Desmond Dekker dies at 64

May 26, 2006 21:14

Desmond Dekker has passed away.I have wrote an earlier post about how 0.0.7. was a very important song that shaped the politics in Jamaica. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, the different political factions in Jamaica would battle not only in the polls but also with guns, shooting each other in their 'battlefield' which tended to be the ghettos where ( Read more... )

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heavy_horse October 16 2006, 03:50:13 UTC
wow. I saw The Harder They Come as a high school kid. Music and Politics and economic survival - heavy stuff for a youngster, listen to the soundtrack often. I will seek out 007

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