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Chris Blackwell

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Christopher Percy Gordon Blackwell (born 22 June 1937) is an English businessman and former record producer, and the founder of Island Records, which has been called "one of Britain's great independent labels". [1]

117 relations: Aide-de-camp, Alec Waugh, Angélique Kidjo, Baaba Maal, BBC, BBC News, Black Uhuru, Blackwell Rum, Blanche Blackwell, Blue Mountains (Jamaica), Bob Marley, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Bronze Records, Burning Spear, Cat Stevens, Catch a Fire, Charlélie Couture, Chrysalis Records, Compass Point Studios, Crosse & Blackwell, Do the Reggay, Dr. No (film), Eagles (band), Elton John, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, England, Etta James, Fairport Convention, France, Free (band), Funky Kingston, Goldeneye (estate), Goldfinger (novel), Governor-General of Jamaica, Grace Jones, Graeme Goodall, Grove Press, Harrow School, Harry Saltzman, Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon, Ian Fleming, Ike & Tina Turner, Island Outpost, Island Records, Ital, Jackson Browne, James Bond, Jethro Tull (band), Jimmy Cliff, Jimmy McGriff, ..., John Martyn, King Crimson, King Sunny Adé, King's House, Jamaica, Lance Hayward, Laurel Aitken, Lester Bangs, Linda Ronstadt, London, Melissa Etheridge, Miami Beach, Florida, Millie Small, Musgrave Medal, Music Week, My Boy Lollipop, Nassau, Bahamas, Negril, Nick Drake, Nirvana (British band), Noël Coward, Oracabessa, Oracabessa Bay Fish Sanctuary, Order of Jamaica, Palm Pictures, Paul Douglas (musician), Perry Henzell, PJ Harvey, PolyGram, Pussy Galore, Rastafari, Record label, Reggae, Richard Thompson (musician), RKO Pictures, Robert Palmer (singer), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Roxy Music, Rykodisc, Salif Keita, Ska, Sly and Robbie, Sound & Vision (magazine), Sparks (band), Spooky Tooth, Steve Winwood, Stiff Records, Strawberry Hill (hotel), Sue Records, The B-52's, The Cranberries, The Harder They Come, The Jamaica Regiment, The Spencer Davis Group, The Tides (Miami Beach), The Who, Third World, Third World (band), Tom Waits, Toots and the Maytals, Toots Hibbert, Traffic (band), Trojan Records, U2, Universal Music Group, Uprising (Bob Marley and the Wailers album), Virgin Records, Westminster. Expand index (67 more) »

Aide-de-camp

An aide-de-camp (French expression meaning literally helper in the military camp) is a personal assistant or secretary to a person of high rank, usually a senior military, police or government officer, a member of a royal family, or a head of state.

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Alec Waugh

Alexander Raban "Alec" Waugh (8 July 1898 – 3 September 1981), was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh and son of Arthur Waugh, author, literary critic, and publisher.

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Angélique Kidjo

Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo, known as Angélique Kidjo (born July 14, 1960), is a Grammy Award-winning Beninese singer-songwriter, actress and activist, noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos.

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Baaba Maal

Baaba Maal (born 12 November 1953) is a Senegalese singer and guitarist born in Podor, on the Senegal River.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Black Uhuru

Black Uhuru is a Jamaican reggae group formed in 1972, initially as Uhuru (Swahili for 'freedom').

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Blackwell Rum

Blackwell Rum (marketed as Blackwell Black Gold Rum) is a Jamaican brand of rum.

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Blanche Blackwell

Blanche Blackwell (9 December 1912 – 8 August 2017) was a Jamaican heiress, mother of Chris Blackwell (founder of Island Records) and an inspirational muse to Ian Fleming and Noël Coward.

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Blue Mountains (Jamaica)

The Blue Mountains are the longest mountain range in Jamaica.

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Bob Marley

Robert Nesta Marley, OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter who became an international musical and cultural icon, blending mostly reggae, ska, and rocksteady in his compositions.

