Sly and Robbie— In tribute to singer John Holt, who died on October 20 in London, England, the Jamaica Observer presents ‘Holt a Day’, a daily feature leading up to his final farewell, which is scheduled for November 15. FOR their 1998 album Friends, the revered drum-and-bass team of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare paid homage to the music they grew up listening, by covering songs by singers John Holt and Dobbie Dobson. British singer Maxi Priest, who helped popularise the lovers’ rock sound in the United Kingdom during the late 1980s, covered Holt’s Only a Smile while Ali Campbell put his spin on Seems to me I’m Losing, originally done by Dobson. Holt first recorded Only a Smile while he was a member of the rocksteady group, The Paragons. It was produced by … Read entire article »