Director: Mike Connolly
Photography: Steve Plant
Editor: Guy Crossman
Sound: Dave Brabants, Caleb Mose
Narrator: Miss P.
Producer: Mike Connolly
Executive Producer: Mark Cooper
Associate Producer: Lloyd Bradley
Production: Oasis Television for BBC Worldwide
Distribution: BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Tel: 0044 208 433 200 0
Fax: 0044 208 433 211 3
Internet: www.bbc.co.uk
First Broadcast: 09.08.02, 20.00, BBC 2
Selected Filmography Mike Connolly: Peter Green - A Hard Road 1996; Close Up: Manic Street Preachers 1998; Ian Dury - On My Life 1999;
The Great Hunger- The Life and Songs of Shane MacGowan" 2000.
Bob and his friends, shaggy heads full of nonsense, a life spent smoking the wrong plant and making merry music in a cloud of intoxication. These clichés were ripe for revision, and the BBC rises to the occasion with great expertise. Excellent archive material, prominent interviewees and a lovingly compiled soundtrack make the ecstatic global reception of the street sound of a Caribbean island plausible even to uninitiated sun-starved Central Europeans. In addition to historical insights, sufficient attention is paid to raggae’s various contemporary lines of development. And Bob Marley is there too.