After the long years of cult-hero status, 'Rastaman Vibration' brought Bob Marley & the Wailers chart success, becoming the band’s first US Top 10 & UK hit.
Released in April 1973, 'Catch A Fire' did for reggae what 'Please Please Me,' the first Beatles album, had done for pop and rock exactly a decade earlier.
Exodus was still in the UK chart when its follow-up Kaya was released, a testament to Bob Marley’s phenomenal popularity and impressive work ethic.
Babylon By Bus was a live double-album, recorded for the most part during a 3-night run of shows in June 1978 at the 10,000-capacity Pavillon de Paris.
Uprising was the last album Bob Marley released in his lifetime. The day it reached the shops, Marley and the Wailers opened for Fleetwood Mac in Munich.
If any album was Bob Marley’s masterpiece, it was ‘Exodus’, housing a string of hits: ‘Jamming’, ‘Waiting In Vain’, ‘One Love’ and its title track.
Island supremo Chris Blackwell, together with the Wailers and I-Threes, compiled the unreleased recordings made during the years before Marley’s death.
Powerful, pointed and political, Survival was as close as Bob Marley came to producing a concept album, recorded in London and Tuff Gong studio in Kingston.
'All the way from Trenchtown, Jamaica – Bob Marley and the Wailers.' So began one of the transcendent albums of the modern pop era... Live!
There is a school of thought which puts Natty Dread as Marley’s finest album, thus making it “the ultimate reggae album of all time”.
Less than 6 months after the Wailers released their first international album, Catch A Fire, the conflagration continued with the release of Burnin’...
Touring in support of her new memoir, ‘Radio Dreams’, Kimmie Rhodes performs classics songs in an intimate setting, and recalls meeting country outlaw Willie Nelson at the famed Cut-N-Putt.
Don’t let the jokey title fool you. This documentary about the life and times of Eric Clapton has a surprisingly dark, edgy undercurrent.
At the London premiere of his documentary, Life In 12 Bars, Eric Clapton looks back over his life, with Jools Holland and director Lili Fini Zanuck.
