provided the backbone for island??s music industry were created. By the mid-Seventies, many Jamaican performers were looking increasingly inward for inspiration, highlighting issues such as local politics, the Rasta faith, and social depravation and disorder. These themes provided the main focus for songwriters up until the advent of Dancehall in the Eighties. In the mid-1970s, many British Reggae fans found musical fulfilment in the first home-produced style to be successfully exported to Jamaica ?? Lover??s Rock . This romantic style of Reggae style continued to dominate the UK scene well into the Eighties and even today forms an integral party of the British Reggae music industry.