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Crucial Vinyl: Big Youth's Dreadlocks Dread

The Don's Crucial Vinyl, an album that has shaped his musical taste, is much-loved Jamaican DJ Big Youth's influential 1975 release Dreadlocks Dread.

This week the Don's Crucial Vinyl (an album that has shaped his musical taste and helped to make him who he is) is much-loved Jamaican deejay (or toaster) Big Youth's influential 1975 release Dreadlocks Dread.

Born in Trenchtwon in Kingston in 1949, Big Youth once said that, "Deejays were closest to the people because there wasn't any kind of establishment control on the sound systems". Don was once in a band that took its name from another Big Youth album Screaming Target.

Don's other selections cross time, space and genre as ever.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Chakachas

    Jungle Fever

  • Fran莽ois & the Atlas Mountains

    The Way To The Forest

  • The Crystals

    He's A Rebel

  • Tommy McCook

    Grass Roots

  • De Lux

    It All Works All The Time

  • Beck

    Girl

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    Baby Driver

  • Baaba Maal

    Fanta

  • Titus 12

    Hyper Star

  • Arcade Fire

    It's Never Over

    • Hey Orpheus.
  • Big Youth

    House Of Dreadlocks

  • Big Youth

    Marcus Garvey

  • Big Youth

    Lightning Flash

    • Weak Heart Drop.
  • Woolwich Polytechnic School Concert Band

    The Sweeney

  • Teleman

    Cristina

  • Mala

    Expected

  • Little Axe

    Wolf's Story

  • The Beatles

    Two Of Us

  • Bee Gees

    More Than A Woman

  • Sam Cooke

    Love Me

  • Little Barrie

    Stop Or Die

  • Kanye West Ft. Adam Levine

    Heard 'Em Say

  • Avi Buffalo

    Truth Sets In

  • Dub Colossus

    Tale Of Two Cities

  • Khaiyyaam, Lata Mangeshkar & Nitin Mukesh

    Aaja Re O Mere

  • Erykah Badu

    Fall In Love

    • Your Funeral.
  • Hollie Cook

    99

  • Blood Orange

    It Is What It Is

  • Mary Clayton

    Oh No, Not My Baby

  • Rebelution

    Fade Away

Broadcast

  • Sun 1 Jun 2014 22:00