1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:13,280 (STATIC CRACKLES) 4 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:17,080 # Once I reach into my record box 5 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:21,160 # Here comes another Classic selection # 6 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:23,960 For years, it's been branded as trouble music. 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:25,880 There's not been much of it in the media. 8 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:29,200 But as our film shows, reggae is already adapting itself 9 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:31,120 to its British way of life. 10 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:33,560 All it asks, like the people who make it, 11 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:36,800 is the chance to be heard, understood and enjoyed. 12 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:38,840 (STATIC) (NOTE WAVERS AND FADES) 13 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:48,360 # Dim the lights 14 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:50,880 # Let me thrill your soul... # 15 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:53,200 ANNOUNCER: In 1966, 16 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:55,920 five musicians got together in Harlesden, 17 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:58,600 and straight away, they were a big hit. 18 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:03,520 They played on 90% of the reggae music made in this country. 19 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:07,000 (APPLAUSE) Brothers and sisters, they're here with us tonight. 20 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:09,040 So put your hands together... 21 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:13,960 ..and give one big round of applause... 22 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:18,360 for...the dynamic Cimarons! 23 00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:28,600 Onstage, we're not human... 24 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:31,840 ..we are...invincible. 25 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,360 After all these years, I didn't think that we would survive this long. 26 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:44,240 Without Cimarons, there'd be no reggae music in the UK. 27 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,200 It's like what the Rolling Stones has done for rock and roll. 28 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:53,120 # This time, we're having a nice time 29 00:01:55,440 --> 00:02:00,640 # Mood is good, and we feel fine 30 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:07,000 # Your liveliness is catching Like wildfire 31 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:08,960 # Fire, fire 32 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:14,680 # We're going on as if there is A riot, riot, riot, riot 33 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:17,760 # Oh, make we rock, rock, rock, rock Rock, rock 34 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:19,760 # To reggae rhapsody... 35 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:21,960 It doesn't matter where you go, in the world, 36 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,400 if they play reggae music, you'll hear the name Cimarons. 37 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:27,360 # ..rhapsody... 38 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:30,960 They were the first to take reggae around the world. 39 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:33,640 # ..to reggae rhapsody... 40 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:37,000 The first time hearing reggae, it's a mind-blowing thing. 41 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:39,080 If people were hearing it live, in front of them, 42 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:41,480 for the first time, hopefully that struck a chord with 'em. 43 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:43,200 I can imagine it must have done. 44 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:45,600 # One dread done tell ya 45 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:48,480 # You better lively up yourself 46 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:52,440 # Another dread say 47 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:54,840 # You better check Your money-maker... 48 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:57,400 I was amazed when I got out there. It is ram out. 49 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:00,320 What is this? Wow. We love this! Yes! 50 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:03,560 This is an unprecedented feat for a British reggae band. 51 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:05,960 Nobody has done that before or since. 52 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:10,000 # Let me take you higher, higher Higher, higher, higher, higher 53 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:13,000 # Come rock, rock, rock Rock, rock, rock 54 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:15,320 # To reggae rhapsody... 55 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,280 Music back then is how we found ourselves. 56 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:21,960 They're crucial at that moment in time. 57 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:26,320 It takes a spark. They were the spark that started a big flame 58 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:29,280 that is still blazing till today. 59 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:33,920 # Come rock, rock, rock Rock, rock, rock 60 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:35,960 # To reggae rhapsody... 61 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,560 I don't think they have received the credit that they should. 62 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:40,360 There was definitely racism there. 63 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:43,480 We can't get a record deal or a distribution deal. 64 00:03:43,520 --> 00:03:45,520 # (VOCALISING)... 65 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:55,880 When I'm onstage, I don't feel it. I don't feel no pain at all. 66 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:58,960 You're in a different world. Nothing can trouble you up there. 67 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,520 People have given up everything for this music. 68 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:03,960 I broke down, man. I cried. 69 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:07,920 I cried. I'm just hoping... 70 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:10,640 that the band will continue. 71 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:14,560 # They come rock, rock Rock, rock, rock, rock 72 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:17,120 # To reggae rhapsody 73 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:21,640 # Come skank, skank, skank Skank, skank, skank 74 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:24,040 # To reggae rhapsody 75 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,400 # They come rock, rock, rock Rock, rock, rock 76 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:31,120 # To reggae rhapsody... 77 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:36,360 This is part of my heritage, this is part of my culture. 78 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:40,840 They can't stop. They can't stop until it's time for them to stop. 79 00:04:40,880 --> 00:04:43,080 # Rock... 'And that's not yet.' 80 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:47,200 I mean, we're getting older, but I'm sure the fun isn't done. 81 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:49,920 # Rock... 82 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:51,360 There's more to come. 83 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:54,960 # Rock # 84 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:02,440 (WAVES RUSHING, BIRDSONG) 85 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:22,600 (BELL RINGS) 86 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:48,760 # CIMARONS: Soul For Sale 87 00:05:59,080 --> 00:06:03,400 So if we trace it back, they form in the late 1960s. 88 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:08,120 And initially, they're all based around this youth club in Harlesden. 89 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:10,480 And they came together as a group of friends. 90 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:12,400 ..this building here in Harlesden. 91 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:18,320 And this is where the Cimarons started. We started right here. 92 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,880 After we mess around, jamming on guitar, 93 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,200 we decided to meet here on Friday. 94 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:27,200 That rehearsal wasn't really a rehearsal, it was just a... 95 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:29,600 feel out, get together. 96 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:31,960 Cos we didn't know many songs, did we? 97 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,760 I was learning, he was learning. So I was teaching him what I knew. 98 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:36,520 I learnt from Gichie. 99 00:06:37,320 --> 00:06:39,320 Cos Gichie could play the guitar before me. 100 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:42,240 And he couldn't teach me nothing because he didn't know nothing. 101 00:06:42,280 --> 00:06:44,640 And I learnt from... 102 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,000 from TV. (CROWD SCREAMING) 103 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:48,960 The Kinks. The Kinks. 104 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:50,600 (CHEERS, LAUGHS) 105 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,080 And then we decided to say, yes, go and buy an instrument. 106 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:56,840 So work, work, work, and save up, save up, save up. 107 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:00,080 Maurice was here as well and said he can play drum. 108 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:02,280 And then Carl Levy came in, right here. 109 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:04,600 So everyone started right here, you know? 110 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:09,040 I think it was the way that they meshed together as players. 111 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:12,600 Almost immediately, they started to make an impact. 112 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,800 On a Friday evening, when we were rehearsing, it was like a party. 113 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:18,080 Everybody would leave from downstairs, come upstairs. 114 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,640 Everybody dancing and drinking. It was like a party every night. 115 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:22,640 # CIMARONS: Feel Nice 116 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:31,120 I'm Popsy, Starlight Records... 117 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:33,120 Harlesden. (CHUCKLES) 118 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:36,240 This is where, like I said, this is where it all started. 119 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:38,600 Harlesden is a mecca, you know? 120 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:42,080 All the producers, all the manufacturers, 121 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:44,160 if they started out somewhere else, 122 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:46,760 they always end up in Harlesden. (CHUCKLES) 123 00:07:46,800 --> 00:07:50,400 Caribbeans coming over went to where there was a friend, a family member. 124 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:52,560 Harlesden, Brent. 125 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:55,800 The largest and most diverse, I think, 126 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:58,040 borough in London, was that place. 127 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,120 Individuals like Delroy Washington, 128 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:03,240 one of the first musicians to write with Bob Marley, 129 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:05,600 it's Harlesden, Brent, again. 130 00:08:05,640 --> 00:08:08,520 And so, you know, in terms of the Cimarons, 131 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:12,440 it's not an accident that they're from that location. 132 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:13,960 That was the place to be. 133 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,680 # AL BARRY & CIMARONS: Morning Sun 134 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:22,840 I'm Richie, Richie Johnson, 135 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:25,240 originally at Trojan Records in the early '70s. 136 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:28,720 If you wanted something with that Caribbean flavour, 137 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:30,520 Harlesden has always been it. 138 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:35,360 I'm General Levy, and I buss in the same club as the Cimarons did. 139 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:38,120 Growing up in Northwest London, Harlesden, 140 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:40,360 in the '70s and '80s, 141 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:43,800 it could have been mistaken for the Caribbean, or even Africa. 142 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:46,400 I mean, you could have been in Coronation Market, Jamaica. 143 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:48,720 And you'd also be seeing the people, 144 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:52,240 hearing the conversations in the street, be smelling the food. 145 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:54,240 Musically, there were dances every week. 146 00:08:54,280 --> 00:08:57,840 House dances, blues dances, maybe two or three in the area. 147 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:00,920 On a Friday, Saturday night, we'd just get dressed, 148 00:09:00,960 --> 00:09:03,240 walk down the road, and we listened. 149 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:05,800 And you can hear a sound system pumping away. 150 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:08,360 Because those days, sound system was really the thing. 151 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:10,480 And when you get there, it's good vibes, you know? 152 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:15,000 You can buy a drink, you can buy food, and then you dance all night. 153 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:16,840 In the vinyl days, I mean, 154 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:19,440 records used to sell, you know? 155 00:09:19,480 --> 00:09:22,520 In this area, in the Harlesden area, there was about four record shops. 156 00:09:22,560 --> 00:09:24,880 You'd hear from Hawkeye record shops, 157 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:28,440 Starlight record shops, Orbitone record shops, 158 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,760 and you'd be hearing Bob Marley, Dennis Brown. 159 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:34,600 On the weekends, you couldn't get in there - a roadblock. (LAUGHS) 160 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:36,440 Yeah, there's so much people there, 161 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:39,080 queuing up to get the records, you know? 162 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:40,800 There'd be people outside, even. 163 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:43,760 Soul food, good music, good marijuana. 164 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:45,800 (LAUGHS) In the air. 165 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:48,040 So it was good, man. Good vibes all around. 166 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:51,840 (MUSIC STOPS, MELLOW SONG STARTS) 167 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:55,440 Most of the tracks that Cimarons actually did, 168 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:57,440 my voice is on it. 169 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:02,080 Because they were like the first UK band, 170 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:04,240 you know, group of black guys. 171 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:06,560 They were learning on the job... 172 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:09,040 and doing everything that they wanted to do, 173 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:11,240 until finally, 174 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:14,280 they are recording, they are touring. 175 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:16,320 Early on, they... 176 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:19,400 were invited to tour in West Africa. 177 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:24,120 They were the first British reggae band to play in West Africa. 178 00:10:24,160 --> 00:10:26,440 I went to Africa playing... 179 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:29,040 with this finger. Remember, Locks? 180 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:31,840 With this finger. When I came back... 181 00:10:31,880 --> 00:10:33,840 I came back playing with all of these. 182 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:38,360 We went there with a set, which is one-hour-plus, normal set. 183 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:40,560 When we finish, we would go back into the hotel. 184 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:43,880 We started to rehearse more - more tune, more tune, more tune. 185 00:10:43,920 --> 00:10:46,080 And this finger become so tired, 186 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:48,200 so me have to use these, you know? 187 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:50,320 That's when it getting serious. 188 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,080 It become serious when we came back from Africa. 189 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:58,440 In the aftermath of that, they started to work with Lambert Briscoe. 190 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:00,720 He started the Hot Rod label, so they became... 191 00:11:00,760 --> 00:11:04,320 the Hot Rod All Stars - that was kind of their alter ego. 192 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:08,800 And when they performed at the Q Club in Paddington, 193 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:13,480 they attracted the interest of one of the A&R people at Trojan Records. 