Lee Scratch Perry, a year on

The World

Almost exactly a year after the legendary Jamaican musician and record producer Lee Scratch Perry died, we are graced with a massive retrospective of the music he made and had a crucial hand in producing. Host Marco Werman says that Scratch’s fingerprints are on a lot of classic chart hits around the world.

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