Desmond Dekker: What is the secret of rock-steady's success?
Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 19 July 1969
THE SUCCESS of the strangely titled 'It Mek', which made a mammoth jump into the higher reaches of the chart last week, means that Desmond Dekker won't be singing in a Jamaican song festival that he's won for the past four years.
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