Jamaican classic: You can see it if you really want

Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff was in a Kingston recording studio when Perry Henzell, a Jamaican director whose company made commercials, came into the session to meet him.

“He said, `I’m making a movie. Do you think you can write the music for it?’ ” Cliff recalls from New York. “I said, `Can I do it? I can do anything!’ ”

Cliff, as it turns out, wasn’t being cocky or over confident. He didn’t just write several now-classic songs for Henzell’s 1972 movie, The Harder They Come: He also became its star.

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