194 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:18,080 # This is the Cimarons! # 195 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:24,120 GICHIE: Cimarons was the name of a Western series on TV. 196 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:26,000 It was called Cimarron Strip. 197 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,040 And everybody said, 'Yeah, that sounds good.' 198 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:30,280 But then we found out that the name 'Cimarons' 199 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:32,480 actually mean, wild and free. 200 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:37,720 I got to know them very early. 201 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:39,640 In 1971, I left school, 202 00:11:39,680 --> 00:11:42,440 I started working at Trojan, and I think that's where I met them. 203 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:44,720 They were the band, you know? 204 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:46,760 They were the start of it. They were the... 205 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:49,280 first real live band that we had contact with. 206 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:51,960 Apart from that, it was always records, of course. 207 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:54,760 But this was a live band really doing the business, you know? 208 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:57,280 # We are the Cimarons! # 209 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:03,200 Cimarons is the foundation of reggae music in the United Kingdom. 210 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:06,200 In the Cimarons, of course, there was... 211 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:10,400 Maurice Ellis that plays the drums. Carl Levy was the organist. 212 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:14,080 There was Franklyn Dunn, he was on the bass. 213 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,800 There was Gichie, of course. 214 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:19,440 Also, there was Carl Bert, who was the lead singer. 215 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:22,240 He was very, very versatile. He could sing anything. 216 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:24,200 He was a very good singer - two-and-a-half years, 217 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:26,960 maybe three years, he worked with us, and then he left. 218 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:29,760 ANNOUNCER: Let's give it up for the Cimarons! 219 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:31,400 (APPLAUSE) 220 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:34,040 There was no superstar in the Cimarons, yes? 221 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:38,680 They were all playing music the way they love to play it. 222 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:42,520 And they had their own sound. They were different from everybody else. 223 00:12:43,560 --> 00:12:46,080 They just became... 224 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:48,080 hugely in demand as session players. 225 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:52,680 They played on countless sessions that were recorded here in the UK, 226 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:56,120 for Trojan, and also for the Pama group of labels. 227 00:12:56,160 --> 00:12:58,280 They could go into rock. 228 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:02,440 They were known for covers of soul music early in their career. 229 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:04,920 Many of the Jamaican musicians were jazz, 230 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:07,400 soul, then reggae, and people forget that. 231 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:09,920 These are accomplished musicians. 232 00:13:09,960 --> 00:13:12,800 They've played on countless records. Their name's not on it. 233 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:17,280 There's no mention of them as the band. It's the name of the singer. 234 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:20,320 Once you're not the front person, 235 00:13:20,360 --> 00:13:22,480 you're invisible - you're the backing band. 236 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:24,440 So you're there, but you're not there, 237 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:27,520 in terms of the press, the media, how it's reported on. 238 00:13:27,560 --> 00:13:29,400 This is a band that's... 239 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:32,920 you know, been hugely under-recognised over the years. 240 00:13:32,960 --> 00:13:36,080 They're part of the records that popularised reggae. 241 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,960 They're crucial at that moment in time. 242 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:44,920 When your hear a recording, even if they are doing a backing track, 243 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:48,120 you could say, 'Cimarons that,' cos you would know... 244 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:50,200 by how Maurice played the drum, 245 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:52,880 you know by how Gichie play. 246 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:56,360 Franklyn how he played - you just knew. 247 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:58,440 Cimarons were just... 248 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:00,560 in a class by themself. 249 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:04,160 That's all it was. They were just different. 250 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,720 # Skinheads, mash up London town Skinheads, oo-ee 251 00:14:08,760 --> 00:14:11,280 # Skinheads, mash up London town 252 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:13,320 # Skinheads, oo-ee... # 253 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:16,240 At that point in time, we've got an audience which... 254 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:21,240 is embracing black music, R&B, within the Mods... 255 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:23,480 ska, Jamaican ska. 256 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:26,880 And rocksteady, precursor to reggae, 257 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:29,240 amongst the first wave of skinheads. 258 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:32,320 We started just at the end of the ska era, into rocksteady - 259 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:34,080 and we loved rocksteady - 260 00:14:34,120 --> 00:14:37,480 and then rapidly, within a year and a half, we just switched to reggae. 261 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:39,040 (SCRATCHES) 262 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:41,880 (LAUGHS) Switched to reggae so quick. 263 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:47,800 MAN: Cimarons was the band 264 00:14:47,840 --> 00:14:49,920 that all the artists from Jamaica went to. 265 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:54,520 It was like a go-to band, whether it was live gigs or TV. 266 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,360 We could back any artist, any artist that came to us, 267 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:00,600 Cimarons could back them because you knew their song. 268 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:03,240 Any artists that come to England to perform, 269 00:15:03,280 --> 00:15:05,520 naturally, it's got to be the Cimarons, you know? 270 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,000 They attracted the likes of Jimmy Cliff... 271 00:15:08,040 --> 00:15:09,880 ..Ken Boothe. 272 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:11,680 There was Bob Marley. 273 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:13,960 The Pioneers. The Maytals. 274 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:17,400 There were the Heptones, Nicky Thomas, 275 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:21,400 you name it, they backed them, you know - they backed everybody. 276 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:23,840 Almost every artist come from Jamaica at that time - 277 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:25,480 you have to work with the Cimarons. 278 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:28,200 ANNOUNCER: Dennis Alcapone! 279 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:31,280 # You got to see the man called Cassius Clay in action 280 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:33,120 # Tell you 281 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:35,120 # Huahua, chi-huahua 282 00:15:35,160 --> 00:15:37,480 # Chi-huahua, chi-hu... Huh! 283 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:41,360 # Huahua, chi-huahua, tell you Chi-huahua, chi-hu... 284 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:43,880 I am one of the Cimarons who nobody don't know of. 285 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:46,040 I'm coming from Jamaica. 286 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:50,640 And I see these guys doing... just working, just working, working. 287 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:54,480 You know what I mean? They do all the concert, all the clubs them. 288 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:56,840 We were doing, like, two shows a night - 289 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:59,160 every venue that we went to... 290 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:01,080 was packed out! 291 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:03,760 And it was mostly white people. 292 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:05,680 Mostly. 293 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:08,240 At the time, we were young people, you know what I mean? 294 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:10,680 We carried the equipment round the back, 295 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:13,000 and we'd take them up the stairs, and you know, 296 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:15,400 Carl Levy, he'd have a big organ, that, you know, 297 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:19,120 everybody have to put them on to take it up the stairs. Yeah. 298 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:22,760 # The man called Cassius Clay Is comin' back to retain his title... 299 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:26,880 First van we had, Bedford van, there's no heater. 300 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:31,320 The windscreen wiper gone, so one man have to... 301 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:35,080 tie a string on one side, tie a string on the other side. 302 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:38,080 You're driving - dry that side, dry that side, dry that side. 303 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:39,840 You know, you're working - 304 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,880 you're not sleeping properly, you're not eating properly. 305 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:45,240 Time you go to bed at three, four in the morning, 306 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:47,600 you've gotta get up, have breakfast, go on the road again, 307 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:50,120 and it goes on for days and weeks. 308 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:52,320 It's like you're in a football team, you know? 309 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:54,240 Them days. 310 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:57,920 # (VOCALISING) # 311 00:16:57,960 --> 00:17:00,440 (APPLAUSE) Thank you! 312 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,080 If there's a um... artist from Jamaica... 313 00:17:05,120 --> 00:17:07,680 want us to do their song, 314 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:10,440 we'll do exactly like how them want it. 315 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:13,680 But when we are doing our stuff, it's different. 316 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:16,000 It's still reggae... 317 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:17,680 but our style. 318 00:17:35,800 --> 00:17:38,440 When I first hear them, they had a sound, 319 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:40,600 and I think the sound, to me, 320 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:44,480 the Cimarons' sound is really Gichie and Franklyn. 321 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:46,160 # We're harder than the rock 322 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:50,360 # We're harder than the rock This time 323 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:53,760 # We're harder than the rock 324 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:57,640 # We're harder than the rock This time 325 00:17:57,680 --> 00:18:01,960 Franklyn Dunn, the bass player - reliable, rock-solid anchor. 326 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:05,600 Franklyn, the bass player, he was a character on the stage. 327 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:07,280 Frank is a mad man onstage - 328 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:10,240 do some things that you thought, 'Whoa, crazy!' 329 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:16,480 Franklyn would do different things with his bass, just something out of the ordinary. 330 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:19,400 The last time, Franklyn play with a toothbrush on his bass. 331 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:21,800 And it...it sound wicked! You know what I mean? 332 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:27,120 And then you had Locksley Gichie, 333 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:29,760 an expressive guitarist, and someone who's quite a... 334 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:32,360 a thoughtful and meditative person. 335 00:18:32,400 --> 00:18:35,760 Gichie would know what to play and, you know, 336 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:38,040 how to make the music come across. 337 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:40,360 # We're harder than the rock 338 00:18:42,080 --> 00:18:44,720 # Harder than the rock this time 339 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:47,560 # We're harder than the rock 340 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:49,360 # So hard 341 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:51,840 # We're harder than the rock This time 342 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:56,160 # When I was a young head My teacher used to say 343 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,520 # The cow jump over the moon 344 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:02,640 # Now I've grown up, I'm a man 345 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:06,000 # I'm sure I can overstand 346 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:08,320 # Mama Africa 347 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:11,840 # Liberation freedom 348 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:15,240 # Mama Africa 349 00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:18,520 # Liberation freedom 350 00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:21,280 # Lord 351 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:23,880 # We're harder than the rock 352 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:25,720 # So hard 353 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:28,120 # We're harder than the rock This time 354 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:31,360 # We're harder than the rock 355 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:32,840 # So hard 356 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:35,000 # We're harder than the rock This time 357 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:37,560 # Starvation 358 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:38,840 # Lord 359 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:40,360 # Sufferation 360 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,960 # Sufferation Brutality 361 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,520 # Brutality, we know it 362 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:50,200 # Murder Oh, we got too much of that 363 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:51,480 # Starvation 364 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:54,360 # We're harder than the rock, yeah So hard 365 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:56,600 # We're harder than the rock This time 366 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:00,240 # We're harder than the rock 367 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:01,880 # So hard 368 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:04,240 # We're harder than the rock This time 369 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:07,200 # We're harder than the rock # 370 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:09,680 As you listen to music today, 371 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:11,520 I don't know if you listen to the radio a lot, 372 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:13,360 or if you listen mostly to records, but... 373 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:17,080 what are things that you see that you think are good or bad? 374 00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:21,680 I like the thing that happened in Jamaica called reggae.Excuse me? 375 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:24,040 There's a music in Jamaica called reggae, 376 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:27,480 which has been around for years under the disguise of ska, 377 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:31,680 bluebeat, etc, etc, but it finally formed itself into reggae. 378 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:35,560 I don't like the word 'reggae'. I like 'Jamaica music'. 379 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:38,600 (MUSIC PLAYS ON TV) 380 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:46,480 Me have a brethren called Chilli Dixon, 381 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:48,320 which is my best friend from, you know, 382 00:20:48,360 --> 00:20:50,240 when I just came to England - we link up. 383 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:52,080 In those days, we had lots of records, 384 00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:54,160 and everybody's got their little system and so on. 385 00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:56,920 And he just start playing some records, and he just start singing. 386 00:20:56,960 --> 00:20:59,000 And I thought, 'Wow, you can sing.' 387 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:01,480 He told me about a band called Cimarons. 388 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:04,360 # Surplus food 389 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:08,040 # On wasteland... 