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Honest Jon's
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Lower Stable Street
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London
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Monday-Saturday 11 till 6; Sunday 11 till 5

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Established 1974.

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Fela Kuti

J.J.D.

Knitting Factory

‘Welcome to the Kalakuta Republic — havin’ a ball.’ Buy this for the wonderful JJD, 23 minutes live and direct, with all the cogs of the Africa 70 band well-oiled and whirring together.

Fela Kuti

V.I.P. (Vagabonds in Power)

Knitting Factory

Fela Kuti

Coffin for Head of State

Knitting Factory

Fela Kuti

No Agreement

Knitting Factory

Fela Kuti

He Miss Road

Knitting Factory

Fela Kuti

Everything Scatter

Knitting Factory

Fela Kuti

Live With Ginger Baker

Knitting Factory

Fela Kuti

Sorrow, Tears And Blood

Knitting Factory

‘Them leave sorrow, tears and blood, Them regular trademark… My people self dey fear too much, We fear for the thing we no see… We fear to fight for freedom.’
Magnificent defiance from 1977.

Fela Kuti

Fear Not For Man

Knitting Factory

Fela Kuti

Beasts Of No Nation

Knitting Factory

‘Another underground spiritual’, as the opening puts it, about Botha and apartheid,and supporters like Thatcher, Reagan and the Dis-United Nations. (‘One veto vote is equal to 92 or more, or more’).

Fela Kuti

Expensive Shit

Knitting Factory

In 1974 the police raided Fela’s commune. Looking for dope, they threatened to pump his stomach.

Interpol head: ‘I’ll talk to you in my office.’
Fela: ‘You get office? You foolish, stupid bastard, you goat…’

Fela Kuti

Na Poi

Knitting Factory

Fela Kuti

Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense

Knitting Factory

Fela Kuti

Shakara

Knitting Factory

Fela Kuti

I.T.T.

Knitting Factory

Fela Kuti

Zombie

Knitting Factory

Fela Kuti

Afrodisiac

Knitting Factory

Fela Kuti

Upside Down

Knitting Factory

Fela Kuti

Yellow Fever

Knitting Factory

Fela Kuti

Army Arrangement

Knitting Factory

Fela Kuti

Underground System

Knitting Factory

Fela Kuti

Live At Kalakuta Republic

Knitting Factory

Aka J.J.D. (Johnny Just Drop).
‘Recorded in autumn 1976, six months before the army attack on Kalakuta Republic, this is a lampoon of ‘been-to’ Nigerians, who had been to Europe or the US and returned with an inferiority complex about African culture. Ghariokwu Lemi’s front-cover portrays a suited-up been-to, dressed like a cartoon British toff, as he parachutes into a Lagos street to the bemusement of passers-by. The back cover shows a more funkily dressed been-to, wearing US-style ghetto-chic, but looking equally out of place. See how these JJD’s dress and talk, sings Fela, they are trying to be foreigners. In response, the chorus repeats the single word ‘original’, invoking Fela’s closing line on Gentleman: ‘I no be gentleman at all-o, I be Africa man, original.’‘

Fela Kuti & Roy Ayers

Music Of Many Colours

Knitting Factory

Black Man's Cry

The Inspiration Of Fela Kuti

Now Again

Plenty of TKOs — the Colombian opener, for example — beautifully presented.
A moving, mind-boggling testament to Afrobeat, with shout-outs from Ghana, Trinidad, the US and elsewhere.

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