: shifting ground
- Moving on: for the love of Jamaica
- Epilogue: whatever next