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Burning Spear: Live

Peter Silverton, Sounds, 17 December 1977

IN WRITING his plays, Bertolt Brecht operated according to a Roamin Rolland maxim: "Pessimism of the intellect; optimism of the will". Burning Spear's music works on the same basis.

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