WHAT WE’VE LEARNT

● In 1979, Letts scripted “a modern reggae Western set in Brixton” as a UK answer to The Harder They Come, but was beaten to the punch by Franco Rosso’s Babylon. Over 100 hours of interview footage with every major Jamaican reggae star also remain unseen, in Island Records’ vaults.

● Meeting Federico Fellini at Milan Film Festival, the great post-war film director told Letts (in Italian), “You have the vision of a terrorist!”

● Mick Jones’s post-Clash ensemble initially traded as Top Risk Action Company, then Real Westway, before settling on the punchier handle, Big Audio Dynamite.