Junior Murvin - Police & Thieves 1977
The cover design, by illustrator Tony Wright, is very subtle. It depicts the lyrics of the album with a comparison of police with thieves. It was written in a time when Kingston, Jamaica was a politically manipulated war zone.
A closer look reveals that both policemen and thieves are doing the same thing: pick pocketing.
In fact they were both 'scaring the nation' because they were the emissaries of the politicians who ran the system.
The cover design, by illustrator Tony Wright, is very subtle. It depicts the lyrics of the album with a comparison of police with thieves. It was written in a time when Kingston, Jamaica was a politically manipulated war zone.
A closer look reveals that both policemen and thieves are doing the same thing: pick pocketing.
In fact they were both 'scaring the nation' because they were the emissaries of the politicians who ran the system.
