After exploding onto the music scene in the spring of 1964, Jamaican teen sensation, Millie Small popularised the sound of ska around the globe with her enduring smash hit, My Boy Lollipop. The record went on to become one of the biggest selling singles of all time, topping the national charts in numerous countries and reaching the second spot in both the UK and the US, selling an estimated seven million copies along the way. Further British mainstream hits followed in Sweet William and Bloodshot Eyes, while over the years that immediately followed she remained a prominent figure on the British entertainment scene, recording in a variety of styles for Island, Decca and President Records. In the early seventies, Millie moved to Trojan, then the world’s leading Jamaican record company, but in 1971, she dramatically and abruptly called time on her singing career, with her fans still awaiting her return, some 45 years later.
