Brinsley Forde, the Glossary
Brinsley Forde MBE (born 16 October 1953) is a British singer and actor of Guyanese parentage who is best known as the founder member of the reggae band Aswad and as a child actor in the children's television series Here Come the Double Deckers! (1970–71).[1]
Table of Contents
51 relations: A New Chapter of Dub, Aswad, Babylon (1980 film), Band (rock and pop), BBC, BBC Radio 2 Electric Proms, BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC Two, Bob Marley, Child actor, Cool Summer Reggae, Diamonds Are Forever (film), Disc jockey, Distant Thunder (Aswad album), Dizzee Rascal, Don't Turn Around, Franco Rosso, Goodbye Charlie Bright, Grammy Awards, Guyana, Here Come the Double Deckers!, Islington, Jamaica, Jamaica Observer, James Bond, John Boorman, Lancaster West Estate, Later... with Jools Holland, Leo the Last, London, On and On (Stephen Bishop song), Order of the British Empire, Please Sir!, Please Sir! (film), Reggae, Rise and Shine (Aswad album), Rolling Stone, Roxanne (The Police song), Shine (Aswad song), Sitcom, Sound system (Jamaican), South London, Sting (musician), Television show, The Georgian House, Tongue n' Cheek, Too Wicked, VH1, Yazz, You're No Good, ... Expand index (1 more) »
- British reggae singers
- English Rastafarians
- English reggae musicians
- Singers from the London Borough of Islington
A New Chapter of Dub
A New Chapter of Dub is an album by English reggae band Aswad, released by Island Records in April 1982.
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Aswad
Aswad are a British reggae group, noted for adding strong R&B and soul influences to the reggae sound.
Babylon (1980 film)
Babylon is a 1980 British drama film directed by Franco Rosso.
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Band (rock and pop)
A rock band or pop band is a small musical ensemble that performs rock music, pop music, or a related genre.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
BBC Radio 2 Electric Proms
The BBC Radio 2 Electric Proms (formerly the BBC Electric Proms) was an October pop music festival in London run by the BBC for five years, 2006–2010.
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BBC Radio 6 Music
BBC Radio 6 Music is a British digital radio station owned and operated by the BBC, specialising primarily in alternative music.
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BBC Two
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.
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Bob Marley
Robert Nesta Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican reggae singer, guitarist, and songwriter.
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Child actor
The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting on stage, television, or in movies.
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Cool Summer Reggae
Cool Summer Reggae is an album by Aswad, released in 2002.
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Diamonds Are Forever (film)
Diamonds Are Forever is a 1971 spy thriller, the seventh film in the ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions.
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Disc jockey
A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience.
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Distant Thunder (Aswad album)
Distant Thunder is a studio album by British reggae band Aswad, released in March 1988 through Mango Records.
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Dizzee Rascal
Dylan Kwabena Mills (born 18 September 1984), known professionally as Dizzee Rascal, is a British rapper and MC. He is often credited as a pioneer of British hip hop and grime music and was ranked by Complex as one of the greatest British rappers of all time. His work has also incorporated elements of UK garage, bassline and R&B.
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Don't Turn Around
"Don't Turn Around" is a popular song written by Albert Hammond and Diane Warren.
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Franco Rosso
Franco Rosso (29 August 1941 – 9 December 2016)Bill Douglas Centre,, Babylon, 27 December 2016.
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Goodbye Charlie Bright
Goodbye Charlie Bright is a 2001 comedy-drama film directed by Nick Love and starring Paul Nicholls, Roland Manookian and Danny Dyer.
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Grammy Awards
The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.
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Guyana
Guyana, officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern coast of South America, part of the historic mainland British West Indies. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and is also the country's largest city.
Here Come the Double Deckers!
Here Come the Double Deckers! is a 17-part British children's television series originally broadcast in 1971 on BBC1, revolving around the adventures of seven children whose den was an old red double-decker London bus in a scrap yard.
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Islington
Islington is a district in the north of Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington.
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Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).
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Jamaica Observer
Jamaica Observer is a daily newspaper published in Kingston, Jamaica.
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James Bond
The James Bond series focuses on the titular character, a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.
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John Boorman
Sir John Boorman (born 18 January 1933) is a British film director, producer and screenwriter.
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Lancaster West Estate
Lancaster Road (West) Estate is a housing estate in North Kensington, west London.
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Later... with Jools Holland
Later...
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Leo the Last
Leo the Last is a 1970 British drama film co-written and directed by John Boorman, based on the play The Prince by George Tabori, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Billie Whitelaw.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
On and On (Stephen Bishop song)
"On and On" is a song by American singer-songwriter Stephen Bishop.
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Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organizations, and public service outside the civil service.
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Please Sir!
Please Sir! is a British television sitcom created by John Esmonde and Bob Larbey and featuring actors John Alderton, Deryck Guyler, Penny Spencer, Joan Sanderson, Noel Howlett, Erik Chitty and Richard Davies.
