King Tubby V's Channel One - Dub Soundclash

Jimmy Cliff was one of the pioneers of Jamaican stars in Britain, alongside Desmond Dekker. But the success of tracks like ''Wonderful World, Beautiful People'' would not last as Jimmy Cliff would later find out life was hard as a travelling musician, being black in the UK was also dangerous at the time. Many tracks reflected this period of failure like ''Struggling Man''. It would be later in the seventies that Jimmy Cliff would achieve success with the film The Harder They Come, which opened up reggae from Jamaica to the mainstream film and music audiences, and prove pivotal on the influence on punk coming out of London and beyond.

Island Records Presents: Roots - 37 Essential Roots Anthems

Roots music has a focus around the lyrics being derived from Rastafari culture, which as Jimmy Cliff in an interview is actually closer to Christianity than Islam. The scripture which is worshipped is the Holy Piby, and it is very Afrocentric and has an emphasis on the homeland of Ethiopia. Ethiopia is a place of the earliest foundations of Christianity also, but contrary to most opinions of Rastafarianism, there is an emphasis around being a sound person mentally, so things like alcohol in excess are strongly condemned, but marijuana is different as it leads to the idea that it expands the mind. Many reggae stars would develop lung cancer, including the ''Cool Ruler'', Gregory Isaacs.