Sunday, February 28, 2010

93 - Bob Marley



Number 93 is reggae master, Bob Marley. I only have "Legend", but that album itself lands him on the countdown.

Wiki - Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands The Wailers (1964–1974) and Bob Marley & The Wailers (1974–1981). Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited for helping spread both Jamaican music and the Rastafari movement to a worldwide audience.

Marley's best known hits include "I Shot the Sheriff", "No Woman, No Cry", "Could You Be Loved", "Stir It Up", "Jamming", "Redemption Song", "One Love" and, together with The Wailers, "Three Little Birds", as well as the posthumous releases "Buffalo Soldier" and "Iron Lion Zion". The compilation album, Legend (1984), released three years after his death, is reggae's best-selling album, being 10 times Platinum (Diamond) in the U.S., and selling 20 million copies worldwide.

Favorite Songs -

Is This Love?
No Woman No Cry
I Shot the Sheriff
One Love
Three Little Birds
Buffalo Soldier
Redemption Song
Jamming

Favorite Lyric -

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time." - Redemption Song

Now hear this:
STIR IT UP


next up: a band with a skeleton on the cover of their second CD

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