If you're following this story so far, you know that it's heading into the late 1960s and the Rastafari movement is driving music in Jamaica. Mortimer Planno had escorted the bemused Emperor off the plane in Kingston; Marley and the Wailers started to frequent Planno's yard and the Rasta camps, where the drumming and chanting tumbled through the evenings into the night, and soon the musicians carried this roots tempo back to the Kingston studios and a radical shift in the music.
In the history of Jamaican music, it's maverick producer Lee Perry, his studio rhythm section of Carly and Aston Barrett, and the vocal trio the Wailers that are credited with inventing reggae. Perry stripped back the sounds, ditched the horns, hallmark of ska, and amped up the flinty guitar and keyboards, leaving space for the voices. The musicians were listening to the likes of James Brown, and the militant soul and funk coming out of America, and that sharpened the vibe: Jamaica wasn't getting left behind in this musical revolution. The message of Rastafari, a new history of Jamaica from an African perspective, and the tight new reggae groove - full of space and atmosphere - gave birth to reggae. After the panel, Mr Brown, reggae upsetter style.
