
Justin Hawkins is known to all as a man of rock, but, perhaps surprisingly, he is also a lifelong reggae fan. In fact, he credits one reggae legend in particular with expanding his chord knowledge.
“My childhood, the sort of music that I was exposed to from my parents, was always rock, namely dad rock, and a lot of reggae as well,” he tells BBC Radio 2’s Tracks of My Years. “My mum was massively into reggae.”