Vivien Goldman, Rolling Stone, 8 July 1999
REGGAE LOST one of its most distinctive sounds with the death of producer and instrumentalist Augustus Pablo in Kingston, Jamaica, on May 18th. The cause of death was myasthenia gravis, a neurological disease that had long plagued him. He was forty-six.
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