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Classic Album of the Day: Steel Pulse

Steve Lamacq talks to Steel Pulse about their debut album, Handsworth Revolution, which is the Classic Album of the Day.

Steve has a Classic Album of the Day interview with Steel Pulse, about their debut 1978 album Handsworth Revolution. Handsworth Revolution is a reggae album by Steel Pulse, named after the Handsworth district of Birmingham, England, the band's home who the album was dedicated to. It is classed as the seminal British reggae record.
This Classic Album interview is the first in the series, to be followed by Simple Minds - New Gold Dream and Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go.

3 hours

Last on

Wed 20 Jul 2016 16:00

Music Played

  • Jesus Jones

    International Bright Young Thing

    • Food.
  • Iggy Pop

    Sunday

    • Caroline International.
  • The Stranglers

    No More Heroes

    • Virgin.
  • Dream Wife

    Kids

    • Cannibal Hymns.
  • She Rockers

    Jam It Jam

    • Copy Con.
  • Lou Rhodes

    All I Need

    • Nude Records.
  • Bauhaus

    The Spy In The Cab (Radio 1 John Peel Session, 4 Dec 1979)

  • The Farmer's Boys

    In The Country

    • Parlophone Records.
  • Dinosaur Jr.

    Tiny

    • Jagjaguwar.
  • nonkeen

    Diving Platform

    • Oddments Of The Gamble.
    • R&S.
  • Bob Marley & The Wailers

    Roots Rock Reggae

    • Tuff Gong.
  • R贸is铆n Murphy

    Ten Miles High

    • PIAS.
  • So

    New Age (feat. er Still)

    • FANDANGO.
  • Johnny Cash

    Ring Of Fire

    • Johnny Cash - Man In Black.
    • Columbia.
  • John Lennon, Plastic Ono Band & Yoko Ono

    Instant Karma!

    • Parlophone.
  • Metronomy

    Night Owl

    • Because Music.
  • Green Day

    Warning

    • Reprise.
  • Ten Tonnes

    Lucy

    • White Label.
  • Tricky

    Beijing To Berlin

    • K7 Records.
  • Cate Le Bon

    Love Is Not Love

    • Turnstile/Drag City.
  • Steel Pulse

    Prediction

    • Handsworth Revolution.
    • Island Records.
    • 7.
  • The Seeds

    Pushing Too Hard

    • Ace.
  • Mono Club

    Sky High And Submarine

    • Lime Green Music.
  • I Am Kloot

    Masquerade

    • Shepherd Moon LLP.
  • Marvin Gaye

    I Heard It Through The Grapevine

    • Tamla Motown.
  • Asaf Avidan

    One Day (Wanklemut Remix)

    • Columbia Berlin.
  • Steel Pulse

    Handsworth Revolution

    • Universal.
  • Steel Pulse

    Ku Klux Klan

    • Columbia.
  • Steel Pulse

    Soldiers

    • Handsworth Revolution.
    • Island.
  • Inspiral Carpets

    Dragging Me Down

  • Shame

    The Lick (Live At Dropout)

    • White Label.
  • Manufactured Romance

    Time Of My Life

    • Fresh Records.
  • Floating Points

    Kuiper

    • Pluto.
  • Soul II Soul

    Back to Life (However Do You Want Me) (feat. Caron Wheeler)

    • Virgin.
  • Yak

    Use Somebody

    • Octopus Electrical.

Broadcast

  • Wed 20 Jul 2016 16:00