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Jimmy Cliff: Hail Reggae's Lost King

Nick Hasted, The Independent, 5 September 2003

MANY PEOPLE THINK Bob Marley stole his crown. But it was Jimmy Cliff who gave reggae to the world, when he starred in and wrote half the music for Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come (1972).

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