[1] Producer Bunny Lee arranged with the UK-based entrepreneur Larry Lawrence for him to undertake some sound recording sessions and concerts, and he opened for U-Roy the day after his arrival in London.
[2] The MPLA album versions highly regarded Bunny Lee and King Tubby’s engineered and produced tunes by Johnny Clarke, Tony Brevett, Cornell Campbell, Dennis Brown, and Junior Ross and the Spear.
[1][2] Reviewing the 1977 reissue of Man a Warrior, Village Voice critic Robert Christgau said: "Dub has certain affinities with heavy metal, which may be why the only album of the stuff I've ever played much is Big Youth's first, Screaming Target, now five years old and never released in the States.
'"[3] This period of success allowed Zukie to set up his own 'Stars' record label, and he began to produce other artists, including Junior Ross & The Spear, Prince Alla, Errol Dunkley, Ronnie Davis, and Horace Andy.
The album Peace In The Ghetto was notable for its version of Cornell Campbell's tune,"Blessed Are They", a lyrical take on Beatitudes, which Tapper Zukie reworked as a memorial and paean to the anti-Apartheid revolutionary martyr, Steve Biko, killed in a prison cell in 1977 by the racist South African police force.
In 1979, Tapper Zukie released Horace Andy and Headley Bennett’s discomix, If I wasn't a Man tune on his own Stars label , built around a variation on the horns refrain from Sound Dimension's Real Rock rhythm.