390 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:12,040 Cimarons at the time was a very big, very popular band, 391 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:14,400 and they hear that over in North London, 392 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,400 there was some guy singing like a bird. 393 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:18,720 So I went to see them one night. 394 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:22,880 They were very good, very tight, very professional. 395 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:25,960 They sound like Jamaican... like a Jamaican band. 396 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:29,680 You know, the sound that them used to have - used to love them sound. 397 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:31,880 That sound never change - 398 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:36,080 that rich, rich, rich, rich Jamaican sound, you know? 399 00:21:36,120 --> 00:21:40,360 # In scorching sun Or the pouring rain... 400 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:43,080 I can remember posters saying, 'Just in from Jamaica.' 401 00:21:43,120 --> 00:21:44,840 And we'd believe it. 402 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:47,800 It's only decades later, I thought...that was a lie. 403 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,760 But at the time, it was an inspiration. 404 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:58,600 The performance - just to see a Jamaican band play was a big deal. 405 00:22:04,280 --> 00:22:07,920 But when Winston come in, Winston bring upon a rootsy level now. 406 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:12,880 # Say he who's lost his hoping 407 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:16,040 # No excuse for dreaming... # 408 00:22:16,080 --> 00:22:18,480 Cimarons threw me right in the deep end, really. 409 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:22,320 So we just have a few rehearsal, and I was on tour. 410 00:22:22,360 --> 00:22:23,840 Yeah, we went to Japan. 411 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,240 # CIMARONS: People Say 412 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:33,400 Japan. 413 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:37,440 We set the trend. I'm proud about that. 414 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:41,320 You know, everything moved fast at that time. 415 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:45,040 # The problems of today 416 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:49,760 # Is pretty darn confused 417 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:52,440 # Why's that...? 418 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:57,120 They ended up touring Japan and Thailand. 419 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:00,880 They must be the first reggae band ever to perform in Thailand. 420 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:05,640 Yeah, man, Japan really surprised me, to be honest with you, 421 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:10,800 cos we did a show in Hibiya Park, like, in the centre of Tokyo. 422 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:14,520 Big festival - Japanese band were all punk, and rock and roll - 423 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,080 they were all rock and roll band. (MIMICS ROCK GUITAR) 424 00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:20,400 And we played... I think it was the Friday night. 425 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:24,200 And when we played, the place ram! And we said, 'Whoa!' 426 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,840 They have never heard reggae music live in their lives. I mean... 427 00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,680 'What is this? Whoa! We love this! Yes!' 428 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:31,480 They went crazy, man. 429 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,720 # People say 430 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:36,480 # People say... 431 00:23:36,520 --> 00:23:39,360 They said, 'Can you come back this Sunday?' 432 00:23:39,400 --> 00:23:43,120 When we came back the Sunday, there was three times the amount of crowd. 433 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:44,920 Outside! 434 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:48,720 Can't get into the venue. That was serious. 435 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,280 # (VOCALISING) 436 00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:53,520 # People say 437 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:56,080 # People say... # 438 00:23:56,120 --> 00:23:59,840 When everything came together, that sound - 439 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:02,920 that was authentic sound that was there - was unbelievable. 440 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:06,280 Cimarons done things that, you know, people weren't doing. 441 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:09,760 The style of reggae that they were playing, you know, 442 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:11,560 people gravitated to it. 443 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:13,520 Cimarons was a fantastic live band. 444 00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,000 You had to have the live band to take it to the people. 445 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,320 And that's where Cimarons came in. 446 00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:24,000 The energy that the Cimarons brought on the stage was magnificent. 447 00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:32,520 You know, and their show was a show that...was entertaining. 448 00:24:37,120 --> 00:24:39,640 (SPEAKS FRENCH) 449 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:42,360 They were different from everybody else - 450 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,920 their outfits, just the way they performed. 451 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,440 When I'm onstage, 452 00:24:52,480 --> 00:24:54,680 you're not here, you're not there. You're... 453 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,040 on cloud nine, or whatever you want to call it. 454 00:24:57,080 --> 00:25:01,120 You're invincible, like I said. You're enjoying yourself. 455 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,440 And when you see the people them enjoying themself too, 456 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:05,840 it give you more again to push on. 457 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,240 Brilliant. 458 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:20,920 They were one of the first... 459 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,320 to really take reggae to certain countries in the world. 460 00:25:23,360 --> 00:25:27,320 # We've got to keep on moving on up 461 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,160 # We've got to keep on Moving on up... # 462 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:33,320 DIXON: I remember when we went to Spain - 463 00:25:33,360 --> 00:25:36,040 place was absolutely jam-packed. 464 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,080 And I went back, and I says, 'Ram - place ram out.' 465 00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:41,160 (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 466 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,600 'Same thing in Holland.' (ANNOUNCER SPEAKS DUTCH) 467 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,560 Cimarons took reggae music throughout the world. 468 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,640 KATZ: First reggae band to play in West Africa, 469 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:56,560 then the first reggae band to play in Thailand and Japan. 470 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,000 I'm thinking about Africa... 471 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:02,160 Japan, Ireland. 472 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,400 ALL: (SINGING) It's a long way to Tipperary. 473 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,000 It's a long way to go. 474 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,640 MAN: Without your mother. It's a long way to Tipperary. 475 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,920 To the sweetest girl I know... 476 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:16,480 MAN: One, two... 477 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,480 # CIAN FINN: Rosie Dubh 478 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,360 If you think about it, it makes perfect sense 479 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,520 that the Cimarons would be the first reggae band to play in Ireland, 480 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:28,520 because they have that history of that. 481 00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:32,560 # We don't want to fight no more 482 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:36,280 # We just want to live and love you 483 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,200 # We don't want to fight those wars 484 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,960 # We just want to sing songs to you 485 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,560 # Sweet Rosie Dubh 486 00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:46,600 # Let me kiss and hug you 487 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:48,960 # You know I love you... 488 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,120 (MUFFLED SINGING) Rosie Dubh... (BIRD CAWS) 489 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,400 # Rosie Dubh 490 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:08,400 # Know you're loved # 491 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,160 There's a hurt in the music, and there's a soulful release. 492 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:23,200 And there's a... there's a therapy in singing it. 493 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,160 With the Cimarons coming here in the '70s... 494 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,680 you know, this soulful rebel music... 495 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:32,040 in the wilds of West Cork, in Macroom, like, in Ireland... 496 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,680 ..there was just nothing people had ever seen before. 497 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:40,760 # We want freedom 498 00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,320 # Oh, yeah... 499 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:47,760 Yeah, we were the first reggae band... 500 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:49,880 yeah, we were the first reggae band to go to Ireland. 501 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:52,320 The first time the Cimarons came to Ireland was to play... 502 00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:54,560 at a festival in Macroom. 503 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,760 They'd been playing at something like T In The Park or one of those, 504 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,280 and then they were flown in this little plane to Macroom. 505 00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:05,480 Eight-seater plane. Eight-seater to fly us in. 506 00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:09,120 The pilot could hardly see the plane - pure smoke!(LAUGHTER) 507 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,600 He was a policeman. (LAUGHTER) 508 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,960 It was massive, man. It was big, man. First festival in Cork. 509 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,160 Walking through the crowd with a spliff in my hand. 510 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,440 Policeman come up and ask me, 'What's that?' 511 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,920 I say, 'I don't know. Somebody just give it to me in the crowd, man.' 512 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:26,240 And I just kept walking. 513 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,760 They were blown away by the reception they'd got. 514 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,640 People went absolutely berserk for it. 515 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:34,720 They loved it. 516 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:36,680 People first time hearing reggae... 517 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:41,480 ..it really blew their mind. It's like, 'What the fuck? 518 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,240 That was great.' (LAUGHTER) 519 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,480 'Who are these guys?' You know? 520 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,160 # Just stoop over the horizon 521 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,000 # And see the sun 522 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,000 # Shining down on you... 523 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,160 REEDY: We have some serious experience in Ireland. 524 00:28:57,040 --> 00:29:00,600 # Ship ahoy, ship ahoy Ship ahoy, ship ahoy... 525 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:04,400 I was doing a show in Queen's University in Belfast. 526 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,120 IRA bombing up, bombing up. 527 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,280 When Winston came on stage, Winston said, 'No, no, no, no, no, no.' 528 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,040 You see them take time coming together. 529 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:28,080 Everybody start to mix them. 530 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:31,360 And before that, they was fighting each other on the street. 531 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,040 Bombing up, fighting because that one there Protestant, 532 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,080 that one there's Catholic or whatever. 533 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,440 And the crowd went absolutely mad. 534 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:41,160 And I dived...I dived in the crowd. 535 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,640 Them start enjoying themself when the music played. 536 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:45,800 Them forget about... 537 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:47,840 all that rubbish. 538 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:49,800 But then after the music's gone... 539 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,000 come tomorrow, they gone back to normal. 540 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,680 So music can carry you in. 541 00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:58,640 Music can carry you in. 542 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:00,520 The Irish really love reggae, man. 543 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,560 Reggae's popular all over Ireland, but I think Cork is the spiritual... 544 00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,680 home of reggae - it's rebel music, isn't it? 545 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,120 Rebel music for the rebel county. 546 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,240 Cimarons have a song called Ship Ahoy. 547 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,480 Ship Ahoy - the O'Jays record that dealt with the... 548 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,440 transatlantic slave trade. 549 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,560 (SINGS) Ship ahoy, ship ahoy, ship ahoy... 550 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,720 # Ship ahoy-oy-oy... # 551 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,560 When you play Ship Ahoy in Cork, it mashed on the place. 552 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,280 The place gone mad! 553 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:31,000 Because of the tribulation that we've been through... 554 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:34,320 Irish was slave also in Jamaica, you know? 555 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:37,960 It's not just black people are known as slave. 556 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,560 Irish was slave too. So them feel it like us. 557 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,600 Who were they, these first Irish settlers? 558 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:45,560 A great number of the Irish immigrants 559 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,600 were either indentured servants or prisoners. 560 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,560 Because real recognise real. It's pain. It's pain, you know? 561 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:53,400 A lot of people who have been through pain 562 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,720 can recognise other people who have been through pain. 563 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:59,040 # Ship took us away 564 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:01,240 # From Africa 565 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:08,440 # They took us away from Africa... 566 00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,360 Ireland and the Caribbean - 567 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:15,160 reggae, racism - have always been bedfellows. 568 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,040 No blacks, no dogs, no Irish. 569 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,600 That's really... To see that sign there, you know? 570 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:23,000 So we've been bagged, you know, 571 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:27,080 in the same category of 'human' by the English. 572 00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:31,880 England was sold as the motherland to all its colonies - 573 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:33,920 oh, it's gonna be some warm place that they get to. 574 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:37,240 STARR: I was just 20 years old when I first come to England. 575 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,960 And, you know, the shock of it is like, 'Wow,' you know? 576 00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,640 How much chimney I've seen when I come? 577 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:46,480 You know what I mean - smoke coming out of the top of the house. 