Shabba Ranks
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Scritti Politti: Do The Gart, Man
Interview by Terry Staunton, New Musical Express, 16 March 1991
THE DANCEHALL FOUNDATIONS are shaking and there's outrage in the ragga ranks. A white pop star has plundered their culture with the aid of Lennon ...
Review by Mark Cooper, Q, July 1991
AS THE REIGNING king of Dancehall, Rexton Gordon aka Shabba Ranks is a major Jamaican sex symbol, ambitious enough to crush his rivals at Sunsplash ...
Shabba Ranks: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 5 October 1991
LIKE THE herbsman grassed upon by his neighhours, some nasty rumours have been circulating recently about Shabba Ranks. To wit: that he's completely lost the ...
Report by Richard Gehr, Newsday, 27 August 1992
CURRENTLY MAKING impressive inroads into the American market, dancehall reggae may be the most challenging--and, many would say, irritating--style of popular music since rap, which ...
Shabba Ranks: Taking Reggae Beyond Marley
Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 4 October 1992
Dancehall is the sound of young Jamaica, modern reggae in a faster, electronic style, and it's winning a once-elusive African-American audience ...
"Using Guns. That's Nothing To Do With Any Sort Of Music."
Report and Interview by Lloyd Bradley, The Independent, 17 April 1993
A man was hurt in a shooting at a ragga concert. Is violence taking over? Lloyd Bradley looks for some answers ...
Report by uncredited writer, Smash Hits, 26 May 1993
18-year-old Massie from Croydon is a regular at a South London club that's known for its ragga nights. Here she tells of a typical Thursday ...
Ragga Bragger — Shabba Ranks: Maestro Club, Bradford
Live Review by Simon Warner, The Guardian, 28 May 1993
Shabba Ranks, the bad boy of ragga, in Bradford ...
Shabba: Arrival — Ragga's Born Again
Report and Interview by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 25 December 1993
Just as grunge crossed over from the streets to the catwalk, RAGGA made the shift from underground to mainstream in 1993. Laying siege to the ...
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001
b. Rexton Fernando Gordon, 17 January 1966, Sturgetown, Jamaica, West Indies ...
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