CULTURE CLASH: DREAD MEETS PUNK ROCKERS

the long version

"Grammy Award-winning film-maker, successful promo-director, DJ at the legendary Roxy Club, all-round Renaissance man. From his Brixton upbringing to his involvement in King's Road fashion and black British culture, Don Letts took his inspiration from the London punk scene and has never pigeonholed himself." "Along with Mick Jones, Letts co-founded Big Audio Dynamite who pre-empted much of today's dance culture and sampling techniques, whilst mixing with the cream of the New York hip-hop scene. He has gone on to document on film the Clash, Bob Marley, Gil Scott-Heron, Sun Ra and George Clinton, and his 2005 Punk:Attitude documentary has been described as the last word on punk." "Told in Letts' voice and heavily illustrated, Culture Clash is the story of a first-generation British-born black man who has often found himself at the epicenter of British, Jamaican and black American cultural upheaval."--book jacket.