2/1/2024 0 Comments Young black gay men videos![]() Musicland was the brainchild of Lee Gopthal, an enterprising Jamaican entrepreneur of Indian origin who quickly realized that a burgeoning population of young men and women who had arrived in xenophobic Britain from various Caribbean islands in the sun sought connection with ‘home’ through music. It was a small record shop located on Willesden Lane, around the corner from the fish-and-chip shop on Kilburn High Street that my father managed, and above which I lived with my mother, sister and dad’s Irish ‘other woman.’ A musical connection To earn pocket money, aged 16, I worked at Musicland on Saturday mornings in 1964. While my presence in Brixton may have provoked open curiosity-laced-with-wariness, it was far from my first exposure to Britain’s West Indian community. That I looked lost, the very first time I made the journey from my North London Finsbury Park home, didn’t allay the suspicious glances: and an unspoken, ‘Wah this white bwoy with de Black man ‘fro doing ’round here?’ looks. Credit: London Transport Museum.Ī 23-year old Caucasian sporting a mass of very curly brown hair provoked comments not just from cheeky queens, but also from complete strangers wondering whether my first-generation-British-born mother might have ‘strayed’ nine months before my birth. Entrance to Brixton Underground station a month after opening, August 1971.
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