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Please Sir! (film)
Please Sir! is a 1971 British comedy film directed by Mark Stuart and starring John Alderton, Deryck Guyler and Carol Hawkins.
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Reggae
Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
Rise and Shine (Aswad album)
Rise and Shine is a studio album by British reggae band Aswad, released in 1994 through Bubblin' Records.
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.
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Roxanne (The Police song)
"Roxanne" is a song by British rock band the Police.
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Shine (Aswad song)
"Shine" is a song by British reggae group Aswad.
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Sitcom
A sitcom (a shortening of situation comedy, or situational comedy) is a genre of comedy centred on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode.
Sound system (Jamaican)
In Jamaican popular culture, a sound system is a group of disc jockeys, engineers and MCs playing ska, rocksteady or reggae music.
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South London
South London is the southern part of London, England, south of the River Thames.
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Sting (musician)
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known professionally as Sting, is an English musician, activist and actor.
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Television show
A television show, TV program, or simply a TV show, is the general reference to any content produced for viewing on a television set that is traditionally broadcast via over-the-air, satellite, or cable.
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The Georgian House
The Georgian House is a British children's historical fantasy television series produced by HTV in Bristol and first screened on ITV in 1976.
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Tongue n' Cheek
Tongue n' Cheek is the fourth studio album by British rapper Dizzee Rascal.
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Too Wicked
Too Wicked is an album by the British band Aswad, released in 1990.
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VH1
VH1 (originally an initialism for Video Hits One) is an American Basic Cable television network that launched on January 1, 1985, and is currently owned by the BET Media Group subsidiary of Paramount Global's CBS Entertainment Group based in New York City.
Yazz
Yazz (born Yasmin Evans; 19 May 1960) is a British pop singer, who remains perhaps best known for her 1988 UK number one single "The Only Way Is Up".
You're No Good
"You're No Good" is a song written by Clint Ballard Jr., first performed by Dee Dee Warwick for Jubilee Records in 1963 with production by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.
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2015 New Year Honours
The New Year Honours 2015 were appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by citizens of those countries.
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See also
British reggae singers
- Aisha (reggae singer)
- Aleighcia Scott
- Ali Campbell
- Bitty McLean
- Brinsley Forde
- C. J. Lewis
- Carroll Thompson
- David Hinds
- Deborahe Glasgow
- Dee Sharp
- Drummie Zeb
- Eddy Grant
- Emmanuel Anebsa
- Ginger Williams (singer)
- Hak Baker
- Hollie Cook
- J.C. Lodge
- Janet Kay
- Jean Adebambo
- Judge Dread
- Kofi (musician)
- Liam Bailey
- MC Kinky
- Macka B
- Maxi Priest
- Mike Anthony (singer)
- Natty (British singer)
- Pato Banton
- Peter Hunnigale
- Ranking Roger
- Ray Watts (singer)
- Smiley Culture
- Smujji
- Tenor Fly
- Tippa Irie
- Trevor Walters (singer)
- Wayne Marshall (singer)
English Rastafarians
- Benjamin Zephaniah
- Billy Ocean
- Brinsley Forde
- David Hinds
- Jack Tafari
- Julian Marley
- Levi Roots
- Macka B
- Maxi Priest
- Misty in Roots
- Prince Malachi
- Starkey Banton
- Steel Pulse
- Tafari Moore
English reggae musicians
- 2Play
- Aba Shanti-I
- Ali Campbell
- Apache Indian (musician)
- Ash Walker
- Brinsley Forde
- Caron Wheeler
- Carroll Thompson
- Chas Smash
- Cleveland Watkiss
- Dan Woodgate
- Dionne Bromfield
- Drummie Zeb
- Eddy Grant
- G.T. Moore
- General Levy
- Hollie Cook
- Janet Kay
- Judge Dread
- Julian Marley
- Kofi (musician)
- M Dot R
- Martin Bashir
- Maxi Priest
- Nikki Yeoh
- Pablo Falconer
- Phillip Leo
- Rudy Grant
- Serocee
- Shinehead
- Smiley Culture
- The Rootsman
- Tubby T
Singers from the London Borough of Islington
- Adele Leigh
- Alan Klein
- Alexandra Burke
- Ayanna Witter-Johnson
- Brinsley Forde
- Charles Walenn
- Chris Farlowe
- Dana Rosemary Scallon
- Ellie Rowsell
- Emily Soldene
- Farma G
- Geoff Bradford (musician)
- George Grossmith
- Hugh Cornwell
- Jean Adebambo
- Joe Gooch
- John Hegley
- John Lydon
- Kenny Thomas (singer)
- Leona Lewis
- Lily Allen
- Little Simz
- Louis Dunford
- Mica Paris
- Nat Gonella
- Ola Onabule
- Rebel MC
- Remi Nicole
- Ronnie Ronalde
- Shaznay Lewis
- Tony Hadley