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Sunday with Don Letts: ‘Empty your mind and let it go’


The DJ on trying to switch off, growing up Black British, and the tastes and sounds of Jamaica

My father, part of the Windrush generation, would set up a sound system after church – it was an important social function for immigrants living among strangers. The music was the emerging sounds of Jamaica: Desmond Dekker, Prince Buster, plus a dose of country and western, and crooners such as Nat King Cole and Jim Reeves. My mum would cook all this good Jamaican food, but I wanted what my white mates were eating: beans, fish and chips.

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