'Police On My Back' and the Postcolonial Experience

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'Police On My Back' and the Postcolonial Experience

'Police On My Back' was written in England by Eddy Grant and recorded by his group, The Equals, in 1967. Since then it has been covered by a number of artists. In this article I am concerned with the original and four covers. Over the 40 years between the Equals' version of the song a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stratton, Jon
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Routledge 2013
Subjects:	postcolonial The Clash 'Police On My Back' Lethal Bizzle riots The Equals
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30636

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