Here's wishing everyone a really happy reggae Christmas and a cool 2008
HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
Bob Marley Music Page
Monday, December 24, 2007
Monday, December 3, 2007
Bob Marley - The early days
The Bob Marley Music Page has a little early history of the great reggae artist for your information:
Robert "Bob" Nesta Marley was born on February 6, 1945, in the small village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica.
Bob's father was Norval Sinclair Marley, born in 1895 ans was a white Jamaican of English descent, with parents coming from Sussex. Norval was a Marine officer and captain as well as a plantation overseer when he married Cedella Booker, a black Jamaican woman who was then eighteen years old. Although Norval provided financial support for his wife and son, he seldom saw them as he was often away on naval trips.
Bob Marley was just ten years old when his father died of a heart attack at age 60, in 1955.
As a youth, Bob Marley suffered racial prejudice because of his mixed racial origins and faced questions about his own racial identity throughout his life.
He was once quoted as saying:
"I don't have prejudice against myself. My father was a white and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side nor the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white."
Young Robert Marley and his mother moved to the slums of Kingston's Trenchtown after his father's death. It was a tough neighbourhood and he was forced to learn self-defense due to his being the target of bullying because of his racial makeup and small 5'4" stature. He soon earned a reputation for his physical strength for which he became nicknamed "Tuff Gong".
Marley made friends with Neville "Bunny" Livingston (who was later known as Bunny Wailer) and they started playing music together. He left school at just 14 and worked as an apprentice at a local welder's shop. In his free time Bob and Livingston made music with another friend, Joe Higgs who was a local singer and devout Rastafari. Higgs is regarded by most as Marley's mentor. It was at one of their jam sessions with Higgs and Livingston that Marley met Peter McIntosh (better known as Peter Tosh) who had similar musical ambitions.
In 1962 Bob Marley recorded his first two singles. "Judge Not" and "One Cup of Coffee" were produced by Leslie Kong, a local producer. These two songs which were released on the Beverley's label under the pseudonym of Bobby Martell, attracted almost no attention and flopped.
Those songs were later re-released on the album Songs of Freedom, which is a posthumous collection of Marley's songs.
Nice.
Bob Marley Music Page
Robert "Bob" Nesta Marley was born on February 6, 1945, in the small village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica.
Bob's father was Norval Sinclair Marley, born in 1895 ans was a white Jamaican of English descent, with parents coming from Sussex. Norval was a Marine officer and captain as well as a plantation overseer when he married Cedella Booker, a black Jamaican woman who was then eighteen years old. Although Norval provided financial support for his wife and son, he seldom saw them as he was often away on naval trips.
Bob Marley was just ten years old when his father died of a heart attack at age 60, in 1955.
As a youth, Bob Marley suffered racial prejudice because of his mixed racial origins and faced questions about his own racial identity throughout his life.
He was once quoted as saying:
"I don't have prejudice against myself. My father was a white and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side nor the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white."
Young Robert Marley and his mother moved to the slums of Kingston's Trenchtown after his father's death. It was a tough neighbourhood and he was forced to learn self-defense due to his being the target of bullying because of his racial makeup and small 5'4" stature. He soon earned a reputation for his physical strength for which he became nicknamed "Tuff Gong".
Marley made friends with Neville "Bunny" Livingston (who was later known as Bunny Wailer) and they started playing music together. He left school at just 14 and worked as an apprentice at a local welder's shop. In his free time Bob and Livingston made music with another friend, Joe Higgs who was a local singer and devout Rastafari. Higgs is regarded by most as Marley's mentor. It was at one of their jam sessions with Higgs and Livingston that Marley met Peter McIntosh (better known as Peter Tosh) who had similar musical ambitions.
In 1962 Bob Marley recorded his first two singles. "Judge Not" and "One Cup of Coffee" were produced by Leslie Kong, a local producer. These two songs which were released on the Beverley's label under the pseudonym of Bobby Martell, attracted almost no attention and flopped.
Those songs were later re-released on the album Songs of Freedom, which is a posthumous collection of Marley's songs.
Nice.
Bob Marley Music Page
Monday, November 5, 2007
Bob Marley Music: Studio Album Discography
Here at the Bob Marley Music Page, I thought it'd be a good idea to start posting info about Bob Marley and the Wailers and a discography of his studio albums is a good place to start.
Here are all sixteen of Bob Marley's studio albums including the posthumous "Confrontation" that was released in 1983:
1965 The Wailing Wailers
1970 The Best of the Wailers
1970 Soul Rebels
1971 Soul Revolution
1971 Soul Revolution Part II
1973 Catch a Fire
1973 African Herbsman
1973 Burnin'
1974 Rasta Revolution
1974 Natty Dread
1976 Rastaman Vibration
1977 Exodus
1978 Kaya
1979 Surviva
1980 Uprising
1983 Confrontation
Next time I'll post more info on Bob Marley Music including more album and single lists for your enjoyment!
See you soon,
Bob Marley Music Page
PS: I just added this blog to my Technorati Profile
Here are all sixteen of Bob Marley's studio albums including the posthumous "Confrontation" that was released in 1983:
1965 The Wailing Wailers
1970 The Best of the Wailers
1970 Soul Rebels
1971 Soul Revolution
1971 Soul Revolution Part II
1973 Catch a Fire
1973 African Herbsman
1973 Burnin'
1974 Rasta Revolution
1974 Natty Dread
1976 Rastaman Vibration
1977 Exodus
1978 Kaya
1979 Surviva
1980 Uprising
1983 Confrontation
Next time I'll post more info on Bob Marley Music including more album and single lists for your enjoyment!
See you soon,
Bob Marley Music Page
PS: I just added this blog to my Technorati Profile
Monday, October 29, 2007
Bob Marley Music Thoughts
The Bob Marley Music Page has some thoughts of the great man himself.
Bob Marley with his band The Wailers gave us an absolute ton of great reggae music that shaped a decade and moulded many offshoot bands all trying to attain the same stardom that Marley simply attracted by his incredible personality, magnetism, talent and brilliance.
As this site grows over time, we'll be looking at the different albums and singles that made up the whole Bob Marley Music scene and giving our own opinions and thoughts on what made this man such an icon of his era.
To increase the footprint of this blog, we now have a sister website with much more data, information and access to a huge repository of online merchandise, like Bob Marley clothing as well as an interesting Bob Marley History, that expands some on what you'll find right here.
Bob Marley Music Page
Bob Marley with his band The Wailers gave us an absolute ton of great reggae music that shaped a decade and moulded many offshoot bands all trying to attain the same stardom that Marley simply attracted by his incredible personality, magnetism, talent and brilliance.
As this site grows over time, we'll be looking at the different albums and singles that made up the whole Bob Marley Music scene and giving our own opinions and thoughts on what made this man such an icon of his era.
To increase the footprint of this blog, we now have a sister website with much more data, information and access to a huge repository of online merchandise, like Bob Marley clothing as well as an interesting Bob Marley History, that expands some on what you'll find right here.
Bob Marley Music Page
Monday, October 22, 2007
Bob Marley Music Page
Welcome to the Bob Marley Music Page.
Here's the place to find great music online from the master of reggae Bob Marley.
We'll show you where to get the best deals on Bob Marley music downloads and CDs and source everything that we can find that's available to be had!
So don't be a stranger. Come and see us here as much as you like!
Bob Marley Music Page
Here's the place to find great music online from the master of reggae Bob Marley.
We'll show you where to get the best deals on Bob Marley music downloads and CDs and source everything that we can find that's available to be had!
So don't be a stranger. Come and see us here as much as you like!
Bob Marley Music Page
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