Bunny Lee Presents A Tribute To The Late Great Sir Coxsone Dodd, Vol. 2

Declaration Of Rights

There's a reward - Joe Higgs (1972)

 Crystal Palace had its biggest crowd for years at the weekend - but not for football! Instead, 28,000 music lovers enjoured a six-hour feast of reggae, featuring both Jamaican acts and homegrown talent at Selhurst Park. Reggae Sunsplash came to town - and brought some of the hottest weather this summer with it. There were rastas in shorts, toddlers with dreadlocks, bare-chested punks and skimpily-clad females providing a vivid splash of colour. The park itself was jammed with bodies - sitting, reclining or dancing to the sounds coming from the massive stage.

Police deliberately kept a low profile, turning a blind eye to the widespread use of "sensimilia" (marijuana) which is part of the Rastafarian faith. But the high quality of the performances needed nostimulants.

The line-up included the Skatalites, Aswad, Black Uhuru, Sly & Robbie, Musical Youth, Dennis Brown.

Aswad - Back To Africa - Live London (1984) Rarity

Peter Tosh - Rasta Shook Them Up & Mark Of The Beast

Hugh Mundell - time and place

Better Must Come (Delroy Wilson)



I a Rebel Soul peut être interprétée, à la lumière des enseignements du fou de Dieu, comme une ode à la quête intérieure, à la transcendance des illusions et à l'union avec le divin. La rébellion devient alors un chemin mystique vers la vérité et l'amour universel

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VIBRATIONS SACRÉES - I a rebel soul par Aswad (Mardi 20 mai 2025)

In the year of the Aswad ROCKPALAST concert a film had its premiere in the British cinemas, which showed the living conditions of Jamaican UK immigrants including the confrontations with the police and the National Front as a narrative movie. It was called “Babylon” and was the pendant to Jamaicas “The Harder They Come”. Originally Babylon was co-financed by the BBC, they though resigned their support because the topic became to controversial. The plot was so explosive, that at the London premiere Blacks and Whites had to enter to the hall through separate entrances. The main actor of Babylon was born in Guyana and called Brinsley Forde. He was the lead singer of a band from western London founded 1974 in the Ladbroke Grove area together with drummer Angus Gaye alias “Drummie Zeb” and three further musicians, who already weren’t with them on stage in Cologne anymore. The band’s name is Arabic and was meant as a statement: Aswad – black!

When Aswad played the Rockpalast recording at the Studio-B of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk nowbody expected them to become pop stars in the future, yet. At this time they still were part of the London punky reggae party, which Lee Perry initialized with a Bob Marley song, on which the 18 year old Drummie Zeb did the drumming. Aswad, as well as Steel Pulse and Matumbi, joined the coalition of British underdogs against the upcoming Thatcherism and played together with punk bands in the line-up of the Rock Against Racism campaign in universities, youth centers and clubs throughout the island.

The Rockpalast concert shows the Band in an early stage, as they only already released two of their about 30 albums: influenced by punk, raw and untamed, years before they rose to be one of the most important reggae bands from Great Britain next to Steel Pulse. - Helmut Philipps (September 2016)

I A Rebel Soul

Old Fashioned Way - Ken Boothe Cover

Israel Vibration -The Same Song

The Invasion Aka Black Wadada- 2 Versions- Jackie Edwards Vs Burning Spear

Old Fashioned Way - Ken Boothe Cover

Mammoth Steppe