Barry Brown – Step It Up Youthman album art
Contributed by The Reggae Archive
on May 31st, 2026. Artwork published in
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Paradise Records. License: All Rights Reserved.
Step It Up Youthman is a 1979 album by Jamaican reggae singer Barry Brown (1957–2004), released with Paradise Records. It contains the eponymous song that became Brown’s first hit single. Cover designer Anum Iyapo – father of Shabaka Hutchings – used tightly spaced Quicksilver for the typograpy.
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Note also, the excellent hand-lettered (stencilled? Looking at the A and T spacing) “Ministry of Education” sign which appears based on Eurostile/Microgramma. Fabulous.