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“After its release in 1970, the song quickly became well known in Jamaica. According to Brent Dowe, the song was initially banned by the Jamaican government because “its overt Rastafarian references (‘King Alpha’ and ‘O Far-I’) were considered subversive and potentially inflammatory”. Leslie Kong, the group’s producer, attacked the government for banning a song with words taken almost entirely from the Bible, stating that the Psalms had been “sung by Jamaican Christians since time immemorial”. The government lifted the ban. After that, it took only three weeks to become a number one hit in the Jamaican charts. It reached an international audience thanks to the soundtrack album of the 1972 film The Harder They Come, which is credited with having “brought Reggae to the world”.” – Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers_of_Babylon
