2003-05-31
... ? Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Never scratch him outWhen the NME travelled to Jamaica to interview Lee Perry in 1979, the reggae producer was living in the burnt out ruins of his Black Ark studios, worshipping bananas, eating money, baptising visitors with a hose and going under the name "Pipecock Jackxon". Seven years later, the Battle Of Armagideon album sessions reportedly found him sipping a mixture of blackcurrant juice and gasoline with an electric heater strapped to his head.
