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Sensuality. So popular has reggae become that a movie, The Harder They Come, was made this year about a fictional reggae composer. It is the story of a naive country musician-played by Jamaican Jimmy Cliff-who goes to Kingston, records his song, and is ripped off by the crooked record industry, receiving only $20 for a record that may sell thousands of copies. In many ways, the story parallels Cliff's own early experiences in record making and those of many another native reggae musician. Unlike his screen counterpart, Cliff was never paid for his own first record...
...groomed Teen Angels, white youth abandoned the syrupy somnolence of Joni James and Patti Page to share, at a safe distance, the black experience expressed in rhythm and blues. In the late '50s, the sullen sounds of American rock gave way to the urban folk madrigals of the Kingston Trio. They and their imitators were in turn swept from the popular field by those definitive merry mercenaries the Beatles...
...been billed as the "Sunshine Showdown." But the heavyweight title bout between Champion Joe Frazier, 29, and Challenger George Foreman, 24, in Jamaica last week was more like a midnight mugging. In front of 36,000 fans at a stadium in Kingston, Foreman managed one of the swiftest and most savage upsets in heavyweight history...
PERHAPS IT IS WRONG to pity a man who made as much money in as short a time as Joe Frazier did in losing his heavyweight title in Kingston, Jamaica last week. But, it's hard not to. You see, Joe Frazier did not so much lose his title as be rudely awakened to the fact that he had never...
That Demon, as it happens, took the form of George Foreman last week in Kingston. Until this fight, Foreman was best known as the boxer who waved a miniature U.F. Flag after he won the heavyweight gold medal at the Olympics in Mexico City, Coming soon after the black gloved salute given by John Carlos and Tommy Smith during the playing of the national anthem in an earlier awards ceremony, Foreman's gesture received much praise from those troubled by the "black power" movement in sports. They interpreted Foreman's flag as a sterling sign of patriotism and a rebuke...