Though it was his only mainstream hit in this country, Night Nurse was just the tip of the iceberg, the highlight in a vast and almost compulsively churned-out repertoire, the majority of which cast him as vulnerable and downtrodden, forever searching for his one true love. Fans might have had a good chuckle at his ever-wily chat-up lines, but you couldn’t help but be magnetised by his ghetto coolness. Bob Marley may have sold many more records, and become reggae’s global poster-boy, but Isaacs, the so-called “Cool Ruler”, always had the edge.
After his addiction to crack cocaine had decimated his vocal abilities, I saw him perform a number of times. He would dip out of singing anything approaching a high note, and was only there for a few numbers, but I somehow never left disappointed. He didn’t have to do much more than walk on stage to win over a crowd with his droopy-lidded star quality.When I finally got to meet him in 2007, Isaacs, mercifully, seemed finally to have outgrown the street-tough menace of his youth. At an interview in a hotel in Wembley, he was accompanied by a large posse of friends, who ribbed him about his duties as an international celebrity, all of which he accepted with modest good humour. On another occasion, I witnessed a rather surreal ceremony, as this infamous bad boy was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement award at the Jamaican High Commission in Kensington.Isaacs remained a folk hero to the last. One apocryphal tale had him blazing up Brixton Hill at 100 mph during a London visit, with police cars trailing in his wake.
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Gregory Isaacs, Soundtrack: Fish Tank. Gregory Isaacs was born on July 15, 1951 in Kingston, Jamaica, British West Indies. He was married to Linda. He died on October 25, 2010 in London, England.
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When they finally flagged him down, Isaacs coolly wound down his window, and ended up signing autographs for all the bobbies’ wives and children, instead of notching up the latest in a long line of arrests.At 59, all things considered, he’d had an unforeseeably good innings, and left behind some of the world’s sexiest music.
One of Jamaica's most prolific and revered singers, cemented his reputation by the early '80s with this fine record. Featuring his favored backing band of the time, the Roots Radics, finds the singer working his smooth dancehall magic on ten solid tracks. Foregoing the help of one of the many talented producers on the island, wrote, arranged, and produced this album by himself. And neglecting his usual balance of lovers and cultural material, fills up the program with dim-the-lights classics like 'Hush Darling,' 'Confirm Reservation,' and the steppers-light classic 'Substitute.' The contrasting material that is included, though, is of the highest quality: both the ghetto freedom side 'The Fugitive' and the bittersweet breakup song 'Once Ago' qualify as two of ' most memorable songs. With the superbly compact contributions of the Radics topping things off - special mention goes to drummer 'Style' Scott and keyboard maestro 'Steelie' Johnson - fits snug with many crucial titles the lonely lover released during his 1975-1985 prime.