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    LEE PERRY BOOK Scratch The Super Ape: The Jamaican Releases

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    Scratch the Super Ape: The Jamaican Releases is a homage to LEE PERRY’s Vinyl releases from 1964 to 1982.

    More than 800 + label images plus a host of other images including classic Adrian Boot photographs of the Black Ark, give a powerful visual vibe to this 280-page book.

    A year-by-year discography plus features on Perrys work with key reggae artists such as Bob Marley, Junior Byles, Augustus Pablo, Junior Murvin and Yabby You are at the heart of Scratch the Super Ape.Sections on tracks recorded by others at the Black Ark and singles related to Scratch, complete the story.

    Scratch the Super Ape is an awesome catalogue of Lee Perry’s Vinyl output during his golden decades of the 1960s and 1970s.

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