ONE LOVE: REGGAE: Mike Wire: Co-founder Reggae Village

“The title of the song is "Can't Stop Loving You". It's a reggae cover of the Leo Sayer hit back in the seventies. What's special about it first of all in many ways the artist on the label is written Grey Storm but there is really no singer called Grey Storm but a lot of Jamaican artists would sing under different names for reasons of income and revenue. I got a message within the last year that I was told correctly years later that the artist actually singing it was Owen Grey and I was told that by man who's name was on the record label, and it was Clem Bushay. So I bought a 12" single of "I Can't Stop Loving You" actually by Owen Grey on the Bushay record label. The interesting thing about it was that I bought it out of the back of the boot of a guys car, because in the early days there weren't any reggae record shops at all and what used to happen is that guys used to come to venues, the venue that he was parked at was called the Burlington pub in Leicester, and sell music ..new music .. directly out of the boot of their cars. And the originator of that really was Daddy Peckings who later on had the Peckings record store in Shepards Bush. He had his team of people and he organised them to go round various places and take the music to sell.” 

Mike Wire: Parkside Building, Birmingham City University, 4th April 2018 

Grey Storm (Owen Grey): "I Can't Stop Loving You" released 1978 

Mike Wire