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Dave K wrote:...... and put out a magazine in the 80's (in total there were 7 or 8 issues...

Reggae Quarterly, the best bloody Reggae magazine in the world! ( that reggae-mad teenagers like myself read as a revelation...no internet in those days ( and most of what they write these days is based on your research!)
Absolute groundbreaking effort.

I couldn't speak english then, but your magazine made me learn more than all the classes I took!
Maximo Respeto!

@Inyaki

Thanks for those very kind words. I was the same way with Small Axe, Ray Hurford's publication....waiting anxiously for each new issue, as at the time it, along with issues of Black Echoes that arrived here always 6 weeks after publication, was pretty the only way to get printed information on reggae music back then.
And it was Ray who was always very encouraging, and helpful in supporting any endevour. He's truly one of a kind.

I hope we meet one day.

@DonBanyan
no sir - 'twas I that stumbled upon the cure for all ills in the form of mouldy bread.
I shall take this to the academy if you will not cease and desist from your scurrilous claims!

Didn't we have this thread a few months ago?
I wrote my entire life story (in braille). If deleted, no problem...

haha.. my ex gave me this CD which has full of reggae and hawain music then I listened to it. I love it. after 3 years from now I still used. Believe me, not to remember him but just to start my day and have fun in listening.
REGGAE rules

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I grew up listening to hip hop cause that was what was always playin in the neighborhood i grew up in, but i always at least knew of Bob Marley. One day i was in a record store and some random guy comes up to me and a friend and hands us Israel Vibration- Same Song and says to us "this album will change your life" so we bought it and the rest is history. I have no clue who this person was but i owe him a lot. Later that year i seen them perform here in D.C (They put on one of the best shows i have ever seen still to date) and i was hooked ever since. I have since converted my soon to be wife, who only listened to pop music, and even my dog is named Kingston....I don't know what i would do without reggae music.

Someone already mentioned it, but the Clash's "Sandinista" LP was also my introduction. RIP Joe Strummer and Mikey Dread.

The Rockers Soundtrack first cassette tape I owned the rest is History!

I found Bob Marley & The Wailers "Survival" LP in the cellar of my parents between many folk and rock material. This was 6 years ago and it changed my life at all. now i'm 20 and i only listen to reggae, from morning to night, all day long when i can...

Around 1975 a friend of mine came to me claiming that he heard some real great music on the radio: Reggae!
For proof he played his first Reggae album he bought the day before: Bob Marley's Rasta Revolution.
The first song "Mr. Brown" blew me away immediately and I was lost for Reggae.
The next day I went straight to the record shops in Munich and bought some of the very few Reggae records available by then.

The first two Reggae records I remember were Jamming by Bob and the Wailers and Uptown top Ranking by Althea and Donna. From memory they were both in the UK charts at the same time, late 70's. Then a mate went to see Bob Marley and The Wailers at the Glasgow Apollo, just as we were both getting into Punk Rock. We were about 13 years old. I saw the Clash in 1980 with Mikey Dread and it went on from there. African Anthem is still my favourite lp.