Easy Star All-Stars: Lonely Hearts Dub Band

"Sugar Minott, a popular Jamaican singer whose joyful, lilting voice bridged four decades of transformation in reggae music, died Saturday. … 'Sugar brought his trademark sweetness and humor, even to what can be quite a violent genre,' said Vivien Goldman, the adjunct professor of reggae at the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at New York University. … 'One of the outstanding aspects of Sugar Minott was his commitment to poor youth,' Ms. Goldman said. … In recent years Mr. Minott recorded with the Easy Star All-Stars, singing 'Exit Music (for a Film)' on their album 'Radiodread' (2006), a reggae interpretation of the Radiohead album 'OK Computer,' and 'When I’m Sixty-Four' on Easy Star’s 'Lonely Hearts Dub Band' (2009), which took a similar approach to the Beatles’ 'Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band' and reached No. 1 on the Billboard reggae chart" (Dennis Hevesi, "Sugar Minott, Reggae Star, Dies at 51," New York Times, 7/14/10).

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