Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry: a limitless genius who took Jamaica into the future

By deeply connecting with the people and idyllic landscape of his island, Perry channelled a stream of ideas into mindblowing music * News: Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, visionary master of reggae, dies aged 85 * Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry: obituary “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. Continue reading...
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