Reggae's tributes to Smokin' Joe Frazier

Musicians from Burning Spear to Big Youth and Lee 'Scratch' Perry were inspired by the great boxer's feats in the ringThe death of the great heavyweight boxer Smokin' Joe Frazier sent me rummaging though my box of 7-inch reggae singles from the early 1970s, when Ali, Frazier and Foreman spawned a host of tribute records from some of Jamaica's finest. In 1972, Burning Spear had a big local hit with the devotional Joe Frazier (He Prayed) on the Studio One label, which seems to bear little relation...

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