{"id":2116,"date":"2011-05-10T22:05:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T21:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=2116"},"modified":"2011-05-10T23:31:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T22:31:29","slug":"fred-locks-vulcan-records-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/fred-locks-vulcan-records-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred Locks – Vulcan Records – 1976"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Black Star Liner \/ Vision Of Redemption \/ I\u2019ve Got A Joy \/ Sons Of The Almighty \/ Sing A Long<\/a><\/p>\n

True Rastaman \/ Don\u2019t Let Babylon Use You \/ Walls \/ Wolf Wolf \/ Time To Change<\/a><\/p>\n

Uploaded for your listening pleasure tonight is the fine debut LP by Fred Locks,\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0fancied placing some more reggae on the site as it is so hot up the top of Penguin Towers it feels like muggy Kingston heat\u2026Far too lazy tonight to open the windows so reggae it will have to be\u2026Text below via the Jah blessed Wikki.<\/p>\n

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Fred Locks (b. Stafford Elliot, 1955, Kingston, Jamaica)\u00a0is a roots reggae singer best known for his mid-1970s single \u2018Black Star Liners\u2019 and the album of the same name.<\/p>\n

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Elliot grew up in a strict Catholic home in the Franklin Town area of Kingston, along with eleven brothers and sisters, moving to Eastern Kingston when he was ten. His father played the guitar, and his older brother would also take on the instrument, accompanying Elliot\u2019s early singing efforts. Like many of the Jamaican solo singers of the 1970s, Elliott began his career in the 1960s as part of a vocal harmony group, in his case a group he formed in secondary school, The Flames, and in 1966 The Lyrics, who recorded for Coxsone Dodd in the late 1960s, with tracks such as \u2018A Get It\u2019, \u2018Girls Like Dirt\u2019, and \u2018Hear What The Old Man Say\u2019. They later moved on to Vincent Chin\u2019s Randy\u2019s setup, recording \u2018Give Thanks\u2019, \u2018East to the Right\u2019, and a cover of Simon & Garfunkel\u2019s \u2018Bridge Over Troubled Water\u2019, also working with Lee \u201cScratch\u201d Perry, and released the self-financed \u2018Sing A Long\u2019 in 1971 on their own Lyric label.<\/p>\n

Disillusioned by the financial side of the Jamaican music industry, Elliot immersed himself in the Rastafarian faith, living on the beach at Harbour View. Elliot allowed his locks to grow to a great length, giving rise to his nickname of \u2018Fred Locks\u2019.<\/p>\n

During his time living on the beach, he continued to write songs, one of which, \u2018Black Star Liners\u2019, referring to Marcus Garvey\u2019s shipping line (Black Star Line) intended to transport black Americans to Africa as part of the Back-to-Africa movement, came to the attention of producer and Twelve Tribes member Hugh Boothe. Boothe persuaded Locks to record the song, and it was released in 1975 on the Jahmikmusic label in Jamaica, and on Grounation in the United Kingdom, propelling Locks to cult status. This was followed up by \u2018The Last Days\u2019, which had a lesser impact.<\/p>\n

Grounation offshoot Vulcan issued the debut album \u2018Black Star Liner\/True Rastaman\u2019 in 1976, an album that has remained popular with roots reggae audiences ever since, with the title track regarded as a roots anthem.<\/p>\n

In the late 1970s, Elliot was also a member of the vocal trio Creation Steppers, along with Eric Griffiths and Willy Stepper, releasing records in Jamaica on their own Star of The East label, and having a hit in Jamaica with \u2018Stormy Night\u2019. <\/sup>In 1980, the trio travelled to the UK for a small tour, and began an association with London-based sound system operator and producer Lloyd Coxsone, who released a number of singles by the group, and also some Fred Locks solo records. <\/sup>These were collected on the album \u2018Love and only Love\u2019 in 1982.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Black Star Liner \/ Vision Of Redemption \/ I\u2019ve Got A Joy \/ Sons Of The Almighty \/ Sing A Long True Rastaman \/ Don\u2019t Let Babylon Use You \/ Walls \/ Wolf Wolf \/ Time To Change Uploaded for your listening pleasure tonight is the fine debut LP by Fred Locks,\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0fancied placing some more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2116"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5333,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2116\/revisions\/5333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}