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REGGAE DANCEHALL PIONEERS: Alton Ellis — The Printer Who Came Back | Part 3 | The Months He Almost Walked Away From Music
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Before he was the Godfather of Rocksteady, Alton Ellis nearly quit music to work as a printer in Kingston. Part 3 traces his lost months, his vocal group the Flames, and the day ska died — when Hopeton Lewis, Lynn Taitt, and Gladstone Anderson invented a new sound called rocksteady.