Various Artists: King Tubby’s Fast Car (Serious Business)
Penny Reel, Black Echoes, 26 May 1990
THE MAN WHO own the Serious Business record label also drives a gleaming scarlet Mercedes-Benz sports car bearing the famous registration number JAH 50N, or JAH SON as it cursorily reads. A deft touch that.
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