Global A Go-Go presents:
There’s a lot of music I listened to in 1978 that I’m no longer interested in. And there are a few things that are as timely and compelling now as they were then.
Linton Kwesi Johnson’s poems of the 70s and 80s written about England’s National Front, the Brixton Uprising and the death of Blair Peach could just as easily have been about USA 2020’s Unite The Right, the Black Lives Matter movement and George Floyd. If you’re personally or emotionally involved in the movement today, when you listen to Johnson perform his poems you’ll think he was forecasting your present.
This week (Monday August 24, 3:00-5:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards at wrir.org/listen, check your local listings for airing on other radio stations, and any old time at my podcast site) Global A Go-Go presents a two-hour special on the poetry and music of Linton Kwesi Johnson, on the occasion of his 68th birthday and his recent award of the 2020 PEN Pinter Prize.
Podcast: radio4all.net/index.php/program/106446
All the podcasts: radio4all.net/index.php/series/Global+A+Go-Go
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, “Global a GO-GO”
from Global a Go-Go
BMG Rights Management (US) LLC - 2001
England UK
Poet And The Roots, “Five Nights of Bleeding”
from Dread Beat an' Blood
Front Line - 1978
England UK
Linton Kwesi Johnson, “Sonny's Lettah (Anti-Sus Poem)”
from Forces Of Victory
Island Records - 1979
England UK
Peter Tosh, “Here Comes the Judge”
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Peter Tosh
Hip-O (PG Admin) - 1971
Jamaica
Poet And The Roots, “Man Free (For Darcus Howe)”
from Dread Beat an' Blood
Front Line - 1978
England UK
Anthony Joseph, “Caribbean Roots”
from Caribbean Roots
Heavenly Sweetness / Strut - 2016
Trinidad & Tobago-England UK
Ikwunga, “Di Bombs”
from Calabash Afrobeat-Poems By Ikwunga Vol.1
Rebisi Hut Records - 2004
Nigeria-USA
Linton Kwesi Johnson, “Di Eagle An' Di Bear”
from Di Eagle An' Di Bear / Wat About Di Workin' Claas? - single
Island - 1984
England UK
Benjamin Zephaniah & Eliza Carthy with Trans-Global Underground and Simon Emmerson, “Tam Lyn Retold”
from The Imagined Village
Real World Records - 2007
England UK
dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip, “Thou Shalt Always Kill”
from Angles
Sunday Best Recordings - 2008
England UK
Nickodemus feat. Real Live Show & Nappy G, “Give the Drummer Some”
from Endangered Species
Wonderwheel Recordings - 2005
USA
Bill Lupoletti Global A Go-Go August 24th, 2020
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