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NEW BOOK REMEMBERS THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF BOB MARLEY!
Bob Marley— A novel revisiting the December 1976 assassination attempt on reggae star Bob Marley is due out soon. The book, A Brief History of Seven Killings, is by Jamaican Marlon James, the Irish RTE.ie website reports. James looks at what could have sparked the shooting which took place December 3 at the singer’s Hope Road home (now the Bob Marley Museum) in St Andrew. Marley, his wife Rita, manager Don Taylor and friend Louis Simpson were shot by marauding gunmen. Marley was hit in the left arm. He and his band, the Wailers, were rehearsing for the Smile Jamaica concert scheduled for December 5 at National Heroes Park. Marley, on a high with his Rastaman Vibration album, was headliner for the show which was organised by the government of prime minister Michael Manley to … Read entire article »
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“TRIBUTE TO THE GREATS” TO HONOR BEVERLEY’S RECORDS FOUNDER LESLIE KONG, JULY 27 IN KINGSTON!
By Howard Campbell— Leslie Kong—- The 17th staging of Tribute To The Greats takes place July 27 at the Chinese Benevolent Association in St Andrew. Dubbed ‘The Chinese Connection’, it salutes the contribution of the Chinese to Jamaica’s popular music. Today, the Sunday Observer starts a six-part series on some of the recipients. When Leslie Kong died in August 1971, he was arguably the most successful Jamaican music producer in terms of overseas impact. Kong died suddenly of an heart attack at age 38. He was at his peak as a producer, having released a number of hit songs by Derrick Morgan, Jimmy Cliff, Desmond Dekker and the Aces and The Maytals through his Beverley’s Records. History will probably remember Kong best as the person who produced Judge Not, a 1962 song by a teenaged … Read entire article »
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BUNNY WAILER SCOLDS THE JAMAICAN GOVERNMENT FOR ITS SLOW PACE ON THE DECRIMINALIZATION OF MARIJUANA!
By Richard Johnson— BUNNY WAILER… I am looking for the details on sacramental rights— VETERAN reggae artist and ganja legalisation advocate Bunny Wailer is describing the Government’s recent move to facilitate the decriminalisation of small amounts of marijuana as “too little, too late”. According to Wailer, Rastafari has already done the job that the Government is tip-toeing around and, therefore, efforts must be made to expedite the process. “For I and I, ganja has always been legal. My father was a distributor since I was born — the biggest in western Kingston in the 1940s and ’50s, up till his passing in the ’90s. I grew up in the ganja trade, from it was donkey weed. It put us all in school as a family,” said Wailer, who is presently in Stockholm, Sweden on a … Read entire article »
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MEET THE NEXT GENERATION OF THE MUSICAL MARLEYS!
Bob’s grandkids Jo Mersa and Daniel Bambaata Marley push the family name forward with new tracks of their own. Left: Jo Mersa, Right: Daniel Bambaata Marley By JESSE SERWER— A decade after Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers followed in their father’s musical footsteps with Play the Game Right, two of Bob‘s other sons, Stephen and Damian, surprised many with solo releases that added hip-hop and dancehall to their father’s classic reggae sound. Now, a generation later, it’s Bob’s grandchildren who … Read entire article »
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A LEGEND IN THE MAKING: HOW WAS BOB MARLEY SOLD TO THE SUBURBS?
By Chris Kornelis Adrian Boot/Island Records Bob Marley At the time of his death in May 1981, Bob Marley was 36 years old, the biggest star in reggae and the father of at least 11 children. He was not, however, a big seller. For Dave Robinson, this presented an opportunity. Two years after Marley’s passing, Chris Blackwell, the founder of Marley’s label, Island Records, brought Robinson in to run his U.K. operation. Robinson’s first assignment was to put out a compilation … Read entire article »
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THE WAILERS’ “CATCH A FIRE” TOPS MOJO MAGAZINE’S TOP 50 ALBUM LIST!