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Bob Marley and the Wailers

Bob Marley and the Wailers was a Jamaican reggae band led by Bob Marley.

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Bronze Records

Bronze Records was an independent English record label set up in 1971 by record producer Gerry Bron, and based in Chalk Farm, London.

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Burning Spear

Winston Rodney OD (born 1 March 1945), better known by the stage name Burning Spear, is a Jamaican roots reggae singer and musician.

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Cat Stevens

Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou), commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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Catch a Fire

Catch a Fire is a 1973 album by Bob Marley and the Wailers.

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Charlélie Couture

Charlélie Couture (b. Charles Elie Bertrand Couture, 26 February 1956) is a French musician and multi-disciplinary artist, who has recorded over 25 albums and 17 film soundtracks, and has held a number of exhibitions of paintings and photographs.

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Chrysalis Records

Chrysalis Records is a British record label that was created in 1968.

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Compass Point Studios

Compass Point Studios was founded in 1977 by Chris Blackwell, the owner of Island Records.

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Crosse & Blackwell

Crosse & Blackwell is a British food production company which has been in existence since 1706.

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Do the Reggay

"Do the Reggay" is a reggae song by The Maytals.

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Dr. No (film)

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Eagles (band)

The Eagles are an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1971.

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Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer, pianist, and composer.

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Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) were an English progressive rock supergroup formed in London in 1970.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Etta James

Etta James (born Jamesetta Hawkins; January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012) was an American singer who performed in various genres, including blues, R&B, soul, rock and roll, jazz and gospel.

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Fairport Convention

Fairport Convention are a British folk rock band.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Free (band)

Free were an English rock band formed in London in 1968, best known for their 1970 signature song "All Right Now".

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Funky Kingston

Funky Kingston is the name of two albums by reggae singing group Toots and the Maytals.

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Goldeneye (estate)

Goldeneye is the original name of James Bond novelist Ian Fleming's estate on Oracabessa bay on the northern coastline of Jamaica.

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Goldfinger (novel)

Goldfinger is the seventh novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series, first published in the UK by Jonathan Cape on 23 March 1959.

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Governor-General of Jamaica

The Governor-General of Jamaica represents the Jamaican monarch and head of state, currently Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

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Grace Jones

Grace Beverly Jones (born 19 May 1948) is a Jamaican-American singer, songwriter, supermodel, record producer, and actress.

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Graeme Goodall

Graeme Goodall (1932 – 3 December 2014) was an Australian recording engineer and record label owner who was a key figure in the early days of Jamaica's recording industry, constructing several of the Island's studios, co-founding Island Records, and operating other labels in the United Kingdom releasing Jamaican music.

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Grove Press

Grove Press is an American publishing imprint that was founded in 1947.

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Harrow School

Harrow School is an independent boarding school for boys in Harrow, London, England.

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Harry Saltzman

Herschel Saltzman (October 27, 1915 – September 28, 1994), known as Harry Saltzman, was a Canadian theatre and film producer, He is best remembered for his role in co-producing the ''James Bond'' film series with Albert R. Broccoli.

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Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon

Hugh Mackintosh Foot, Baron Caradon (8 October 1907 – 5 September 1990) was a British colonial administrator and diplomat who presided over moves to independence in various colonies and was UK representative to the United Nations.

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Ian Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was an English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels.

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Ike & Tina Turner

Ike & Tina Turner were an American musical duo composed of the husband-and-wife team of Ike Turner and Tina Turner.

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Island Outpost

Island Outpost is a collection of distinctive Jamaican hotels and villas.

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Island Records

Island Records is a British-Jamaican record label that operates as a division of Universal Music Group (UMG).

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Ital

Ital, also spelled I-tal, is food often celebrated by those in the Rastafari movement.

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Jackson Browne

Clyde Jackson Browne (born October 9, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has sold over 18 million albums in the United States.

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James Bond

The James Bond series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.

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Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1967.

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Jimmy Cliff

James Chambers, OM (1 April 1948), known professionally as Jimmy Cliff, is a Jamaican ska and reggae musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and actor.

