Don Campbell

Don Campbell is a British reggae singer from north-west London, best known for his lovers rock records released since the mid-1990s.

Biography

Don Campbell was a member of Carlton 'Bubblers' Ogilvie and Tony 'Ruff Cutt' Phillips' Undivided Roots band, Creation Rebel, Singers and Players and Dub Syndicate in the early 1980s before embarking on a solo career. Campbell also played drums on Vivian Jones (singer) works, which proved much in demand in the Jah Shaka dances of that spiritually conscious, roots and culture period.

Don Campbell also played drums on Bim Sherman's Across the Red Sea album, which included Sherman's take on 19th century hymn, When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder, referencing The Book of Life, as well as Bim Sherman's cover of Stranger Cole and Gladstone Anderson's Just Like a River tune. Notably, Don Campbell also played drums and percussion on the first groundbreaking Dub Syndicate album, The Pounding System (Ambience In Dub) , released in 1982. Amongst a mostly original collection of compositions, the album featured versions of contemporaneous Prince Far I tracks, in particular, one vocal and dub song being an account of the life of Pan Africanist Jamaican...

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