No.3 The Harder They Come— CATCH A Fire, the sensational 1973 album by The Wailers, has been chosen best reggae album by Britain’s influential MOJO Magazine. It topped a list of 50 albums, many of which helped introduce Jamaican popular culture to an international audience. Catch A Fire was The Wailers’ (Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny ‘Wailer’ Livingston) first album for Chris Blackwell’s Island Records. It contained the title song, Concrete Jungle, Slave Driver and 400 Years. … Read entire article »
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FRENCH BOOK LINKS PETER TOSH TO THE GANJA TRADE!
By Howard Campbell— Peter Tosh is said to have been part of a 1976 smuggling operation that raised money to fund his groundbreaking album Legalize It—. Peter Tosh never hid his love for ganja. He wrote several songs about its spiritual powers and was a passionate advocate for its legalisation. But was the ‘Stepping Razor’ part of an illegal ganja trade that reportedly thrived in Jamaica during the 1970s? A book co-written by American Lee Jaffe, his former associate, says Tosh was part of a 1976 smuggling operation that raised money to fund his groundbreaking album Legalize It. Jaffe and French university lecturer Dr Jeremie Kroubo Dagnini co-wrote Bob Marley & The Wailers: 1973-1976, an extension of One Love: Life with Bob Marley and the Wailers, a 2003 book Jaffe co-authored with Roger Steffens, … Read entire article »
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THE “SKILL” OF ALLAN COLE INFLUENCES THE LYRICS OF THE HIT SINGLE “SPIRULINA” BY CHRONIXX!
Allan ‘Skill’ Cole (left) greets FIFA President ‘Sepp’ Blatter (centre), while Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) President Captain Horace Burrell looks on during a JFF cocktail reception at the Terra Nova hotel on Waterloo Road in St Andrew in September 2010.—- By Mel Cooke— In Behind Curtain, Chronixx pays his respects to Deon Burton, the man who scored four goals in five matches to play a major part in Jamaica getting to the World Cup finals in France in 1998. It is not the only time that he name-checks a footballer of note from many years ago. And if Burton, whose name Chronixx uses as an example of excellence which is envied (“Dem nuh waah si yuh dribble like Burton”), is a dim memory as a player, then the footballer he mentions in Spurlina is barely a blip on the … Read entire article »
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“WE NEED MORE REGGAE ON TOP 40 RADIO” SAYS THE VIRGINIA-BASED REGGAE BAND SOJA!
GOING BIG IN BOB MARLEY’S FOOTSTEPS Need proof that reggae is alive, well and very much a needed part of Top 40 radio? Look no further than SOJA and the message they have for the world around them. —By Deirdre Kaye—- Photo credit: Eric Ryan Anderson When you think reggae, what do you think of? Bob Marley, right? But where else does your mind go? Probably not to Virginia or, really, anywhere in America. When you think reggae, you think of Jamaica, but Marley preached more than just mellow beats. He believed in all-encompassing love, and his mission didn’t die with him. It lives on in his son and a wide range of followers, familiar and otherwise. One such group of Marley fans is SOJA. Yes, they’re from Virginia. But, as lead vocalist Jacob … Read entire article »
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LEE “SCRATCH” PERRY HOPES TO FURTHER THE POPULARITY OF THE DOCUMENTARY “JESUS IS A SOUL MAN” WITH A NEW SINGLE!
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry— By Shereita Grizzle— The documentary was released back in 2008, but the recent release of a single could be what Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry and his team need to further the film’s popularity. The new song, Jesus Is a Soul Man, done by Perry was produced by Clams Casino and was released last month. The song comes as part of a Bit Torrent download promoting Perry’s documentary, The Upsetter: The Life and Music of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry. As part of the ‘Upsetter Bundle’, customers will also receive the documentary’s trailer in addition to unreleased footage and photographs. The Upsetter: The Life and Times of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry documents the artist’s life, his role in the birth of dub, and his experiences as a producer working with some of the biggest names in the music industry, including The Wailers, The Heptones … Read entire article »
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