King Tubby Meets The Rockers Uptown, Augustus Pablo (1976)
In 1977 I was managed by Roger Eagle, who ran Eric's in Liverpool. He was completely hopeless as a manager but he did have an extraordinary record collection, and that's how I first heard dub music. I thought I was pretty cool, listening to all this obscure Jamaican music, until I went to a club in Moss Side and discovered that dub was for white boys - Jamaicans were into lovers' reggae like the Mighty Diamonds. You can hear dub in Simply Red songs like 'Moving...