Marley

Toots and the Maytals Reggae Got Soul

Keep on Running: 50 Years of Island Records

John Martyn: Johnny Too Bad

Rebel Music - The Bob Marley Story

Inside 'Dr. No'

Classic Albums: Bob Marley & the Wailers - Catch a Fire

Ken Adam: Designing Bond

Ian Fleming: 007's Creator

Classic Albums

Strisser på Samsø

Caribbean Nights: The Bob Marley Story

Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story

Sun Dogs

Wimbledon 2006 Official Film

Third World Cop

Dancehall Queen

The Basketball Diaries

The Lunatic

Big Time

Sweet Lies

Good to Go

Choose Me

The Harder They Come

Dr. No

Christopher Percy Gordon Blackwell OJ (born 22 June 1937) is a Jamaican-British former record producer and the founder of Island Records, which has been called "one of Britain's great independent labels." According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, to which Blackwell was inducted in 2001, he is "the single person most responsible for turning the world on to reggae music." Variety describes him as "indisputably one of the greatest record executives in history," while Barron's has described him as "a contender for most interesting man in the world."
Having formed Island Records in Jamaica on May 22, 1959, Blackwell was among the first to record the Jamaican popular music that eventually became known as ska. Returning to Britain in 1962, he sold records from the back of his car to the Jamaican community. His label became "a byword for uncompromised artistry and era-shaping acts."
Backed by Stanley Borden from RKO, Blackwell's business and reach grew substantially, and he went on to forge the careers of Bob Marley, Grace Jones and U2 among many other diverse high-profile acts. He has produced many seminal albums, including Marley's Catch a Fire and Uprising, Free's Free and The B-52's' self-titled debut album in 1979.
Having sold Island in 1989, Blackwell embarked on ventures in "hotels, real estate, resorts, another record company, rum, and his Island Films released Kiss of the Spider Woman and Stop Making Sense, among others."
In 2022, he published a memoir, The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond.



Chris Blackwell