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Carl Gayle

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Jamaican-British reggae writer whose journalism and industry contacts helped persuade UK publisher IPC to launch the magazine Black Music in 1973, one of the first British publications to treat reggae as a serious cultural subject; Gayle also recorded reggae under the name "Carl I".

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Era: Rocksteady, reggae and dub →
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Wailers and the New Reggae, by Carl Gayle (1973)

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Archival reprint via legendaryreggae.com of a 1973 Carl Gayle profile of The Wailers.

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Story · Well supportedThe critics, the columns and the airwaves

How a scattered corps of print critics and radio DJs first wrote and broadcast reggae into international recognition.