Island Platform
Island Records - A History of 50 Years Of Cutting Edge Music
Artists such as U2, Roxy Music, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Bob Marley and - initially and exceptionally: Millie Small - all have one major, creative platform in common - a unique record label founded in 1959. This record label, in spite of being swallowed up 20 years ago by Polydor and subsequently enveloped into the Universal brand, remains a byword for independent creativity. This was Island Records, founded in Kingston, Jamaica by Chris Blackwell and despite a modest beginning pressing discs on borrowed equipment at a nearby radio station and scratching together some office space on a tiny budget, the business grew following a move to London in 1962, bringing with it a consolidation of the new wave of ska and American R&B which lit a fuse in drab late-fifties / early 60's Britain.
Historians will say of course, that it was with the Beatles and the Mersey Sound, that popular music suddenly woke up to itself after the initial flush of Mid-50's Rock & Roll had long since waned into a balladeering wasteland and a renewed mish-mash of tame hybrid styles geared to "family entertainment" - and of course there is no doubt that that the early Mersey sound crashed through all this big-time. But this was also a period of a massive cross-fertilisation of styles, and for Island Records, the first big event was to achieve a crossover for ska music into the mainstream via a crackling, populist yet unquestionably "different" sound - Millie Small's "My Boy Lollipop" - a smash hit in 1964 and a harbinger of things to come in terms of breaking new acts with styles which were uniquely ahead of the curve of what was acceptably mainstream.
Thus 3 years after this, Island was focussing on Blues-based rock music / psychedelic folk crossovers from a crop of white musicians including the extraordinary John Martyn as well as Free (a major act of the festival circuit), Spooky Tooth and Stevie Winwood's Traffic. Later came progressive bands such as King Crimson and Jethro Tull featuring a demonic Ian Anderson fronting up with that archetypal rock music instrument - the flute!
By the late 60's the label was signing a wave of eclectic folk acts including Dr Strangely Strange, Nick Drake and Fairport Convention - each hugely individual and influential - and shortly afterwards adding a strand of art-pop to the mix, via Bryan Ferry's Roxy Music.
But of course, it does not stop there. Moving back to its Jamaican roots, the label signed a band locally feted in hometown Jamaica called Bob Marley and the Wailers. Convinced that they had found a "black rock star as big as Hendrix", according to Chris Blackwell, Island Records invested heavily on his instincts and produced Marley's first album "Catch a Fire". History was made. Soon, Bob Marley was to become Island Records' biggest selling act.
Following this reassertion of reggae as a musical force, many reggae acts followed, including Burning Spear, Toots and the Maytals and Steel Pulse. But alongside these were also Robert Palmer, Grace Jones and Tom Waits - and more tellingly, from the Dublin connections which started with Dr Strangely Strange and which influenced the development of acts such as Thin Lizzy, Island signed a new and raw act called U2 , who were, of course, to become the stellar rock act of the 1980's and some would say beyond.
The influence of Island Records is thus there for all to see. When looking at the major waves of creative forces against the explosive backdrop of changing popular music tastes in the decades after the 1960's, attention is grabbed by labels such as Island Records. Such labels took the commercial chances which ensured a raft of creative flowerings, and regular, risk-embracing forays into uncharted waters of creativity.
About the Author
Jimi St. Pierre writes for travel and entertainment companies in the UK including Limited Edition Rock Photography Gallery www.rockarchive.com . Rockarchive has
photo prints
of several Island Records stars amongst a huge range of rock music images from 5 decades of popular music.
Island Platform
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I need help for Poptropica Time Tangled Island!e-mail mark_lupa@yahoo.com?
I was talking to the orcale and she gave me this clue what does it mean.
I see an artist's workshop.
I see a silver metal hanging from a wooden platform.
