Jimmy Cliff: Hail Reggae's Lost King
Nick Hasted, Independent, The, 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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