Live & Up Close with Jimmy Cliff
BAaD
54 Calton Entry, Glasgow G40 2SB, UK
Scotland
55.85459600000001
-4.236972000000037
Description
Join us at BAaD for the first in a series of special up close & personal shows with world renowned artists in our intimate courtyard surroundings. As many legends throughout history do, the whole story starts during a devastating storm...We open on the Somerton District of St. James, Jamaica. With only one midwife tending to the entire village, a mother gives birth to a child, wraps him in a sheet, and takes him to shelter at a neighbor’s home as the hurricane blows her house away.However, everybody agrees, “There’s something special about this boy.”He becomes famous by the age of 14 for a hit coincidentally entitled “Hurricane Hattie.” He goes on to popularize reggae music everywhere. He changes the world. Nearly seventy years later, he doesn’t stop.This is the story of Jimmy Cliff.Nowadays, his impact remains inescapable. You have undoubtedly sung along to his immortal anthems like “I Can See Clearly Now,” “Wonderful World, Beautiful People,” “You Can Get It If You Really Want,” “The Harder They Come,” and many more. In addition to receiving his country’s highest honor “The Order of Merit,” he holds the distinction of being one of two Jamaican Rock and Roll Hall of Fame® Inductees—in good company with Bob Marley. Everyone from The Rolling Stones and Elvis Costello to Annie Lennox and Paul Simon has sought him out for collaborations, while Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, Cher, New Order, and Fiona Apple have recorded notable covers. Springsteen’s “Trapped” even graced the tracklisting of We Are The World. Bob Dylan famously proclaimed “Vietnam,” “the greatest protest song ever written.” An inimitable screen presence, he also starred in and figured prominently on the soundtrack of the 1972 classic The Harder They Come, which drew an international spotlight to reggae. Other film appearances include Club Paradise, Muscle Shoals, Marked For Death, and more.This is your chance to see the living legend up close in one of Glasgows best intimate performance spaces, BAaD.
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Start:
2019-05-25T17:00:00+01:00
End:
2019-05-25T23:00:00+01:00
Category
Music
Tickets
General Tickets
39.5
GBP
600
