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People used to look at UB40 with suspicion. -After all, it’s a British band of mainly white guys playing reggae. And its biggest hits were covers of songs by massive pop artists, like Neil Diamond ...

FOR many years, Shanachie Records has been one of the world’s leading sources for indigenous and roots music. In terms of reggae, its catalogue includes revered recordings from the music’s golden age ...

It was punk's "summer of hate", 1977, and the required pose was a sneer, a leather jacket and something hacked about – a spiky haircut, a ripped T-shirt, a sawn-off school tie. And, of course, no ...