578 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,680 The closeness of the Irish and Caribbean communities in general 579 00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:52,520 in England is quite a testament to how... 580 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:55,760 similar the two places are, the two cultures are. 581 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:57,560 You must always remember, you know, 582 00:31:57,600 --> 00:32:00,280 where we were living, there was mostly Irish round there, 583 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:02,720 you know what I mean - Queen's Park, Maida Vale. 584 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:04,440 You know what I mean? Kilburn was Irish. 585 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,920 There was no separation between these communities... 586 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,240 on a certain level, and so... 587 00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,760 some of the biggest supporters of reggae has been the Irish community. 588 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:18,200 I've always had a strong connection with a lot of Jamaican artists. 589 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,280 And I do feel like there's an element of that 590 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:25,000 that comes back to the similarity between Ireland and Jamaica. 591 00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:26,920 Yes, yes, yes, yes, Ireland. 592 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,200 Definitely, man. There's Irish people in Jamaica, 593 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:31,160 There's a strong connection. 594 00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:34,600 That's why the Guinness is so popular as well, I think, you know? 595 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,640 The traditional music in Ireland... 596 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,760 compared to the traditional music in Jamaica, 597 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,400 and the history of it, sonically might be slightly different. 598 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:43,440 (UPBEAT IRISH MUSIC) 599 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,160 At the core of it, the message... 600 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,440 ..is quite similar, and the storytelling is quite similar. 601 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:55,360 A lot of the songs are about oppression, 602 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,080 a lot of songs are about, you know, upliftment, as well. 603 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:01,520 A lot of the songs make you feel like, 'Don't worry, things are gonna get better.' 604 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:04,360 There's a reggae community in Ireland now, with the Cimarons... 605 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,800 bringing reggae to Ireland for the first time... 606 00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:10,640 you know, paved the way for this incredible Caribbean music. 607 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:14,880 # Ship took us away 608 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,320 # From Africa # 609 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,360 (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 610 00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:24,360 So the Cimarons would have been in Ireland probably... 611 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,120 two years before Bob Marley played. 612 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:41,960 And he says, 'Yo, fellas, this is Bob Marley.' 613 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,040 We said, 'Bob Marley?' He said, 'It's Bob Marley.' 614 00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:47,320 I said, 'What are you talking about?' He said, 'This is Bob.' Bob said... 615 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,160 We said, 'Yeah, we know his songs.' Bob said, 'Which song do you know?' 616 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:57,200 We said, 'Duppy Conqueror.' 617 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,360 So we start playing Duppy Conqueror, and Bob couldn't believe it. 618 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:04,840 Bob said, 'Why?!' and ended up swearing, 'Bloodclaat!' (LAUGHS) 619 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:15,040 Bob wanted to do the live gigs - it was his first time in England. 620 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:19,360 So we did Bob Marley's first gig in England, at the Apollo Club. 621 00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,840 A week after we did... 622 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,080 the Bouncing Ball in Peckham. 623 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,520 That went down crazy, man. Bob really did work the show, you know? 624 00:34:27,560 --> 00:34:32,080 And then a week after, we did The Bamboo Club in Bristol. 625 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:35,680 We did two nights. They billed it as Bob Marley and the Wailers. 626 00:34:35,720 --> 00:34:37,840 Bob Marley and Cimarons, it should have been. 627 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:40,280 You know? That's history. 628 00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:44,040 It was at the carnival - Notting Hill Carnival. 629 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:45,760 And Bob said to Gichie, 630 00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:50,080 'I notice you guys licking over a lot of other people's music, 631 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,720 but you no lick no Wailers?' 632 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,360 So we went and do Talking Blues, 633 00:34:55,400 --> 00:34:57,640 and it went to number one in Jamaica. 634 00:34:57,680 --> 00:34:59,960 # CIMARONS: Talking Blues 635 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,760 I'd like to be able to claim that we had the session from the Cimarons 636 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,880 before they'd actually made a commercial record. 637 00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:09,280 But that'd be manifestly untrue - they've already had a number-one record in Jamaica 638 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:11,400 with Talking Blues. 639 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,840 # Talking blues 640 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:18,120 # They say your feet Is just too big for your... 641 00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:21,640 KATZ: Now, Talking Blues was a pretty obscure record, 642 00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,240 but their recording that they made up here 643 00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:27,360 became a chart-topping success in Jamaica. 644 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:32,880 # They say your feet Is just too big for your shoes 645 00:35:33,720 --> 00:35:35,720 # Yes... 646 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:41,160 This is an unprecedented feat - for a British reggae band... 647 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,960 to go to Jamaica and have a number-one hit on the charts 648 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,280 with a cover of a Bob Marley and the Wailers record? 649 00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:51,440 Nobody has done that, really, before or since. 650 00:35:51,480 --> 00:35:54,400 # ..on the rock for so long So long... 651 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:57,880 REEDY: So he come and check us now to play a game of football. 652 00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,240 So he come up to me, and he look, and he says... 653 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,320 ..'So you're the youth who sing my song.' 654 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,760 So me say, 'Yes, Bob.' And he said, 'Sound alright.' 655 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:11,120 If Bob Marley tell you that your thing sound alright, 656 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,080 sounds good, isn't it? 657 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,120 GICHIE: You couldn't do that, you know? 658 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,200 Cimarons was my baby. I couldn't give it up. 659 00:36:22,240 --> 00:36:24,280 No regrets. 660 00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,640 I just feel good to know that I knew the great man and work with him. 661 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,000 To me, that's enough. I knew Bob. 662 00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:37,320 And through that success, they came down to Jamaica, 663 00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:39,880 and they recorded their magnum opus - 664 00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,000 an album called On The Rock. 665 00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,160 # (VOCALISING) 666 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,360 # We're all on the rock, Jah say 667 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,080 # We're all on the rock, Jah say 668 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,800 # We're all on the rock, Jah say 669 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:04,480 # We're all on the rock, Jah say 670 00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:08,800 # On the rock 671 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,720 # On the rock 672 00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,560 # Wake up, Jah-man-can 673 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:28,120 # Wake up, roots man 674 00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:36,520 # Get yourself together Together 675 00:37:38,080 --> 00:37:40,840 # Try to know your brother 676 00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:42,600 # And sister 677 00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:47,960 # Critical has got other plans 678 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,280 # By undermining the weaker minds 679 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:57,360 # With false hopes 680 00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:03,920 # Can't you see critical is using Jah name in vain? 681 00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:07,440 # Them use it in court as a joke 682 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:11,040 # Them use it in church as a curse 683 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:12,840 # Them use it in a 684 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:14,960 # (VOCALISING) 685 00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,760 # We're all on the rock, Jah say 686 00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,160 # We're all on the rock, Jah say 687 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,320 # We're all on the rock, Jah say 688 00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:30,960 # We're all on the rock, Jah say 689 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,000 # On the rock 690 00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:41,240 # On the rock 691 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,160 # Wake up, Jah-man-can... 692 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:51,360 They're a classic, original, roots reggae band, 693 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:55,840 and when they did their own stuff, I love it, absolutely love it. 694 00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,320 My best Cimarons album is On The Rock. 695 00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,200 # Let us be free... 696 00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:02,640 I think that album was very interesting. 697 00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,920 KATZ: You know, in Jamaica, they played these significant gigs 698 00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:09,360 around the island, and they made a tremendous impact there. 699 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,800 And they were working at Channel 1 and Randy's, 700 00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:15,280 and also at Lee Scratch Perry's Black Ark, 701 00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:18,040 where they made some exceptional music together with Scratch. 702 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:25,920 Wow, actually in Black Ark Studio, 703 00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:29,080 with the great Lee Perry - he's energetic. 704 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:31,640 He said to Frank, 'Oh, man. Play the bass, man.' 705 00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:33,800 (IMITATES BASS) 706 00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:36,840 He's very, you know... He'll tell you what he wants. 707 00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:41,760 # Wake up, Jah-man-can 708 00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,160 # Wake up, roots man 709 00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,400 # Wake up, Jah-man-can 710 00:39:55,200 --> 00:39:57,360 # We're all on the rock, Jah say 711 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:01,560 # We're all on the rock, Jah say On the rock 712 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:03,920 # We're all on the rock, Jah say 713 00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,600 # We're all on the rock, Jah say On the rock 714 00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:10,240 # We're all on the rock, Jah say 715 00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,400 # We're all on the rock, Jah say 716 00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:18,080 # We're all on the rock, Jah say 717 00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:25,760 # We're all on the rock # 718 00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,400 # CIMARONS: Paul Bogle 719 00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:40,480 # Call his name out loud 720 00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:43,080 # Everybody, yeah 721 00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,320 # Paul Bogle... 722 00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,760 They did produce, throughout their career, 723 00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,600 some really hardcore roots reggae 724 00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:53,920 that was very interesting and very innovative - 725 00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:56,560 I'm thinking of songs like Paul Bogle, 726 00:40:56,600 --> 00:41:00,080 which celebrated one of the Jamaican national heroes. 727 00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:04,120 (SINGS ALONG TO TRACK) Paul Bogle. 728 00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:09,120 # Was the leader of our strife... 729 00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:11,920 And then the 12-inch has this wonderful toast, 730 00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:14,520 this kind of hardcore Jamaican toasting. 731 00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:16,440 You know, when you hear songs like those, 732 00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:19,480 you just think, 'Wow, this is phenomenal.' 733 00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:21,880 # England needs a leader... 734 00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:26,480 # We need a leader 735 00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,680 # Leader like Paul Bogle... # 736 00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:32,880 (SONG FADES OUT) 737 00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:37,560 The music we have done over the years, we haven't had no great hits. 738 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,440 What we did was a lot of albums. 739 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:43,840 We did a live album - we did Live At The Roundhouse. 740 00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,000 (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 741 00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:50,360 We got a deal with Polydor Records, and... 742 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,200 when we brought the live album to them, they loved it. 743 00:41:53,240 --> 00:41:55,960 I believe it was the first reggae band to be signed by a major. 744 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,760 Polydor in the '70s. 745 00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:02,280 And then we ended up doing an album called Maka. 746 00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,680 # CIMARONS: Loosening Out 747 00:42:08,720 --> 00:42:10,880 Maka was an experiment. 748 00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:15,120 Frank always come up with some... some mad professor ideas. (LAUGHS) 749 00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,160 Because in those days, we used to like one or two rock group, 750 00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:26,280 like Cream and... 751 00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:29,520 T-Rex and Fleetwood Mac. 752 00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:38,160 So we decided to use a bit of rock sound, 753 00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,600 add a bit of rock sound to the reggae, 754 00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:43,320 and at the same time, create a new sound. 755 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:47,320 So we decided to go to Pebble Beach. Tony Platt was the engineer. 756 00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:50,760 Well, my first interest, really, in reggae music 757 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:54,920 started because I was working at Island Studios. 758 00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:59,080 I was asked to work on the Catch Fire album. 759 00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,840 My introduction to the Cimarons... 760 00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:11,880 the first day in the studio was the first time that I met them. 761 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:13,680 When you work as a studio engineer, 762 00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:17,120 you're kind of thrown in at the deep end at the beginning of a session. 763 00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,800 That's what we did for two weeks - there was no distraction. 764 00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:22,760 No distraction - just wake up in the morning, have breakfast. 765 00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:25,240 Bang - studio all day until about... 766 00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:27,280 two o'clock in the morning. 767 00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:29,880 These guys weren't necessarily used to... 768 00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:34,080 a sleepy little Sussex coastal town. 769 00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:36,360 # High up... 770 00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:39,640 I can remember, in the studio, 771 00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:41,360 smoking a lot of the weed. 772 00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:46,040 # High up, not below... 