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I No Get Eye For Back

by Fela Kuti · music · 1974

track by Fela Kuti and Africa 70, recorded at Ginger Baker's A.R.C. Studios in Lagos with Emmanuel Odenusi engineering, released on the Alagbon Close album in 1974. the track is instrumental focused, built from a lyric in the album's title track, which chronicled his april and may 1974 police detentions for cannabis. the song appeared on the first Fela album with cover art by Ghariokwu Lemi, who would design nearly all subsequent Afrobeat sleeves through the mid-1980s.