John Lennon was a fan of a classic reggae song. In addition, he said the song’s success represented how much listeners’ musical tastes had changed since the early 1960s. Notably, John felt that the ...

Elton John‘s “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” features a baffling reggae breakdown. John Lennon added that section to “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” himself. In an interview, the former Beatle ...

The members of John Brown’s Body have taken to calling the band’s progressive reggae sound “Future Roots Music.” What does that mean? Well, on the nine-man band’s most recent record, 2013’s “Kings and ...

ASPEN – There are two ways to handle life-changing adversity. Face it head on and pray that it makes you stronger somehow. Or quit – life, love, or whatever it may be. Modern reggae band John Brown’s ...

If you want to keep a band’s heart beating despite massive setbacks, take notes from Elliot Martin and Tommy Benedetti, two founding members of the progressive reggae group John Brown’s Body. After ...

Sad news from the reggae world: singer John Holt died yesterday (10/19) at age 69. Best known for writing “The Tide is High” while in the band The Paragons which was later made a woldwide hit by ...

John Holt, a pioneer of reggae and sub-genre lovers rock has died at the age of 69. Copeland Forbes, Holt’s manager of almost ten years, confirmed the singer’s death to the Jamaica Observer telling ...

Jamaican star and songwriter behind The Tide Is High died in hospital on 19 October Veteran reggae star and lovers rock pioneer John Holt has died in a London hospital, aged 69. News of the Jamaican ...

John Holt, the reggae musician best known for his hits "Stick By Me" and "Ali Baba," has died at the age of 69. The Jamaican singer died in hospital in Sunday night, his manager confirmed to the ...

Before Bob Marley superseded Jimmy Cliff and emerged as the nonpareil leading figure of the reggae genre in the mid-1970s, the sweet-voiced Jamaican singer and gifted songwriter John Holt was the ...