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‘Natty Dread is a spiritually charged political and social statement.’ Without the original members of the band this did not hold Bob Marley back. This would be the first recording without Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer. “Bend Down Low” taken from the ‘Natty Dread’ album released in 1974. Rohan is making waves out of the recording studio and bringing success to the Marley family in corporate world. He helps to run family charitable organisation called 1Love ,as well as the Tuff Gong Clothing company. He would also develop the ‘House of Marley’ range of ecofriendly headphones.
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Rohan was a professional footballer for a while, playing in the Canadian Football League with the Ottawa Rough Riders but would later take on the role of entrepreneur and in 2009 he became co-founder of the Marley Coffee company producing sustainable organic coffee from a farm in Jamaica’s Blue Mountain. She was in a relationship at the time with Bob Marley’s son Rohan Marley – they have 5 children. On this track we have singer and song writer Lauryn Hill duetting with Bob. The song’s original version is on the Bob Marley and the Wailers Exodus album released in 1977. “Turn Your Lights Down Low” written by Minnie Riperton & Richard James Rudolph taken from the ‘Chant Down Babylon’ album released in 1999 featuring original vocals from Bob Marley, remixed and featuring an array of artists from the rock, pop and hip-hop world. He brought her over to England and produced and release her 1956 hit “My Boy Lollypop” it sold six million records worldwide and it launched island Records.
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He then began to license music master tapes from Jamaica and on one of the tapes was the fifteen-year-old Millie Small. He would pursue other work, but it would lead to nothing meaningful. He left school to pursue different careers, but it was managing jukeboxes which would take him up and down the country meeting the Jamaican music community that inspired him. He spent his early years in Jamaica but returned to the UK for schooling at Harrow. They moved to Jamaica after his birth, but they would divorce when he 12 years. His mother was a Jamaican heiress born in Costa Rica. Chris Blackwell was born in Westminster, London in 1937 and his father Joseph is a family member of the Crosse and Blackwell brand. Blackwell was the founder of Island Records which the band was signed too.īlackwell was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001 and is referred to as the ‘man who bought reggae music to the world’. This was the bands sixth studio album and produced by Chris Blackwell. “Small Axe” by the ‘The Wailers’ released in 1973 taken form the ‘Burnin’ album.
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Catch a Fire is about “the current state of urban poverty,” and “Slave Driver – connects the present to past injustices.” But politics are not the main theme “Stir it Up”, for example, is a love song.’ And the songs and lyrics still resonate today and carry the torch of the one love philosophy. ‘The song’s lyrics deal with political injustice towards blacks and poverty, as is the case in many of their albums. Catch a Fire is referred by critics “as one of the biggest selling reggae albums of all time”. Songs performed where Stir it Up and Concrete Jungle. Their performance has been named by the influential and well-respected music magazine NME (New Musical Express) as one of the most ‘unforgettable’ moments of the shows 17-year run (1971-1988). This was the first Reggae band to be featured on the Rock focused show. While in England they performed on The Old Grey Whistle Test, the popular BBC music show. In 1973 Bob Marley & The Wailers toured the UK and the USA as their popularity grew exponentially. Bob Marley was on vocals and original band members Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer eventually learned to play their own instruments and by the beginning of the 1970’s the band was ready to take on the world. Their first big Jamaican chart hit was with the track ‘Simmer Down’ accompanied by a backing band – The Skatalites. Bob Marley, the Wailers and the Marley Familyīob Marley & the Wailers started their music career as a Ska band 1963.