“Postmodernism and pop reggae: a marriage made in Heaven or Hell. You Decide,” declaimed a denim-clad Green Gartside with slightly-practiced modesty and a shuffling consternation that would appear ...

For the past 26 years, Green Gartside suffered from stage fright so severe, it kept him from attempting a single performance. By Billboard Staff For the past 26 years, Green Gartside suffered from ...

In 1984, Michael Clark appeared in a video for Scritti Politti's single Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin). It was a happy alliance, the 22-year-old Clark's jazzy leaps and turns neatly ...

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Formed in 1978 in Leeds, Scritti were initially a left-wing-inspired post-punk group that later developed into a mainstream pop music project in the early to mid-1980s, and enjoyed significant success ...