What’s on the turntable at the moment? Max Romeo’s ‘War Ina Babylon’. It’s from 1976 when much of his music was still social comment and ‘conscious’.

Made with Lee Perry and the Upsetters, it’s a great album. It’s one of a selection of older recordings Island Records re-released in about 1980-81. I was working at the radio station in Gisborne and was earning the best money I ever had (not a lot, but it’s all relative), so I bought about 20 of them. It was a great start to my reggae record collection. Thanks to Tony Murdock, who owned the record store where I used to spend too much time (and money), I got most of them.

Record cover of reggae album 'War Ina Babylon' recorded by Max Romeo. Picture shows a woman sitting on a pile of bricks holding her head in her hand and a cloth in front of her face