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Bob Marley Vs The Banana Splits

It must be the silly season.  The BBC reportson a possible case of plagarism a where it is alleged that parts of Bob Marley’s Buffalo Soldier, may have been directly taken from The Banana Splits‘ theme tune. 
Not to be taken seriously, although Marley’s defenders paint an overly serious picture of the Bobster.  It’s currently unknown whether [...]

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The Best of Trojan

Trojan records recently ran a poll to find out who were the most popular reggae/ska/dub/etc artists. I’d have liked to see Lee Perry a bit further up some of these as a performer with The Upsetters but at least he polled well in best producer (mind you, it would be a shock for him not [...]

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Jonny Greenwood Is the Controller

This is some interesting news. Sometime Radiohead axeman Jonny Greenwood has been given free reign to pick his favourite reggae tracks from the mighty Trojan Records archive (not that Trojan ever need an excuse to release more stuff from their archives). The result is this album: Jonny Greenwood Is The Controller. Read [...]

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