Following Desmond Dekker’s death, Danwei has an article on Chinese Jamaican reggae pioneers, including Dekker and the Wailers’ first producer, Leslie Kong:
Kong himself died of a heart attack, aged 37, in August 1971. A Rastafarian legend says that Bunny Wailer (of Bob Marley and the Wailers fame) put a curse on Kong when Kong released a sub-standard collection of hits called “Best of the Wailers”. The story goes that just after Kong’s accountant told him how much money he would make from the record, Kong went home and died.
Only an overseas Chinese could die of a curse triggered by an accountant. There is something archetypal there.
Posted by: Alex | May 27, 2006 at 02:37 PM