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Bob Marley: The First Genius of Reggae?

Profile and Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 24 February 1973

BOB MARLEY, slightly-built and quiet to the point of diffidence, is a leader. He's the master of Reggae, the man who's about to give it ...

Bob Marley & The Wailers: Rastaman Vibration (Island)

Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 1 May 1976

"Chase them crazy bald heads out of town" ...

Bob Marley & The Wailers

Review by Lloyd Bradley, Q, October 1990

Confrontational classics from Bob Marley ...

Burnin': Bob Marley and the Wailers take Britain

Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, March 1995

Babylon is freezing. The Wailers arrive on a mission to ignite below-zero Britain. Thus begins the demise of the original band and the rise of ...

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Bob Marley (1975)

Interview by Karl Dallas, Rock's Backpages audio, 19 July 1975

The day after his legendary Lyceum show, Marley expounds on Babylon, Rastafari, Jamaica, his universal message, and the meaning of 'I Shot The Sheriff'.

File format: mp3; file size: 11.5mb, interview length: 25' 01" sound quality: ****

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Reggae: Black Gold of Jamaica

Report by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 30 September 1972

Reggae – in its more commercial form – has won the battle for mass acceptance, and has gone on to influence rock and soul musicians ...

It's Here — Reggae Rock

Overview by Loraine Alterman, The New York Times, 4 February 1973

WHEN ANYONE mentions West Indian music, steel bands and calypso instantly echo in the mind, but Jamaica's most popular music is reggae (rhymes with old) ...

The Wailers: Catch A Fire (Island)

Review by Colman Andrews, Phonograph Record, March 1973

THE WAILERS is/are a sort of senior, "safe" reggae group, in the same way that the Roiling Stones are a sort of senior, "safe" perverto-bizarro ...

The Wailers: Catch A Fire (Island)

Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 29 March 1973

SOME TIME during the coming summer, Reggae will become a vital force in pop music — perhaps, for a while at least, the force. For those who ...

Bob Marley & The Wailers: Catch a Fire (Island)

Review by Charlie Gillett, Creem, May 1973

WELL I SUPPOSE it serves you — America — right. For five years some of the best music has been coming out of little studios ...

The Wailers: Catch A Fire

Review by Gene Sculatti, Fusion, May 1973

AFTER ALL THESE veers, a new Wailers' LP! But wait, Catch A Fire doesn't have anything to do with those soggy Seattle-ites who rocked hot ...

The Wailers: Catch A Fire (Island SW9329)

Review by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 5 May 1973

TRUTH TO tell, I think that reggae is a lost cause in Britain. It's an entirely popular music and unless it makes it from the ...

The Wailers: Catch a Fire (Island)

Review by Penny Reel, International Times, 31 May 1973

WITH THE Wailers presently heralded as the reggae band by music acclaimants, I expect to see Catch a Fire amongst those record collections where Eddie ...

Wailers' Simple Message

Profile and Interview by Martin Hayman, Sounds, 9 June 1973

BOB MARLEY looks as though he could be a heavy. Though he's of average height and spare build, he has the gleaming eye of a ...

Bob Marley: In The Studio With The Wailers

Report by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 23 June 1973

THE ROLLING STONES are upstairs in Studio 1, where they've been for the past five weeks. ...

Reggae... The Hits You Never Hear

Report by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 21 July 1973

Scores of reggae records sell enough copies to qualify as pop hits. But you won't see them on the charts and you won't hear them ...

Bob Marley & The Wailers: Max's Kansas City, New York NY

Live Review by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 23 July 1973

Waiters Serve Up Genuine Reggay ...

Bruce Springsteen, Bob Marley & The Wailers: Max's Kansas City, New York NY

Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 11 August 1973

Wailers fail to catch afire ...

Bob Marley: Lively Up Yourself

Overview by Idris Walters, Let It Rock, December 1974

Idris Walters on the music, the history and the Rasta background of Bob Marley and The Wailers. ...

