A legend, photographed with another legend.
About a third of the way through the second disc, a customer wandered over and enquired who the singer of the current song was. I told him that it was the great Lee 'Scratch' Perry performing 'Heads of Government' and asked him what he thought of it. 'I've never heard anyone sound so totally exasperated and pissed off in my life', he said!
My customer was right of course. Scratch screams and rants his way though an utterly compelling performance like a man possessed. It's a tune I still reach for to this day, every time some jumped up nincompoop in power says or does something dangerous, ridiculous or downright scary - so it's on pretty much constant rotation round these parts as you can imagine.
Rest easy Upsetter.
2 comments:
Great track- and picture.
Absolutely gutted that he's finally left us, but the tributes in the blogging community have been uplifting, with personal reflections and comments and barely any overlap of song choice, which says so much about the incredible body of work that Perry created. This post no exception - a brilliant photo and excellent song selection. Thanks!
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