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DERRICK MORGAN Original Reggae Recordings 68/70

30071Derrick Morgan worked with Desmond Dekker, Bob Marley, and Jimmy Cliff in the ska genre, and he also performed rocksteady and skinhead reggae.

There was legendary rivalry between Morgan and Prince Buster, who accused Morgan of stealing his ideas. Followers of both artists often clashed, and eventually the government had to step in with a staged photo shoot depicting the rivals as ‘friends’.

In the mid 1960s, Morgan continued to release top quality material, including the seminal rude boy classic, “Tougher Than Tough. In 1969, Morgan cut the famous skinhead anthem, “Moon Hop”

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