Why Reggae Won't Be the Next Big Thing

Essay by Wayne Robins, The Village Voice, 16 December 1974

FOR A WHILE it appeared that reggae was Pop Salvation. This was determined by a small number of white music taste makers who'd seen Jimmy ...

Is Natty Dread better than Sgt. Pepper?

Essay by Idris Walters, Sounds, 24 May 1975

It doesn't matter, says IDRIS WALTERS. Rock's big enough, and the WAILERS are making waves... ...

Bob Marley: Wollman Skating Rink, New York NY

Live Review by Mitchell Cohen, Phonograph Record, July 1975

IT WAS THE first one of those muggy nights this season, when the air is so close it cuts down your breathing, that Bob Marley ...

Bob Marley & the Wailers: Roxy, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 1975

Magic of Reggae by Marley & Co. ...

Bob Marley & The Wailers: Lyceum Ballroom, London

Live Review by Philip Norman, The Times, 18 July 1975

BOB MARLEY and the Wailers reached the Lyceum two nights ago, in some style. By early evening, long before they were due to appear, the ...

Bob Marley & the Wailers, Third World: Lyceum, London

Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Record Mirror, 26 July 1975

Trenchtown Experience ...

Bob Marley & The Wailers: The Lyceum, London

Live Review by Idris Walters, Sounds, 26 July 1975

Wailers join rogues gallery ...

Bob Marley & the Wailers: The Lyceum, London

Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 26 July 1975

"HEY, MON... WHAT are all these whites doin' here? They not here last time the Wailers play..." ...

Bob Marley: Wailin'

Report and Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 26 July 1975

After two amazing gigs last week in London, Bob Marley is being universally hailed as reggae's first superstar. Karl Dallas watches the Wailers in action ...

Jimmy Cliff: Music Maker (Warner Bros. MS 2188); Bob Marley & the Wailers: Natty Dread (Island ILPS 9281)

Review by Vernon Gibbs, Crawdaddy!, August 1975

IT HAS BEEN three years since The Harder They Come lifted reggae from obscurity to culthood and raised hopes that Jimmy Cliff would begin a ...

Bob Marley: Marley On The Mount

Interview by Idris Walters, Sounds, 16 August 1975

Last week you got the low-down on Bob Marley, King of the Rastafarians. But it goes a little deeper than that. For a start the ...

Letter from Britain: Johnny Too Bad's Kinky Reggae

Column by Jonh Ingham, Creem, September 1975

THEY SAY that reggae is breaking into America via discos. It would be nice to think so, because if ever a music deserved to gain ...

An Herbal Meditation with Bob Marley

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Rolling Stone, 11 September 1975

LOS ANGELES – This Bible is not the arcane, apocryphal version you might expect to find in the possession of these mysterious Rastas, but a ...

Single Of The Year — Bob Marley & the Wailers: 'No Woman, No Cry'/'Kinky Reggae' (Island)

Review by Ian MacDonald, New Musical Express, 13 September 1975

Marley No Woman No Cry No Opposition Mon ...

Bob Marley et al: Jamaica

Overview by Mitchell Cohen, Phonograph Record, October 1975

FIRST DAY, RAIN. Thick clouds and then more rain. It is, I'm told, the wetter of Jamaica's two wet seasons. ...

Bob Marley & The Wailers: Live at the Lyceum (Island) 35 mins.*****

Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 29 November 1975

IN THESE troubled times of ours there's very few things you can be sure of. ...

Is Rock 'N' Roll Ready For 1976?

Comment by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 3 January 1976

What has all this to do with all this? Does anyone care? MICK FARREN'S IS THE VOICE FROM THE GALLERY ...

Bob Marley & The Wailers: Rastaman Vibration (Island ILPS 9383)

Review by Sam Sutherland, Phonograph Record, May 1976

Top 40 Rasta: Marley at his most Mischievous ...

Bob Marley and the Wailers: Rastaman Vibration

Review by Simon Frith, Street Life, 15 May 1976

I DON'T KNOW how this music will be rated but my word would be mellow. This is a very uncluttered album – the rhythms are ...

