SUBLIME ROCK STEADY
Rock Steady, classed by many as a golden period in Jamaican music, was born, fully formed, sometime in 1966 and was all over by 1968. It appeared suddenly and unexpectedly during the Ska period, and then, like the life of an exotic insect or a beautiful dream, it was gone. Film and pop stars who die young, while seemingly still in their prime; have, because of this brief but glorious existence, this special resonance. Yet the songs and rhythms of Rock Steady have endured; they formed the very bed rock of the world conquering Reggae revolution that followed.
On this page, as with others concerning Jamaican music, I am, and always will be, indebted to the pioneering and valuable work undertaken by Lloyd Bradley, John Good, Laurence Cane-Honeysett, Penny Reel, Steve Barrow, Rob Chapman and Roger Dalke, to name a few.
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