Don's book

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Heston wrote:
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Depends how early to the party you were I suppose. Didn't BAD mention ecstasy in Stone Thames as early as 1985?
Not really. A drug being mentioned in a song certainly doesn't constitute a summer of love - mythical or otherwise.

But if we're going foen that route, love probably dates back to Adam and Eve. And dancing in fields was likely to have been popular shortly afterwards.

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I suck at making new threads, so I'm tacking on this review of a new Don Letts documentary, Rebel Dread: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/m ... -don-letts
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I suck at making new threads, so I'm tacking on this review of a new Don Letts documentary, Rebel Dread: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/m ... -don-letts
The trailer on YT looks good, hopefully it will be streaming on one of the services we subscribe to, love to see it.
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I’ve heard good things about the film.

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Going to see it tomorrow.

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Just heard more good reports on the film from tonight’s premiere.

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Awesome! Any specific tidbits of interest?
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No specifics. Mick had already seen a cut and was quite positive about it. Texted with Chris Salewicz after the premiere who said it was “important” and “used Don as a metaphor for cultural and social shifts”. Of course, Chris and Don are particularly close.

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I'm expecting to hear a lot about the Roxy, and not much about Big Audio Dynamite.

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Upping St was recorded in London. It was only mixed in NYC. Correct?

So the Strummer/Jones renion happened in London, right?

Film was pretty good...

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Mick wears a cravat. He has clearly been listening to Radio 4 a lot. (The radio station not the band.)
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Don tells the story that they bumped into Strummer in New York while recording Upping Street.

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Probably more BAD than I anticipated but the story is cut short abruptly without mention of third and fourth albums.

Mick, Leo and Greg talk at intervals throughout.

Found it a bit strange that west London, specifically, wasn't spoken about more.

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Don tells the story that they bumped into Strummer in New York while recording Upping Street.
It was Soho according to all the books/interviews. But who knows what mythology is involved in these stories? The Clash were prone to it, but it does make the story more interesting.
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Heston wrote:
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07 Mar 2022, 10:44am
Don tells the story that they bumped into Strummer in New York while recording Upping Street.
It was Soho according to all the books/interviews. But who knows what mythology is involved in these stories? The Clash were prone to it, but it does make the story more interesting.
Doesn't make it more interesting to me if it's bullshit. I only care about the facts. Why obscure the truth. Too much myth making.

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