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Reggae great Peter Tosh murdered

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 Kingston, Jamaica, on September 11th. Tosh was forty-two years old.

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