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Don Letts is a British film director, DJ, and musician. He was born on 10 January 1956 in London, United Kingdom. He is best known for his work in the music industry, particularly his collaborations with The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite.
Letts attended the London College of Printing and began his career as a DJ in the mid-1970s. He was a resident DJ at the Roxy Club in London, and was instrumental in introducing punk and reggae to the club's audience. He also worked as a DJ for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show.
In the 1980s, Letts directed music videos for artists such as The Clash, The Pretenders, and The Pogues. He also directed the feature films The Punk Rock Movie (1978) and Babylon (1980).
Letts has also directed documentaries, including Westway to the World (2000), a documentary about The Clash, and Punk: Attitude (2005), a documentary about the punk movement.
Letts is currently the Creative Director of the Notting Hill Arts Club in London. He is also a member of the band Dreadzone.
As of 2021, Don Letts's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.
| Popular As |
Donovan Letts |
| Occupation |
Disc jockey · film director |
| Age |
68 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Capricorn |
| Born |
10 January, 1956 |
| Birthday |
10 January |
| Birthplace |
London, England |
| Nationality |
United Kingdom |
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Don Letts Height, Weight & Measurements
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Jet Letts |
Don Letts Net Worth
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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A portrait of Letts by photographer Dean Chalkley featured in the exhibition Return of the Rudeboy at Somerset House in the middle of 2014.
I guess he thought that since I was black and Jamaican – well, sort of – he'd be in good hands. Little did he know that the closest I'd been to Jamaica was watching The Harder They Come at the Classic Cinema in Brixton.
In recognition of Letts' unique contribution to music, on 16 October 2013 he was presented with a BASCA Gold Badge of Merit.
In 1978, Letts recorded an EP, Steel Leg v the Electric Dread, with Keith Levene, Jah Wobble and Steel Leg. After Mick Jones was fired from The Clash, he and Letts founded Big Audio Dynamite in 1984. In 1990 Letts formed Screaming Target. As of 1 April 2009, Letts is presenting a weekly show on BBC Radio 6 Music.
In 2006, he published his autobiography, Culture Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers.
Since his first movie, The Punk Rock Movie, Letts has expanded to doing documentaries and music videos for multiple bands. In 1997, he travelled to Jamaica to direct Dancehall Queen. His film Westway to the World won a Grammy Award in 2003.
Seeing the crowd at Acme, the then promoter Andy Czezowski started up The Roxy, a London nightclub during the original outbreak of punk in England, so that people could go from the store and have some place to party. As most bands of that era had yet to be recorded, there were limited punk rock records to be played. Instead, Letts included many dub and reggae records in his sets, and is credited with introducing those sounds to the London punk scene, which was to influence The Clash and other bands. As a tribute, he is pictured on the cover of the EP Black Market Clash and the compilation Super Black Market Clash. He was able to use the fame and money from DJing and the Acme story to make his first film, The Punk Rock Movie (1978).
Letts also directed music videos for Musical Youth, The Psychedelic Furs, The Pretenders and Elvis Costello as well as the feature documentaries The Punk Rock Movie (1977) and The Clash: Westway to the World (2000).
Letts was born in London, and educated at Tenison's School in Kennington. In 1975, he ran the London clothing store Acme Attractions, selling "electric-blue zoot suits and jukeboxes, and pumping dub reggae all day long." He was deeply inspired by the music coming from his parents' homeland, Jamaica, in particular Bob Marley. After seeing one of Marley's gigs at the Hammersmith Odeon (June 1976) Letts was able to sneak into the hotel and spent the night talking to and befriending Marley. By the mid-1970s Acme had quite a scene, attracting the likes of The Clash, Sex Pistols, Chrissie Hynde, Patti Smith, Deborah Harry and Bob Marley.
Donovan Letts (born (1956-01-10 ) 10 January 1956) is a British film director, DJ and musician. Letts first came to prominence as the videographer for The Clash, directing several of their music videos. In 1984, Letts co-founded the band Big Audio Dynamite with Clash guitarist Mick Jones, acting as the group's sampler and videographer before departing the band in 1990.
