Trojan's initial attempt to sell albums to the massive was a failure, but it did result in Livingstone's excellent Follow That Donkey and Dandy Returns sets. However, his third full-length, 1969's Let's Catch the Beat, was a smashing success, the first in Trojan's budget-priced series, and the label's first brush with the U.K. charts. Meanwhile, Livingstone's Down Town imprint was also going gangbusters, with such hits as his own Reggae in your Jeggae and Tony Tribe's Red Red Wine. I Need You and Morning Side of the Mountain in duet with Audrey Hall were also hits, while 1970 brought the smash Raining in My Heart. Even the latter, however, was kept out of the U.K. chart by the industry's refusal to include specialist record shops in its counts. This fate also awaited 1972's Take a Letter Maria, with the eponymous Dandy Livingstone album arriving that same year. In September, however, the singing producer finally broke into the charts, when Suzanne Beware of the Devil wormed its way into the Top 15, with its follow-up, Big City/Think About That, dancing into the Top 25. Come Back Liza, however, failed to repeat these successes. Thoroughly disillusioned, Livingstone left Trojan soon after. He released a clutch of fine roots singles and a trio of excellent albums later in the '70s, though by then his interest in music was already waning. So were his feelings for Britain, and in 1983 Livingstone returned home to Jamaica. Helping to ignite the skinheads' love of reggae, penning classics that inspired the 2 Tone crowd (including Rudy, a Message to You), and overseeing myriad rocksteady and reggae masterpieces, Dandy Livingstone was synonymous with British reggae for an entire generation. ~ Jo-Ann Greene, Rovi