Thank you sir!!! Funnily enough, I just said the same to a mate of mine who’s a bit of an Impressions geek! Hey Yuh is such a great track. The impact that CM & co had on reggae, really can’t be understated.
Hope you’re well mate!
Had a rummage over the weekend & put together a mix of early reggae covers of the amazing Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions.
Enjoy!
https://www.mixcloud.com/paul-homer/keep-on-moving-a-reggaetribute-to-curtis-mayfield-the-impressions/
Not as cringeworthy as the ‘Bakayo Sako, you let your country down’ song that some of our own scrotes were belting out on the train back to Brighton station.
While we’re on the subject, the same group sang ‘posh spice is a slapper…’ but replaced Gary Hart with Lewis Dunk!!! Wrong on so many levels!
If there was one person on this planet that was going to live forever, it would’ve been Rainford Hugh Perry (AKA Pipecock Jackson!)
I know it’s easy to say these things when someone passes away, but put simply - no Lee Perry = no reggae. Well, certainly not as we know it anyway.
Although his...
Such sad news to wake up too this morning. He’s one of my favourite artists who I was lucky enough to interview back stage at The Komedia in 2017. He could see I was a bit nervous & couldn’t have been any nicer. Gave me all the time I needed & seemed genuinely interested in what we were doing...
Just sold a Pet Shop Boys cassette for £150 on Discogs! Found it in a box of tapes I bought for a fiver at a car boot as I’ve just added a Technics tape player to the music room! There was a George Harrison one in there that sold for £30 as well, so if you’ve got any in the loft - dig em out!!!
Very sad news indeed! I only found his music fairly recently, but loved everything he did once I started digging, especially the Studio One output.
Rest forever gently.
https://youtu.be/5pTNWCLDt_g
Back again with another 'Version to Version!' Thanks to Jack & anyone else that gives it a listen!!
https://www.mixcloud.com/paul-homer/ska-beat-soul-presnts-reggae-version-to-version-volume-2/