Don Letts is a British film director and musician. His film The Punk Rock Movie documents the original UK punk rock movement. His 2003 film Westway to the World won a Grammy award. Letts recorded a 1978 EP, Steel Leg v the Electric Dread, with Keith Levene, Jah Wobble, and Steel Leg. He later became a founding member of Big Audio Dynamite.

Letts worked as a DJ in the Roxy, a London nightclub during the original outbreak of punk in England. As few bands of that era had yet recorded, there were limited punk rock records to be played. Instead, Letts included many dub and reggae records in his sets, and is credited with introducing those sounds to the London punk scene, which was to influence The Clash and other bands.

Filmography - Director

• The Right Spectacle: The Very Best of Elvis Costello - The Videos (2005) (V)
• Punk: Attitude (2005) (TV)
• Making of 'London Calling': The Last Testament (2004) (V)
• One Love (2003)
• The Essential Clash (2003) (V)
• The Pretenders: Greatest Hits (2000) (V) (video "Back on the Chain Gang")
• The Clash: Westway to the World (2000) (V)
• Dancehall Queen (1997)
• Dancing in the Streets (1997) (TV)
• Pretenders: The Singles (1988) (V) (video "Back on the Chain Gang")
• The Punk Rock Movie (1978)

External links

• Don Letts interview

British film directors | British musicians | Year of birth missing | Living people

Don Letts