During the late'60s and early'70s, a multicultural revolution took place on the dancefloors in Britain-and it couldn't have happened without Trojan Records. The iconic London-based label had its finger on the pulse of the country's new wave of Jamaican immigrants, and as quickly as they signed top acts like the Upsetters and Jimmy Cliff, they made their mark on the British youth culture by kicking off a new craze for reggae, dub, rocksteady, and ska.
Combining archival footage with new interviews with legendary artists like Lee "Scratch" Perry, Neville Staple, Marcia Griffiths, Dandy Livingstone, Lloyd Coxsone, and Pauline Black, Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records unveils as-yet untold stories behind this fateful period in music history. As director Nicolas Jack Davies charts the rise of the label, he collectively celebrates how this period of immigration and innovation transformed British popular culture and diversified their music.