773 00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:48,280 Well, we call Maka, 'weed' 774 00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:51,640 It was weed. 775 00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:57,680 I think we was experimenting... the sound. 776 00:43:57,720 --> 00:44:01,000 I think they were very much receptive to other... 777 00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:03,960 other ideas and other influences, that's for sure. 778 00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,160 GICHIE: And so the ideas we came up with, we can hear it now. 779 00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,400 You watch a lot of reggae band playing live, 780 00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:11,200 you can hear the rock sound. 781 00:44:11,240 --> 00:44:13,320 Gichie's one of the first one who bring this rock... 782 00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:16,560 (MIMICS ROCK GUITAR) ..onstage. Mad. 783 00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:18,800 They're all playing the... (MIMICS ROCK GUITAR) 784 00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:20,520 (LAUGHS) We started that. 785 00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:26,320 # I will take you higher 786 00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:31,840 # Way up there, way up there... # 787 00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,120 I think anywhere a Jamaica group is, 788 00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:37,680 it will always... the environment and the condition... 789 00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:41,200 of the particular country will always come over in their music. 790 00:44:41,240 --> 00:44:43,880 Cimarons is an English-based group. 791 00:44:43,920 --> 00:44:46,560 Their music is very influenced by... 792 00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,120 the roots of Jamaica, 793 00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:52,920 and also a British rock sound. 794 00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,920 Even though they're very rootsy, but living in England, 795 00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:58,480 I think that's rubbed off on their music. 796 00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:02,720 And then that inspires a whole other generation 797 00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:06,200 of successive waves of other British reggae bands. 798 00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:10,760 RILEY: We were very aware of the Cimarons. 799 00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,920 There were two bands that we were very aware of, 800 00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:14,920 back then, as Jamaican bands in Britain - 801 00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:17,120 one was the Cimarons, the other was Matumbi. 802 00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:19,880 And in every case, we thought they were better than us, 803 00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:21,960 because they sounded Jamaican. 804 00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:25,000 That was the aspiration - to sound Jamaican. 805 00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:28,600 We were making fucking reggae. Who else do you wanna sound like? 806 00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:30,680 (ENERGETIC REGGAE) 807 00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:53,280 Well, they have a phrase saying... 808 00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:57,360 'A king is not being recognised in his own country,' is it? 809 00:45:57,400 --> 00:45:59,880 So them don't recognise us in England. 810 00:46:00,720 --> 00:46:03,440 MCCALLUM: Their time as a band, when they were in their prime, 811 00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:06,480 there was a passion for anything that was Jamaican. 812 00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:10,000 Things that were English, and if you were based in England, 813 00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:12,680 were not regarded as authentic. 814 00:46:12,720 --> 00:46:15,680 At a point where your identity is also being formed, 815 00:46:15,720 --> 00:46:19,280 the location in which you live is saying, 'You're not from here. 816 00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:23,440 You're still not quite 100% British or 100% Jamaican.' 817 00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:25,880 COXSONE: The thing I find with Jamaican musicians, 818 00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:31,120 Jamaican musicians can play soul as good as the Americans. 819 00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:35,360 Jamaican musicians can play pop as good as the Englishman. 820 00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:38,400 But neither the Englishman nor the American... 821 00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:40,920 can play the reggae as good as the Jamaican in Jamaica. 822 00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:45,200 Authentic Jamaican artists, that's what you looked for. 823 00:46:45,240 --> 00:46:47,160 There was no such thing as black British reggae. 824 00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:49,080 You had Jamaican reggae, 825 00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:52,520 and then you had...shit. That was it. 826 00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,800 Yeah, that's Jamaica. Jamaica... 827 00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:57,960 Forget Cimarons - Jamaica is a... 828 00:46:58,000 --> 00:46:59,800 trendsetter. 829 00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:01,840 Cimarons were authentic. 830 00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:04,600 They were just in a different place. They grew up in Jamaica. 831 00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:06,920 They understood that. They understood the sound. 832 00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:09,720 But they're now located in England. 833 00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,200 Yeah, they set a precedent that... 834 00:47:12,240 --> 00:47:15,520 here is a band based in Britain 835 00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:20,080 that's playing reggae that can be just as good as a Jamaican band. 836 00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:24,040 It provided that bridge that brought us closer to the music - 837 00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:27,120 you know, that we can make reggae here in England as well. 838 00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:29,400 # ..Africa 839 00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:33,640 # You're the mother of all creation # 840 00:47:42,720 --> 00:47:46,480 I think, one of the things that's very important is... 841 00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:51,360 when you're being introduced to reggae, not to expect anything. 842 00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:53,760 Do you know? Go there with a completely blank mind. 843 00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:55,720 And then the things will come out to you. 844 00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:58,960 Music, back then... 845 00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:01,680 is how we found ourselves. 846 00:48:01,720 --> 00:48:04,000 It was like a newsreel for us, 847 00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:06,000 the Caribbean news, you know? 848 00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:09,680 That's how you kept up to date, cos often, the mainstream radios... 849 00:48:09,720 --> 00:48:11,680 didn't really give us that information. 850 00:48:11,720 --> 00:48:15,400 Reggae had low status in this country. It wasn't recognised. 851 00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:20,120 In fact, it was ridiculed on the BBC on a regular basis. 852 00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:24,080 It was the accent, it was the subject matter, 853 00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:28,280 it was the rhythm, it was people who looked like my parents. 854 00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:30,480 It was people who looked like me. 855 00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:34,080 # So get ready up a Harlesden 856 00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:37,320 # Yeah, get ready Round a Willesden... # 857 00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:39,680 In England, right, you come up... 858 00:48:39,720 --> 00:48:42,040 against a class structure. 859 00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:45,120 And there's also a racial structure as well. 860 00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:47,160 There came a time where... 861 00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:50,200 racial tension was a bit tight - in those days, very, very tight. 862 00:48:50,240 --> 00:48:52,600 You know, most communities who ended up coming over here 863 00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:54,760 had to deal with, you know, 864 00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:59,040 the backlash of prejudice, and racism, and being the outsiders. 865 00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:01,200 We come from Jamaica, not knowing... 866 00:49:01,240 --> 00:49:04,200 what the word 'prejudice' means - we don't know what prejudice mean. 867 00:49:04,240 --> 00:49:06,200 I went to school in East London, 868 00:49:06,240 --> 00:49:09,800 so I saw a bit of the Teddy Boys and the National Front. 869 00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:13,560 We grew up during a point in British history 870 00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:15,840 where I think, politically, it was OK to be... 871 00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:18,000 overtly, openly... 872 00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:19,800 vocally racist. 873 00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:25,800 # Racemongers are spitting out words Abomination... # 874 00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:30,080 Up until his diatribe, he was a hero. 875 00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,360 His performance was born out of black music, 876 00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:36,320 and he covered our hero's song - I Shot The Sheriff. 877 00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:40,600 And so anyone that helped promote reggae...we were a fan of. 878 00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:44,000 And all these people wrote in to New Musical Express, 879 00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:45,720 Sound On Sound, Melody Maker. 880 00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:48,320 There was a huge groundswell of letters 881 00:49:48,360 --> 00:49:50,720 that came into these magazines, 882 00:49:50,760 --> 00:49:52,960 which gave rise to Rock Against Racism. 883 00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:56,800 # Rock against racism Adopting make a schism 884 00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:59,200 # What about the children? # 885 00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:02,680 To me, the Asians, the West Indians, 886 00:50:02,720 --> 00:50:04,560 all these other immigrants coming in... 887 00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:07,000 is an added plus to the English society. 888 00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:10,920 And the sooner they realise this is the better it is, better it will be. 889 00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:14,840 Where have you been?I'm sorry I couldn't make it this morning, bwana. 890 00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:17,760 (LAUGHTER) But I had to go to Heathrow, meet my cousin. 891 00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:20,280 Oh, bloody marvellous, eh? They're flying them in now. 892 00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:22,360 (LAUGHTER) 893 00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:24,680 What's the hurry? Couldn't he get on a banana boat? 894 00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:28,560 It also appealed to my white mates. 895 00:50:28,600 --> 00:50:30,920 It was like, 'Yeah, we're in the same boat, mate.' 896 00:50:30,960 --> 00:50:33,120 Well, not really, but I get where you're coming from. 897 00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:36,280 # The oppression, the oppression... # 898 00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:49,240 REEDY: In this country, there was a lot of sufferation going on at that time. 899 00:50:49,280 --> 00:50:52,320 Reggae music, it mixed in with the punk thing because it was like... 900 00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:54,920 chanting, the same kind of thing. 901 00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:57,360 Try to break down the same barrier, you know? 902 00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:00,040 REPORTER: Fighting and looting went on well into the night. 903 00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:03,600 Only a quarter of a mile away, the bands were still playing. 904 00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:06,600 # It was a riot, riot in the city 905 00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:09,480 # Riot, riot in the town... 906 00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:11,960 At the time, the Cimarons was doing 907 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:15,480 most of the universities and college circuits - we are the headliners. 908 00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:19,280 Most of the bands used to support Cimarons, like UB40... 909 00:51:21,720 --> 00:51:23,080 BOTH: Tom Robinson. 910 00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:26,400 I remember doing a gig one night with Sham69. 911 00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:30,080 You know, the guy came out and said... 912 00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:38,360 So that relationship between punk and reggae... 913 00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:42,160 was not as distant as the press often made it out to be. 914 00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,240 The only difference is maybe the music. 915 00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:46,360 (ENERGETIC PUNK) 916 00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:51,360 But we're the same. A band is a band, you know? We all love each other. 917 00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:54,040 We're in the same dressing room. We don't see nobody different. 918 00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:58,200 # And there's a riot Riot in the city... 919 00:51:58,240 --> 00:52:01,520 That audience were already embedded - 920 00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:06,160 wedded to reggae as much as they were to punk. 921 00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:08,960 It was the lyrics... 922 00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,640 and that political resistance to the state. 923 00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:15,040 That was loud, that was right in your face within reggae. 924 00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:16,960 (CLAMOURING) 925 00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,160 (SIREN WAILS) 926 00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:30,480 WHITE: If they were a white band or a rock band, you understand, 927 00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:32,760 they'd have got a lot further than where they are today. 928 00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:35,640 You know, people would still be hailing them out now, 929 00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:39,360 you understand, and their journey would have just been continuous. 930 00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:42,160 Everybody after Bob Marley had to have... 931 00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:46,040 a kind of sexy kind of appeal and that kind of stuff. 932 00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:49,040 The original appeal was not about that, it was a rebellious thing. 933 00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:51,600 I think that bands like The Cimarons who... 934 00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:55,600 maintain the original fundamental message of the reggae music, 935 00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:59,240 may have been seen as too raw, and then the majors got involved. 936 00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:01,120 And then they wanted to change the direction. 937 00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:03,000 And I think that it got diluted. 938 00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:05,800 # Mull of Kintyre... 939 00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:10,800 There's not too many reggae artists who can... 940 00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:15,040 say they were asked to create an album by Paul and Linda McCartney, 941 00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:17,000 but the Cimarons can say that. 942 00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:19,720 # Oh, Mull of Kintyre... 943 00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:24,600 We was in Chalk Farm Studios, and the Engineer said, 944 00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:26,440 'Um... Guys. 945 00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:29,280 Paul McCartney is on the phone. He wants to talk to one of you guys.' 946 00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:31,520 Paul McCartney? This man is a crazy man! 947 00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:35,160 Paul and Linda McCartney are long-standing reggae fans. 948 00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:38,840 Paul McCartney has spoken at length about hearing reggae, 949 00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:42,080 and the effect it had on him, and travelling to Jamaica in the '70s. 950 00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:45,440 Well, about nine...ten years ago, we were in Jamaica, 951 00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:47,320 a place which I liked very much. 952 00:53:47,360 --> 00:53:50,040 Linda was really a nice person. Linda was down to earth, man. 953 00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:52,560 Linda loved reggae music to the max. 954 00:53:52,600 --> 00:53:56,000 And listening to RJR, which is a radio station there, 955 00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:58,160 and all they played at the time was reggae music, 956 00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:00,440 and I just fell madly in love with it. 957 00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:03,800 # Mull of Kintyre... 