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Jimmy cliff please tell me why10/11/2023 ![]() I said, OK, if you want me out, you have to get me out on my head (sic), and I slammed the door. “What are you doing here? Don’t you know that we don’t have coloured people here? She said, you have got 24 hours to get out. Her response was horrific, and unlike anything he had ever come across back home. Jimmy tells her he is a resident and has a room at the house. The landlady of the digs in Earls Court, London, where he had a room, booked by his record label. After a good sleep, the next morning he went out to do his usual daily exercises, which were interrupted by a woman asking him what he thought he was doing. ![]() Once the red tape cock-up had been resolved, Jimmy travelled to the accommodation his record label had arranged from him, in central London. Reggae and ska legend Jimmy Cliff’s first trip to the UK gave him his very first experience of racism…Īfter an invite from Island Records who had just signed him, an excited wide-eyed young James Chambers aka Jimmy Cliff touched down at Heathrow Airport from his home in Jamaica.īut his excitement soon changed to disappointment, when officials turned him away and were going to send him back to the sunshine. He exclusively tells editor Simon Redley about the joy and the pain of his very first visit to these shores in the 1960s. The Jamaican reggae and ska legend is back in the UK this summer to perform a select bunch of gigs and festivals.
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