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Don Letts (Donovan Letts) was born on 10 January, 1956 in London, England, is a British film director. Discover Don Letts's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?

Popular As Donovan Letts
Occupation Disc jockey · film director
Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 10 January 1956
Birthday 10 January
Birthplace London, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1956

Donovan Letts (born 10 January 1956) is a British film director, disc jockey (DJ) and musician.

Letts first came to prominence as the videographer for the Clash, directing several of their music videos.

1970

By the mid-1970s Acme had quite a scene, attracting the likes of the Clash, Sex Pistols, Chrissie Hynde, Patti Smith, Debbie Harry and Bob Marley.

In a 2022 interview, Don Letts discussed growing up in London and the discrimination he faced in relation to Steve McQueen's series Small Axe.

Discussing mistreatment at the hands of police he remarked that:

"'A lot of us took that for normal. It was just what we had to deal with. Back in those Mangrove days… There weren’t no culturally enlightened policemen. It was the Wild West and trust me: we weren’t the cowboys.'"

Seeing the crowd at Acme, the then-promoter Andy Czezowski started up The Roxy, a London nightclub during the original outbreak of punk in England, so that people could go from the store and have some place to party.

As most bands of that era had yet to be recorded, there were limited punk rock records to be played.

Instead, Letts included many dub and reggae records in his sets, and is credited with introducing those sounds to the London punk scene, which was to influence the Clash and other bands.

1975

In 1975, he ran the London clothing store Acme Attractions, selling "electric-blue zoot suits and jukeboxes, and pumping dub reggae all day long."

He was deeply inspired by the music coming from his parents' homeland, Jamaica, in particular Bob Marley.

1976

After seeing one of Marley's gigs at the Hammersmith Odeon, in June 1976, Letts was able to sneak into the hotel and spent the night talking to and befriending Marley.

1978

Letts has also directed music videos for Musical Youth, the Psychedelic Furs, Fun Boy Three, the Pretenders and Elvis Costello as well as the feature documentaries The Punk Rock Movie (1978) and The Clash: Westway to the World (2000).

Letts was born in London, and educated at Tenison's School in Kennington.

He was able to use the fame and money from DJing and the Acme story to make his first film, The Punk Rock Movie (1978).

Letts quit the retail business to manage the band the Slits.

He was able to get the Slits to open for the Clash during the White Riot tour.

While on the White Riot tour he decided that management was not for him, but continued to shoot material for The Punk Rock Movie (1978).

Letts went to Jamaica for the first time when, after the Sex Pistols broke up, Johnny Rotten decided to escape the media frenzy by going with entrepreneur Richard Branson to Jamaica.

It was on this trip that Branson was inspired to start up Virgin's Frontline reggae record label.

"I guess he thought that since I was black and Jamaican – well, sort of – he'd be in good hands. Little did he know that the closest I'd been to Jamaica was watching The Harder They Come at the Classic Cinema in Brixton."

- Don Letts

In 1978, Letts recorded an EP, Steel Leg v the Electric Dread, with Keith Levene, Jah Wobble and Steel Leg.

Since his first movie, The Punk Rock Movie (1978), Letts has expanded to doing documentaries and music videos for multiple bands.

1980

As a tribute, he is pictured on the cover of the EP Black Market Clash (1980) and the compilation album Super Black Market Clash (1993).

1984

In 1984, Letts co-founded the band Big Audio Dynamite with former Clash lead guitarist and co-lead vocalist Mick Jones, acting as the band's sampler and videographer before departing the band in 1990.

After Mick Jones was fired from the Clash, he and Letts founded Big Audio Dynamite in 1984.

1990

In 1990 Letts formed Screaming Target.

1997

In 1997, he travelled to Jamaica to direct Dancehall Queen.

2006

In 2006, he published his autobiography, Culture Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers.

2009

As of 1 April 2009, Letts is presenting a weekly show on BBC Radio 6 Music.

in 2022 Don's singles 'Outta Sync' and 'Wrong' were released in anticipation of his debut album 'Outta Sync' produced by Gaudi and released on 29 September, 2023.

2013

In recognition of Letts' unique contribution to music, on 16 October 2013 he was presented with a BASCA Gold Badge of Merit.

Letts is married to Grace and the couple have two children.

He also has a son and a daughter from a previous relationship.

2014

A portrait of Letts by photographer Dean Chalkley featured in the exhibition Return of the Rudeboy at Somerset House in the middle of 2014.

"In a conservative culture that feels like punk never happened, the time is right for Return of the Rudeboy."

- Don Letts

2020

In September 2020 Letts and his wife Grace were featured on BBC's Gardeners' World, showing how they had combined their different tastes for plants and culture in their town garden in north west London.

In 2022, Letts received an honorary doctorate from Nottingham University.