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A well-documented part of the lovers rock story, the 8-track studio was the engine room for Harris’s various label ventures since the mid-70s, namely his newly formed Lovers Rock label in 1977. 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Self-taught, he was into ska, rocksteady and soul, and was influenced by guitarists Steve Cropper, Freddie King, Grant Green and Earnest Ranglin. In 1968, he cut his first record with his band The Cats, releasing a rocksteady\/reggae rendition of Tchaikovsky’s ‘Swan Lake’ on their own label. It quickly became a crossover hit reaching the Top 50. “All the mods and skinheads went out and bought it” explains Kpiaye, who’d already earned his reputation as the leading reggae guitarist on the British scene long before his works for Dennis Harris.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn ’I’m In Love With A Dreadlocks’: “One day he (Harris) came to me and said ‘I’ve got some singers and I need some songs, do you have anything?’ I said, ‘of course', and I forgot about it. Then a week later, Dennis says 'we’re running the session tomorrow, can you bring the song down for these girls?' I said ‘yeah sure’ (laughing). So I had to write something that night and he had this tune on the DIP label called ‘Curly Locks’ by Junior Byles. I said I’m gonna write a reply to that and that’s what I did. We went down there the next day and rehearsed it with the girls and cut it. On vocals, we had Caron Wheeler, Carol Simms who became Kofi, and Pauline Caitlin who sang lead ... these were all young girls. They didn’t write at the time, the lovers rock thing was very much a female thing when it started and none of them really wrote until later on. I had to write loads of stuff.” As well as writing the song, Kpiaye also played most of the instruments: “Learoy Green played the drums and I played the bass, keys and guitar overdubs”. 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Things moved on fast - Bovell had acquired a 24-track mixing desk and opened Studio 80 producing and engineering for major label projects like Linton Kwesi Johnson, Thompson Twins, Fela Kuti, Ryuichi Sakamoto, and Aswad. Kpiaye was often brought in for his guitar work and since 1982, he has been the resident guitarist in the Dennis Bovell Dub Band, touring the world with Linton Kwesi Johnson. Studio 80 was also the setting for many independent artists and is where Kpiaye produced and recorded the 1982 remake of ’Love Me Sweeter Tonight’ by Cassandra. He's never stopped being an in-demand session guitarist and continued to be a key player on numerous classics. \"Motion was one of my favourite projects to work on. To me, it was a fusion album. It was brilliant\". 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