Goldman thinks that “larger forces beyond control” are making her reflect on the period. But at the time, she had no idea that their diverse community was making history. Her old pals the Raincoats still live down the road from her old flat-the site of some of the original punky reggae parties-which, she says, is pointed out on rock’n’roll walking tours of the area. Goldman now lives in Jackson Heights, NYC. Four decades later, Goldman’s collection of reggae 45s and 12-inches was acquired by New York University’s Fales Library (also home to the Riot Grrrl and Downtown collections). She was among the first to draw the line between the Jamaican sound and punk, a relationship she saw emerging first-hand as a resident of west London neighborhood Ladbroke Grove: “Basic premise: Jamaican music is to punk music what r’n’b music was to 60s beat groups,” she wrote in Sounds, September 3, 1977. Bouncing between all the British inkies in the 1970s, Goldman became the UK’s reggae envoy, and reported on the ensuing racist violence and fascist uprising at home.
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