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![]() ''An all round musical wizard...still light years ahead of what's going on now''. That's how hop legend Roots Manuva describes the man at the heart of our 3rd Black History Month documentary. Lee Scratch Perry, nicknamed The Upsetter. In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions It's widely believed that Lee Scratch Perry's vocals and rhythms have influenced most genres of music including hip hop, drum and bass, dubstep, dancehall and bashment. The 70-something-year-old (no-one's sure when he was born) has been sampled countless times by everyone from Jay-Z to the Prodigy and it was him who took a very young Bob Marley and his band the Wailers under his wings. In The Upsetter we hear from: artists who worked with him in the famous Black Ark studios which Scratch claims to have burnt down himself; producers who are still being influenced today by his work and the very eccentric Lee Scratch Perry who says: ''If you think you are old you'll be very old ...I'm only eight.'' |
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![]() What do you know of Lee Scratch Perry? How do you rate his musical influence? Would you regard him as one of the fathers of modern music?
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