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Founders of the Sound

on BBC Radio 1 England

Count Suckle and Duke Vin arrived from Jamaica in the late fifties, playing R 'n' B, early jazz, soui and reggae imported from their homeland; and Count Suckle's Q club became the hip hang-out for everyone into black music of the sixties. This is the story of sound systems and DJ culture over the past 40 years.

BBC Radio 1 England

About BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967.

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