APRIL 1973: With Catch a Fire, the band known then as simply The Wailers, created a bridge between the deep roots sound of Jamaica and the commercial rock music of the international market, ...

Renowned photographer Kate Simon has reflected on some of her memories working with Bob Marley, on what would have marked his 80th birthday. Simon enjoyed ...

The photographer behind some of the most famous portraits of the late reggae icon remembers him on what would have been his 80th birthday ...

A special concert celebrating Birmingham's reggae history is to take place on what would have been Bob Marley's 80th birthday. The Reggae Origins concert will see Basil Gabbidon and musicians from ...

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A special concert celebrating Birmingham's reggae history is to take place on what would have been Bob Marley's 80th ... the Catch A Fire album by Marley's band The Wailers and a track called ...

Reggae Origins: Bob Marley & Handsworth Reggae will ... Gabbidon spoke about the Catch A Fire album by Marley's band The Wailers and a track called Concrete Jungle, which he said inspired him ...

reggae and soul, the reader is gifted great features on Marvin Gaye, Earth, Wind & Fire, James Brown and Bob Marley and The Wailers. It is a document of the mainstream being shaken up by American and ...