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Jimmy McGriff

James Harrell McGriff (April 3, 1936 – May 24, 2008) was an American hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader.

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John Martyn

Iain David McGeachy, OBE (11 September 1948 – 29 January 2009), known professionally as John Martyn, was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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King Crimson

King Crimson are an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968.

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King Sunny Adé

Chief Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye MFR, popularly known as King Sunny Adé (born 22 September, 1946), is a Nigerian musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and important figure in the West African musical style jùjú.

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King's House, Jamaica

King's House (also known as Government House) is the official residence of the Governor-General of Jamaica, who represents the Jamaican Monarch, and head of state.

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Lance Hayward

Lance Hayward (17 June 1916 – 9 November 1991Stuart Hayward, "Lance Hayward - 'An Impressionable, Energetic Musician'", in Dale Butler, Triumph of the Spirit: The Heroes & Heroines of Bermuda, Part 1, Second Edition, The Writers' Machine, Bermuda, 2002, pp. 19-36.) was a jazz pianist who was born in Bermuda, where he lived until he settled in New York City at the age of 50.

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Laurel Aitken

Lorenzo Aitken (22 April 1927 – 17 July 2005), better known by the stage name Laurel Aitken, was an influential Caribbean singer and one of the pioneers of Jamaican ska music.

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Lester Bangs

Leslie Conway "Lester" Bangs (December 14, 1948 – April 30, 1982) was an American music journalist, critic, author, and musician.

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Linda Ronstadt

Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15, 1946) is an American retired popular music singer known for singing in a wide range of genres including rock, country, jazz, light opera, and Latin.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Melissa Etheridge

Melissa Lou Etheridge (born May 29, 1961) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist.

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Miami Beach, Florida

Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.

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Millie Small

Millicent Dolly May "Millie" Small, CD (born 6 October 1946), is a Jamaican singer-songwriter, best known for her 1964 recording of "My Boy Lollipop".

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Musgrave Medal

The Musgrave Medal is an annual awarded by the Institute of Jamaica in recognition of achievement in art, science, and literature.

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Music Week

Music Week is a trade paper for the UK record industry.

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My Boy Lollipop

"My Boy Lollipop" (originally "My Girl Lollypop") is a song written in the mid-1950s by Robert Spencer of the doo-wop group The Cadillacs, and usually credited to Spencer, Morris Levy, and Johnny Roberts.

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Nassau, Bahamas

Nassau is the capital and commercial centre of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.

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Negril

Negril is a small (pop. 6,900) but widely dispersed beach resort town located across parts of two Jamaican parishes, Westmoreland and Hanover.

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Nick Drake

Nicholas Rodney Drake (19 June 1948 – 25 November 1974) was an English singer-songwriter and musician, known for his acoustic guitar-based songs.

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Nirvana (British band)

Nirvana is an English pop rock band, formed in London, England in 1965.

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Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

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Oracabessa

Oracabessa is a small town in St Mary, Jamaica east of Ocho Rios.

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Oracabessa Bay Fish Sanctuary

The Oracabessa Bay Fish Sanctuary was established in 2010 to protect Oracabessa’s marine ecosystem.

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Order of Jamaica

The Order of Jamaica is the fifth of the six orders in the Jamaican honours system.

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Palm Pictures

Palm Pictures is a US-based entertainment company owned and run by Chris Blackwell.

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Paul Douglas (musician)

Earl “Paul” Douglas (born c. 1950) is a Grammy Award-winning drummer and percussionist, best known for his work as the drummer, percussionist and bandleader of Toots and the Maytals.

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Perry Henzell

Perry Henzell (7 March 1936 – 30 November 2006) was most famous for being the director of the first Jamaican feature film, The Harder They Come (1972) co-written by Trevor D. Rhone, starring Jimmy Cliff.

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PJ Harvey

Polly Jean Harvey, MBE (born 9 October 1969) known as PJ Harvey, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, writer, poet, and composer.

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PolyGram

PolyGram Entertainment is a film and TV production company owned by Universal Music Group.

