Burning Age of Rage
Mendez: On Linton Kwesi Johnson, 11 September 2025
Time Come: Selected Prose
by Linton Kwesi Johnson.
Picador, 312 pp., £10.99, April 2024,978 1 0350 0633 5 Show More
by Linton Kwesi Johnson.
Picador, 312 pp., £10.99, April 2024,
“... had briefly worked for them as a freelance copywriter, and a friend gave him an address for Richard Branson, who was impressed by his demo tape and offered him a multi-album deal. Johnson had the foresight to turn it down, agreeing only to one album. (He would subsequently sign to Chris Blackwell’s Island Records, then Bob Marley’s Tuff Gong ... ”