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Ken Boothe: Straight Down the Middle

Idris Walters, Sounds, 9 November 1974

A RASTAFARIAN rising to number one on a cover version with a soft reggae back beat. 'Everything I Own' must have sold a lot of copies. It was number one on the reggae charts late last Summer but singles sales in primarily black shops don't figure in the national chart calculations see.

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