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Author Blackwell, Chris, 1937- author. https://isni.org/isni/0000000114585108

Title The islander : my life in music and beyond / Chris Blackwell ; contributions by Paul Morley.

Publication Info. New York : Gallery Books, 2022.

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Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO BLACKWELL    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY BLACKWELL    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B BLACKWEL CHRIS    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIO BLACKWELL    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  780.92 BLA    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  781.64 BLACKWELL    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  780.92 BLACKWELL B    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  B BLACKWELL    Check Shelf
Edition First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Description xiv, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Note Includes index.
Summary "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 Records--the 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."--Amazon.
Subject Blackwell, Chris, 1937- https://isni.org/isni/0000000114585108
Sound recording executives and producers -- England -- Biography.
Popular music -- Great Britain -- History and criticism.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Added Author Morley, Paul, author. https://isni.org/isni/0000000381540705.
ISBN 9781982172695 (hardcover)
198217269X (hardcover)
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