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Gallery: Rockers: The Making Of Reggae’s Most Iconic Film

May 2020

Rockers

Dancers at a reggae event in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Photo by Ted Bafaloukos

The pride of North Parade, Randy’s Record Mart in downtown Kingston, operated by Vincent ‘Randy’ Chin and his wife Miss Pat, who moved to New York in the late 1970s. Photo by Ted Bafaloukos

Interior of Derrick’s Record Shack in Morant Bay. Photo by Ted Bafaloukos

At the offices of Talent, Inc: (from left) Peter Tosh, unknown, Augustus Pablo. Photo by Ted Bafaloukos

Patti Smith visits Winston Rodney aka Burning Spear backstage to pay her respects. Photo by Ted Bafaloukos

Marjorie (Sunshine) Norman, dropping in on Ashley Harris aka Higher’s place with a few neighbours, about to become the leading woman of Rockers. Photo by Ted Bafaloukos

Jack Ruby and his Boss Hi-Fi sound system at an outdoor session

Winston Thompson aka Doctor Alimantado (left) and Richard Hall aka Dirty Harry. Photo by Avrom Robin and Susan Finkelstein

Peek inside the forthcoming publication that documents the filming of 1978’s Rockers

The iconic 1978 reggae film Rockers was directed by the New York based Greek screenwriter and producer Theodoros Bafaloukos and shot in Kingston, Jamaica, between 1975–78. Starring many of the scene's key players, including Burning Spear, Gregory Isaacs, Big Youth, Dillinger and Jacob Miller, it's about drummer Leroy ‘Horsemouth’ Wallace selling and distributing records around Jamaica’s sound systems from the back of his motorbike.

Bafaloukos died in 2005, just before which he penned his never published autobiography which now makes up part of this book, alongside numerous photographs taken on the Rockers set.

Rockers The Making Of Reggae’s Most Iconic Film by Theodoros (Ted) Bafaloukos, Seb Carayol, Cherry Kaoru Hulsey, Eugenie Bafaloukos is published by Gingko Press on 19 June. Pre-order available now.

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