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Don Letts

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British film director

Person · Open Library

Works
5

Top works

  • Story of Bob Marley
  • Walk Proud
  • There and Black Again
  • Punk
  • Culture Clash

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Film & TV

London, England, UK

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Don Letts (born 10 January 1956) is a British film director and musician. He is credited as the man who through his DJing at clubs like The Roxy brought together punk and reggae music. Description above from the Wikipedia article Don Letts, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

  • Too Much — Jonah the Ox2025
  • Sinéad — Self2024
  • Pauline Black: A 2-Tone Story — Self2024
  • The 1970s: Those Were the Days — Self - Musician/Filmmaker2024
  • Don Letts - 6 Music Festival2023
  • Sounds Like the 80s — Self2023
  • When Blondie Came to Britain — Self2023
  • Rebel Dread — Self2022
  • Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché — Self2021
  • When Bob Marley Came to Britain — Self2020

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
GB
Active from
1956-01-10

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
3,970
Total plays
20,753

Don Letts’ came to notoriety in the late '70s DJing reggae music to punk crowds at 'The Roxy' club in London. He also started to document the punk rock movement in 'The Punk Rock Movie'. He continued to make documentaries across the spectrum of credible music including a celebrated film about Bob Marley. Musically, he was a founder member of Basement 5 and Big Audio Dynamite,the latter with The Clash's Mick Jones, managed the all woman punk group The Slits and collaborated with many post-punk o

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Official website

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
London
Occupation
film director
Languages spoken
English language
Genre
reggae
Official website
www.donletts.com
Image
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date of birth
1956-01-10
start of work period
1975-00-00
Commons category
Don Letts
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