After that, I decided, fuck it, I quit. ibid.
I started coming up with unique stuff. ibid.
He is a warm family man. Hard working. ibid. record dude
2008-2012: Shows 550. ibid. caption
What I should have done obviously is to stop. ibid. Avicii
In the early 1970s you couldn’t avoid hearing Cat Stevens. His music seemed to come from every window. We were all beguiled by his good looks, and by songs that seemed to provide answers for a generation searching for meaning after the tumult of the 1960s. But then Cat Stevens abruptly quit music to begin a new life as Yussuf Islam, a devout Muslim dedicating himself to education and humanitarian work. Alan Yentob, Imagine … The Artist Formerly Known as Cat Stevens, BBC 2006
After a year away, Cat Stevens came back with a new look, a new sound, and songs that perfectly caught the mood at the dawn of the 1970s. ibid.
I said, ‘God, if you save me, I’ll work for you.’ ibid.
‘Yussuf Islam, once known as the singer Cat Stevens, has been refused entry to the United States; he’s apparently regarded as a threat to US national security. Really? On what evidence?’ ibid. BBC Newsnight 22 September 2004
‘The seeds for what we take for granted – this multicultural society that we live in now – they were really formed on the dancefloor back in the day in the late ’60s and early ’70s.’ Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records, Sky Arts 2019
Chapter 1: The Trojan: Let’s go to Jamaica: one of the bigger islands … ‘Kingston was, was fun, ya know, much lovin’ in Jamaica. Then till them start migrating to England, here.’ ibid.
Between 1955 and 1963 over 100,000 people emigrated from Jamaica to Great Britain. ibid. caption
David Betteridge: Island & Trojan Records: ‘We were a Jamaican music company.’ ibid.
Millie: My Boy Lollipop … Dandy: Rudy, A Message to You … The Maytals: 54-46 Was My Number … Derek Morgan: Seven Letters … Desmond Decker and the Aces: 007 … The Harry J All Stars: Liquidator … Untouchables: Tighten Up … Lee Perry … ibid.
In 1968 the same year Trojan Records is founded, MP Enoch Powell reacts to rising levels of Immigration and addresses the nation. ibid.
A new vibration is emerging in Jamaica and Trojan begins importing records to sell to a growing market in the UK. ibid.
While mainstream radio will not play Trojan records, pirate radio begins broadcasting Jamaican music. ibid.
Trojan skinhead culture is sweeping through the UK and a new market for Jamaican music is emerging. ibid.
Between March and June 1969 Desmond Decker’s The Israelites sells over a million records. ibid.
‘She was a white girl who could sing that fabulous black R & B music. And it crossed over.’ Definitely Dusty ***** Lulu, BBC 2020
‘Dusty does sum up a kind of fabness of the ’60s.’ ibid. Neil Tennant
Since the death of Dusty Springfield in March 1999, just short of her sixtieth birthday, fans and musicians continue to celebrate one of Britain’s greatest ever singers. ibid.
A gay icon. A diva. Over a career spanning four decades, Dusty’s glamorous image was to be as much her hallmark as her voice. But it masked the deeply private person. ibid.
Dusty the solo singer burst on to thee screen in 1963 and was an immediate success. But her rise to stardom was not without its difficulties. ibid.
Dusty would have a string of hits throughout the sixties and host her own television star. She seemed to be able to sing anything while remaining distinctly Dusty. ibid.
The Look of Love [Dusty] … ‘It was smoky, it was sexy, it was restrained, it was held in check but underneath it was smouldering. It was just on fire.’ ibid. Burt Bacharach
She was a tireless promoter of black music. ibid. Burt Bacharach
Dusty was cast as a hero of the ‘Apartheid movement’ when her 1964 tour of South Africa provoked a political storm. ibid.
Dusty left England at the start of the ’70s. Her sales were dropping. She had a horror of ending up on the nostalgia circuit. And she wanted to escape the prying into her sexuality. ibid.
#2 in America: Dusty Springfield & The Pet Shop Boys. ibid.