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Most of Bob Marley's early music was recorded with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, who together with Marley were the most prominent members of the Wailers. In 1972, the Wailers had their first hit outside Jamaica when Johnny Nash covered their song "Stir It Up", which became a UK hit. The 1973 album Catch a Fire was released worldwide, and sold well.
Legend is a compilation album by Bob Marley and the Wailers.It was released on 7 May 1984 by Island Records. [2] It is a greatest hits collection of singles in its original vinyl format and is the best-selling reggae album of all time, with more than 18 million copies sold in the US, more than 3.3 million in the UK (where it is the 17th-best-selling album [3]) and an estimated 25 million ...
The music of Marley, Tosh and Wailer enjoyed considerable success as reggae music continued to gain popularity during the 1980s. In 1984 Island Records released a Bob Marley & the Wailers 'greatest hits' album, entitled Legend. The album contains all ten of the Wailers' top-40 UK hits, plus "Redemption Song" and three songs from the Marley/Tosh ...
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Bob Marley and the Wailers performing at Crystal Palace, London (1980) Bob Marley and the Wailers were a Jamaican reggae band created by Bob Marley.The band formed when self-taught musician Hubert Winston McIntosh met Neville Livingston (Bunny Wailer), and Robert Nesta Marley in 1963 and taught them how to play guitar, keyboards, and percussion.
Rebel Music is a compilation album by Bob Marley & The Wailers released by Island Records in 1986. It consists of tracks drawn from such albums as Catch A Fire, Natty Dread, Live!, Rastaman Vibration, Babylon By Bus, and Survival, as well as an exclusive remix of "Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Roadblock)" and the first album appearance of 1977 B Side "Roots".
In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked it number one on their list of the 50 greatest Bob Marley songs, [4] while The Guardian ranked it number two on their list of Marley's 30 greatest songs. [5] In 1999, the 1973 recording of "Get Up, Stand Up" by Bob Marley & The Wailers on Island Records was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. [6]
Rebel Music (Bob Marley and the Wailers album) S. Songs of Freedom This page was last edited on 13 April 2013, at 07:58 (UTC). Text ...