Don Letts on 6 Music 2016-01 Crucial Vinyl: Big Youth’s Dreadlocks Dread

“This week the Don’s Crucial Vinyl (an album that has shaped his musical taste and helped to make him who he is) is much-loved Jamaican deejay (or toaster) Big Youth’s influential 1975 release Dreadlocks Dread. Born in Trenchtwon in Kingston in 1949, Big Youth once said that, “Deejays were closest to the people because there […]

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