958 00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:05,880 So, in the early 1980s, 959 00:54:05,920 --> 00:54:11,360 the Reggaebility album began as a...a command performance, really - 960 00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:14,840 Paul and Linda McCartney recruiting the Cimarons to make this album. 961 00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:17,560 # Oh, Mull of Kintyre... # 962 00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:20,200 Even though we were singing mostly roots songs before but... 963 00:54:20,240 --> 00:54:22,160 you're gonna try things. You never know. 964 00:54:22,200 --> 00:54:24,600 You might get a crossover and end up in the charts, you know? 965 00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:29,040 # Big girls, they don't cry... 966 00:54:29,080 --> 00:54:32,240 # Big girls, they don't cry... 967 00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:34,480 # My girl... 968 00:54:34,520 --> 00:54:37,440 GICHIE: I thought this would be a big breakthrough for Cimarons. 969 00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:40,120 It was supposed to be their ticket to the big time, 970 00:54:40,160 --> 00:54:42,360 but it was basically a flop. 971 00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:45,080 We were really hoping Big Girls Don't Cry would have hit the chart, 972 00:54:45,120 --> 00:54:46,720 which it didn't. 973 00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:53,320 They had a lot staked on a breakthrough, 974 00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:56,440 and it just must have been a huge disappointment. 975 00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:59,080 There was a kind of loss of direction, 976 00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:02,200 and things began to collapse. 977 00:55:03,800 --> 00:55:05,800 (SONG FADES OUT) 978 00:55:09,720 --> 00:55:12,080 # CIMARONS: Reality 979 00:55:17,240 --> 00:55:19,720 After the Paul McCartney project, 980 00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:22,000 we continued for about a year after, I think, 981 00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:25,440 but then things got really, really slow - nothing was happening for us. 982 00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:29,240 The punitive nature of the music industry is such, 983 00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:33,720 and especially in reggae, that it's very, very hard to earn a living. 984 00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:36,200 I remember when Maurice said him was going to stop playing. 985 00:55:36,240 --> 00:55:39,440 There was some discrepancy about funds. 986 00:55:39,480 --> 00:55:42,120 I said to him, 'Yeah, boy, you can't stop right now.' 987 00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:44,960 Him say, 'Yeah.' Me say, 'What you gonna do with your drums?' 988 00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:48,320 Him say, 'No, no.' Him not gonna get rid of them. Him gonna find a job. 989 00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:51,320 Carl Levy, the keyboard player, he went to off to America. 990 00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:55,240 Winston got lucky and broke out as a solo artist. 991 00:55:55,280 --> 00:55:57,480 And I had to go and do a 9-5. (LAUGHS) 992 00:55:57,520 --> 00:55:59,320 I wasn't very happy about that. 993 00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:02,080 I remember Franklyn Dunn, in those years, 994 00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:05,160 was driving a minicab to make ends meet. 995 00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:08,240 You know, a lot of musicians went through that here in the UK. 996 00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:10,360 A lot of reggae musicians were forced... 997 00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:14,360 they cannot rely on just being musicians, 998 00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:17,600 regardless of high-calibre international touring 999 00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:19,840 and success abroad. 1000 00:56:19,880 --> 00:56:22,280 Even though you're working, and you're on the move, but... 1001 00:56:22,320 --> 00:56:24,160 you're not earning a lot of money. 1002 00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:26,040 You're still under pressure in a way, 1003 00:56:26,080 --> 00:56:28,400 but you don't see it that way when you're doing it. 1004 00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:30,600 But financially, you're still under pressure. 1005 00:56:30,640 --> 00:56:32,600 So we're always breaking records, 1006 00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:34,440 always breaking records. 1007 00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:37,440 First one to do this, first one to do that, first one to do that. 1008 00:56:37,480 --> 00:56:39,320 Always the first. 1009 00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:42,480 We was the last one to get that... get that... 1010 00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:44,640 I need some of that now. 1011 00:56:44,680 --> 00:56:46,960 Need some retirement money now. 1012 00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:50,520 Only thing that was wrong with the whole situation is that... 1013 00:56:50,560 --> 00:56:54,680 there was no representative to represent us. 1014 00:56:54,720 --> 00:56:57,240 They didn't have the professional management... 1015 00:56:57,280 --> 00:57:00,480 to ensure that their contracts... 1016 00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:02,600 would pay dividends. 1017 00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:05,040 No management - we manage ourself. 1018 00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:08,200 But I reckon that was a mistake. 1019 00:57:08,240 --> 00:57:10,120 I reckon that was a mistake. 1020 00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:12,040 We should have a manager, but we didn't. 1021 00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:15,920 They're not getting royalties. They've made all this music. You might say, why don't we know... 1022 00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:17,800 more about the band? 1023 00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:20,560 And from day one, they weren't as I said, getting the publicity. 1024 00:57:20,600 --> 00:57:23,880 They never had the press coverage. They never made videos. 1025 00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:28,440 There's a lack of photography, even, to support that they existed. 1026 00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:31,800 They just sort of... disappeared out of view, really. 1027 00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:34,400 I think that was very disappointing. 1028 00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:37,320 Major record labels were a little intimidated 1029 00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:40,720 by the idea of trying to market that music. 1030 00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:42,880 You know, well, 'Where's our audience? 1031 00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:44,920 Who are we aiming this at?' 1032 00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:47,040 We love the music, so... 1033 00:57:47,080 --> 00:57:49,800 we went into it for the music, not for the business. 1034 00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:53,080 We didn't have the knowledge of the business side of things. 1035 00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:56,040 Once you believe in a certain thing, you know, 1036 00:57:56,080 --> 00:57:59,680 it doesn't really matter too much about how much money you're making. 1037 00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:02,840 Yes? That was the attitude we had. 1038 00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:05,120 We just wanted to do music. 1039 00:58:05,160 --> 00:58:07,680 Yes? That's all we wanted to do. 1040 00:58:07,720 --> 00:58:10,520 We never trust anybody. We still don't trust anybody. 1041 00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:14,480 And there's a lot of promoter in England... 1042 00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:16,600 who owe Cimarons money. 1043 00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:20,400 A lot of them - some of them die now - owe Cimarons money. 1044 00:58:21,400 --> 00:58:24,200 I find it so distressing, really, 1045 00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:28,160 when you hear certain songs playing, 1046 00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:30,880 and you say, 'Yes, that's one of my songs.' 1047 00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:33,320 What have you got to show? Nothing. 1048 00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:36,320 Nothing. You got nothing to show. 1049 00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:40,520 (BIRDSONG) 1050 00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:42,560 (BAND PLAYING INSIDE) 1051 00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:58,000 # Harder than the rock So hard 1052 00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:00,200 # Harder than the rock 1053 00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:03,800 # So hard Harder than the rock this time 1054 00:59:04,960 --> 00:59:07,440 # Harder than the rock 1055 00:59:08,600 --> 00:59:10,680 # Harder than the rock this time 1056 00:59:10,720 --> 00:59:14,040 # So hard Harder than the rock 1057 00:59:14,080 --> 00:59:15,800 # So hard 1058 00:59:15,840 --> 00:59:19,560 # Harder than the rock, rock, rock Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock... # 1059 00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:27,120 We were planning to start again in March this year. 1060 00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:30,880 And we started rehearsing. We had a couple of gigs lined up. 1061 00:59:30,920 --> 00:59:33,920 And then COVID took over and just stopped everything. 1062 00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:41,880 It's all about relaunching the band, 1063 00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:44,080 making the people know we're here, and we're ready. 1064 00:59:44,120 --> 00:59:45,880 (LAUGHS) Here to go. 1065 00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:50,560 That same authenticity is still there, you know, so they can't stop. 1066 00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:53,200 That's why they keep going now, 1067 00:59:53,240 --> 00:59:57,440 when they're far beyond a standard age of retirement - 1068 00:59:57,480 --> 00:59:59,560 they're not just going through the motions. 1069 00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:01,520 They're doing it because they have to do it. 1070 01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:05,440 They can't stop until it's time for them to stop. And that's not yet. 1071 01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:09,600 Winston Reedy, he's been doing his own thing as a solo artist. 1072 01:00:09,640 --> 01:00:12,840 He couldn't really find his space and time to fit in with us. 1073 01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:16,760 So we bought in a new singer by the name of Michael. Michael Arkk. 1074 01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:19,040 # Yeah 1075 01:00:19,080 --> 01:00:21,840 # Paul Bogle 1076 01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:24,960 # (VOCALISING) 1077 01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:29,160 # Was the leader of our strife 1078 01:00:29,200 --> 01:00:31,840 # (VOCALISING) # 1079 01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:38,000 # He travelled a long, long way Across the valley... 1080 01:00:40,480 --> 01:00:43,160 ARKK: My name is Michael Wright. 1081 01:00:44,000 --> 01:00:46,200 AKA Michael Arkk 1082 01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:49,280 (SINGS ALONG WITH SONG PLAYING) 1083 01:00:50,360 --> 01:00:53,560 # Paul Bogle, oh, lord... # 1084 01:00:53,600 --> 01:00:58,040 When I first came to London, I've never seen anything like it. 1085 01:00:58,080 --> 01:01:00,160 At school, we heard of... 1086 01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:02,960 (SINGS) London Bridge is burning down, burning down. 1087 01:01:03,000 --> 01:01:06,360 I didn't know I would have seen it for real. 1088 01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:09,000 I couldn't bear it at first. 1089 01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:11,400 I didn't like it at all. 1090 01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:15,520 In Jamaica, I know everybody in my community. 1091 01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:18,000 (LAUGHS) But here, nobody gives a... 1092 01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:19,920 gives a biscuit about you. 1093 01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:22,000 But as time goes by, you know... 1094 01:01:22,040 --> 01:01:24,240 you know, you adjust... 1095 01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:28,200 and accept that this is the reality of this city living. 1096 01:01:31,160 --> 01:01:34,560 My friend Charles, he called me one day and said, 1097 01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:37,320 'There's this band that needs a singer.' 1098 01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:39,480 (VOCALISING) 1099 01:01:42,480 --> 01:01:45,840 He brought me over to Harlesden 1100 01:01:45,880 --> 01:01:48,160 to meet up with Cimarons. 1101 01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:50,400 I've never heard of Cimarons before. 1102 01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:53,160 Never heard of Cimarons before. And... 1103 01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:55,680 from the time I met them, 1104 01:01:55,720 --> 01:01:58,320 it's as if I knew them. 1105 01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:01,360 I felt as if I went to school with these guys. 1106 01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:06,320 And when I saw them, the spirits between us was so cordial that, 1107 01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:08,800 you know, I think they say, 'Yeah, man. 1108 01:02:08,840 --> 01:02:11,880 Brother, ya... Brother, you're alright.' 1109 01:02:11,920 --> 01:02:14,040 They were wild and free. I'm wild and free. 1110 01:02:14,080 --> 01:02:16,200 So we gelled. 1111 01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:18,080 ('PAUL BOGLE' BY CIMARONS PLAYS) 1112 01:02:18,120 --> 01:02:19,880 # Was the leader of... 1113 01:02:20,920 --> 01:02:23,880 # The leader of our strife, yeah... 1114 01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:26,400 I can't remember them interviewing me or... 1115 01:02:26,440 --> 01:02:28,120 asking me to sing anything. 1116 01:02:28,160 --> 01:02:31,000 We just started. Right there and then, we just started. 1117 01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:34,080 And, you know, it's been like that. 1118 01:02:35,520 --> 01:02:38,000 # Cimarons are saying... 1119 01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:40,040 Kind of give me a bit of a funny feeling, 1120 01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:42,360 though, but...yeah. 1121 01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:46,760 Because I like Michael - he's got the character that suits the band. 1122 01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:50,160 It's not a competition thing, but... 1123 01:02:50,200 --> 01:02:53,520 having to follow in Winston's steps... 1124 01:02:53,560 --> 01:02:56,800 it's not easy. It's not easy. 1125 01:02:56,840 --> 01:02:59,720 Very different from me in a certain way. 1126 01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:02,200 I'm aggressive. I'm like, you know... 1127 01:03:02,240 --> 01:03:06,000 I'm like early Tyson - I just knock you out in the first round, man. 1128 01:03:06,040 --> 01:03:08,040 Me no partial. 1129 01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:10,120 But he's more cool. 1130 01:03:10,160 --> 01:03:13,680 It's not an easy shoes to fill. Not an easy shoes to fill. 1131 01:03:13,720 --> 01:03:15,560 But I'm trying my best. 1132 01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:18,400 Yeah, I hope Mikey um... 1133 01:03:20,280 --> 01:03:22,280 ..likes what he's doing. 1134 01:03:22,320 --> 01:03:25,640 I hope... How am I gonna say this? 1135 01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:28,520 I hope we grow on him. 1136 01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:30,720 We have to grow on each other. 1137 01:03:30,760 --> 01:03:34,480 # Oh, yeah, oh, yeah # 1138 01:03:34,520 --> 01:03:36,920 # CIMARONS: Rock Reggae Rhapsody 1139 01:03:38,520 --> 01:03:41,400 # Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock 1140 01:03:41,440 --> 01:03:43,440 # In reggae rhapsody 1141 01:03:45,160 --> 01:03:47,840 # Rock, rock, rock Rock, rock, rock... # 1142 01:03:47,880 --> 01:03:50,160 Over the years, I've had to... 1143 01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:54,880 subsidise my musical...desire. 1144 01:03:54,920 --> 01:03:56,920 (KNOCKS ON DOOR) 1145 01:03:56,960 --> 01:03:59,200 (VOCALISES) 1146 01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:02,200 So I had to find work. So um... 1147 01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:04,520 I became... 1148 01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:07,560 ..a cleaner. 1149 01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:10,520 (HUMS) 1150 01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:14,680 (SINGS QUIETLY) 1151 01:04:17,480 --> 01:04:21,680 I say I do cleaning, but I've never seen myself as a cleaner. 1152 01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:25,560 (VOCALISES) 1153 01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:32,480 And hoping that Cimarons now... we will grow to the stage where... 1154 01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:35,000 we don't...I don't have to have the side hustle. 1155 01:04:35,040 --> 01:04:38,000 That hasn't happened yet, but I can see it happening. 1156 01:04:40,440 --> 01:04:43,240 # Rock, rock, rock, rock, rock, rock 1157 01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:45,400 # In reggae rhapsody... # 1158 01:04:51,280 --> 01:04:53,640 (PLAYS BLUES-STYLE PIECE) 1159 01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:01,200 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) MAN 1: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. 1160 01:05:02,560 --> 01:05:05,080 MAN 2: This is where the magic really happens. 1161 01:05:13,840 --> 01:05:17,360 We are lucky to have the legendary Cimarons... 1162 01:05:17,400 --> 01:05:19,960 back for one... (LAUGHS) 1163 01:05:20,000 --> 01:05:24,120 ..back by public... no, by my demand or their demand. 1164 01:05:25,680 --> 01:05:29,400 Recording new tracks for their forthcoming LP. 1165 01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:32,640 # Words of wisdom, wisdom 1166 01:05:32,680 --> 01:05:34,600 # Spoken in parables... 1167 01:05:34,640 --> 01:05:39,440 This is a Neumann U47. 