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Errol Scorcher passes on

Jamaica Observer

Friday, January 20, 2012

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VETERAN deejay Errol Scorcher died yesterday.

The deejay who rose to prominence in the 1970's with the hit 'Roach Inna Di Corner' complained of having a headache and died shortly after.

Born Errol Archer, he worked as a deejay on several sound systems from the early 1970's.

His first single was Leggo Mi Hand Babylon and he went on to record several hits in the mid-1970's including Jolly Bus-Ting and Engineers Affair.

He made further inroads into the entertainment circles with the 1978 single Peace Truce which hailed the peace deal between rival political factions that would culminate in the One Love Peace Concert.

Errol Scorcher also formed his own Scorcher label and produced his own work and that of other artists including Tony Tuff.

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Winston Riley is dead

Veteran producer succumbs to gunshot wound in head after months in coma

Jamaica Observer

Friday, January 20, 2012

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RECORD producer and songwriter Winston Riley is dead.

Riley died in hospital yesterday from the effects of a gunshot wound he received last year. He was in a coma since he was attacked and shot in the back of the head in November last year.
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Winston, who was the father of Fame FM disc jockey Kurt Riley, had been plagued by a series of violent attacks. He was shot in August last year and later stabbed five times in September.

Kurt Riley told the Observer this morning that his father's grieving relatives could not figure out a motive behind the attempts on his father's life.

"Unfortunately Daddy didn't wake up so we could talk to him to find out if there was something he was not telling us. He was a straightforward man, who was allergic to hypocrisy," he said.

Winston Riley produced the late General Echo's The Slackest album on his Techniques label in 1979, and was instrumental in the development of the careers of Sister Nancy, Buju Banton, Cutty Ranks, Lone Ranger, and Frankie Paul.