Johnny Rotten’s 1978 visit to Jamaica exposed him to the country’s musical culture at a time when punk and reggae were increasingly influencing one another. The trip is presented as significant because it broadened the Sex Pistols singer’s outlook and helped challenge simplistic assumptions about Jamaican music and its social setting.

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