"Return of Django" is a 1969 instrumental[3][4][5] by the Upsetters, a studio band, led by Lee "Scratch" Perry, who wrote and produced the song. Backed with "Dollar in the Teeth", it made #5 on the UK Singles Chart.[1]
| "Return of Django" | |
|---|---|
| Single by the Upsetters | |
| from the album Return of Django | |
| Released | 1969[1] |
| Recorded | 1969[1] |
| Genre | Reggae[2] |
| Label | Upsetter[1] |
| Songwriter(s) | Lee Perry[2] |
| Producer(s) | Lee Perry[2] |
Use in popular culture
edit- Grand Theft Auto: London 1969 uses both Return of Django and Dollar in the Teeth on one of its stations.[6]
- Return of Django appears in the film This Is England.[6]
- The UK Inland Revenue used this for an advert in 2004.[7]
References
edit- ^ a b c d Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 576. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- ^ a b c "Upsetters* - Return Of Django". Discogs. 1969. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
- ^ John Masouri Wailing Blues: The Story of Bob Marley's Wailers 2008 - Page 78 "CHAPTER FIVE Upsettin' LEE Perry used Family Man and other members of the Hippy Boys on the majority of his ... him for 'Prince In The Back'), and J. J. Johnson, for whom he voiced the acrimonious 'Run For Cover', aimed at Coxsone."
- ^ Stephen Davis, Peter Simon Reggae international 1982 - Page 81 "By the time [1969] the Wailers first threw their lot in with Lee Perry, Lee had built up a well- deserved reputation through his stewardship with ... singles directed at Coxsone, "Run for Cover" and "The Upsetter," which became a smash hit."
- ^ "The Upsetter" Black Music (January 1975) "Perry says the song was his was of expressing how he felt about the way Clement Dodd (Sir Coxsone) had treated him financially while he had been working for Dodd. It spoke of revenge: "You take people for fool, yeah / And use them as a tool, yeah / But I am the av-en-ger..."
- ^ a b "The-Upsetters". Planetradiocity.com. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
- ^ "Music in Inland Revenue TV Adverts & Commercials". Songofthesalesman.co.uk. Retrieved 9 July 2013.