Bob Marley: Beacon Theatre, New York NY

Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 22 May 1976

NEW YORK: Bob Marley needs an enthusiastic audience to light his particular fire, but his show at the Beacon Theatre lacked this essential ingredient and ...

Bob Marley & the Wailers, Gloria Jones, Gonzalez: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 26 June 1976

The roar of a BMW ...

Bob Marley & the Wailers: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 26 June 1976

RIOTS LAST NIGHT they said, marauding hordes of smart, mean kids swarming around getting illegal all over the place with property and the concession stands ...

Bob Marley: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 26 June 1976

THERE WERE EXACTLY four things wrong with the final show by the Wailers at Hammersmith last Friday. ...

Bob Marley with a Bullet

Report and Interview by Ed McCormack, Rolling Stone, 12 August 1976

Man to man is so unjust You don't know who to trust... Who the cap fit Let them wear it — 'Who ...

Reggae: Black Punks On 'Erb

Report and Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 16 October 1976

"Youth is the first thing that hits you about the musicians...reggae is still a young music, further progress is made every day."                                             * ...

Bob Marley and the Wailers: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 13 November 1976

THERE WERE EXACTLY FOUR things wrong with the final show by the Wailers at the Hammersmith last Friday. ...

Bob Marley And The Wailers: Exodus

Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 21 May 1977

From a purely marketing point of view, this is the one. With Rastaman Vibration’s appearance, there weren’t many music fans on the planet unaware of ...

Bob Marley And The Wailers: Hammersmith Odeon, London

Live Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 21 May 1977

And I went in there feeling conscientious, like I really wanted to take notes. But believe me when I tell you, nothing seemed less important ...

Bob Marley & The Wailers: Exodus (Island)

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 28 May 1977

THE REVOLUTION may not be televised, but sure as death and taxes it'll be packaged... the sleeve of this album looks like a Cecil B. ...

Bob Marley: Movement Of Jah People

Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 28 May 1977

"ISN'T IT A NICE feeling... isn't it a nice day...isn't it a nice feeling..." Bob Marley croons, strumming on an acoustic guitar. He's glowing, planted ...

Bob Marley & The Wailers: Rainbow Theatre, London

Live Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 11 June 1977

THE TENSION in the Rainbow was almost painful, the only relief the appearance of the Wallers. ...

Bob Marley: Jahve, Mon

Comment by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 11 June 1977

We know where we're going,We know where we're fromWe're from Babylon Bob Marley – 'Exodus' ...

Bob Marley & The Wailers: The Birth Of A Legend Vol I (Epic/Calla EPC 82066)****/Birth Of A Legend (Calla 2 CAS-1240)****

Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 23 July 1977

FIRST OF all, the obvious. Why review two albums with the same name? ...

Judy Mowatt: The Grateful Dread

Profile and Interview by Susin Shapiro, Viva, November 1977

IN CORNERS cut off from the rude-boy violence in poor black Jamaican communities, reggae music took seed, an offshoot of calypso, ska, R&B, and, further ...

Marley Beats the Devil

Report and Interview by John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 17 November 1977

A Rasta recovery ...

Bob Marley: A Lickle Love An' T'ing

Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 18 February 1978

Interview CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY. From the Court of the Ranking Dread. ...

Bob Marley: T'ings Could Be Worse

Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 4 March 1978

"Talking to no-one is strange, Talking to someone is stranger." – Kevin Coyne ...

Bob Marley: Kaya (Island)

Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 18 March 1978

Marley runs on the spot ...

One Love Peace Festival

Report by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 29 April 1978

SUNDAY AFTERNOON Bob Marley relaxed on his front stoop. Everybody is still discussing the One Love peace show the previous day, on the night of ...

Bob Marley: Bingley Hall, Stafford

Live Review by Penny Reel, New Musical Express, 29 June 1978

BETWEEN I AND I, a writer's relationship with his reader is a balance of equal power: the former dictates terms, but only at the latter's ...

