Before anyone had a word for what it was, the sound was already changing everything. That's the ska story.

Before anyone had a word for what it was, the sound was already changing everything. That's the ska story.
Major label deals meant something different in 1977. The money was real, the stakes were higher, and the music had to justify it.
When a genre breaks through to a whole new audience, that's the moment it stops being underground. How many times has that happened for ska?
One record changed everything. When Jamaica's sound reached number one in the UK, the whole world started listening to the island's rhythm.