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Sugar Minott: Inna Reggae Dance Hall (Heartbeat)

Don Snowden, The Boston Phoenix, 23 October 1986

BOB MARLEY'S international breakthrough spawned a glut of Jamaican journeyman scrambling for the reggae rainbow's seemingly attainable pot of gold but an inevitable byproduct of the crush of numbers was a dilution in the quality and inspirational force of Jamaican music.

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