Baker takes a pop at BBC

Broadcaster danny Baker has accused the BBC of twisting the truth for a TV documentary he narrated earlier this year entitled the People’s History of Pop.

the loudmouth presenter says he took exception to BBc4 trying to portray Jamaican reggae star Bob Marley on the show as a ‘saviour’ of the black community in the 1970s.

according to Baker: ‘the script said: “Being black in england was being marginalised until the appearance of a certain maverick who turned up in Britain”, and on comes Bob Marley.

‘I said: “I can’t say this. It ain’t true. I know it fits the narrative that Marley came along, but do you know how many reggae records were in the charts in the sixties?

‘But they went: “Just for the purposes of this [documentary]”.’

Baker, 60, successfully made them alter the script. ‘It simply isn’t cut and dried that Bob Marley came along like a saviour. It ain’t true. It does a disservice to everybody from otis redding to the Liquidator.’

Liquidator was a famous Jamaican reggae instrumental recorded by the Harry J. allstars in 1969.