![]() ![]() There was a musical community, of which I was a part." ![]() At the time there were no barriers between journalist and artist. ![]() "I thought his bass lines were so imaginative and melodic," recalls Goldman, now based in New York and still one of the most creative, multi-talented bon vivants to ever pioneer a world-music series for the BBC, write a biography of Bob Marley, hang out with Fela Kuti and teach a course on David Bowie at New York University. Goldman had just spent some time in a recording session with Aswad, and she couldn't get a bass line that she'd heard George "Levi" Oban play out of her head. In the shadows of Thatcher and the wake of The Sex Pistols, subcultures and dub cultures were mingling and merging in her Ladbroke Grove neighborhood her neighbors included Joe Strummer and the reggae band Aswad. In 1981, Vivien Goldman was a writer for the London music weekly Sounds and a sometime backup singer. ![]()
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