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The Islander : My Life in Music and Beyond
Island Records/Chris Blackwell - Book - by Chris Blackwell
(2022)
Chris
Blackwell, like the paradigm-shifting artists he came to support over
his sixty-plus years in the music business, never took the conventional
route. He grew up between Jamaica and London, crossing paths with Ian
Fleming, Noel Coward, and Errol Flynn.
After
being expelled from an elite British school for rebellious behavior in
1954 at age seventeen, he moved back to Jamaica, and within five years,
founded Island Recordsthe company that would make an indelible mark on
music, shifting with the times, but always keeping its core identity
intact.
The Islander is
the story of Blackwell and his cohorts at Island Records, who time and
again, identified, nurtured, and broke out musicians who had been
overlooked by bigger record labels, including Steve Winwood, Nick Drake,
John Martyn, and Cat Stevens. After an impromptu meeting with Bob
Marley and his bandmates in 1972, Blackwell decided to fund and produce
their groundbreaking album Catch a Fire.
He'd go on to work with Marley over the rest of his career, remain his
close friend, and continually champion Jamaican culture and reggae
music.
In
the ensuing years, Blackwell worked with U2, Grace Jones, the B-52s,
Tom Waits, Robert Palmer, Tom Tom Club, and many other groundbreaking
artists.
He
also opened the first Jamaican boutique hotel, on the property of Ian
Fleming's former home, Goldeneye, where all the James Bond books were
written.
Blackwell is a legendary as well as deeply humble raconteur, and reading The Islander is like spending a day with the most interesting man in the world.
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