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Dandy Livingstone

Robert Livingstone Thompson, better known as Dandy Livingstone, was born on December 14, 1943, in Kingston, Jamaica. He began his music career at age fifteen when he moved to London and met Alex “Dimples” Hinds while working for Island Records. In the early 1960s, while working for Cross Bow Records, he recorded his first songs in a studio session with Alan Crawford, including "What a life!". He achieved initial success with hits such as "Rudy, A Message To You", which was later covered by The Specials and released by Giant Records. In 1968, he signed with Trojan Records, where h...