Harmony greats The Heptones helped put Coxsone Dodd’s legendary Studio One on the map as the home of Jamaican rocksteady and reggae. (more…)

The loose ramshackle sound of this song can be attributed to one thing – they had never played it before the day they recorded it. And this was only the second take. (more…)

Alice Cooper’s second big hit seems like the perfect soundtrack for what was about to happen in the USA in November 2020. (more…)

Amazingly, this was The Sweet’s sixth straight hit single in 18 months when it reached No.4 in September 1972. But it was the first one they actually played on. (more…)

Here’s an all-star double-bill – Horace Andy singing and Tapper Zukie toasting and a nice laid-back dub as a bonus. (more…)

Big Youth was one of the earliest and most distinctive toasters. Here he is teaming up with Horace Andy on one of his earliest hits, The Killer. (more…)

T. Rex were going for their fifth number one with Children Of The Revolution but had to settle for their third No.2 instead. (more…)

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Slade had their third of their six number one singles in less than a year when Mama Weer All Crazee Now topped the charts for three weeks in September 1972. (more…)