Clint Eastwood (born Robert Brammer) is a

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n reggae

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, who recorded as a solo artist in the late 1970s and early 1980s before teaming up with UK deejay General Saint as the duo

Clint Eastwood & General Saint Clint Eastwood & General Saint were a reggae deejay duo of the early 1980s, consisting of Clint Eastwood (born Robert Anthony Brammer) and General Saint (born Winston Hislop). Eastwood was already an established solo deejay who had recorded sev ...

Biography

The younger brother of

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, Brammer took the trend of adopting the names of characters from

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s as stage names a step further by recording and performing under the name of one of the genre's most successful actors,

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. Eastwood recorded three albums in 1978 - ''African Youth'' and ''Step It In a Zion'' for producer

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, and ''Death In The Arena'' for Channel One. Further albums followed in 1979 and 1980, including ''Sex Education'' for

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, Eastwood one of a group of deejays who led the move from 'cultural' chants to

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chat and '

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'. 1981 saw the release of a live album recorded with

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and the start of a partnership with General Saint. The duo's first release, "Tribute to

General Echo Earl Anthony Robinson (8 December 1955 – 22 November 1980), better known as General Echo, a.k.a. Ranking Slackness, was one of the first reggae deejays to move away from 'cultural' lyrics towards ' slackness' (risqué or sexually explicit lyri ...

" remembered the recently killed slack deejay, and they would later hit the UK chart with their version of "Stop That Train". Both of the duo's albums made the top 5 of the

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Albums

*''African Youth'' (1978) Third World/Gorgon *''Death In The Arena'' (1978) Cha Cha *''Step It In a Zion'' (1978) Live & Love *''Jah Lights Shining'' (1979) Jamaica Sound *''Love & Happiness'' (1979) Burning Vibrations *''Clint Eastwood (Jamaica Sun)'' (1980) Amo *''Sex Education'' (1980) Greensleeves *''Live at London'' (1981) Vista (Dillinger & Clint Eastwood) *''Two Bad D.J.'' (1981) Greensleeves (Clint Eastwood & General Saint) *''Stop That Train'' (1983) Greensleeves (Clint Eastwood & General Saint) *''BBC Radio 1 In Concert'' (199?)

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(Clint Eastwood & General Saint) *''The Best of Clint Eastwood'' (1984)

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*''The Real Clint Eastwood'' (199?) Culture Press/Lagoon

References

External links

Clint Eastwood at Roots Archives
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