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At 8:30pm, on December 3, 1976, two days before the Smile Jamaica Concert, seven men armed with guns raided Marley's house at 56 Hope Road. Marley and his band were on break from rehearsal. Marley's wife, Rita, was shot in the head in her car in the driveway. The gunmen shot Marley in the chest and arm.
In December 1976, Patterson was rehearsing with Marley at 56 Hope Road when gunmen opened fire on the group, injuring Marley, wife Rita, and manager Don Taylor. [9] In September 1980, Patterson was with Marley when he collapsed jogging in Central Park, and remained with Marley through his cancer treatment both in New York and then at the clinic ...
The Tuff Gong Recording Studio. Tuff Gong is a full-service recording studio located in Kingston, Jamaica.In 1981, Bob Marley's wife, Rita Marley, purchased Ken Khouri's Federal Records recording studio, the island's first pressing plant, and the company subsequently moved from 56 Hope Road to 220 Marcus Garvey Drive, where it continues to operate.
The Bob Marley Museum is a tourist attraction in Kingston, Jamaica, dedicated to the reggae musician Bob Marley. The museum is located at 56 Hope Road, Kingston, and is Bob Marley's former place of residence. [1] It was home to the Tuff Gong reggae record label which was founded by The Wailers in 1970. In 1976, it was the site of a failed ...
He was the lead singer of the rock band Journey from 1998 to 2006. He is one of the five music acts slated to perform during the concert series. ... The Bob Marley Tribute– Aug. 15: ...
With his band The Wailers, Marley popularized reggae music and the Rastafarian religion far beyond his home country of Jamaica. In a 1973 interview with Billboard, Marley spoke of his intention to ...
Katchafire formed in Hamilton in 1997, originally as a Bob Marley tribute band. [1] [2] The band's name derives from Catch A Fire, The Wailers' debut album. [3]They have released six albums: Revival (2003), which featured the highest-selling New Zealand single of 2002 "Giddy Up", Slow Burning (2005) Say What You're Thinking (2007), On the Road Again (2010), which peaked at No.3 on the US ...
The "Reflections in Red" single was his first musical release, and the first Jamaican dub poetry record, recorded with the backing of Wailers rhythm section Aston and Carlton Barrett at Tuff Gong studios and released in 1979 on Bob Marley's "56 Hope Road" label. [5]