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100 1  Blackwell, Chris,|d1937-|eauthor.|1https://isni.org/isni/
       0000000114585108 
245 14 The islander :|bmy life in music and beyond /|cChris 
       Blackwell ; contributions by Paul Morley. 
250    First Gallery Books hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York :|bGallery Books,|c2022. 
300    xiv, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations (chiefly color) ;|c24 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
500    Includes index. 
520    "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. 
600 10 Blackwell, Chris,|d1937-|1https://isni.org/isni/
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650  0 Sound recording executives and producers|zEngland
       |vBiography. 
650  0 Popular music|zGreat Britain|xHistory and criticism. 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 
700 1  Morley, Paul,|eauthor.|1https://isni.org/isni/
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