Jamaica turned Rock and Roll on its head and conquered on the world.
It started in the sixties with the Blue Bat and singers like Prince Buster.
But then they changed the beat. Blue Beat became Rock Steady. And Rock Steady evolved into a style with an unmistakable rhythm - the opposite of Rock and Roll. The pulse of the new music was on the first and third beats of the bar. They called it Reggae.
The West Indians like good music. But Europeans and Americans need to have stars.
'Island', an English record company made stars of Boby Marley and Jimmy Cliff and exported them and Reggae music to the World.
In the seventies and eighties the Jamaican influence spread. An English group took the name of and old Price Buster song and called itself. 'Madness' 'Madness', 'The Police' ,'UB40' all these English groups owed their international hits to the beat of Reggae.
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