Normski: The Man with the Golden Shutter

Normski: The Man with the Golden ShutterNormski was a vital witness to the period known as the Golden Age of Rap, when big US artists like Run DMC, LL Cool J and Public Enemy started to play in the UK. At the same time, a British music scene born of Black music and myriad multicultural influence was developing, giving birth to Jungle, Garage and Techno. The book includes Normski's often previously unseen photographs of Public Enemy, N. W. A., Cypress Hill, De La Soul, Goldie, Ice T, Run

This is the first time it is available on vinyl and includes the addition of ‘You Give Me Something’

His struggles were no secret

The book ranges across a vast canvas

as politically and emotionally charged and as relevant now as when it first hit the big screen

One of the most influential albums of the 90s

both for Harrington and for the subject in the cross-hairs of his lens

and every suggestion produced by his genius

and the value of joy in a perennially fractured American spirit

From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time

Annie Wilkes had pulled him from the wreck

Kansas City born Hammond B3 organ dynamo Big John Patton made a stellar run of soul jazz albums for Blue Note thru the 1960s but Let ‘Em Roll stands among the finest with Patton adding vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson to a standard organ trio line-up with guitarist Grant Green and drummer Otis Finch

4 - Best New Music) "The band's most forceful album yet