Today, at long last, the sun is out and as so often my thoughts – and ears – turn to reggae. Today they turn to Jacob ‘Killer’ Miller.

In 1978 he enjoyed one of the genre’s biggest hits with the disco-reggae singalong Now That We’ve Found Love, fronting the band Inner Circle (the first song they recorded together).

A few years before that he teamed up with Augustus Pablo to define the Rockers sound with Keep On Knocking, a sprightly version of Pablo’s seminal dub Black Gun.

Miller made his debut as a small child a decade earlier, recording a song in 1968 called Love Is A Message even before his voice had broken.

He found his niche with Pablo, recording a succession of brilliant Rockers tunes including one of my all-time favourites, Tenement Yard, most of them with stellar dubs by King Tubby.

Moving on to work with Joe Gibbs, and earning the nickname ‘Killer’ Miller, at one point in the late 70s his popularity surpassed Bob Marley’s.

Throughout his career he alternated the pop style of Inner Circle with roots recordings like Tired Fe Lick Weed In A Bush, 80,000 Careless Ethiopians and Lamb’s Bread Collie.

At his best he combined the two, such as on this, the blissful and unforgettable Shaky Girl, featuring that trademark stuttering vibrato in his voice – and another Joe Gibbs dub production.

But his career was cruelly cut short when he was killed in a car accident on Marley’s own road, Hope Road, in 1980.