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Jimmy Cliff: Respectability to Reggae

Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 22 November 1969

JIMMY CLIFF is the hip young Jamaican who's brought respectability to reggae. His 'Wonderful World, Beautiful People' is a development of the simple ska sound into a music form with a much wider appeal.

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