Strictly Dub \/ Mint Ah Music \/ Ska Be Doo Za \/ Ah Weh<\/a><\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/i192.photobucket.com\/albums\/z149\/pengy1966\/KYPP282.jpg\")
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Dennis Bovell AKA Blackbeard, one of U.K. reggae\u2019s premier musician\u2019s and producers.<\/p>\n
This record, released on Tempus Records in 1978 was the first that Dennis Bovell had released under the name \u2018Blackbeard\u2019.<\/p>\n
Dennis Bovell had previously been in the awesome Matumbi from the late 1960\u2019s right up to the end of the bands lifespan in 1980.\u00a0Dennis Bovell was in prison when the huge Matumbi hit \u2018After Tonight\u2019 was released in 1976, although he was free to enjoy the massive hit \u2018The Man In Me\u2019 which reached the U.K. Top Ten when released in 1979! Matumbi were involved heavily in the Rock Against Racism gigs in the late 1970\u2019s sharing stages with all manner of punk bands and the like.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During the late 1970\u2019s he was also at the forefront of the U.K. \u2018Lovers Rock\u2019\u00a0releases, either as session bass player or producer. The biggest release he was involved with at this time was \u2018Silly Games\u2019 by the gorgeous Janet Kay.<\/p>\n
Dennis has also worked with artists as diverse as Linton Kwesi Johnson, The Slits, The Pop Group, Bananarama and Edwin Collins throughout the years!<\/p>\n
A proper legend in Reggae circles who continues to work on interesting projects to this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cut After Cut \/ Rebel Chase \/ Ites Of Dub \/ River To Bank Rocking \/ Tell Yah So Strictly Dub \/ Mint Ah Music \/ Ska Be Doo Za \/ Ah Weh Dennis Bovell AKA Blackbeard, one of U.K. reggae\u2019s premier musician\u2019s and producers. This record, released on Tempus Records in 1978 was the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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