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Desmond Dekker and Laurel Aitken: Old Rude Boys Never Die

Chris Salewicz, Face, The, September 1980

DESMOND DEKKER and Laurel Aitken are two Jamaican vocalists who, in earlier musical incarnations, helped lay the ground for the eventual acceptance of reggae music into British mainstream musical thought.

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