Chris Blackwell
Chris Blackwell
Christopher Percy Gordon "Chris" Blackwellis an English businessman and former record producer, and the founder of Island Records, which has been called "one of Britain's great independent labels". According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to which Blackwell was inducted in 2001, he is "the single person most responsible for turning the world on to reggae music."...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth22 June 1937
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Universal is the biggest, most powerful record company by far and a very good company, but they don't sell outside the record stores.
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Nobody was interested in playing Bob Marley on the radio. We had to tour him - that was the only way it could work.
touring feels audience
I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.
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I want people to enjoy the simplicity in the natural.
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Jamaica has the best coffee, the best sugar, the best ginger and some of the best cocoa in the world.
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Running a farm is about solving a problem, and that's always interesting to me. But it's a constant process.
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We didn't take care of our opportunities. When we needed to take care of the basketball, we didn't.
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I never liked the whole thing about pictures with the artists. You look back at an Elvis Presley record, and you don't see any producer credits, because the audience is not supposed to know about the producer credit.