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Musician, record producer. Instrument (s) Bass, guitar. Years active. 1968–present. Labels. LKJ Records. Bovell (left) playing with Matumbi, Cardiff, 1978. Dennis Bovell MBE (born 22 May 1953 [1]) is a Barbados -born reggae guitarist, bass player and record producer, based in England.
Nov 6, 2021 · The reggae musician and producer, 68, talks about Bob Marley, Linton Kwesi Johnson, police intimidation, impressing his dad and writing songs in prison to vent his anger. Sat 6 Nov 2021 10.00 EDT...
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Aug 15, 2022 · 15th August 2022. Credit: Will Hutchinson. Originally published in Uncut’s July 2022 issue. Pioneering producer, songwriter, dubmaster and now MBE, Dennis Bovell has been busy as ever as he...
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Matumbi were one of the top British reggae bands of the 1970s and early 1980s, and are best known as the first successful band of guitarist and record producer Dennis Bovell. The group wrote and performed the opening theme song to Empire Road , a British television series made by the BBC in 1978 and running until 1979.
Feb 2, 2011 · Dennis Bovell is one of the most important figures in British reggae. The stories of how he tricked soundsystem selectors into playing British (rather than purely Jamaican) reggae bands, how he shaped the birth of lover’s rock, and his appeal as part of a burgeoning British reggae scene to the punk movement, are well known. But one less happy ...
Jan 13, 2021 · Watching a room full of actors less than half his age sing his song 40 years later, Dennis Bovell was overcome with emotion. “I was holding back the tears,” says Bovell, a garrulous...
Dennis Bovell, UK dub pioneer and legendary producer to The Slits, The Pop Group, and Linton Kwesi Johnson, has just discovered Bandcamp. "One of the people that bought one was a man called Chris ...
