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.
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