1985 Handsworth riots 1500 police officers drafted into the area, about 45 shops looted and burnt, and a trail of damage running into hundreds of thousands of pounds. As well as racial tension, unemployment was seen as a major factor in the riots; by the time of the riots, fewer than 5% of the black population to have left school that summer had found employment. The riots were the first of a series of similar riots across the country during the autumn of 1985, notably the Broadwater Farm riot in London which also resulted in a fatality (the murder of policeman Keith Blakelock).
The Tin Man Was a Dreamer Jim Price. Having recently completed his duties on the Rolling Stones' "STP tour" of North America, Hopkins began work on his second official solo album in London during September 1972. Sessions took place at the Beatles' old Apple Studio, in short bursts between Hopkins' session work for what would be two major releases of 1973: George Harrison's "Living in the Material World" and the Stones' "Goats Head Soup" (the latter's held at Dynamic Sound in Kingston, Jamaica). All the material was written by either Hopkins or in collaboration with singer Jerry Lynn Williams. One of the solo compositions, "Edward", was