Stir It Up - Directed by - Channel 4 - 1994
It took a long long long time before Channel 4 in the UK came back to reggae music.
The 1982 six one hour 'Deep Roots Music' shows - were a distant memory to most reggae fans in 1994.
Channel 4's remit towards reggae music seemed to be dealt with in one go.
No one was expecting six one-hour documentaries every year!
But one a year would have been nice. And if the BBC had done the same, by now we would have had a stack of reggae music documentaries to enjoy.
The big event of this documentary was that it was being made when Garnett Silk died in his mother's arms in that terrible fire at her home.
Garnett makes some great comments - and then you hear a news report about the fire.
It was a sad event.
Artists like Garnett Silk do not come along every day. And the knock-on effects were felt fairly quickly.
Luciano, who was on the same kind of track as Garnett Silk, then lost his way - and never fully recovered.
You see things usually come in two's in reggae music.
The Deejay thing, U Roy and Dennis Alcapone, the Dub thing - King Tubby and Errol T.
With Singers in the seventies, it was Dennis Brown and Gregory Isaacs.
When it came to Bands, The Wailers and Third World were very popular.
Luciano, I don't think is even mentioned in this documentary - which is curious.
But that is not to say that it is lacking. It's not. The interview that wasn't an interview with Gregory Isaacs - with the endless ringing phone - is so typical.
Bunny Lee trying to explain the history of reggae - with help from Max Romeo is also memorable.
The really telling thing is that since the broadcast of this documentary I cannot recall Channel 4 doing anymore 26 years!
What kind of remit is that.