1168 01:05:39,480 --> 01:05:41,480 Ella Fitzgerald. 1169 01:05:41,520 --> 01:05:43,680 Oh, right, this is the one they used? Yeah. 1170 01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:45,920 And this is my little studio. 1171 01:05:45,960 --> 01:05:47,720 Well, I say it's mine. 1172 01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:50,560 It was built by a couple of elderly Jamaican fellows. 1173 01:05:50,600 --> 01:05:53,960 So it was built as a reggae studio, originally. 1174 01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:55,920 # Spoken in parables... # 1175 01:05:55,960 --> 01:05:59,600 Which is why it actually suits these guys down to the ground. 1176 01:06:02,600 --> 01:06:05,720 You know, look at these speakers - they're built into pods like that... 1177 01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:09,240 to get as much sort of... of that dub-y sort of bass sound. 1178 01:06:10,120 --> 01:06:13,560 Not very well labelled.No. It's all over the fucking shop. 1179 01:06:13,600 --> 01:06:16,240 All over the place, yeah, yeah. Typical Frank. 1180 01:06:16,280 --> 01:06:18,760 We took them off Frank's hard drive, 1181 01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:23,440 and he probably labels things how he thinks they should be. (LAUGHS) 1182 01:06:23,480 --> 01:06:26,400 Well, it would help if he was here. (LAUGHS) 1183 01:06:26,440 --> 01:06:28,680 Because he probably knows where he's... 1184 01:06:28,720 --> 01:06:30,960 hidden them all, but... 1185 01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:33,920 So we rang him, and he was in a garden in Jamaica. 1186 01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:36,560 Chop down Babylon. 1187 01:06:36,600 --> 01:06:39,400 And I was jealous. Very jealous. 1188 01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:41,800 # Green is the colour of the grass 1189 01:06:41,840 --> 01:06:44,400 # That grows so wild... 1190 01:06:44,440 --> 01:06:46,400 Yeah, yeah, I think it's different, yeah... 1191 01:06:46,440 --> 01:06:49,280 a mixture of rocksteady - you can hear the rocksteady 1192 01:06:49,320 --> 01:06:51,120 and the reggae mixed together. 1193 01:06:51,160 --> 01:06:54,480 It's where we started from - roots. You know, more roots-y. 1194 01:06:54,520 --> 01:06:56,480 I can hear you now. 1195 01:06:57,320 --> 01:07:00,720 (VOCALISES) 1196 01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:03,840 To be working with these guys is... 1197 01:07:03,880 --> 01:07:06,360 is something I never, ever dreamed of. 1198 01:07:06,400 --> 01:07:11,080 This is a little bit short of a miracle. 1199 01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:13,080 Yeah, well, it's just, you know...? 1200 01:07:13,120 --> 01:07:15,040 It's a good feeling, though, isn't it?Yes. 1201 01:07:15,080 --> 01:07:17,160 What is yours is yours - the rest, it don't matter. 1202 01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:21,040 At the end of the day, yeah, the path leads here, you know? 1203 01:07:21,080 --> 01:07:23,280 # Gold is the colour of the sun 1204 01:07:23,320 --> 01:07:26,200 # That shines so free 1205 01:07:26,240 --> 01:07:28,120 # For you and for me 1206 01:07:28,160 --> 01:07:31,280 # And for all living things... 1207 01:07:32,160 --> 01:07:35,120 (PLAYS LAID-BACK DRUM BEAT) 1208 01:07:35,160 --> 01:07:37,160 (SONG CONTINUES PLAYING) 1209 01:07:52,160 --> 01:07:54,240 # Gold is the colour of the sun... # 1210 01:08:18,320 --> 01:08:20,520 That's how life is, you know... 1211 01:08:21,480 --> 01:08:24,520 ..one day you're here, and the next day you're nowhere. 1212 01:08:31,560 --> 01:08:33,560 (CHATTER, LAUGHTER) 1213 01:08:35,840 --> 01:08:37,840 Alright. 1214 01:09:12,080 --> 01:09:14,080 (SCATTERED APPLAUSE) 1215 01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:17,560 Sorry, I can't... 1216 01:09:18,400 --> 01:09:20,400 (APPLAUSE) 1217 01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:28,040 (BASS DRUM THUDDING) 1218 01:09:28,080 --> 01:09:30,600 (MELODIC GUITAR CHORD) 1219 01:09:30,640 --> 01:09:34,000 DUNN: Drum and bass, bass and drum - I'm always where Maurice is. 1220 01:09:34,040 --> 01:09:36,720 We don't have to say anything. We understand each other. 1221 01:09:36,760 --> 01:09:39,040 Drum and bass - I'm always where Maurice is. 1222 01:09:39,080 --> 01:09:41,080 I don't think Maurice's family... 1223 01:09:42,040 --> 01:09:44,200 ..knew him like I knew him. 1224 01:09:44,240 --> 01:09:46,160 I miss him. 1225 01:09:47,560 --> 01:09:49,560 (SNIFFLES) 1226 01:09:54,920 --> 01:09:56,320 Sorry. 1227 01:09:57,240 --> 01:09:59,560 Frank and Maurice was really, really close, 1228 01:09:59,600 --> 01:10:02,160 because they live just five minutes away from each other. 1229 01:10:02,200 --> 01:10:04,440 A year before, Frank lost his dad. 1230 01:10:04,480 --> 01:10:08,600 And at the end of the year, end of 2019, he lost his mum. 1231 01:10:09,520 --> 01:10:12,640 So he took his mum home to Jamaica to bury her, 1232 01:10:12,680 --> 01:10:15,160 and while he was in Jamaica, hear that Maurice pass. 1233 01:10:15,200 --> 01:10:17,960 So it was a double blow for him. He took it really hard. 1234 01:10:18,000 --> 01:10:21,560 For days, he was shattered. You know? Shattered. 1235 01:10:21,600 --> 01:10:25,680 I phoned his brother, Johnny, 1236 01:10:25,720 --> 01:10:27,720 to find out what was happening. 1237 01:10:27,760 --> 01:10:31,840 And Johnny said to me, 'Why, it don't look too good' 1238 01:10:31,880 --> 01:10:34,280 But even up to that point, 1239 01:10:34,320 --> 01:10:36,600 I was still, you know, 1240 01:10:36,640 --> 01:10:39,600 believing that it wasn't all that bad... 1241 01:10:39,640 --> 01:10:42,480 until Johnny phoned me a second time and said, 1242 01:10:42,520 --> 01:10:44,360 'Boy, Dego. 1243 01:10:44,400 --> 01:10:48,360 It doesn't look like Maurice is gonna pull through, you know.' 1244 01:10:48,400 --> 01:10:51,920 Shock. It's more like a disaster. 1245 01:10:52,760 --> 01:10:55,920 But the shock of hearing that he was ill... 1246 01:10:57,000 --> 01:11:00,000 I know it takes a short time, 1247 01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:02,680 and then he's...he's gone, you know? 1248 01:11:02,720 --> 01:11:05,120 I broke down, man. I cried. 1249 01:11:06,040 --> 01:11:07,800 I cried. 1250 01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:11,520 # You say you gonna leave me... 1251 01:11:13,280 --> 01:11:16,600 Maurice, he's the master drummer. (LAUGHS) 1252 01:11:21,120 --> 01:11:24,360 REEDY: Oh, Maurice was one of the best drummer. 1253 01:11:25,360 --> 01:11:27,360 There's something about that guy. 1254 01:11:27,400 --> 01:11:30,640 At the time, when Maurice was really going... 1255 01:11:30,680 --> 01:11:32,720 He could...a press roll... 1256 01:11:32,760 --> 01:11:36,520 Do you know what a press roll is? A press roll is... (MIMICS DRUM ROLL) 1257 01:11:36,560 --> 01:11:39,640 On a snare drum, he could hold that for about an hour and a half. 1258 01:11:40,440 --> 01:11:42,120 Unbreakable. 1259 01:11:42,160 --> 01:11:44,800 He was a very talented drummer. Very, very talented. 1260 01:11:44,840 --> 01:11:48,600 And the thing about Maurice that... he just didn't know how good he was. 1261 01:11:48,640 --> 01:11:51,960 Maurice never knew how talented he was as a drummer. 1262 01:11:52,000 --> 01:11:55,200 Yeah, I would say he was the most talented one of all of us - 1263 01:11:55,240 --> 01:11:56,880 Maurice was way ahead. 1264 01:11:56,920 --> 01:12:00,720 He was one of the best... best drummers, like I was saying. 1265 01:12:00,760 --> 01:12:02,520 One of the best. 1266 01:12:03,360 --> 01:12:06,760 Every drummer used to come and check him. Everybody come check Maurice. 1267 01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:10,440 Everybody come and check Maurice... to see what we're up to. 1268 01:12:10,480 --> 01:12:13,560 How Maurice was licking the sound, you know, licking the drum - 1269 01:12:13,600 --> 01:12:17,840 I said to him, 'You sound like a yard drummer.' 1270 01:12:17,880 --> 01:12:19,720 Compared to now, I don't hear a drummer 1271 01:12:19,760 --> 01:12:22,280 who lick them skin hard like Maurice. 1272 01:12:22,320 --> 01:12:25,800 Making the skin bawl like a goat, you know? 1273 01:12:25,840 --> 01:12:27,920 He didn't get much recognition for it, 1274 01:12:27,960 --> 01:12:30,120 but he was a top drummer in the UK. 1275 01:12:30,160 --> 01:12:33,520 REEDY: He played on a lot of stuff that you don't even know. 1276 01:12:33,560 --> 01:12:35,600 You're dancing to all these records for years, 1277 01:12:35,640 --> 01:12:37,680 and you don't know that - it was Maurice Ellis. 1278 01:12:37,720 --> 01:12:40,000 He would love going onstage and playing. 1279 01:12:40,040 --> 01:12:43,520 And we have to continue because of Maurice, too, also. 1280 01:12:43,560 --> 01:12:45,560 We can't just stop. 1281 01:12:45,600 --> 01:12:47,760 MAN: Do you feel like it's what he would want?Yes. 1282 01:12:47,800 --> 01:12:49,560 Yes, yes, yes. 1283 01:12:49,600 --> 01:12:54,160 On the drums...put your hands together for Maurice Ellis. 1284 01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:57,040 (MAURICE PLAYS DRUM SOLO) (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 1285 01:13:11,043 --> 01:13:14,160 One, two, three... (DRUMS COUNTING IN) 1286 01:13:19,480 --> 01:13:21,600 We are African, but we are... 1287 01:13:21,640 --> 01:13:24,280 Caribbean people. But we are African. 1288 01:13:24,320 --> 01:13:26,840 Some of us don't recognise that. 1289 01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:29,440 But I do. We do. 1290 01:13:29,480 --> 01:13:31,520 # Ethiopian romance 1291 01:13:33,040 --> 01:13:35,360 # Ethiopian romance 1292 01:13:36,880 --> 01:13:39,480 # Ethiopian romance 1293 01:13:40,680 --> 01:13:43,120 # Ethiopian romance... 1294 01:13:45,840 --> 01:13:48,480 DIXON: Reggae music is an experience. 1295 01:13:48,520 --> 01:13:50,680 It's a feeling, it's a love. 1296 01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:54,000 When you're involved, nothing else matters. 1297 01:13:57,960 --> 01:14:01,600 # Ethiopian romance 1298 01:14:01,640 --> 01:14:04,080 # Ethiopian romance... 1299 01:14:04,120 --> 01:14:07,240 Some people say reggae all sounds the same, 1300 01:14:07,280 --> 01:14:09,720 but if you get it, it just... 1301 01:14:09,760 --> 01:14:12,080 I don't know, it just does something to me - it moves me. 1302 01:14:17,960 --> 01:14:21,920 It's something that reaches right down to the depths of the soul - 1303 01:14:21,960 --> 01:14:23,880 that's what reggae is all about, 1304 01:14:23,920 --> 01:14:26,000 and that's what the Cimarons were all about. 1305 01:14:26,040 --> 01:14:29,040 # I'm in love with Jah 1306 01:14:29,080 --> 01:14:33,280 # And his loving ways 1307 01:14:33,320 --> 01:14:35,440 # I'm in love with Jah 1308 01:14:36,280 --> 01:14:39,520 # And his loving ways 1309 01:14:39,560 --> 01:14:42,680 # Ethiopian romance 1310 01:14:43,560 --> 01:14:45,800 # Ethiopian romance 1311 01:14:46,880 --> 01:14:50,160 # Ethiopian romance 1312 01:14:50,200 --> 01:14:52,600 # Ethiopian romance... 1313 01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:55,960 Look how many generations in popular music that 1314 01:14:56,000 --> 01:14:58,360 that's come back in and been relevant, that sound... 1315 01:14:58,400 --> 01:15:00,280 that was created in the '60s. 1316 01:15:00,320 --> 01:15:02,720 And people still search for that now, you know, 1317 01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:04,600 40-50 years beyond that, 1318 01:15:04,640 --> 01:15:06,640 because it's the purity of the storytelling, 1319 01:15:06,680 --> 01:15:10,000 the purity of the sound that never, you know, goes out of fashion. 1320 01:15:10,040 --> 01:15:12,600 It's impossible to listen to it without actually... 1321 01:15:12,640 --> 01:15:14,560 feeling the music come through. 1322 01:15:14,600 --> 01:15:17,680 I mean, I used to come out of reggae sessions with my stomach aching, 1323 01:15:17,720 --> 01:15:20,840 because I'd been kind of grooving in the chair behind the desk. 1324 01:15:20,880 --> 01:15:24,160 # Africa 1325 01:15:24,320 --> 01:15:27,120 # Africa 1326 01:15:27,400 --> 01:15:31,240 # Africa 1327 01:15:31,280 --> 01:15:34,280 # Africa... 1328 01:16:30,720 --> 01:16:34,520 Reggae music is part of my heritage, it's part of my culture, you know? 1329 01:16:34,560 --> 01:16:36,800 It's just like me as a black person, 1330 01:16:36,840 --> 01:16:39,080 me can't be white - me have to be black. 1331 01:16:39,120 --> 01:16:40,960 So reggae is my thing. 1332 01:16:48,880 --> 01:16:51,360 Reggae have my heartbeat right now, 1333 01:16:51,400 --> 01:16:53,560 right now, right now - my heartbeat. 1334 01:16:57,200 --> 01:17:00,320 # Africa 1335 01:17:00,760 --> 01:17:04,000 # Africa 1336 01:17:04,160 --> 01:17:06,960 # Africa 1337 01:17:07,280 --> 01:17:10,440 # Africa 1338 01:17:10,480 --> 01:17:13,960 # Africa... # 1339 01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:17,600 Reggae is humane music - it's humanity singing about human issues. 1340 01:17:17,640 --> 01:17:21,280 It's a music that expresses the problems... 1341 01:17:21,320 --> 01:17:23,600 of the Jamaicans who created it, 1342 01:17:23,640 --> 01:17:26,200 but it has that universality. 1343 01:17:26,240 --> 01:17:28,040 He says, 'I'm singing about my problems, 1344 01:17:28,080 --> 01:17:30,600 but I'm singing about your problems too.' 1345 01:17:30,640 --> 01:17:34,680 It's a warm vibe, and it's a warrior vibes. 1346 01:17:34,720 --> 01:17:36,480 And it's soulful, 1347 01:17:36,520 --> 01:17:39,800 and...rebellious. 1348 01:17:47,160 --> 01:17:48,760 REEDY: It's a big force, man. 1349 01:17:48,800 --> 01:17:51,000 It means a lot to me. 1350 01:17:51,040 --> 01:17:53,000 It carry me, teach me. 1351 01:17:53,800 --> 01:17:55,560 Make me feel happy, make me feel sad. 1352 01:17:57,200 --> 01:17:59,240 Long live reggae music. 1353 01:18:02,880 --> 01:18:06,440 Well, Cimarons' destiny is just to be themselves... 1354 01:18:06,480 --> 01:18:08,360 and get back into the thing. 1355 01:18:08,400 --> 01:18:10,720 You know what I mean? They've lost their drummer. 1356 01:18:10,760 --> 01:18:13,840 And I'm sure... I'm sure that none of them... 1357 01:18:14,720 --> 01:18:17,680 ..wants to stop playing music. 1358 01:18:21,800 --> 01:18:23,880 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1359 01:18:25,880 --> 01:18:29,320 We should start rehearse tomorrow, and go back on the road. 1360 01:18:30,640 --> 01:18:32,240 Basically. 1361 01:18:33,400 --> 01:18:35,640 Go on through, young boy. 1362 01:18:35,680 --> 01:18:39,680 Go onstage, make people enjoy themselves, make me enjoy myself. 1363 01:18:39,720 --> 01:18:42,200 I miss that. I would... 1364 01:18:42,240 --> 01:18:45,000 I would do that now - right now - even though me have a bad back. 1365 01:18:46,400 --> 01:18:49,000 But when you go onstage, you don't feel no pain. 1366 01:18:50,040 --> 01:18:52,280 You don't feel no pain at all. 1367 01:18:52,320 --> 01:18:56,800 That's the best painkiller you can get - go onstage and play music. 1368 01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:02,560 # Ethiopian romance... # 1369 01:19:05,240 --> 01:19:08,920 Yeah, Westbourne Rehearsal Studio. Yes, in the basement. 1370 01:19:08,960 --> 01:19:11,840 In the basement, where we can't get no place to park.(LAUGHTER) 1371 01:19:11,880 --> 01:19:15,000 If we all get the tune, them sharpen up like irons, you know? 1372 01:19:15,040 --> 01:19:17,800 Yeah, ready to go to battle and... 1373 01:19:17,840 --> 01:19:20,160 you know, bring forth Jah message. 1374 01:19:20,200 --> 01:19:21,760 You know? 1375 01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:25,520 It's not a big thing if they don't play for two or three months, or even a year. 1376 01:19:25,560 --> 01:19:28,240 But when you call them, they're ready. 1377 01:19:28,280 --> 01:19:32,360 Because they know exactly how to play with each other. 1378 01:19:33,280 --> 01:19:36,160 Simple as that. Yes, simple as that. 1379 01:19:36,200 --> 01:19:39,760 All they need is a couple of rehearsal. They're ready to go, man. 1380 01:19:39,800 --> 01:19:41,920 Trust me, ready to go. 1381 01:19:41,960 --> 01:19:43,840 ('ETHIOPIAN ROMANCE' PLAYS ON CAR STEREO) 1382 01:19:43,880 --> 01:19:46,160 We did our final rehearsal last night, 1383 01:19:46,200 --> 01:19:49,240 and the gig will be tomorrow - 1384 01:19:49,280 --> 01:19:52,560 tomorrow at Hootananny in Brixton. 1385 01:19:54,600 --> 01:19:57,320 Good people, good afternoon. (CAR DOOR CLOSES) Bless up, bless up. 1386 01:19:57,360 --> 01:19:59,360 I'm alright, thanks, I'm alright. 1387 01:20:00,240 --> 01:20:03,440 I'm not good, but I'm alright. (LAUGHTER) 1388 01:20:03,480 --> 01:20:07,120 We're gonna go and visit Dego, who is, unfortunately, not too well. 1389 01:20:07,160 --> 01:20:09,040 He's in hospital. 1390 01:20:09,080 --> 01:20:12,600 He's so upset that he won't be able to be a part of it. You know? 1391 01:20:12,640 --> 01:20:15,880 Cos he's been a great help, his songwriting ability. 1392 01:20:15,920 --> 01:20:18,440 We've done two of his songs on the album. 1393 01:20:18,480 --> 01:20:22,000 His harmony is brilliant. We won't be able to use his harmony so... 1394 01:20:22,040 --> 01:20:23,960 yes, we pray that he'll be OK. 1395 01:20:25,080 --> 01:20:27,120 We don't know what's happening on Sunday. 1396 01:20:27,160 --> 01:20:29,880 We'll just get up and go down and go set up. 1397 01:20:29,920 --> 01:20:32,800 Me, you, everybody go set up. 1398 01:20:32,840 --> 01:20:35,160 Just like what Michael Jackson do. 1399 01:20:35,200 --> 01:20:38,000 Soundcheck, rehearse, dress rehearsal, soundcheck. 1400 01:20:39,640 --> 01:20:43,160 Have a smoke, have a drink.All in all, it's a celebration of Cimarons. 1401 01:20:43,200 --> 01:20:45,200 Yes. Yeah, the return. Yeah. 1402 01:20:46,240 --> 01:20:49,960 Time flies so fast. We lost Maurice about two-and-a-half years ago, 1403 01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:53,040 and that was a shock for us. 1404 01:20:53,080 --> 01:20:55,800 I want to start some gigs before we lose any more members. 1405 01:21:12,280 --> 01:21:14,640 Pandemic came along and everything fell apart. 1406 01:21:14,680 --> 01:21:18,280 So it's over three, four years we've had to wait now for this moment. 1407 01:21:18,320 --> 01:21:20,880 It's a tough place to start, 1408 01:21:20,920 --> 01:21:25,840 because the London audiences are as critical as the Jamaica audiences. 1409 01:21:25,880 --> 01:21:29,200 They know music, so we just have to be good. 1410 01:21:29,240 --> 01:21:33,960 It's like a crucible, but then um... (LAUGHS) 1411 01:21:34,000 --> 01:21:37,600 ..if you're any good, you've got to go through the fire. 1412 01:21:40,640 --> 01:21:42,120 (GROANS) 1413 01:21:43,960 --> 01:21:46,400 It is the calm before the storm - 1414 01:21:46,440 --> 01:21:48,840 only that we are in control of the storm. 1415 01:21:48,880 --> 01:21:52,760 We're in control of the winds, the temperature and the pressure. 1416 01:21:54,280 --> 01:21:56,200 Just wanna make sure everything goes right. 1417 01:21:56,240 --> 01:21:59,080 We would have loved to have Dego with us tonight. 1418 01:21:59,120 --> 01:22:02,800 Because Dego has, like...always been around Cimarons from the '70s. 1419 01:22:02,840 --> 01:22:05,000 So I miss him. Yeah. 1420 01:22:05,040 --> 01:22:07,720 (BAND PLAYS IN BACKGROUND) 1421 01:22:11,280 --> 01:22:13,480 When I look at my drummer on my right, 1422 01:22:13,520 --> 01:22:16,040 I'm seeing Carl, but that's Maurice. 