Bob Marley and The Wailers: Kaya (Island)

Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, July 1978

THE FIRE HASN'T gone out, but it is on low flame and being used more for warmth than for arson. ...

Bob Marley: So Much Things to Say

Interview by Glenn O'Brien, Interview, July 1978

BOB MARLEY, one of the original members of the group, The Wailers, founded the group 13 years ago along with Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston ...

Bob Marley: A Puff Away from Huge

Interview by Fred Schruers, Circus, 6 July 1978

Bob Marley and the Wailers Gain Fans Near and Far with Kaya ...

A Lost Leader? Bob Marley & the Wailers’ Babylon By Bus

Review by Simon Frith, Melody Maker, 18 November 1978

THE BEST RECORD Bob Marley ever made was the live single version of ‘No Woman, No Cry’. The reasons for its success were complex, but ...

Bob Marley & The Wailers: Babylon By Bus

Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 18 November 1978

ALL THE points are easily made. You have your join-the-dots special Christmas present package. Bob Marley and The Wailers skank in and out the Western ...

Bob Marley & the Wallers: Babylon By Bus (Island ISLD 11)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Free Press, 31 December 1978

MARLEY'S BUS NEEDS MORE GAS ...

Bob Marley: A Day Out At The Gun Court

Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 17 March 1979

SET IN maybe half an acre of ground, 56 Hope Road, Kingston 6 is a sprawling, wood-fronted, two-storey detached house, its flaking cream paint seeming ...

Bob Marley In His Own Backyard

Interview by Vivien Goldman, Melody Maker, 11 August 1979

AS YOU DRIVE through the white-pillared gates into the grounds of 56 Hope Road, the first thing you notice is that the road doesn't have ...

Bob Marley: Survival (Island)

Review by Chris Bohn, Melody Maker, 29 September 1979

SOME PEOPLE mellow as they get older. Bob Marley gets angrier and wiser. Following the relaxed, self-fulfilled Exodus and Kaya, Survival marks a surprising but ...

Bob Marley & The Wailers: Apollo Theatre, New York NY

Live Review by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 10 November 1979

BOB MARLEY had to change his approach. He had a virtual patent in the international arena on the stance of the mad-shaman reggae icon, the ...

Bob Marley & The Wailers: Confrontation (Island)

Review by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 1980

MOST RECORD COMPANIES waste little time in emptying the vaults when a major artist dies, but Island has refrained from pursuing that course with the ...

Bob Marley & the Wailers: Crystal Palace Bowl, London

Live Review by Roy Hollingworth, New Music News, 14 June 1980

AS MARLEY got more and more into it, a controlled zombie look-alike waded slowly, mechanically, into the pond until the fetid, oily liquid washed heavily ...

Bob Marley and the Wailers: Uprising (Island)

Review by Vivien Goldman, New Musical Express, 5 July 1980

"But even without the forceful pressures of the slaves, the slave system was collapsing surreptitiously from within..."(The Caribbean: Franklin W Knight: Oxford University Press) ...

Bob Marley: Better Off Dread

Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 7 August 1980

IF THE first time you heard Bob Marley and the Wailers was when ‘Could You Be Loved’ came skanking out of the radio, you probably ...

The I Three: The 3 Wise Is

Interview by Vivien Goldman, New Musical Express, 9 August 1980

VIVIEN GOLDMAN checks out the Rastafarian way of feminism with the I Three ...

The Commodores, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Kurtis Blow: Madison Square Garden, New York NY

Live Review by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 4 October 1980

Cross-over cupboard love ...

Bob Marley: A Personal Remembrance

Memoir by Vivien Goldman, New Musical Express, 16 May 1981

"I don't believe in death – neither in flesh nor in spirit..." ...

Bob Marley: Miami, Florida — 12.30 pm Monday: Bullets Couldn't Kill Him — Cancer Did

Report by Richard Grabel, Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 16 May 1981

CHRIS SALEWICZ in London and RICHARD GRABEL in New York chronicle the events leading up to Monday's tragedy ...

Bob Marley's Final Return Home

Report by Vivien Goldman, New Musical Express, 30 May 1981

King of Reggae laid to rest in Jamaica ...

