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From the latest Caribbean Beat - thank you David Katz! Steppin’ Razor: The Life of Peter Tosh, by John Masouri (Omnibus Press, 486pp, ISBN 9781847728364) An uncompromising singer who used his music to demand the legalisation of marijuana worldwide and to foster the dismantling of Apartheid, Peter Tosh was reggae’s original firebrand. This spellbinding biography highlights that Tosh hijacked a bus during the Walter Rodney riots of 1968, and was brutally beaten by Jamaican police in 1978 for berating politicians and smoking weed on stage. It also reminds us that, although he enjoyed patronage from the Rolling Stones upon leaving the Wailers, his confrontational style alienated journalists, who widely dismissed him as a second-rate pretender to Bob Marley’s throne. Masouri is particularly strong on the rise of the Wailers and Tosh’s pioneering solo work with Sly and Robbie, while the subsequent descent into the mental instability and doomed romance that prefaced his terrible murder is chillingly related. David Katz
Posted on: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 21:12:02 +0000

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