First, go to Time Tangled Island (if you are not already on it). Walk to the right, and you will see a woman in front of the lab. Now, go inside Pendelum’s Lab. Once inside, go all the way down the ramps and then go all the way to the left and push the big plug together. This will activate the Future Machine. Next, jump onto the plug, and then up again to where you see a blue light. Talk to the woman you met outside the lab, and she will give you an item -”Mission Printout”. After you receive the printout, you may read it by going to your inventory. Now, enter the blue light. You will appear in a brown world with insects flying above.
Go all the way to the left, where you will see an old man/woman (depending on whether your character is a boy or girl) that looks like your character. Talk to him/her, and he/she will introduce him/herself as you, but 50 years older. Ask if he/she can help you repair the past, ad he/she will give you an item which helps you travel though time - the “Time Device”. The time device is in your inventory now, but it can also be used by clicking on the time device icon now located at the bottom left corner of the gamescreen for easier access.
Now, click to use the time device. Click on the icon of a man in a blue hood with black goggles. You can check which time in the past it is by looking in the middle of the time device. In this case, it is 1953 AD. The knob on the left will turn green. Press the knob to travel through the selected time! (Note: All the areas are in A.D. time, except Ancient Greece, which is in B.C.)
Mount Everest, 1953 -You should have arrived in an icy area. You are on Mount Everest. Where you arrived, you should see that there is a place to walk on the right side. Keep following the “path” (you should easily be able to see which way you should go). After some jumping and climbing around, you should reach a dead end with a rope above you. Go up the rope. Now, you should have arrived on another icy platform. Move to the left, where you will see a man in a blue coat. Ask him why he’s stopped there, and he will tell you he lost his climbing goggles. Move to his left and you will see some small icy platforms hanging above you. Keep jumping higher until you get to the last icy platform. You should see a rope hanging above you. Go up on it. Now you are on another icy platform. Move to the left, where you will see some small icy platforms hanging above you. Again, keep jumping higher until you get to the last icy platform. Beware of the falling icicles! Bumping into one will knock you over, which will slow you down. After a bit of jumping, you should arrive at another platform, covered in snow. Move to the right, and take the brown statue (”Statue of Liberty”). Now, click on the time travel device. Choose the icon with a man with brown hair and a moustache (1882 AD), and press the knob!
Statue of Liberty, 1882 -You should have arrived in a place with a lot of wood. This is the workplace where the Statue of Liberty was built. Go to the left, and enter the house marked “Gadget, Gauthier et Cie”. Go to the right and talk to the man there. Choose the third chat option to give the man the Statue of Liberty you got in Mount Everest. (To do this, tell him, “I found your study model!”) When you give it to him, the time period (for 1882) will be repaired! Now, exit the “Gadget, Gauthier et Cie” house. Now go to the very left, where you will see a man next to a box and a barrel. Jump onto the box, then to the roof of the “Gadget, Gauthier et Cie” house. Move along the roof, and jump onto the chimney. Now jump onto the brown statue on the right. Then jump up to the wooden ledge above, then another ledge. Then jump to the left with all your might! When you’ve landed, you should have acquired an item - “Notebook”. If not, just try again until you do!
The Graff House, 1776 -Click on the time device again. This time, choose the icon of a man with a brown pigtail in his hair and is wearing a black hat (1776 AD). Move to the left, and try to avoid the hedgehogs as they will knock you over if bumped into. Soon you should arrive in front of the Graff House, a very huge red house. Jump up to the rooftop of the house (by using the window ledges). On the roof, look for the chimney with a bag of white rocks. Jump to it, and grab it! You should have acquired the item “Salt Rocks”. Now use your Time Device and click on the woman with a pink turban on her head. Press the knob and you should be in the Mali Empire, 1387!
Mali Empire (Timbuktu), 1387 -You should be in some very brown surroundings. Move to the right until you pass by your second green bush. Above it thee should be a little ledge. Jump on it, then jump again onto the building on the left. There should be some green leaves platform above you, jump on that. Then jump to the building on the right, then to the building above the one you were just standing on. You should see a person with a white turban and blue robe th