Don Letts has long known about the DIY aesthetic. He worked at Acme Attractions on the Kings Road in London, and was the first, and main, DJ at the Roxy Club in London (where he cemented the connection between UK punk & Jamaican reggae). Around the same time he shot "The Punk Rock Movie." He then went on in the 80's to be a main member of Big Audio Dynamite with the Clash's Mick Jones, has shot countless music videos, DJ'd some more, and produced some more cool films...and all of it was pretty much self taught & instinctive. No history of the Clash, or UK punk, is complete without him. My kind of guy. And in the "it's a small world" department, he ended up marrying a woman named Grace who I hung out with in the 80's when she lived in NYC.
Here's a trailer on a somewhat new film about him. Visit the film's official website here.
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