77 y-o LEE "Scratch" PERRY Jamaica's Musical Reggae Genius 3-hour interview with Dr. Ev of CRS. One of the most amazing interview.....Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, Chris Blackwell, Tuff Gong revealed.
77 y-o Disc jockey, producer, record businessman, songwriter, singer Lee Perry has been a guiding force in the development of reggae.In addition to his own trailblazing music, Lee Perry has produced hits for the Wailers,Junior Byles,Max Romeo,the Heptones,Gregory Isaacs,Junior Murvin, and the Clash.His recording debut with The Chicken Scratch on Dodd's Studio One label in the early 60s,he became known as Scratch Perry.He produced hits for Justin Hines, Delroy Wilson, and Shenley Dufus.
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He recorded his own material like Trials and Crosses and Doctor Dick. 1968, he had a hit with People Funny Boy, billing himself as Lee King Perry.People Funny Boy was one of the first real reggae hits.Most of Perry's late-60s hits,like Clint Eastwood,Live Injection, and Return of Django #5 U.K,1969, In 1969 Perry began working with the Wailers. Aston Family Man Barrett and his drummer brother Carlton from the Upsetters become the most acclaimed Jamaican group in the world. Duppy Conqueror,Small Axe,Kaya, and Sun Is Shining were some of the Wailers' songs Perry wrote. In 1974 he built his Black Ark Studio.Perry was one of the pioneers of the reggae instrumental studio art known as dubbing reworking a taped track by removing some parts and exaggerating others. read more
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