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The Wailers are a Jamaican band playing ska and reggae, active since 1962 and formed in Kingston in 1963. Their first album, The Wailing Wailers, was released in 1965.
Next date in London: 24 July 2027 at Gunnersbury Park.
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Profile
- Latest album
- Bend Down Low (2022)
- Formed
- 1963 · Kingston
- Active since
- 1962
- Label
- Studio One
About — The artist
Bob Marley and the Wailers (previously known as the Wailers and prior to that the Wailing Rudeboys, the Wailing Wailers and the Teenagers) were a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae band. The founding members, in 1963, were Bob Marley (Robert Nesta Marley), Peter Tosh (Winston Hubert McIntosh), and Bunny Wailer (Neville Livingston).
During 1970 and 1971, Marley, Tosh and Wailer worked with producers Leslie Kong and Lee "Scratch" Perry, recording The Best of the Wailers with Kong and Soul Rebels and Soul Revolution Part II with Perry and the Upsetters.
Before signing to Island Records in 1972, the band released four albums. Two additional albums were produced before Tosh and Wailer departed from the band in 1974, citing dissatisfaction with their treatment by the label and ideological disagreements. Marley continued with a new lineup, which included the I-Threes, and went on to release seven more albums. Marley died from cancer in 1981, at which point the group disbanded.
The Wailers were a groundbreaking ska and reggae group, noted for songs such as "Simmer Down", "Trenchtown Rock", "Nice Time", "War", "Stir It Up", "Get Up, Stand Up" and "I Shot the Sheriff".
Text adapted from the Wikipedia article “Bob Marley and the Wailers” (en), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Discography
- The Wailing Wailers 1965
- The Best of the Wailers 1971
- Catch a Fire 1973
- Burnin’ 1973
- Rastaman I-Tation 1991
- Trenchtown Rocking 2001
- The Capitol Session ’73 2021
- Bend Down Low 2022