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Junior Byles

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About the artist

Junior Byles (born Kenneth Byles Jr. in a poor part of Kingston on 2 February 1948; died 15 May 2025) was a Jamaican reggae artist remembered for his song 'Fade Away', with its strong spiritual warnings about materialism and egoism. Recorded in 1975 for producer Joseph Hoo Kim, it was a massive hit in Jamaica and was also a big success in the UK, and was covered five years later by among others Adrian Sherwood's New Age Steppers group and by Salmonella Dub NZ, made a special version of it.

Top songs

  1. Beat Down Babylon
  2. Curly Locks
  3. Fade Away
  4. Fever
  5. It Was a Long Way
  6. The Long Way
  7. A Place Called Africa
  8. Coming Again
  9. Demonstration
  10. Don't Know Why
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  1. Heart And Soul
  2. Da Da
  3. Curley Locks
  4. A Matter Of Time
  5. Whip Them, Whip Them
  6. Dreader Locks
  7. (Festival) Da Da
  8. King Of Babylon
  9. Weeping
  10. I've Got A Feeling
  11. Place Called Africa
  12. Rasta No Pickpocket
  13. Joshua's Desire
  14. Mystic Revelation
  15. Poor Chubby
  16. Dreadlocks Time/ Fist To Fist
  17. Pitchy Patchy
  18. Stick of a Ounce
  19. Jah Will Be Mine
  20. If You Don't Know Me By Now
  21. Make Up To Breake Uo
  22. Pretty Fe True With Pretty Dub
  23. Long Way
  24. Curly Locks (Original Version)
  25. Coming Home
  26. When Will Better Come
  27. The Thanks We Get
  28. A Place Called Africa 3
  29. Education Rock
  30. Auntie Lulu
  31. Know Where You're Going
  32. Weepign
  33. Got The Tip
  34. Now Generation
  35. Cutting Razor
  36. Lorna Banana
  37. Hail To Power
  38. I Don't Know
  39. Curly Locks #3 (Previously Unissued Alternate Mix)
  40. Informer Man
  41. When Will Better Come (Previously Unissued Alternate Mix)
  42. Ain't Too Proud to Beg
  43. Pharaoh Hiding
  44. Thanks We Get
  45. Mumbling & Grumbling
  46. chant down babylon
  47. Fun And Games (Previously Unissued Version, Take Two)
  48. Rub Up Festival '71
  49. Curly Locks #2 (Previously Unissued Version, Take 2)
  50. Sugar Sugar
  51. Africa
  52. Lick The Pipe Peter
  53. Army Of Love
  54. Babylon
  55. What Is This World Coming To (Previously Unissued, Take Two)
  56. Africa Stand
  57. Mumbling and grumbling
  58. Pitchy-Patchy
  59. Come Da Da (Previously Unissued Extended Mix)
  60. Take My Share
  61. It Was The Long Way
  62. Are You Leading Me On (Previously Unissued)
  63. Curely Locks
  64. Cally Weed
  65. What We Do for Them
  66. Last Of The Love Songs
  67. Informer Men
  68. Whip Dem, Whip Dem
  69. Jordan
  70. Babylon's Burning
  71. Remember Me
  72. Trial and Crosses
  73. Thanks And Praise
  74. Order Of The Day
  75. Pharoah Hiding
  76. Festival Da Da
  77. Trial & Crosses
  78. There's A Place Called Africa - Original
  79. Beat Down Comrade Man (Previously Unreleased Dub Plate)
  80. Press Along
  81. Oh Carolina
  82. (A) Pretty Fe True (B) Pretty Dub
  83. Come Da Da
  84. (A) Fun And Games (B) Motion Dub
  85. I No Got It
  86. Pretty Fe True / Pretty Dub
  87. Burrie Boy
  88. Little Fleego
  89. (A) Pretty Fe True (B) Pretty Dub
  90. Live As One

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