Peter Tosh: 'Volatile'
Lloyd Bradley, Q, November 1987
Bitter, violent, a few bricks short of the load, Peter Tosh was a hard man to love. Lloyd Bradley investigates the gangland connections that resulted in his brutal murder in Jamaica on September 12.
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