ONE LOVE: REGGAE: Duke 'Peckings' Price

“Well the album is very special to me because it's the first one we released on our label. It's Bitty Mclean “On Bond Street” that we actually produced and that's what we launched the Peckings label on. And it was a smash and not only that, I know that the accolades and all the things that went with this album which is so true because the album is truly a classic album, d’you know, and will remain a classic for ever d’you know, if I was supposed to compare it to an album I don't really even (think I could) - the album - it's fantastic. You don't have to skip a track you can just play from track one to track twelve on the vinyl - yeah that's my favourite.My dad is the first person to sell Jamaican music in England in 1960. I came to England 1966 and I was nine and I used to have to stay in on some Saturday's when I was ten and sell records when the sound man come around and I'd have to play them on the ‘gram and sell records, d’you know. So I've been selling records from when I was ten. It's my culture, d’you know, its paid for me to come to England, paid for me through school, my parents bought their house. My dad’s had the shop from 1975. You know the music is - that’s all we do - d’you know. I have no retirement because I'm just too music until - yeah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah - that’s it!”Duke ‘Peckings’ Price: Peckings Record Shop, Shepherds Bush, London, 18th January 2019Bitty Mclean & The Supersonics: On Bond Street Kgn. JA. released 2004Peckings Record ShopPeckings Records
Duke 'Peckings' Price, Bitty Mclean: On Bond Street Kgn. JA.

 

“Well the album is very special to me because it's the first one we released on our label. It's Bitty Mclean “On Bond Street” that we actually produced and that's what we launched the Peckings label on. And it was a smash and not only that, I know that the accolades and all the things that went with this album which is so true because the album is truly a classic album, d’you know, and will remain a classic for ever d’you know, if I was supposed to compare it to an album I don't really even (think I could) - the album - it's fantastic. You don't have to skip a track you can just play from track one to track twelve on the vinyl - yeah that's my favourite. 

My dad is the first person to sell Jamaican music in England in 1960. I came to England 1966 and I was nine and I used to have to stay in on some Saturday's when I was ten and sell records when the sound man come around and I'd have to play them on the ‘gram and sell records, d’you know. So I've been selling records from when I was ten.  

It's my culture, d’you know, its paid for me to come to England, paid for me through school, my parents bought their house. My dad’s had the shop from 1975. You know the music is - that’s all we do - d’you know. I have no retirement because I'm just too music until - yeah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah - that’s it!” 

Duke ‘Peckings’ Price: Peckings Record Shop, Shepherds Bush, London, 18th January 2019 

Bitty Mclean & The Supersonics: On Bond Street Kgn. JA. released 2004 

Peckings Record Shop 

Peckings Records