‘He’s a man with a fork in a world of soup’: the bitterest music-duo spats | Music

Ain’t no bridge over those troubled waters … Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.

After some 53 years together, we may have been forgiven for assuming that the musical partnership between Daryl Hall and John Oates was one of the most solid in show business. But this week brought […]

Tyrone Downie, Keyboardist For Bob Marley And The Wailers, Dies

Downie moved to France in the 1990s before returning to home to Kingston.

Tyrone Downie, the Jamaica-born keyboardist for Bob Marley and the Wailers, died Saturday. He was 66. His partner, Bernadine Simpson, told Jamaican outlet The Gleaner that Downie “was feeling ill” on Saturday evening. He died […]

A moment that changed me: As my parents argued, I watched reggae on TV and felt transported | Reggae

Janet Kay in 1984.

I heard reggae for the first time when I was 10, in the summer of 1972. My expat father was home on leave from Hong Kong, visiting my mum and I in our Devon bungalow. […]