Leroy Sibbles, Earl Morgan and Barry Llewelyn joined originally under the name of "The Hep Ones" in 1965 in Kingston, but soon changed their name to "The Heptones". The group collaborated with several Jamaica's leading manufacturers at the time: after a single little success with producer Ken Lack's label for its "K Calnek, moved under the management of Coxsone Dodd for Studio One. The Heptones in fact released a series of hits for Studio One, starting with "Fattie Fattie," the first single for the label in 1966. This was the beginning of a period of success with Coxsone, which was followed by other singles such as "Pretty Looks Is not All", "Get In The Groove," "Be a Man," "Sea of \u200b\u200bLove" (a cover of the Pat Phillips and the Twilights), "Ting a Ling," "Party Time" and "I Hold the Handle."
The band was the main rival of The Techniques, run by Arthur "Duke" Reid, was were among the most popular groups rocksteady era. During their five years at Brentford Road, Leroy Sibbles played bass in several sessions with artists along with Jackie Mittoo. Among the songs in which he played the bass stand out "I'm Still In Love" by Alton Ellis and "Satta-a-Massagana" of the Abyssinians. The group was under the Studio One during the era of reggae, where they released songs like "Message From A Black Man," "Love Will not Come Easy," "I Love You" and a successful cover of "Suspicious Minds" then recorded with Joe Gibbs, Harry J, with whom they recorded the classics "Country Boy" and "Book of Rules" in 1973, Edwards Rupees (re-recorded "Give Me the Right") and former journalist Danny Holloway.
Leroy Sibbles emigrated to Canada in 1973, and the band ceased recording, returning in 1976 with "Cool Rasta" and "Night Food", produced by Scott "Harry J" Johnston. This LP contained several new material, along with old pieces of the golden Studio One.
In 1977, underwent a surge in their careers when they began to collaborate with producer Lee "Scratch" Perry, with whom they released some new singles (including a cover of Billy Stewart "I Do Love You" on their album Justice League published five years earlier), and released the album Party Time, one of the best productions Perry, who recorded at Black Ark studio, including some old songs revisited Studio One era, including covers of Bob Dylan "I Shall Be Released", alongside new tracks including "Sufferers' Time."
At the same time, they held a series of single cone Lee Perry, as "Mistry Babylon," "Mr. President" (along with DJ Jah Lloyd) and "Babylon's Falling". Sibbles left the training again in 1977 to begin a successful solo career, having already recorded the solo piece "Love Will not Come Easy" by Augustus Pablo, as well as other individual players for Lee Perry ("Rasta Fari "and" Garden of Life ") and DEB Music Dennis Brown (" New Song "and" Is not No Love "). He was replaced by Dolphin" Naggar "Morris, who had recorded" Su Su Pon Rasta "for Joe Gibbs and" You Should Love Your Brother "for King Jammy, but the group's popularity dropped. From the late 70 , their style began to get less support from a public already addressed the more militant style of Rastafari, and began to be seen as part of the old era. Although they were produced by Joseph Hoo Kim at Channel One studio, Good Life in 1979 resulted a hole in the water, and during the following years gained little success.
The original trio reunited in 1995, releasing the new album Pressure!, produced by Tappa Zukie.
1967 - The Heptones [aka Fattie Fattie]
1968 - On Top [aka Best Of The Heptones]
1969 - Sweet Talking
1970 - Black Is Black [aka Ting A Ling]
1971 - Freedom Line
1973 - Book Of Rules
1976 - Cool Rasta
1976 - Night Food
1977 - Party Time
1978 - Better Days [aka Observer's Style]
1978 - In Love With You
1979 - Good Life
1980 - Mr Ska Bean'a (Alton Ellis & The Heptones)
1982 - On The Run
1983 - Back On Top
1983 - In A Dancehall Style
1985 - Swing Low
1986 - Changing Times
1987-A Place Called Love & Changing Times
1995 -Pressure!
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