Beginning as Prince Far I’s ‘The Arabs’, The Roots Radics band was formed in 1978 by bassist Errol “Flabba” Holt, drummer Lincoln “Style” Scott and guitarist Eric “Bingy Bunny” Lamont.

The band’s number grew to include percussionists Noel “Scully” Simms, Chris “Sky Juice” Burth and Carl “Bridge” Ayton, drummers Sly Dunbar and Carlton “Santa” Davis, bassist Robbie Shakespeare, keyboardists Gladstone “Gladdy” Anderson, Wycliffe “Steely” Johnson and Phil Ramocon, saxophonists Dean Fraser and “Deadly” Headley Bennett, trumpeter David Madden and guitarists Dwight Pinkney and Noel Bailey.

Their early work with Henry “Junjo” Lawes is credited with the birth of dancehall.