The “perfect” 1998 song Keith Richards crowned the peak of the genreIt’s easy to see why Johnny Depp based his Pirates of the Caribbean character on Keith Richards. “What I love about reggae,” Richards regales in the 2015 Under the Influence documentary, “is that it’s all so natural. For the guitarist, one “perfect” reggae anthem exemplifies that notion of a certain swagger somehow being conveyed in a sound. When discussing his favourite songs of all time, he described The Itals’ track ‘In a Dis Ya Time’ as “the perfect Reggae song”. The original pressing was credited to Keith & Ronnie (Keith Porter and Ronnie Davis), before later pressings were reissued under the newly adopted name of The Itals.