1423 01:22:17,520 --> 01:22:20,520 I'm gonna see...but it's Maurice. He's there with me. 1424 01:22:20,560 --> 01:22:22,120 In spirit. 1425 01:22:23,520 --> 01:22:25,480 In thoughts. 1426 01:22:25,520 --> 01:22:27,800 Yeah, he'll be there. 1427 01:22:29,640 --> 01:22:31,560 Playing this, playing reggae music, 1428 01:22:31,600 --> 01:22:33,680 has always been my life, you know what I mean? 1429 01:22:33,720 --> 01:22:35,960 So when I'm up here, I'm playing, it's like... 1430 01:22:36,000 --> 01:22:38,960 freedom. Yeah. Freedom, yeah. 1431 01:22:39,000 --> 01:22:41,080 But it's also... 1432 01:22:41,120 --> 01:22:43,640 the love of it, you know what I mean? 1433 01:22:43,680 --> 01:22:47,880 From 1971, I've been with these guys. They're bona fide friends. 1434 01:22:47,920 --> 01:22:50,240 (PEOPLE CHATTING) 1435 01:22:50,280 --> 01:22:53,000 Honestly, a sense of nervousness. 1436 01:22:53,040 --> 01:22:55,320 You prepare your best you can, 1437 01:22:55,360 --> 01:22:58,120 but when you get out there, and the atmosphere... 1438 01:22:58,160 --> 01:23:00,360 and the vibe hits you, 1439 01:23:00,400 --> 01:23:03,000 you give, you know, everything. 1440 01:23:03,040 --> 01:23:04,880 Sing close to the microphone, please - 1441 01:23:04,920 --> 01:23:08,120 gonna make the difference, you know? You're gonna be more comfortable. 1442 01:23:08,160 --> 01:23:10,640 Closer. 1443 01:23:10,680 --> 01:23:14,080 Are you ready?! (CHEERING) 1444 01:23:14,120 --> 01:23:17,080 The first band to take reggae music to Japan. 1445 01:23:17,120 --> 01:23:19,440 (CHEERING) 1446 01:23:19,480 --> 01:23:23,200 The drum beat of Africa, Ghana, Asia. 1447 01:23:23,240 --> 01:23:26,480 The first reggae band in Europe. 1448 01:23:26,520 --> 01:23:29,240 (CHEERING) (CYMBAL CRASHES) 1449 01:23:29,280 --> 01:23:31,640 Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls... 1450 01:23:31,680 --> 01:23:34,560 WOMAN: Yeah, man. ..are you ready for... 1451 01:23:34,600 --> 01:23:36,960 Are you ready? ALL: Yes, man. 1452 01:23:37,000 --> 01:23:39,920 ..the return of... 1453 01:23:39,960 --> 01:23:42,440 Cimarons! (CHEERING) 1454 01:23:43,920 --> 01:23:46,080 Michael Arkk. (BAND PLAYS) 1455 01:24:04,240 --> 01:24:06,240 Yeah! 1456 01:24:09,880 --> 01:24:15,320 # (VOCALISING) 1457 01:24:22,000 --> 01:24:27,840 # This time we're having a nice time 1458 01:24:29,240 --> 01:24:34,040 # Mood is good and we feel fine 1459 01:24:35,520 --> 01:24:40,120 # Your liveliness Is catching like wildfire 1460 01:24:40,160 --> 01:24:41,920 # Fire, fire 1461 01:24:41,960 --> 01:24:47,600 # We're going on as if there is A riot, riot, riot, riot 1462 01:24:47,640 --> 01:24:50,280 # Make me rock, rock, rock, rock Rock, rock 1463 01:24:50,320 --> 01:24:52,600 # To reggae rhapsody... 1464 01:24:52,640 --> 01:24:55,800 Playing together is just like we just know exactly... 1465 01:24:55,840 --> 01:24:59,280 how the sound go - we still can do it, innit? 1466 01:24:59,320 --> 01:25:01,560 You know, put a guitar in Gichie hand, 1467 01:25:01,600 --> 01:25:04,240 and a guitar in my hand, and you hear music. (CHUCKLES) 1468 01:25:04,280 --> 01:25:06,520 # To Reggae Rhapsody... 1469 01:25:06,560 --> 01:25:10,240 GICHIE: When I'm surrounded with music, I'm fully alive. 1470 01:25:10,280 --> 01:25:14,400 I feel like I'm at home, you know, I feel, definitely, like I'm at home. 1471 01:25:14,440 --> 01:25:17,360 # One dread come tell ya 1472 01:25:17,400 --> 01:25:19,840 # You'd better lively up yourself... 1473 01:25:19,880 --> 01:25:23,480 Yeah, we are all one - we can just use eyes contact, 1474 01:25:23,520 --> 01:25:26,440 and we know what's happening, and we go from there. 1475 01:25:26,480 --> 01:25:28,600 Beautiful onstage. 1476 01:25:28,640 --> 01:25:30,760 Onstage, we're not human. 1477 01:25:31,560 --> 01:25:34,360 We are...invincible. 1478 01:25:34,400 --> 01:25:38,760 # Come rock with me Let me take you higher, higher, 1479 01:25:38,800 --> 01:25:40,640 # Higher, higher, higher, higher 1480 01:25:40,680 --> 01:25:43,680 # Come rock, rock, rock, rock, rock Hey! 1481 01:25:43,720 --> 01:25:46,200 # To reggae rhapsody 1482 01:25:47,120 --> 01:25:50,280 # Come choke, choke, choke Choke, choke, choke 1483 01:25:50,320 --> 01:25:52,040 # To reggae rhapsody... 1484 01:25:54,720 --> 01:25:58,200 REEDY: You feel light, you feel...rewarded. 1485 01:25:59,880 --> 01:26:01,000 Me feel blessed. 1486 01:26:02,640 --> 01:26:04,680 You feel special. You feel... 1487 01:26:04,720 --> 01:26:07,360 'Thank you, Father, for giving me this moment, because... 1488 01:26:07,400 --> 01:26:10,600 not a lot of people can experience this sort of moment. 1489 01:26:10,640 --> 01:26:12,800 # Cimarons...! 1490 01:26:12,840 --> 01:26:16,800 When the whole crowd is going mad, you're crazy in your head, and... 1491 01:26:18,480 --> 01:26:20,120 ..and everything is still together. 1492 01:26:20,920 --> 01:26:23,960 You sort of miss each other - as friends. 1493 01:26:24,800 --> 01:26:28,160 As a brethren, missing togetherness and playing. 1494 01:26:28,200 --> 01:26:30,480 You do miss it. 1495 01:26:30,520 --> 01:26:32,200 Yeah, you do miss it. 1496 01:26:32,240 --> 01:26:34,600 # Come make me rock Come make me rock 1497 01:26:34,640 --> 01:26:37,120 # To reggae rhapsody 1498 01:26:37,160 --> 01:26:41,040 # Boy, come make me rock Come make me rock 1499 01:26:41,080 --> 01:26:43,320 # Ay! To reggae rhapsody 1500 01:26:44,400 --> 01:26:46,360 # Come make me rock # 1501 01:26:46,400 --> 01:26:49,840 (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 1502 01:26:51,160 --> 01:26:54,080 Still, I miss my original singer. 1503 01:26:54,120 --> 01:26:56,400 I don't want to belittle anyone. 1504 01:26:57,560 --> 01:27:00,640 But my Reedy is my singer. 1505 01:27:01,440 --> 01:27:04,080 Winston Reed is my singer. 1506 01:27:04,120 --> 01:27:06,760 Not to put down Mikey or anything, 1507 01:27:06,800 --> 01:27:09,280 because from Mikey coming in the flock... 1508 01:27:09,320 --> 01:27:11,000 he is my singer. 1509 01:27:11,040 --> 01:27:13,200 It is said to me that... 1510 01:27:13,240 --> 01:27:17,720 (CHUCKLES) ..the man whose position I'm standing in tonight... 1511 01:27:17,760 --> 01:27:20,920 the great Winston Reedy, is somewhere around. 1512 01:27:20,960 --> 01:27:23,320 (CHUCKLES) (PEOPLE YELL OUT INDISTINCTLY) 1513 01:27:23,360 --> 01:27:25,120 Yes! 1514 01:27:25,160 --> 01:27:26,960 Respect due. 1515 01:27:27,000 --> 01:27:29,440 (CHEERING) (ELECTRONIC WARBLING) Yeah. 1516 01:27:29,480 --> 01:27:31,440 This is the man. 1517 01:27:32,960 --> 01:27:35,160 You're giving me the mic, my brother? 1518 01:27:35,200 --> 01:27:37,440 Yeah, man. Say something. Oh, my God, I'm humbled. 1519 01:27:38,520 --> 01:27:40,600 I'm feeling humbled. 1520 01:27:41,480 --> 01:27:43,720 What can I say about this band here? 1521 01:27:43,760 --> 01:27:45,600 This band here teach me everything. 1522 01:27:46,560 --> 01:27:48,760 Carry me all over the world. 1523 01:27:49,560 --> 01:27:52,680 Bless you, Cimarons, for teaching me everything. 1524 01:27:52,720 --> 01:27:54,560 Harder Than The Rock. 1525 01:27:54,600 --> 01:27:57,760 Harder Than The Rock. Um... How it go again?(BASS DRUM STARTS) 1526 01:27:57,800 --> 01:28:00,560 This we never plan, you know? No rehearsal. 1527 01:28:25,680 --> 01:28:27,720 # We're harder than the rock 1528 01:28:28,920 --> 01:28:31,440 # We're harder than the rock This time 1529 01:28:32,800 --> 01:28:34,880 # We're harder than the rock 1530 01:28:35,760 --> 01:28:38,440 # Harder than the rock, this time 1531 01:28:41,280 --> 01:28:43,280 # Oh, yeah... 1532 01:28:45,600 --> 01:28:46,720 Winston. 1533 01:28:46,760 --> 01:28:49,080 # Harder than the rock So hard 1534 01:28:49,120 --> 01:28:52,000 # We're harder than the rock This time 1535 01:28:52,040 --> 01:28:54,800 # So hard Harder than the rock 1536 01:28:56,200 --> 01:28:59,000 # We're harder than the rock This time 1537 01:29:37,760 --> 01:29:43,920 # Cimarons # 1538 01:29:43,960 --> 01:29:48,680 Thank you! (NOTE CONTINUES) 1539 01:29:50,000 --> 01:29:52,000 Put your hands together... 1540 01:29:52,040 --> 01:29:55,160 for the great Winston... 1541 01:29:55,200 --> 01:29:57,840 Reedy! 1542 01:29:57,880 --> 01:30:00,760 (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) Thank you, sir! Yeah. 1543 01:30:02,560 --> 01:30:04,080 Cimarons is out now, yeah? 1544 01:30:04,120 --> 01:30:06,040 There's nothing can stop them. 1545 01:30:06,080 --> 01:30:09,880 Those people that were there, they are all Cimarons fans. 1546 01:30:09,920 --> 01:30:12,600 GICHIE: Yes, yes, yes. And it's a blessing, man. Rastafari. 1547 01:30:14,240 --> 01:30:16,720 Blessings, blessings, blessings, 1548 01:30:16,760 --> 01:30:19,000 Listen. Irie. Irie. 1549 01:30:19,040 --> 01:30:21,440 Ah, cricket. 1550 01:30:21,480 --> 01:30:24,800 Mmm. Yes, yes. 1551 01:30:24,840 --> 01:30:28,520 I was so well-prepared for the gig. 1552 01:30:28,560 --> 01:30:31,080 I just became very ill. 1553 01:30:31,120 --> 01:30:33,200 And ended up in the hospital. 1554 01:30:33,240 --> 01:30:36,520 I was in there for about... two weeks. 1555 01:30:36,560 --> 01:30:38,560 I was so... 1556 01:30:38,600 --> 01:30:40,240 (CHUCKLES SOFTLY) 1557 01:30:40,280 --> 01:30:42,360 I was angry. 1558 01:30:42,400 --> 01:30:44,920 But...you know what them say? 1559 01:30:44,960 --> 01:30:47,280 Every disappointment is for a good. 1560 01:30:47,320 --> 01:30:49,400 But I'm hoping... 1561 01:30:49,440 --> 01:30:51,520 you know... 1562 01:30:51,560 --> 01:30:54,040 future gigs... 1563 01:30:54,080 --> 01:30:56,120 I might be able to be there. 1564 01:30:56,160 --> 01:30:58,160 You know? 1565 01:30:58,200 --> 01:31:00,200 # CIMARONS: Rock Reggae Rhapsody 1566 01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:08,880 # Well... 1567 01:31:08,920 --> 01:31:11,880 # Come we rock, rock, rock Rock, rock, rock 1568 01:31:11,920 --> 01:31:14,040 # To reggae rhapsody... 1569 01:31:15,440 --> 01:31:17,640 (GREETINGS DROWNED OUT BY MUSIC) 1570 01:31:19,640 --> 01:31:21,560 # To reggae rhapsody... 1571 01:31:23,760 --> 01:31:26,160 Yeah, man. Here we are. Rototom time. That's it. 1572 01:31:26,200 --> 01:31:28,600 Come to mash up Spain. Come to tear Spain down. 1573 01:31:28,640 --> 01:31:31,400 That's it. (CHUCKLES) 1574 01:31:32,920 --> 01:31:36,440 # To reggae rhapsody, yeah... 1575 01:31:36,480 --> 01:31:38,360 BOTH: (SINGING WITH TRACK) Come we rock. 1576 01:31:38,400 --> 01:31:42,760 Come we rock to reggae rhapsody. Yeah! 1577 01:31:42,800 --> 01:31:45,000 # Come we rock 1578 01:31:45,040 --> 01:31:46,760 # Come we rock... 1579 01:31:46,800 --> 01:31:48,800 (LAUGHTER) Alright! Alright! Alright! 1580 01:31:49,960 --> 01:31:52,040 Massive day for the Cimarons. 1581 01:31:52,080 --> 01:31:54,440 Massive day for Cimarons. 1582 01:31:54,480 --> 01:31:56,480 Massive, beautiful day. 1583 01:31:56,520 --> 01:31:58,680 Back in Spain. 1584 01:31:58,720 --> 01:32:01,760 First reggae band ever in Spain, and back in Spain now. 1585 01:32:01,800 --> 01:32:04,440 It's... It's cosmic. 1586 01:32:04,480 --> 01:32:06,480 (LAUGHS) 1587 01:32:07,920 --> 01:32:10,320 The cosmos must have something to do with this. 1588 01:32:11,160 --> 01:32:13,600 So I'm looking forward to tonight. 1589 01:32:14,560 --> 01:32:16,720 It has to be good, you know? 1590 01:32:25,920 --> 01:32:28,720 (BOTH SING MELODY) 1591 01:32:28,760 --> 01:32:30,360 Yes, Rasta. 1592 01:32:30,400 --> 01:32:33,760 I'm glad I come back, and the sun shining like Jamaica. 1593 01:32:35,920 --> 01:32:38,160 Rototom is the biggest reggae festival in Europe. 1594 01:32:38,200 --> 01:32:42,920 All the top acts from Jamaica has played Rototom over the years. 1595 01:32:42,960 --> 01:32:45,720 For us to be part of Rototom, to me, it's a big thing. 1596 01:32:45,760 --> 01:32:47,840 I wasn't thinking about it. 1597 01:32:47,880 --> 01:32:50,080 I was thinking about going home. 1598 01:32:50,120 --> 01:32:52,720 Sun. Ganja weed. 1599 01:32:53,520 --> 01:32:55,200 Coconut water. 1600 01:32:55,240 --> 01:32:59,080 But...I'm not complaining. 1601 01:33:00,080 --> 01:33:02,920 Yeah, I hope to have a nice time. 1602 01:33:02,960 --> 01:33:05,800 If I enjoy myself, the crowd should enjoy themselves. 1603 01:33:05,840 --> 01:33:08,840 Hopefully. Yeah. What about you? 1604 01:33:08,880 --> 01:33:11,800 I am elated, over the moon, 1605 01:33:11,840 --> 01:33:15,560 ecstatic to be among the legends. 1606 01:33:15,600 --> 01:33:18,440 Well, one word - irie. (LAUGHS) 1607 01:33:18,480 --> 01:33:20,560 MC: From the UK... 1608 01:33:20,600 --> 01:33:24,080 the first band touring Japan, 1609 01:33:24,120 --> 01:33:25,920 Africa... 1610 01:33:25,960 --> 01:33:28,960 please, welcome onstage... 1611 01:33:29,000 --> 01:33:31,720 WHITE: From 1967 until these times, 1612 01:33:31,760 --> 01:33:34,240 the Cimarons from the UK. 1613 01:33:34,280 --> 01:33:37,920 (BAND SINGING AND VOCALISING) 1614 01:33:43,480 --> 01:33:45,000 Good to go. 1615 01:33:46,480 --> 01:33:48,120 # Ethiopian romance 1616 01:33:49,520 --> 01:33:51,680 # Ethiopian romance 1617 01:33:52,600 --> 01:33:56,040 # Ethiopian romance 1618 01:33:56,280 --> 01:33:58,840 # Ethiopian romance 1619 01:33:58,880 --> 01:34:00,880 # Africa... 1620 01:34:00,920 --> 01:34:02,680 Everybody have a destiny. 1621 01:34:02,720 --> 01:34:05,680 It doesn't matter how long you take to get there. Yes? 1622 01:34:05,720 --> 01:34:09,160 But you have a destiny. And it will come. 1623 01:34:09,200 --> 01:34:11,480 Cos that's how the Father prepare it. 1624 01:34:12,440 --> 01:34:15,520 # Africa... 1625 01:34:15,560 --> 01:34:18,640 One morning, my dad said we should tell God what we want. 1626 01:34:18,680 --> 01:34:20,920 I told God I wanted to be a singer. 1627 01:34:21,720 --> 01:34:25,200 My most happy moments is since meeting Cimarons. 1628 01:34:25,240 --> 01:34:28,760 Because I am experiencing what I dreamt about. 1629 01:34:28,800 --> 01:34:32,120 # What did I say? Ethiopian romance... 1630 01:34:32,160 --> 01:34:34,360 The steps of a righteous man is ordered by the Lord. 1631 01:34:34,400 --> 01:34:36,040 You could take out the righteous bit. 1632 01:34:37,560 --> 01:34:41,680 But the steps of this man was ordered by the Lord. 1633 01:34:46,440 --> 01:34:48,600 # Ethiopian romance... 1634 01:34:49,560 --> 01:34:52,040 Gichie, Maurice... 1635 01:34:52,080 --> 01:34:54,080 them are my life. 1636 01:34:55,480 --> 01:34:59,440 They are my life, my musical friend, and my musical family. 1637 01:34:59,480 --> 01:35:02,160 # Africa 1638 01:35:02,400 --> 01:35:05,840 # Africa 1639 01:35:06,760 --> 01:35:08,680 # Africa 1640 01:35:09,480 --> 01:35:12,240 # Africa... 1641 01:35:12,280 --> 01:35:15,920 Reggae music is alive and well and will never die. 1642 01:35:16,760 --> 01:35:20,720 And reggae music, it's part of Earth, part of nature, part of creation. 1643 01:35:22,240 --> 01:35:24,760 And that can never die. It will always be there. 1644 01:35:26,240 --> 01:35:30,600 Reggae music is one of the parents of modern pop music. 1645 01:35:31,400 --> 01:35:34,160 My generation of musicians - and just people - 1646 01:35:34,200 --> 01:35:37,600 stand on the shoulders of bands like the Cimarons. 1647 01:35:37,640 --> 01:35:39,520 # Cimarons...! 1648 01:35:39,560 --> 01:35:43,880 Do your thing. Yeah, do your dream. 1649 01:35:43,920 --> 01:35:46,600 Thirty years, we've been waiting for this. 1650 01:35:46,640 --> 01:35:48,600 It's nobody's dream but your dream. 1651 01:35:48,640 --> 01:35:52,400 Cimarons have a dream and Cimarons never allowed the dream to die. 1652 01:35:52,440 --> 01:35:54,640 # Ethiopian romance... 1653 01:35:54,680 --> 01:35:56,360 Jah be praised, you know? 1654 01:35:56,400 --> 01:35:58,960 # Ethiopian romance... 1655 01:35:59,000 --> 01:36:01,240 GENERAL LEVY: It takes a spark - they were the spark... 1656 01:36:01,280 --> 01:36:03,160 that started a big flame. 1657 01:36:03,200 --> 01:36:05,640 And often, when the big flame takes over, 1658 01:36:05,680 --> 01:36:07,840 people forget about the spark, but the Cimarons... 1659 01:36:07,880 --> 01:36:10,920 are definitely a spark that started... 1660 01:36:10,960 --> 01:36:13,080 a big, big, big, big fire - 1661 01:36:13,120 --> 01:36:15,200 a big flame, positive flame. 1662 01:36:15,240 --> 01:36:16,920 And it's still blazing till this day. 1663 01:36:21,840 --> 01:36:24,440 Thank you! (CHUCKLES) 1664 01:36:24,480 --> 01:36:26,560 Thank you! 1665 01:36:26,600 --> 01:36:29,080 Tonight, we are the Cimarons. 1666 01:36:29,120 --> 01:36:31,720 (CHEERING) 1667 01:36:31,760 --> 01:36:33,920 Ganja weed and music, yeah... 1668 01:36:34,920 --> 01:36:39,800 ..number one - ganja weed, music and food, girls. 1669 01:36:39,840 --> 01:36:43,200 That's...showbusiness. 1670 01:36:43,240 --> 01:36:44,920 (CROWD YELL INDISTINCTLY) 1671 01:36:44,960 --> 01:36:46,800 Every good thing... 1672 01:36:46,840 --> 01:36:49,640 has a place to begin and a place to end. 1673 01:36:49,680 --> 01:36:52,760 # CIMARONS: Ship Ahoy 1674 01:36:52,800 --> 01:36:54,960 Rototom! 1675 01:36:56,720 --> 01:36:58,920 Cimarons! 1676 01:37:00,600 --> 01:37:02,080 Thank you! 1677 01:37:08,040 --> 01:37:10,800 # Ship ahoy, ship ahoy, ship ahoy 1678 01:37:10,840 --> 01:37:13,240 # Ship ahoy-oy-oy 1679 01:37:13,280 --> 01:37:15,120 # Ship ahoy 1680 01:37:15,160 --> 01:37:17,640 # Ship ahoy, ship ahoy, ship ahoy 1681 01:37:17,680 --> 01:37:20,120 # Ship ahoy-oy-oy 1682 01:37:21,880 --> 01:37:24,400 # Far 1683 01:37:24,440 --> 01:37:27,120 # As your eyes can see 1684 01:37:28,880 --> 01:37:31,200 # Men, women and baby slaves 1685 01:37:31,240 --> 01:37:34,400 # Going to a land called liberty 1686 01:37:35,360 --> 01:37:40,320 # But life, you see, is already made 1687 01:37:42,640 --> 01:37:45,120 # So young and so strong 1688 01:37:45,160 --> 01:37:47,520 # You're just waiting to be saved 1689 01:37:48,480 --> 01:37:51,160 # Lord, I'm so tired 1690 01:37:51,960 --> 01:37:54,200 # And I know you're tired too 1691 01:37:55,920 --> 01:37:58,480 # Look over the horizon 1692 01:37:58,520 --> 01:38:00,360 # And see the sun 1693 01:38:00,400 --> 01:38:03,000 # Shining down on you 1694 01:38:03,040 --> 01:38:05,440 # Yeah 1695 01:38:05,480 --> 01:38:08,200 # Ship ahoy, ship ahoy, ship ahoy 1696 01:38:08,240 --> 01:38:10,320 # Ship ahoy-oy-oy 1697 01:38:10,360 --> 01:38:12,080 # Ship ahoy 1698 01:38:12,120 --> 01:38:15,200 # Ship ahoy, ship ahoy, ship ahoy 1699 01:38:15,240 --> 01:38:17,440 # Ship ahoy-oy-oy 1700 01:38:19,000 --> 01:38:21,720 # Ship ahoy, ship ahoy, ship ahoy 1701 01:38:21,760 --> 01:38:23,800 # Ship ahoy-oy-oy 1702 01:38:25,320 --> 01:38:28,480 # Can you feel The motion of the ocean? 1703 01:38:31,880 --> 01:38:35,640 # Can you feel 1704 01:38:35,680 --> 01:38:38,680 # The cold winds blowing by? 1705 01:38:38,720 --> 01:38:42,440 # Ship took us away 1706 01:38:42,480 --> 01:38:44,480 # From Africa 1707 01:38:45,920 --> 01:38:48,840 # Ship took us away 1708 01:38:48,880 --> 01:38:50,600 # From Africa # 1709 01:39:03,080 --> 01:39:05,400 Jah! 1710 01:39:05,440 --> 01:39:07,600 Rastafari. 1711 01:39:13,080 --> 01:39:15,640 (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) 1712 01:39:16,640 --> 01:39:19,160 (SONG CONCLUDES) 1713 01:39:21,360 --> 01:39:25,360 (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE CONTINUES) We wanna thank you all for watching. 1714 01:39:26,240 --> 01:39:28,800 I hope to see you all next time. 1715 01:39:29,840 --> 01:39:31,880 So, from Cimarons... 1716 01:39:31,920 --> 01:39:34,400 and to all of you, I wanna say peace and love... 1717 01:39:35,360 --> 01:39:37,360 Thank you very much. 1718 01:39:42,360 --> 01:39:46,160 Subtitles by Sky Access Services www.skyaccessibility.sky