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Musical Youth

As first generation British-Jamaicans set the UK reggae scene alive in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Birmingham teenagers Musical Youth were one of the first Caribbean boybands attempting to take over the pop charts. Put together when Frederick Waite (a member of 1960s rocksteady group The Techniques) put his sons Junior and Patrick together with schoolfriends Michal Grant and Dennis Seaton and arranged local gigs at pubs around the city. The band got their big break when they appeared on John Peel's Radio 1 show and landed a deal with MCA Records. Seaton's sugar sweet harmonie...