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SWEDEN When the American singer Johnny Nash was invited to Sweden in 1970 to star in and write the music for the movie Love is Not a Game, he offered Bob Marley a piece of the action. In 1971, Nash, Marley and producer Danny Sims decamped to Stockholm, where they stayed with Nash keyboardist, John 'Rabbit' Bundrick, with whom Marley and Nash wrote the movie's score. Alas, the film closed the day after the premiere due to bankruptcy, and nobody got to hear the theme that they had written. Shortly after, Marley vanished. That is all I know about the Swedish links with Jamaican music in that era. Sweden did prove itself receptive to reggae, however, when Desmond Dekkers' 'Israelites' became a number one hit single. Swedish pressings |