in Miami in 1959. According to daughter Kathie Way-Giddarie: "Each evening during his hospital stay, he would play music for the doctors, nurses and the patients on the isolation ward." On 18 May 1959 (at the age of either 24 or 28), Lord Flea died. Thomas's subsequent funeral procession was, at the time, the longest ever seen in Miami-Dade County.

Subject matter

In "Mister Give Me Ma Rent", the Lord tells of a problem landlady who is "..too rude - in my affairs she likes to intrude.."

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