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NME.com feature on Sly & Robbie including news, reviews, biography, youtube video, audio, concerts, tour dates, photos, pictures, commentary, album reviews and live reviews and cool facts.

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The Big Pink At Glastonbury 2009

After a night of no sleep, Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell talk about their weekend on Worthy Farm and pushing Michael Jackson over in the mud.

NME Video News - 20 November 2009

NME's weekly round up of all the latest music news. This week, NME's 50 Greatest Albums of the Decade, Muse announce new live dates and Robbie Williams is back in the studio with Take That.

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Sly And Robbie - Superthruster (03:55)

Sly And Robbie - Superthruster

Dennis Brown Aswad Steel Pulse Ini Kamoze w. Sly & Robbie Allstars:GET UP STAND UP (04:49)

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Dennis Brown ft. Sly & Robbie - Revolution (03:54)

Dennis Brown ft. Sly & Robbie - Revolution (1985). This was recorded in London. Channel Four's "The Tube" Revolution Riddim aka Here I Come Riddim

horace andy with sly & robbie livin'it up 09/17 true love (05:52)

documentary of the making of a traditional album in harry j studio with sly and robbie with some of the greatest living reggae artist, shot in kingston jamaica

Inspiration Information Interview Amp Fiddler, Sly & Robbie (09:56)

Interview feature for the upcoming "Inspiration Information" album by Amp Fiddler + Sly & Robbie, check the microsite: www.inspiration-information-series.com

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Sly & Robbie Biography

Sly and Robbie are one of reggae's most prolific and long lasting production teams. The rhythm section of drummer Lowell Dunbar (nicknamed Sly after Sly Stone, one of his favorite musicians) and bass guitarist Robert Shakespeare started working together in the mid 1970s, after having established themselves separately on the Jamaican music scene. They are humorously also sometimes referred to as Sly Drumbar and Robbie Basspeare, one example being the sleeve notes of Black Uhuru's Red album.

Sly and Robbie may well be the most prolific recording artists ever. One estimate is that they have played on or produced some 200,000 songs, considering that some of their riddims such as "Revolution" have been used on over 100 songs.

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