# 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". According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to which Blackwell was inducted in 2001, he is "the single person most responsible for turning the world on to reggae music."Forming Island Records in Jamaica on 22 May 1959, aged 22, Blackwell was among the first to record the Jamaican popular music that eventually became known as ska. Returning to Britain in 1962, he sold records from the back of his car to the Jamaican community.Backed by Stanley Borden from RKO, Blackwell's business and reach grew substantially, and he went on to forge the careers of Bob Marley, Grace Jones and U2 among many other diverse high-profile acts.
We Asked a Legendary A&R Exec to Reveal the BIGGEST Mistakes New Artists Make—Her Answer SHOCKED Us!
We Asked a Legendary A&R Exec to Reveal the BIGGEST Mistakes New Artists Make—Her Answer SHOCKED Us!
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It's the Big Payback of Jamaican music: a band that had bee...
Welcome to the Jungle: Job 39
It’s a jungle out there. God continues to speak to Job describing how He has carefully curated every feature of every animal on Earth and with all of that work, He still is the just, loving creator that we worship. Plus, how do we question circumstances around us without questioning God’s goodnes...
Chris Blackwell's - 9/11 Story With Alex Blackwell and Bernie Meehan - Ep 26
EPISODE 26 — ALAN LEWIS RAW CONVERSATION NOW LIVE — SEPTEMBER 11“NEVER FORGET.”This is one of the most important and deeply personal conversations I have had on Alan Lewis RAW Conversation.In Episode 26, I am joined by Alexander Blackwell, the daughter of Chris Blackwell, the highly decorated FDN...
Why We Love Roxy Music
Over the last 6 years, we’ve often cited Roxy Music amongst our favourite bands, albums or songs. We’ve talked about their albums - covers, lyrics, and so on – and included them amongst “Deep Cuts” that you need to know about. Although Bowie was the first artist we obsessed over in our early tee...
#233 – Catch a Fire by The Wailers (1973)
The Album That Introduced Reggae to the World
Let's tell the story of Catch a Fire. In 1973, reggae music existed largely outside the awareness of mainstream Western audiences — a sound rooted in Jamaica, steeped in Rastafarian spirituality, and largely unknown beyond the island and its diaspora...
Roxy, Traffic, Nick Drake, Mott the Hoople & the magic of Island Records
The third instalment of ‘The Island Book of Records’ is out, another sumptuous, elegantly designed, LP-sized chronicle of every album released on this most fabled of labels, in this case between 1971-72. They’re edited by Neil Storey who worked in the press office for years, and they’re magnifice...
Roxy, Traffic, Nick Drake, Mott the Hoople & the magic of Island Records
The third instalment of ‘The Island Book of Records’ is out, another sumptuous, elegantly designed, LP-sized chronicle of every album released on this most fabled of labels, in this case between 1971-72. They’re edited by Neil Storey who worked in the press office for years, and they’re magnifice...
Record Men From Thomas Edison to John Hammond & Chris Blackwell: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.2
Gareth Murphy set out to write an obituary for the record man. A French label boss had told him over lunch that the record producer was a dying breed, and in the 2010s, with the industry shrinking every year since 1999, it looked like he was right. Then Murphy went back to the beginning, found th...
Record Men From Thomas Edison to John Hammond & Chris Blackwell: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.2
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Gareth Murphy set out to write an obituary for the record man. A French label boss had told him over lunch that the record producer was a dying breed, and in the 2010s, with the industry shrinking every ye...