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    May 16, 2019 3 minutes
    JIM WIRTH
    “I’m one of those black people who can’t dance,” writes Roger. “I just jump around…”

    JERRY Dammers was apt to remind “Ranking” Roger Charlery that the first time the 2-Tone kingpin saw him, the 16-year-old was toasting gamely over the Angelic Upstarts Oi! anthem “I’m An Upstart”. It is an image that sums up the have-a-go spirit of The Beat’s emcee, who died of cancer in March, a few weeks after completing his autobiography, I Just Can’t Stop It.

    One of Birmingham’s few black punks, he impressed The Beat with his U-Roy-savvy

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