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Pussy Galore

Pussy Galore is a fictional character in the 1959 Ian Fleming James Bond novel Goldfinger and the 1964 film of the same name.

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Rastafari

Rastafari, sometimes termed Rastafarianism, is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s.

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Record label

A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Richard Thompson (musician)

Richard Thompson, OBE (born 3 April 1949) is an English singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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RKO Pictures

RKO Pictures was an American film production and distribution company.

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Robert Palmer (singer)

Robert Allen Palmer (19 January 1949 – 26 September 2003) was an English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, recognizes and archives the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence on the development of rock and roll.

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Roxy Music

Roxy Music were an English rock band formed in 1970 by Bryan Ferry, who became the band's lead vocalist and chief songwriter, and bassist Graham Simpson.

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Rykodisc

Rykodisc was an American record label.

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Salif Keita

Salif Keïta (born August 25, 1949) is an afro-pop singer-songwriter from Mali.

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Ska

Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.

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Sly and Robbie

Sly and Robbie are a prolific Jamaican rhythm section and production duo, associated primarily with the reggae and dub genres.

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Sound & Vision (magazine)

Sound & Vision is an American magazine, purchased by AVTech Media Ltd.

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Sparks (band)

Sparks are an American pop and rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1972 by brothers Ron (keyboards) and Russell Mael (vocals).

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Spooky Tooth

Spooky Tooth was an English rock band principally active between 1967 and 1974.

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Steve Winwood

Stephen Lawrence Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English rock musician whose genres include progressive rock, blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock, pop rock, and jazz.

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Stiff Records

Stiff Records is a British independent record label formed in London, England, by Dave Robinson and Jake Riviera (real name Andrew Jakeman).

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Strawberry Hill (hotel)

Strawberry Hill is a Jamaican Hotel located in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.

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Sue Records

Sue Records ("The Sound of Soul") was founded in 1957 by Henry 'Juggy' Murray in New York City.

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The B-52's

The B-52s (styled as The B-52's prior to 2008) are an American rock band, formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1976.

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The Cranberries

The Cranberries are an Irish rock band formed in Limerick in 1989 by lead singer Niall Quinn, guitarist Noel Hogan, bassist Mike Hogan, and drummer Fergal Lawler.

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The Harder They Come

The Harder They Come is a 1972 Jamaican crime film directed by Perry Henzell and co-written by Trevor D. Rhone, and starring Jimmy Cliff.

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The Jamaica Regiment

The Jamaica Regiment is the main formation of land troops in the Jamaican Defence Force.

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The Spencer Davis Group

The Spencer Davis Group are a British beat and R&B band formed in Birmingham in 1963, by Spencer Davis with Steve Winwood and his brother, Muff Winwood.

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The Tides (Miami Beach)

The Tides is a building in Miami Beach.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964.

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Third World

The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Communist Bloc.

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Third World (band)

Third World is a Jamaican reggae band formed in 1973.

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Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor.

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Toots and the Maytals

Toots and the Maytals, originally called The Maytals, are a Jamaican musical group and one of the best known ska and rocksteady vocal groups.

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Toots Hibbert

Frederick Nathaniel "Toots" Hibbert, O.J. (born 8 December 1942) is a Jamaican singer and songwriter, known as the leader for the reggae and ska band Toots & the Maytals.

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Traffic (band)

Traffic were an English rock band, formed in Birmingham, in April 1967 by Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason.

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Trojan Records

Trojan Records is a British record label founded in 1968.

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U2

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976.

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Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group (also known in the United States as UMG Recordings, Inc. and abbreviated as UMG) is an American global music corporation that is a subsidiary of the French media conglomerate Vivendi.

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Uprising (Bob Marley and the Wailers album)

Uprising is a 1980 reggae album by Bob Marley and the Wailers.

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Virgin Records

Virgin Records Ltd. was a British record label founded by entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman in 1972.

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Westminster

Westminster is an area of central London within the City of Westminster, part of the West End, on the north bank of the River Thames.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Blackwell

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