Informed by a post on shimmy shimmy, I realized that Jamaican rocksteady legend Alton Ellis has passed away from cancer. Here are a few of his classics that span over 45 years.

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Ellis was known as the “Godfather of rocksteady“, with his 1967 debut album ‘Mr Soul Of Jamaica’ regarded as a seminal rocksteady album. NME