{"id":974001,"date":"2019-12-11T14:57:08","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T21:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=925371"},"modified":"2019-12-11T14:57:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T21:57:08","slug":"see-exclusive-clip-from-new-doc-rudeboy-the-story-of-trojan-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/see-exclusive-clip-from-new-doc-rudeboy-the-story-of-trojan-records\/","title":{"rendered":"See Exclusive Clip From New Doc \u2018Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reggae<\/a> and punk icon Don Letts reminisces about the emergence of Jamaican music in the U.K. in a clip from the documentary Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records<\/i>. Following a year on the film festival circuit, the film is now available on digital streaming services.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBlack and white kids were united through their love of music and style; invariably, a lot of that music was the Trojan stuff,\u201d Letts said of the famed Jamaican label that boasted artists like Jimmy Cliff, the Upsetters, the Maytals, Desmond Dekker and more. <\/span>\u201cI\u2019m what you call first-generation British-born black. We really didn\u2019t know where we fit in, and then we looked at Jamaica \u2014 we were of Jamaica, but we weren\u2019t quite Jamaican either \u2014 so it took a long time for this \u2018black and British\u2019 to mean something.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Letts served as videographer for the Clash, who were deeply inspired by reggae, <\/span>before co-founding Big Audio Dynamite with Clash guitarist Mick Jones. <\/span>\u201cEarly Jamaican music, for my parents, it would have kind of reminded them of back home, a place they\u2019d like to return to,\u201d Letts added. <\/span>\u201cBut the music that was evolving out of ska and rocksteady, that would eventually form a large part of the Trojan catalog, is the soundtrack to my generation, and we weren\u2019t going anywhere.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records<\/em> also features interviews with Lee \u201cScratch\u201d Perry, the Specials\u2019 Neville Staple, Marcia Griffiths, Dandy Livingstone, Lloyd Coxsone and more. The Nicolas Jack Davies-directed film is streamable on Apple, Amazon, Google Play, YouTube and Breaker.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA film about the love affair between Jamaican and British Youth culture told through the prism of one the most iconic record labels in history, Trojan Records,\u201d the label said of the film. <\/span>\u201cCombining archive footage, interview and drama \u2013 Rudeboy<\/i> tells the story of Trojan Records by placing it at the heart of a cultural revolution that unfolded in the council estates and dance-floors of late 60\u2019s and early 70\u2019 Britain and how that period of immigration and innovation transformed popular music and culture.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n