Max Romeo, the reggae singer who worked with Lee “Scratch” Perry on their classic 'War Ina Babylon,' spoke to us to pay tribute to his friend following Perry’s death: 'He was a genius in the truest sense of the word'
Perry and Romeo first met while both were working for rival Kingston record companies in the Sixties; Romeo for Ken Lack’s Caltone Records, Perry for Bryon Lee’s Dynamic Sounds.
“Actually, when the album was completed, it was the only track that I didn’t like. I went to [Perry] the next day after listening to ‘Chase the Devil’ and I told him, ‘The whole album is brilliant, beautiful, but one track is stupid to me.’ He looked at me and said, ‘Chase the Devil?’ He told me to go home and get some rest, because I was trying to cut the best track on the bloody album,” Romeo told“I just went by what he said. I said, ‘Okay, if you feel that way about it.
Romeo added, “This morning, when I heard — I hadn’t cried in about 16 years, since my best friend passed on — that Lee died, I found out that I still had tears left. There was tears trickling down my face. It really hitting hard. I pray for him.”
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