Bob Marley: Death of a Prophet

Report by Richard Williams, Rock & Folk, June 1981

  THEY BURIED Bob Marley on 21 May 1981 at Nine Mile, the Jamaican hamlet where, 36 years earlier, he had been born. His heavy bronze ...

The Words and Works of Bob Marley and the Wailers

Special Feature by Penny Reel, New Musical Express, 6 June 1981

THE DEATH of Bob Marley last month robbed reggae music of its foremost ambassador, the man who more than any had turned outside ears and ...

Bob Marley

Obituary by Richard Grabel, New York Rocker, September 1981

BOB MARLEY and the Wailers were the group that turned me, and many other Americans, on to reggae music. For that, they have a permanent ...

The Producers: Steve Smith

Interview by Chas de Whalley, International Musician & Recording World, December 1981

STEVE SMITH is one of those comparatively rare creatures: a quiet American. No more, and quite possibly less than average height, he doesn't favour the ...

Bob Marley: The undisputed world ambassador of reggae

Retrospective by Chris Salewicz, The History of Rock, 1983

BOB MARLEY ALMOST SINGLE-HANDEDLY introduced reggae music to European and American audiences and, more than any other artist, was responsible for establishing it as a ...

The Chapel of Love: Bob Marley’s Last resting Place

Report by Chris Salewicz, The Face, June 1983

ON A HILLSIDE in a peaceful corner of Jamaica’s lush rural hinterland – Natural Mystic Country – perches the simple white-washed chapel erected on the ...

Timothy White: Catch A Fire: The Life Of Bob Marley Stephen Davis: Bob Marley

Book Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 10 August 1983

YES MI FRIEND, mi good friend, them set me free again... ...

Confronting Marley’s Legacy

Retrospective by Carol Cooper, Record, September 1983

NEW YORK – King Tut was playing Munich when I arrived in January of 1981 to pay my last respects to Bob Marley. I remember ...

Bunny Wailer: The Bright Soul of the Blackheart Man

Interview by Paul Bradshaw, New Musical Express, 14 January 1984

From his boyhood friendship with Bob Marley and the foundation of The Wailers, to a solo career that's produced a wealth of inspired (and under-rated) music, BUNNY WAILER remains ...

Bob Marley: Legend

Review by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 12 May 1984

ONE STRANGE THING. Naturally, we group Bob Marley with Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Dennis Brown, Michael Jackson: black music-makers with the stature of giants. Yet ...

Bob Marley To Live On Through Reggae Tour: Rita Marley talks about her late husband's legacy and U.S. tour

Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 13 September 1984

THREE YEARS AFTER Bob Marley succumbed to cancer, his old Wailers band and three backing vocalists — including his widow — are embarking on an ...

Aston Barrett: Rhythm Behind The Reggae

Profile and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 2 November 1984

THE BARRETT BROTHERS may be the most influential unsung heroes in pop music. ...

Reggae great Peter Tosh murdered

Report by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 22 October 1987

THE REGGAE star Peter Tosh, a founding member of the Wailers, was gunned down during an apparent robbery when three men invaded his home near ...

A Wailer Surfaces to Claim Reggae's Crown

Interview by Mark Cooper, The Guardian, 26 August 1988

After Marley, what price reggae? Mark Cooper on Bunny Wailer's musical crusade ...

Interview: Island Records' Chris Blackwell (1989) [transcript]

Audio transcript of interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 1989

This is a transcript of John Tobler's 1989 audio interview. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...

Bob Marley: Talkin' Blues

Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, March 1991

IT IS A popular truism that the obsessiveness with which popular culture picks through the bones of its most illustrious dead is the sign of ...

Bob Marley: Songs For Freedom

Review by Mark Cooper, Q, November 1992

WHEN LITTLE RICHARD stood up at his piano and hollered 'Tutti Frutti', he sounded like a man who'd just broken out of prison. ...

