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Lee Gopthal

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Jamaican-born British entrepreneur who ran the Musicland record-shop chain, founded the Beat & Commercial distribution company, and in 1968 pooled his Jamaican-music interests with Chris Blackwell's Island to co-found Trojan Records — turning shop-counter demand among Britain's Caribbean community into a national reggae label.

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British Record Shop Archive profile of Lee Gopthal.

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Story · Well supportedPre-release and the counter: how UK shops broke Jamaican records

Britain's specialist shops were reggae's second engine.