Ranking Dread (born Winston Brown, c.1955, died 1996) was a Jamaican reggae… Read Full Bio ↴Ranking Dread (born Winston Brown, c.1955, died 1996) was a Jamaican reggae deejay who grew up in the Kingston ghettos of Rema and Tivoli. He became famous for his work with the Ray Symbolic sound system in the 1970s. He later lived a life of crime and died in a Jamaican prison.
Ranking Dread first became known as a deejay on the Ray Symbolic sound system in Jamaica, but by the late 1970s he had moved to London, where he worked with Lloyd Coxsone's sound system. He released four albums starting with Girls Fiesta in 1978, produced by Linval Thompson, and worked with producer Sugar Minott on his third album, Lots of Loving. He had a minor UK hit in the early 1980s with "Fatty Boom Boom", but in the mid-1980s, he faded from the music scene but became notorious for his criminal activities, and was labelled "the most dangerous man in Britain and the number one Yardie Godfather". This was backed up by his appearance on a British television programme in the late 1980's entitled The Cook Report. However, when interviewed by Ben Chin in 1990 for a Canadian TV documentary, he denied all allegations put to him.
He had been involved with Jamaican gang leader Claude Massop, and was wanted by Jamaican police in connection with over thirty murders. He travelled to the United Kingdom, where he lived under several aliases including Errol Codling, became the head of a Hackney drug-dealing and armed robbery gang, and was wanted by the police there in connection with rape, murder, prostitution, and dealing in crack cocaine. He was arrested at an illegal drinking club in 1988 and found to be in possession of illegal drugs and deported later that year, officially for entering the country illegally, after being branded the most dangerous foreign national living in Britain. In 1990, after being deported from the United States, he was arrested in Canada for allegedly slashing his girlfriend's face with a knife after entering the country illegally on a fake passport, and attempted to gain refugee status there, claiming that he feared for his life in Jamaica due to his political affiliations.
He was eventually extradited back to Jamaica where he died in prison in 1996.
Ranking Dread first became known as a deejay on the Ray Symbolic sound system in Jamaica, but by the late 1970s he had moved to London, where he worked with Lloyd Coxsone's sound system. He released four albums starting with Girls Fiesta in 1978, produced by Linval Thompson, and worked with producer Sugar Minott on his third album, Lots of Loving. He had a minor UK hit in the early 1980s with "Fatty Boom Boom", but in the mid-1980s, he faded from the music scene but became notorious for his criminal activities, and was labelled "the most dangerous man in Britain and the number one Yardie Godfather". This was backed up by his appearance on a British television programme in the late 1980's entitled The Cook Report. However, when interviewed by Ben Chin in 1990 for a Canadian TV documentary, he denied all allegations put to him.
He had been involved with Jamaican gang leader Claude Massop, and was wanted by Jamaican police in connection with over thirty murders. He travelled to the United Kingdom, where he lived under several aliases including Errol Codling, became the head of a Hackney drug-dealing and armed robbery gang, and was wanted by the police there in connection with rape, murder, prostitution, and dealing in crack cocaine. He was arrested at an illegal drinking club in 1988 and found to be in possession of illegal drugs and deported later that year, officially for entering the country illegally, after being branded the most dangerous foreign national living in Britain. In 1990, after being deported from the United States, he was arrested in Canada for allegedly slashing his girlfriend's face with a knife after entering the country illegally on a fake passport, and attempted to gain refugee status there, claiming that he feared for his life in Jamaica due to his political affiliations.
He was eventually extradited back to Jamaica where he died in prison in 1996.
Fattie Boom Boom
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@gwynedd-1
I remember Ranking Dread back in the 'Yardie days of London' before he was deported and subsequently murdered in a prison cell. I always got on ok with him but he was a gangsta and proud of it. You reap what you sow. RIP Winston Colding/Brown.
@albiklausner5398
Had this when I was about 15(37 years ago!)in Kensal Rise NW10, proper tune!! Still live in Rise, best place!!!!✊
@zukispur5493
Big up the risemandem. From Tottenham. Fatman sound system; ~}
@Dragonrdh
I grew up in Harlesden in the 60s and 70s. We used to go blues in Kensal Rise and Kensal Green a lot.
@foureyesforprez9922
First heard this in Roundwood Park
@Dragonrdh
Cool! I used to live in Kensal Rise, and Harlesden
@Dragonrdh
@@foureyesforprez9922 Loved Roundwood Park! And King Eddie's. We were lucky to live so close to two nice parks.
@fishwars5979
I remember this back in the day,absolute tune.takes me back to the good old days that have now gone. What a shame.
@TheMightyKingzuru
Much respect to all the big girls in the world!!
@bassackwards3433
Brings back memories of Brixton hanging out by the Frontline - Greensleeves labels were the ultimate