Sly & Robbie
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Sly & Robbie: The Reggae Heartbeat – Freedom Into Form
Profile and Interview by Vivien Goldman, Melody Maker, 23 December 1978
"Mr. Bassie, please sing your song to me." – Horace Andy, Rasta Rabbi in his own words ...
Reggae Titles: Footlong Skanking
Review by Van Gosse, The Village Voice, 22 April 1981
IN RECENT MONTHS Riffsters have written paeans to the gritty nudisco and rapperound 12-inch song-and-dances now heard blasting from the shiny boxes on the street ...
Sly & Robbie: The Reggaedelic Experience
Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 18 July 1981
A.K.A. SLY 'N' ROBBIE, THE ALMOST LEGENDARY DREADLY RHYTHM TEAM BEHIND THE SOUND OF BLACK UHURU, GRACE JONES AND THEIR OWN TAXI LABEL. WORDS CHRIS ...
Sly and Robbie: Laying Reggae's Bottom Line
Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 7 August 1982
QUESTION: WHAT do chic chanteuse Grace Jones. English rockers Joe Cocker and Ian Dury and reggae power house. Black Uhuru have in common? ...
Sly & Robbie: Night of the Living Dread
Report and Interview by Roy Trakin, Musician, August 1984
The Riddim Twins Celebrate Ten Years ...
Interview by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 10 August 1985
Paul Mathur, scribe about town, ambles on down to the Kensington Hilton to meet Jamaica's supreme rhythm team, SLY DUNBAR and ROBBIE SHAKESPEARE. Rock, reggae ...
Sly & Robbie: Musclefunk Throwdown
Interview by Simon Witter, i-D, May 1987
i-D meets Sly and Robbie, whose communal, all-star jam sessions have produced Rhythm Killers, the year's most enjoyable, perfectly formed dance album. ...
Sly & Robbie: Rhythm Killers (Island)
Review by John McCready, New Musical Express, 2 May 1987
BONDED BRILLIANCE ...
Interview by Sean O'Hagan, New Musical Express, 16 May 1987
Legends of world rhythm SLY & ROBBIE have responded to advances in all musics by making a technological masterpiece of an LP. SEAN O'HAGAN meets ...
Interview by William Shaw, Smash Hits, 20 May 1987
They've played with Curiosity Killed The Cat, Cyndi Lauper, Grace Jones and now they've got their own hit single with 'Boops (Here To Go)'. "You ...
Popstars and the Strange Things They Own: Sly & Robbie
Interview by John Aizlewood, No. 1, 25 July 1987
"MUSIC IS with us all the time. We don't take holidays. I even dream about music." ...
Sly & Robbie: Can the Riddim Twins Rock the Mainstream?
Interview by Alan di Perna, Musician, August 1987
AS SUPPORTING players, they've become as recognizable and popular as comic book superheroes. Is there anyone who isn't familiar with Sly Dunbar's brightly-colored tams and ...
Sly & Robbie: Silent Assassin (Island)
Review by Don Snowden, unpublished, 1989
HMM, HMM, HMM, let's see here...looks like Sly & Robbie & KRS-One are on to something here but I don't think it's what most people ...
Sly ‘n’ Robbie on Drum ‘n’ Bass
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, The Independent, 1999
Drum ‘n’ bass: it’s the foundation of popular music, the engine which drives rock, pop, soul, funk, jazz, reggae and anything else you care to ...
Various Artists: Funky Nassau - The Compass Point Story 1980-1986
Review by John McCready, The Word, April 2008
Imagined in London, bankrolled by pop hits and prog rock — the disco-dub collision at Compass Point Studios created shockwaves. ...
Guide by Kieron Tyler, Q Classic, 2015
Author's note, 2020: The Harder They Come, conspicuous by its absence from this list, was not included, since it was the subject of a feature ...
see also Sly Dunbar
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