Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry: a limitless genius who took Jamaica into the future
by Lloyd Bradley from on (#5NXTK)
By deeply connecting with the people and idyllic landscape of his island, Perry channelled a stream of ideas into mindblowing music
Until reggae it was all Kingston ... Kingston, Kingston, Kingston! Ska? ... Rocksteady? ... they were Kingston things with the same Kingston men doing the same Kingston things."
Lee Scratch" Perry - who has died aged 85 - was talking me through perhaps the most significant gear change in the earlier years of Jamaican music - and was understandably animated, even by his own hyperactive standards.
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