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All-star French backing band, the name standing for About Some Precious Oldies, who backed visiting Jamaican singers across Europe. Alton Ellis worked with them through the early 2000s, and the live album recorded with them in Bordeaux in 2001 and released by Patate Records as "Workin' on a Groovy Thing" is the only live album Ellis ever released.

A later performance reportedly featured a young singer identified only as "Christopher," since signed to a label associated with the Marley family -- unconfirmed beyond one account.

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Patate Records (pataterecords.bandcamp.com) and Alton Ellis discographies for the band's name, the Bordeaux live album and the Ellis collaboration; personal correspondence with a French JA-music journalist who attended one of the shows, Aug 2026.
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Alton Ellis with ASPO - I'm Still in Love (multi-camera)

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Story · ProbableA French reggae life, in his own words

From a Marley 7-inch on a reggae-starved island in 1977 to four decades inside France's sound systems and music press -- one correspondent's account, written directly to the Atlas, of a scene this archive had barely reached.

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