Name: The Harder They Come
Brand: Jimmy Cliff

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

3145861582

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Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2001-06-26

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

731458615828

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Jimmy Cliff

Genre US

Reggae / Dub

Label US

Our curated collection of essential albums on vinyl, CD, and tape at Rough Trade.

Rough Trade Essential

Jamaican musician, singer and actor, born July 30, 1944 in St. Catherine, Jamaica.

Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame 2010 (performer)

director-producer perry henzel's all-jamaican 1973 classic the harder they come, one of the most beloved of all international cult favourites, fiercely expresses the live-wire jamaican spirit when an impoverished africa tuned to american radio. ivan, a country boy who dreams of fame as a singer, rides into kingston on a rickety country bus in the opening scenes, only to meet with disaster heaped on disaster at the hands of those masked as friends. in a breathless defining climax, ivan finally breaks from his passivity and begins to wreak his revenge. soon kingston's music mafia and the equally corrupt authorities are after him, but like the real-life people's hero (a man named rhygin) on whom this character is partially based, ivan leads them on a maddening chase eluding capture until the movie's shocking final moments.

The Harder They Come

Music US