HOLLYWOOD BABYLON

Peter Tosh and friend, 1978

Tosh captured by Nissen for the September 1978 issue of Slash, in the wake of his not-always-well-received jaunt supporting the Stones’ Some Girls tour. Slash’s interviewer found him positive about his new label, Rolling Stones Records, but insistent that a white man can’t play reggae: “It can play the branches and the leaves, but it can never play the roots.” Note his matchbook featuring the face of JFK.