The Soundtrack Of My Life

“Music’s all about taste. Lucky I got some,” the ever-modest Don Letts says with a laugh. Now 65, the man whose record collection inspired punk fans and musicians in the 70s to get into reggae – and got Bob Marley into punk – is spending some time in self-reflection with his new autobiography There And Black Again when he’s not directing videos or hosting his 6Music radio show. “Everything I am has come from music,” he says. “It’s not a job for me, it’s my life.”