Culture Clash

The autobiography of Don Letts, Grammy Award-winning film-maker, celebrated DJ, co-founder of Big Audio Dynamite and British black icon. As a first generation British-born black, Don Letts quickly learned to assimilate aspects of Jamaican culture into inner-city urban London life. Leaving school, he [...]
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The autobiography of Don Letts, Grammy Award-winning film-maker, celebrated DJ, co-founder of Big Audio Dynamite and British black icon. As a first generation British-born black, Don Letts quickly learned to assimilate aspects of Jamaican culture into inner-city urban London life. Leaving school, he gravitated to Chelsea's King's Road, inhabiting the fashion world alongside Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren. As resident DJ at at the fledgling punk club The Roxy, Letts pumped a roots-reggae soundtrack to a predominantly white audience that included members of the Clash and The Sex Pistols, forging a link between the two clashing cultures.