RAR! RAR! Disputin'! The History of Rock Against Racism

Retrospective by John Harris, New Musical Express, 16 October 1993

  ON APRIL 16, 1990, a proud man who'd spent 27 years in the custody of a vicious racist regime arrived in London. He'd come to ...

The Wailers: Pirates Yes They Rob I

Report and Interview by Larry Jaffee, Vibe, March 1994

Three decades after cutting his first record, Bob Marley still ranks as one of the most exploited artists in the history of recorded music. Larry ...

Bob Marley & the Wailers: Early Wailers: Fussing & Fighting

Report by Larry Jaffee, Billboard, 18 June 1994

Marley Catalog Is A Source Of Strife, Suits ...

Can't Fight The Youth: Bob Marley's Early Years

Retrospective by Chris Salewicz, MOJO, March 1995

1945. THE PREGNANCY WAS PROBLEM-FREE. On the first Sunday of February, 1945, Cedella Marley went to church as usual. The next day she hoped to ...

Mummy's Little Rock'n'Roll Soldier

Report by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 16 December 1996

They're mad, bad and dangerous to know, and the apple of their mothers eyes. Caroline Sullivan examines the closest of all relationships... ...

Lee "Scratch" Perry: Scratch'n'mix

Retrospective by Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian, 18 April 1997

Lee "Scratch" Perry may not have invented dub, but, says Sean O'Hagan, he is its one auteur — his influence can be heard from trip-hop ...

Celebrating Bob Marley at Studio One

Retrospective by James Maycock, The Independent, 6 February 1998

On the 35th anniversary of Studio One ...

Lee Perry: Lost Treasures Of The Ark (Jet Star)

Review by Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 2 January 1999

BOOTY RECALL ...

Bob Marley: Trenchtown Rock

Review by Andy Gill, MOJO, February 1999

DOVETAILING NICELY with the recent 3-CD set from JAD Records, Trench Town Rock presents the most wide-ranging account yet of the second chapter of The ...

Chris Blackwell: A Man of Wealth & Taste

Profile and Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 18 February 1999

For forty years, CHRIS BLACKWELL has survived on killer instincts, killer bud and tough business tactics. Along the way, he's changed the course of pop ...

Ska: Fascinating rhythm

Retrospective by Sean O'Hagan, The Guardian, 29 October 1999

Fresh out of young Jamaica in the 60s, ska became the defining sound of a vibrant music scene — in turn it influenced 70s reggae, ...

Reggae: Back to the Roots

Essay by Simon Reynolds, The Wire, September 2000

According to the remixologists' gospel, the dub virus was so successful, it took out the word and eradicated its reggae song hosts. Simon Reynolds rediscovers ...

Bob Marley and Dennis Morris: Marley's Ghost

Profile and Interview by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, 2001

ONE DAY in the troubled winter of 1973, a 16-year-old wannabe photographer named Dennis Morris played truant from school in Hackney, east London, and took ...

Bob Marley And The Wailers: Live!

Review by Lloyd Bradley, MOJO, July 2001

ALONG WITH the Sex Pistols at the 100 Club and Prince at the Lyceum, these shows played in London by Bob Marley And The Wailers ...

Bob Marley CD Reissues

Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, November 2001

Catch A Fire*****Burnin'****Natty Dread****Live!****Rastaman Vibration***All Island Roots Of Passage: First instalment of definitive reissue programme ...

Bob Marley: Change Is Gonna Come

Retrospective by Andy Gill, MOJO, August 2002

BY 1966, IT LOOKED LIKE THE WAILING WAILERS WERE FINISHED ON the Jamaican music scene. They had recorded numerous hits, eventually challenging The Maytals as ...

The Night Bob Marley Didn't Play the Bouncing Ball

Memoir by Penny Reel, Rock's Backpages, May 2003

IT IS 1973, around the time of the release of Catch A Fire, that Bob Marley And The Wailers are booked to play at Admiral ...

Working Like Trojans

Report and Interview by Mike Atherton, Record Collector, July 2003

Mike Atherton delves into the revitalised world of the renowned reggae label Trojan. ...

