DAVID BURKE
Aswad in their 1980s heyday, including Brinsley Forde (right)
For such a small island, Jamaica has made a mighty big noise in UK music. Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff and Toots & The Maytals crossed the Atlantic and conquered the former Mother Country in the 1970s. But more than that, they inspired the sons and daughters of an emerging Black Britain to remake the irresistible rhythms of reggae out of their own social and cultural experience, to incubate a uniquely British strain.