Prince Buster had multiple strings to his bow. The man who introduced the guitar chord on the afterbeat to birth ska allied his career as a singer, producer, bandleader and soundsystem owner with a second one as a consummate boxer (even converting to Islam after meeting his idol Muhammad Ali). The infectious and energising sound of Buster’s All Stars dominated young Jamaican listeners in the early 60s, his ear for a hit meaning he wasn’t shy of effectively giving gold away free on his B-sides. The mostly instrumental take on ‘One Step Beyond’ centres on the super-breathy saxophone solo antics of Roland Alphonso, undercut with a cutting trumpet finger and enhanced by Buster’s chirpy mouth-play – a human beatbox before there was any such thing. And while many will recall the B-side of Buster’s biggest-selling single from Madness’s more or less faithful 1979 cover smash, the A-side ‘Al Capone’ (the second Jamaican solo hit in the British top 20 after Millie Small’s ‘My Boy Lollipop’) was similarly appropriated by the Specials for 2 Tone’s big breakthrough single ‘Gangsters’, making Buster uniquely responsible for both ska’s arrival and its revival.