The history of the original Wailers - Tosh, Livingstone and Marley - as
never before told.
Over one dramatic
decade, a trio of Trench Town R&B crooners, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer
and Bob Marley, swapped their 1960s Brylcreem hairdos and two-tone
suits for 1970s battle fatigues and dreadlocks to become the Wailers -
one of the most influential groups in popular music. Now one of our best
and brightest non-fiction writers examines for the first time the story
of the legendary reggae band.
Charting their complex
relationship, their fluctuating fortunes, musical peak, and the politics
and ideologies that provoked their split, Colin Grant shows us why they
were not just extraordinary musicians, but also natural mystics. And,
following a trail from Jamaica through Europe, America, Africa and back
to the vibrant and volatile world of Trench Town, he travels in search
of the last surviving Wailer. 'In Grant's hands life in Trench Town in
the 1960's is energetic and theatrical, rich in comedy and tragic
irony...This brilliant book is not just about Jamaica, but about
ourselves' Guardian
I & I: The Natural Mystics : Marley, Tosh and Wailer - Colin Grant
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£14.99