Bob Marley & the Wailers
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Bob Marley & The Wailers: Rastaman Vibration (Island)
Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, May 1976
"Chase them crazy bald heads out of town" ...
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's freezing. The Wailers arrive on a mission to ignite below-zero Britain. Thus begins the demise of the original band and the rise of a ...
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Report by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 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 ...
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)
Review by Penny Reel, International Times, 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 ...
Bob Marley: In The Studio With The Wailers
Report by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, June 1973
THE ROLLING STONES are upstairs in Studio 1, where they've been for the past five weeks. ...
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: Lyceum Ballroom, London
Live Review by Philip Norman, Times, The, 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: The Lyceum, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, July 1975
"HEY, MON... WHAT are all these whites doin' here? They not here last time the Wailers play..." ...
Report and Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, 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 ...
Bob Marley: Marley On The Mount
Interview by Idris Walters, Sounds, 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 ...
An Herbal Meditation with Bob Marley
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Rolling Stone, 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 ...
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, November 1975
IN THESE troubled times of ours there's very few things you can be sure of. ...
Bob Marley and the Wailers: Rastaman Vibration
Review by Simon Frith, Street Life, 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: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Mick Farren, NME, June 1976
THERE WERE EXACTLY four things wrong with the final show by the Wailers at Hammersmith last Friday. ...
Bob Marley & the Wailers: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 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 ...
Report and Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 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, NME, 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: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 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 And The Wailers: Exodus
Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 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: Movement Of Jah People
Interview by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 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 ...
Comment by Nick Kent, NME, June 1977
We know where we're going,We know where we're fromWe're from Babylon Bob Marley – 'Exodus' ...
Bob Marley & The Wailers: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, June 1977
THE TENSION in the Rainbow was almost painful, the only relief the appearance of the Wallers. ...
Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, July 1977
FIRST OF all, the obvious. Why review two albums with the same name? ...
Bob Marley: T'ings Could Be Worse
Interview by Peter Silverton, Sounds, March 1978
"Talking to no-one is strange, Talking to someone is stranger." – Kevin Coyne ...
Report by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 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 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: Bingley Hall, Stafford
Live Review by Penny Reel, NME, July 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 & The Wailers: Babylon By Bus
Review by Ian Penman, NME, 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 ...
A Lost Leader? Bob Marley & the Wailers’ Babylon By Bus
Review by Simon Frith, Melody Maker, 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: A Day Out At The Gun Court
Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, 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, 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 ...
Review by Chris Bohn, Melody Maker, 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, NME, 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 and the Wailers: Uprising (Island)
Review by Vivien Goldman, NME, 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) ...
Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 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 ...
Interview by Vivien Goldman, NME, August 1980
VIVIEN GOLDMAN checks out the Rastafarian way of feminism with the I Three ...
Bob Marley: A Personal Remembrance
Memoir by Vivien Goldman, NME, May 1981
"I don't believe in death – neither in flesh nor in spirit..." ...
Bob Marley's Final Return Home
Report by Vivien Goldman, NME, May 1981
King of Reggae laid to rest in Jamaica ...
Bob Marley: The undisputed world ambassador of reggae
Retrospective by Chris Salewicz, History of Rock, The, 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, Face, The, 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, NME, August 1983
YES MI FRIEND, mi good friend, them set me free again... ...
Retrospective by Carol Cooper, Record, The, 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 ...
Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 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, November 1984
THE BARRETT BROTHERS may be the most influential unsung heroes in pop music. ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Celebrating Bob Marley at Studio One
Retrospective by James Maycock, Independent, The, February 1998
On the 35th anniversary of Studio One ...
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 ...
Bob Marley and Dennis Morris: Marley's Ghost
Profile and Interview by Philip Norman, 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, June 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: 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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see also Ziggy Marley
see also Judy Mowatt
see also Peter Tosh
see also Bunny Wailer
see also Wailers, The
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