It’s fair to say David Isaacs is not a household name, even in reggae circles. But he was an important figure in the music’s evoution.

His 1968 recording of Stevie Wonder’s song Place In The Sun, produced by the great Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry put Trojan Records on the UK music map, thanks to its popularity with skinheads.

It’s a seminal tune but I prefer this uplifting update he recorded a decade later with The Revolutionaries – Sly and Robbie and all – mostly because of its fantastic dub version.

Isaacs, whose first Jamaican hit was I’d Rather Be Lonely back in 1966, went on to record his debut album in 1979 with Roots Radics, the Jamaican band whose rhythm section boasted some of the best nicknames since the Studio One drummer Leroy “Horsemouth” Wallace – bassist Errol “Flabba” Holt, guitarist Eric “Bingy Bunny” Lamont and drummer Lincoln “Style” Scott.

Isaacs never found mainstream success though he received a Grammy nomination in the Eighties, after joining Ronnie Davies adn Keith Porter in The Itals, underlining his significance in reggae history.

And to say he came from a large family would be an understatement: he was the eldest of 16 children for his mother.