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Was listening to the Prince, and wondering how old he was now...well, he died today...RIP

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/ ... ca-jamiaca

Great story here:

https://www.youtube.com/v/wv1Iy26qlLk?a ... &version=3

One of my favorite tunes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz7sOX5OLG0

and of course:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3DAHAPLaVI

He's a Hard Man Fe Dead. RIP Prince Buster, one of Jamaica's musical greats.

One of THE legends of Jamaican music. We gonna keep him alive by spinning his records - that way he'll always be with us! You pick him up, you lick him down, him bounce right back.

One of the most important figures in the history of Jamaican music, a true legend. R.I.P.

"And if you should see Stinky Pummells and Herbman, we grew together,
Tell them Prince Buster says, 'So long, sorry we had to go so soon.
Since music be the food of love, I’ll forever sing on at Forresters Hall.'"
(Ghost Dance)

Even if you only count the bright yellow Fabulous Greatest Hits LP, The Prince was one of the key players who helped to introduce a whole generation of white English kids to all things Jamaican. The new music of independence, of course, in many of its variations, but also the cultural connections that his music celebrated: proverbs, superstitions, boxing, sounds on the lawn, nicknames, gangsters and rude-rude-rudees, geography and street names, sexism, Afro-centrism, Red Stripe, slackness, and much more. (And you could say his involvement in the TwoTone revival brought another generation into the fold.)

Here is my small tribute to the big Prince Buster

https://www.mixcloud.com/JahMon/jahmon- ... ard-radio/