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The Record Producers Bank Holiday Monday, Radio 2, 10pm The first programme in a short season to mark the 30th anniversary of the death of Bob Marley (above) examines how the men behind the recording-studio mixing desks shaped the sound of reggae as it came to acquire a global audience.
Presenter Richard Allinson and producer Steve Levine trace the genre from its early roots in Jamaica, via punk, rock and pop, to success in the British mainstream. In one magical sequence, Tony Platt, who was an engineer on Marley's earliest UK recordings with The Wailers, deconstructs their original multi-track versions of Concrete Jungle and Stir It Up, layer by layer.See the full content of this document
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