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An obscure British-invasion era quartet signed to the Philips label, their perhaps most obviously attribute aside from a pleasingly melodious debut single, “After Tomorrow,” — done in a completely Beatle-esque mode — were their flamboyant outfits — done in the way from the Pearly Kings and Queens — a charitable …

Jamaican teenager Millie Little stunned the music business by getting number 2 in both U.S. as well as the U.K. with “My Young man Lollipop” in 1964. Given birth to Millicent Little in Clarendon, she was the child of the overseer on the sugars plantation (her reported day of delivery …

A pioneering push behind the rise of Caribbean music, acoustic guitar virtuoso Ernest Ranglin was created in Manchester, Jamaica, in 1932. He started playing ukulele like a son, quickly graduating to acoustic guitar; during his teenagers he began carrying out live both locally and in the Bahamas, frequently in tandem …

Bad Manners, made up of vocalist Buster Bloodvessel (given birth to Douglas Trendle), Louis Cook (guitar), David Farren (bass), Martin Stewart (keyboards), Brian Tuitti (drums), Gus Herman (trumpet), Chris Kane (saxophone), and Andrew Marson (saxophone), were among the many rings to consider their inspiration through the Specials as well as …