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The Uprising Tour was a concert tour organised to support the album Uprising by Bob Marley and the Wailers. It was Marley's last tour [ 1 ] and the biggest music tour of Europe in that year. The tour started at the Hallenstadion in Zürich , Switzerland, where Marley performed for the first time, on 30 May 1980, and ended at the Stanley Theater ...
Live Forever: September 23, 1980 • Stanley Theatre • Pittsburgh, PA is a live album by Bob Marley & The Wailers released in February 2011, recorded at Pittsburgh's Stanley Theatre during the Uprising Tour to support their, then, latest album of the same name.
Uprising is the twelfth studio album by Bob Marley and the Wailers and the final studio album released during Marley's lifetime. Released on 10 June 1980, the album is one of Marley's most directly religious, with nearly every song referencing his Rastafarian beliefs, culminating in the acoustic recording of " Redemption Song ".
"Uprising" depicts the devastating 1981 New Cross Fire in which 13 young Black British people died. The fire has long been considered a racist attack.
A few more recordings from live concerts exist, both audio and video, amongst them a performance from Dortmund, Germany, on June 13, 1980, which is featured on the official 2014 release Uprising Live. "Redemption Song" was released as a single in the UK and France in October 1980 and included a full band rendering of the song.
Under the name Bob Marley and the Wailers, 11 albums were released, four live albums and seven studio albums. The releases included Babylon by Bus, a double live album with 13 tracks, was released in 1978 and received critical acclaim. This album, and specifically the final track "Jamming", with the audience in a frenzy, captured the intensity ...
Live (Barbara Mandrell album) Live (New Grass Revival album) Live (Trouble Funk album) Live And Pickling Fast; Live at Blossom; Live at Bubba's; Live at Carnegie Hall (Liza Minnelli album) Live at Dreher, Paris 1981; Live at Montreux and Northsea; Live at Reading '81; Live at Sandy's (Eddie Vinson album) Live at the Keystone Corner
Reviewing Live! in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies, Robert Christgau wrote, "The rushed tempos take their toll in aura: 'Trenchtown Rock' can be far more precise, painful, and ecstatic; like most live albums this relies on obvious material. But the material is also choice, unlike most live albums it's graced by distinct ...