[4] Thomas' collaboration with Gibbs resulted in a number of hits including "Don't Touch Me", "Mama's Song" and "God Bless The Children".
[4] Thomas and Gibbs also covered a number of well regarded R&B hits that included Tyrone Davis' "Turn Back the Hands of Time" and "(Baby) Can I Change Your Mind" and Tony Joe White's "Rainy Night in Georgia".
[4][6][7] The success of "Love of the Common People" ensured an album of the same name released on Trojan Records, that featured tracks previously cut with Joe Gibbs in Jamaica.
[3] By 1973, Thomas was being produced by Dandy Livingstone, releasing a third album called Images of You[8] that included a version of his former Jamaican hit "Have a Little Faith" and a cover of Joe Simon's "Doing The Moonwalk".
According to his record company, "the precise circumstances surrounding his death seem confused to this day – the most common account tells of the singer suffering a broken heart and subsequently taking his own life.