1970
WAKE THE NATION * U ROY AND JEFF BARNES * SMASH 2313 * UK
From his humble beginnings in 1961, Dee Jay'ing with Doctor Dickie's Dynamite sound system, then to Sir Mike the Musical Thunderstorm, and on to Sir George the Atomic sound system, from whom he was poached by Coxsone Dodd The Downbeat, where he was understudy to the great King Stitt, always on the move U Roy, eventually cut his first for Duke Reid in 1970 when he set out to Wake The Town after which he went on to Rule The Nation the logical next step, now that he ruled it, was to Wake The Nation.
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