Paul Thompson grew up in the UK during the “two-tone” wave, a musical movement born in the late 1970s that saw the fusion of English punk and Jamaican genres such as ska – the fast-paced, brass-heavy ...
Millie Small, who has died at the age of 73, was still in her teens when she released the now-classic ‘My Boy Lollipop’ and paved the way for multiple Jamaican genres to take over on an international ...