Honour for arts centre where Bob Marley danced with Naomi Campbell, 7

A community centre where Bob Marley and a young Naomi Campbell filmed a hit music video is to be honoured.

The former Keskidee Centre was Britain's first black arts centre and will be awarded a green plaque by Islington council in recognition of its cultural contribution. The centre, off Caledonian Road, was the set for the reggae legend's 1978 Is This Love video - shot as though at a children's birthday party.

The video stars the Streatham-born supermodel, aged seven.

Campbell said years later: "I remember being really nervous, being brought to this room to meet Bob Marley and I was like 'I don't want to meet him, he's got worms in his hair'.

"He was so handsome, he had this presence very much like a lion." Marley is said to have selected the Keskidee Centre and spent a day playing party games, singing and dancing with the children, who came from stage schools across London. Campbell was picked after attending the Barbara Speake Stage School in East Acton.

Ms Speake said: "Naomi was here from aged three until 14 and she was a very quiet, obedient young girl. She never put a foot wrong." Sandra Boyce, a Stoke Newington-based theatrical agent, was the chaperone for the children.

She said: "Bob had a huge entourage but was so humble and was really into working with the children. I think it's very important that a green plaque has been given to the site of the Keskidee because history was made there." The Keskidee Centre was founded by Guyanese-born Oscar Abrams in 1971, taking its names from a singing Caribbean bird.

It gave a generation of black teenagers their own space and Linton Kwesi Johnson, an educational officer at the centre, created dub poetry there. The green plaque will be unveiled by Tottenham MP David Lammy on 7 April.