Lee was the Mr Fixit of his community as well as the reggae scene and his ear for a hit drove the genre’s global explosionBunny ‘Striker’ Lee dies aged 79I first met Bunny “Striker” Lee in Jamaica in the mid-1990s while researching my book Bass Culture: When Reggae Was King. Like so many of the men and
Women we in
London considered reggae superstars, he was listed in the Kingston phone book; when this complete stranger rang to ask if he could spare an hour for an interview, he didn’t hesitate. The next evening, 10 minutes before the arranged time, Bunny Lee was sitting outside my hotel reading a newspaper. On the journey to his studio he insisted on stopping to buy takeaway chicken dinners for us and his engineer, Newton, who was driving.
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