Reggae Part 2: Reggae in Britain
Danny Holloway, NME, 27 January 1973
WHEN LABOUR IN England was becoming hard to come by during the 1950s, enticing proclamations were urgently sent to the West Indies. "Your Mother Country Needs You!" the poster read and thousands of patriotic black people took advantage of the special £10 boat trip to England.
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