Bob Marley

Retrospective by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, February 2004

DECEMBER 3, 1976. A mellow, starry Friday night at 56 Hope Road, Bob Marley's Kingston home. Children playing in the yard – three of them ...

The Shooting of Bob Marley

Retrospective by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, February 2004

DECEMBER 3, 1976. A mellow, starry Friday night at 56 Hope Road, Bob Marley's Kingston home. Children playing in the yard - three of them ...

The Wailers: Burnin’ (Deluxe Edition) (Tuff Gong/Island)

Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, January 2005

CATCH A FIRE set the world alight but Burnin’ got it blazing. By the time Eric Clapton took the album’s ‘I Shot the Sheriff’ to ...

Christopher John Farley: Before The Legend – The Rise of Bob Marley (Amistad)

Book Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Washington Post, 20 August 2006

The early years of a reggae superstar who gained worldwide renown. ...

Bob Marley: Keep On Moving

Retrospective by Vivien Goldman, New Statesman, 28 May 2007

Hailed as the best album of the 20th century, Bob Marley's Exodus is 30 years old next month. Vivien Goldman recalls the sessions that produced ...

Island Records turns 50

Retrospective and Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Times, 3 May 2009

NOTE: This is the original "director's cut" version of the piece that ran in the The Times ...

Empire of the Sun: Island at 50

Retrospective and Interview by Tom Doyle, Q, June 2009

The grand scheme of a gambler with a taste for chicken blood, Jamaican label Island Records introduced Bob Marley and U2 to the world. On ...

Dennis Morris: "Suddenly we were black, not coloured"

Retrospective and Interview by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, 25 March 2012

Dennis Morris is celebrated for his iconic photographs of the Sex Pistols and Bob Marley. But few knew that in that pivotal era he was ...

Bob Marley & the Wailers: Marley (Original Soundtrack)

Review by Lloyd Bradley, bbc.co.uk, 16 April 2012

A collection strong enough to stand apart from its parent documentary. ...

Bob Marley: The Lost Prophet

Retrospective by Charles Shaar Murray, The Word, May 2012

A new documentary presents Bob Marley in the raw, in the round, in close-up and in perspective. CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY recalls their weed-scented encounter in ...

Marley: A Legend in Sharp Focus

Film/DVD/TV Review by Will Hermes, Rolling Stone, 16 August 2012

New documentary may be the definitive portrait of international pop's most potent star. ...

Shot! Reggae Cinema

Guide by Kieron Tyler, Q Classic, 2015

Author's note, 2020: The Harder They Come, conspicuous by its absence from this list, was not included, since it was the subject of a feature ...

Tribal War, CIA, Dons & Drugs: Marlon James' A Brief History of Seven Killings

Essay by Paul Bradshaw, Ancient to Future, 15 July 2015

ONE EVENING, as I left the home of friend and fellow scribbler, Neil Spencer, he thrust a weighty tome into my hands and said, "You ...

Bob Marley: Bob Marley & The Wailers Live!, Bob Marley — The Legend Live

Review by Jim Irvin, MOJO, February 2017

Bob Marley in stages, on stages. ...

Bob Harris: Whistle Test is back…

Report and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 10 February 2018

… not with a bang but a WHISPER, as its softly-spoken host Bob Harris recalls being hit by Sid Vicious, paying John Lennon in chocolate ...

The 30 best live concert albums of all time

Guide by Ian Winwood, Daily Telegraph, 22 April 2020

LAST WEEK, A STORY appeared in the New York Times that predicted that live music would not return to the world's stages until the autumn ...

People Get Ready: Bucky Marshall, Claudie Massop and Bob Marley

Retrospective by James Fox, Rock's Backpages, 21 February 2024

A FEW DAYS ago, a friend sent me a photograph from Jamaica that hit me with a jolt: an image of myself 46 years ago, ...

see also Marcia Griffiths

see also Ziggy Marley

see also Judy Mowatt

see also Peter Tosh

see also Bunny Wailer

see also Wailers, The

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