There and Black Again

Don Letts

Don Letts, Mal Peachey

• Publisher: Omnibus Press
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN:
  9781787592209
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music Biographies

Don Letts – filmmaker, musician, DJ, broadcaster, social commentator, husband and father – has always defied conformity. A British-born son of Windrush parents, he seamlessly pivoted between London's punk and reggae scenes – earning his reputation as the 'Rebel Dread'.In There and Black Again, Don Letts looks back on his exceptional life, which has seen him befriend Bob Marley after sneaking into his hotel, join The Clash's White Riot tour as manager of The Slits and become one of the UK's most highly regarded video directors just as the MTV boom hit.Told in part as scenes from a movie shot on location in London, Kingston, New York City, Los Angeles, Windhoek, Salt Lake City and Goldeneye, There and Black Again co-stars a cast of hundreds, including Joe Strummer, John Lydon, Bob Marley, Chrissie Hynde, Chris Blackwell, Paul McCartney, Nelson Mandela, Keith Richards, Patti Smith, Chuck D., Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood.With reflections on the Black Lives Matter movement and the highs and lows of personal relationships, this impactful book includes moments of civil unrest, live music, humour and political struggle. There and Black Again is the refreshing and often unexpected story of a man who has never been afraid to tread his own path.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Scene
• London (Is the Place for Me)
• Born for a Purpose
• Do It (’til You’re Satisfied)
• Smarten Up!
• Catch a Fire
• R.E.S.P.E.C.T.
• I Wanna Be Me
• Police on My Back
• Ain’t It Strange
• 100 Days
• Burning Down the House
• Typical Girls
• Punks vs Teds
• Pressure Drop
• Chalice in Ganjaland
• Haile Unlikely
• Five Go to the Basement
• But I Have No Fear
• The City Knows
• Adventures in Music Television
• Sudden Impact!
• Who’s B.A.D.?
• There Are Some Places in the Universe You Don’t Go Alone
• Independence Day
• Walk and Live
• What’s the Move?
• Westway to the World
• Everybody Needs a Holiday
• Rewind
• When I’m Sixty-Four
• Burnin’ and Lootin’
• Postscript
• Acknowledgements
• Copyright