Various Artists: Club Reggae '69 / Various - COMPACT DISCS

Various Artists: Club Reggae '69 / Various - COMPACT DISCS

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Preorder Release Date: 10/16/2026
Title:

Club Reggae '69 / Various

Artist:

Various Artists

Label:

Doctor Bird

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

5013929287945

Genre:

Reggae

Release Date:

2026-10-16

Number of Discs:

3

Additional Details:

UNITED KINGDOM - IMPORT

A landmark examination of late-60s British working-class youth culture. Includes eleven UK chart hits. Numerous tracks new to CD. In 1969, the bold new sound of reggae hit Britain like a shockwave, challenging the music establishment and rewriting the rules of popular taste. Dismissed by mainstream critics as repetitive and unsophisticated, this electrifying music from Jamaica struck an immediate chord with young working class record buyers, for whom the increasingly psychedelic excesses of prog rock held little appeal. By the end of the year, a wave of reggae singles had stormed the national charts despite virtually no support from the UK's only nationwide radio, the BBC, and the fact that sales from specialist record shops across the country were routinely overlooked by chart compilers. This essential 3CD collection brings together over 80 tracks from the late 1960s, spanning major breakthrough hits, dancefloor favourites and long-lost obscurities, many unavailable since their original release nearly 60 years ago. Compiled by people who lived it first hand, these are the records that offered Britain's working-class youth a vivid alternative to the increasingly self-indulgent rock favoured by the middle classes and the mainstream media; raw, immediate and impossible to ignore.

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