Live At Rockpalast - Cologne 1980 / Aswad (Vinyle LP)

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CD: Only Jah Children - I A Rebel Soul - Back To Africa - Sons Of Criminals - Concrete Slaveship - Rainbow Culture - Not Guilty - Three Babylon - Natural Progression // DVD: Only Jah Children - I A Rebel Soul - Back To Africa - Sons Of Criminals - Concrete Slaveship - Rainbow Culture - Not Guilty - Three Babylon - Natural Progression The year of the Aswad Rockpalast concert, a film was shown in British cinemas, depicting the living conditions of Jamaican immigrants in the UK, including clashes with the police and the National Front. The narrative film titled "Babylon" was the UK's equivalent of Jamaica's "The Harder They Come," about which The Doors' drummer John Densmore commented: "If anyone asks me what the most important music of the 70s or 80s is, it's The Harder They Come, it's Reggae. There were political lyrics... Plus, you get people to change, you make them change their minds" (The Harder They Come Documentary 2010). Originally, "Babylon" was co-financed by the BBC, but they dropped their support because the subject matter became too controversial. The plot was so explosive that at the London premiere, Black and white audience members had to enter the hall through separate entrances. Brinsley Forde, the main character in "Babylon," was born in Guyana. He was the singer of a West London band founded in 1974 in the Ladbroke Grove area with drummer Angus Gaye aka "Drummie Zeb" and three other musicians, who were no longer on stage with them in Cologne. The band's name is Arabic and was conceived as a statement, a declaration of fact: Aswad - Black