Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, visionary master of reggae, dies aged 85
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry in 1997. Photograph: Bernd Muller/RedfernsPerry was born Rainford Hugh Perry in the Hanover parish of north-west Jamaica in 1936, and left school when he was young: “There was nothing to do except field work, so I started playing dominoes and learned to read the minds of others,” he said. He was hired by Clement “Coxsone” Dodd, head of reggae studio and label Studio One, as an
