Old music: Roland Alphonso – James Bond

Dr No was set in Jamaica, so why not record a joyful ska version of the the famous Bond theme?For those too young for punk and too bewildered by post-punk, in 1979 2-Tone was just the ticket. It also provided a handy route into ska, a genre of music I'd never heard of, and which bore scant relation to the po-faced roots reggae it had evolved into over the preceding decade. Songs recorded in the early-to-mid-60s by Prince Buster and the Skatalites were being covered by the Specials, Madness and t...

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