It’s another ‘voices of my life’ pick. It’s quite simply because there’s got to be a reggae track here. My favourite reggae record is ‘Dreadlocks In Moonlight’ by Lee Perry. And he produced ‘Hurt So Good’. That was me and my wife’s first dance when we got married. I went through a period when I was very young into skinhead culture, and I was as idiotic as you’d think. The Richard Allen thing. Yeah, I did have a skinhead.
When I first got into reggae in the early 70s, I was still living in Cannock which was not diverse at all. There was a cheap record label called ‘Music For Pleasure’ and they did an album called Wonderful World, Beautiful People. And it had Desmond Dekker and Jimmy Cliff and The Greyhounds and Dandy Livingstone, and I just loved it.
