A Reggae label, part of the Trojan group. Pressure Beat was the successor to the Amalgamated label (q.v.) and, like Amalgamated, it featured Joe Gibbs productions. It ran to fifteen issues, the first eight of which came out in 1970 and were numbered in the PR-5500s. The remainder were issued after a gap of a year or so; they had a 'PB' prefix rather than a 'PR' one, and had the text 'Made in England' on their labels. 'Money In My Pocket' by Joe Gibbs & The Professionals (PB-5513; 1973) can be found in one of Trojan's cheaper (but dull) all-purpose plain designs (2), as well as in the usual green-and-white one. Manufacture seems to have been generally by Orlake, as it was for most of Trojan's products at the time. The second scan appears by courtesy of Robert Bowes.
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