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Posted almost 4 years ago
**Bunny Wailer** turns 61 today.**Bob Marley** was the mystic conscience **Peter Tosh** was a stepping razor, not to be taken lightly.**Bunny Wailer** is the soul.
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  1. Shud33
    Shud33 says Kinda random, but not really. Did ya hear about Bob Marley's Mother? Bob Marley's Mother Dies in Miami at 81 April 9, 2008, 3:55 PM EST KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Cedella Booker, the mother of Jamaican music legend Bob Marley, has died, a family spokesman said Wednesday. She was 81. Booker died in her sleep Tuesday night at her home in Miami, apparently from natural causes, spokesman Jerome Hamilton said. Booker, a Jamaica native, was 18 when she married Norval Marley, a British man 32 years her senior. Their son brought Jamaican reggae music to international prominence, becoming its international image. Bob Marley died in Miami of a brain tumor in 1981 at age 36. "Mrs. Booker was the matriarch of a movement so powerful that the mystical qualities of the Marley musical legacy remain strong and potent," Jamaica Information Minister Olivia Grange said. After Norval Marley died in 1955, Booker married an American man and settled in Delaware. She wrote two biographies of her famous son and recorded two albums, "Awake Zion!" and "Smilin' Island of Song." "She was a star in her own right," Jamaica Prime Minister Bruce Golding said in a statement. "Her life was one of hardship, struggle and eventual fulfillment, and through it all, she exuded hope, strength and confidence." Everyone in St. Ann's parish knew Booker as "Mama B," said Harry Shivnani, a family friend and general manager of Bob Marley's mausoleum. "She loved cooking," Shivnani said. "Mama would make you the best pudding ever." Robert Lalah, a columnist for the Jamaica Gleaner, interviewed Booker in February while she celebrated her son's birthday. "She was a typical Jamaican grandmother," he said. "She was very warm, very friendly." Booker is survived by two children and several grandchildren, including Ziggy Marley, who won four Grammys with the Melody Makers, a band that included brother Stephen and sisters Sharon and Cedella. Funeral arrangements have not been announced.
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  2. deadmandeadman
    deadmandeadman says It really is amazing how far-reaching the legacy is.
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  3. Baudolino
    Baudolino says In which case this might be an opportune moment to post the last tune released on his label and credited to The Wailers in 1973. ~84BfUagt5Io.mp3~ "Arab Oil Weapon" Incidentally, the late Cedella Booker and Bunny's father Thaddeus "Toddy" Livingston lived together for many years in Kingston, so Bob and Bunny spent much of their teenage time together
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  4. deadmandeadman
    deadmandeadman says Thanks Baudolino, I was gonna post this song next. >>>>>good call.
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  5. TylerDurden
    TylerDurden says like ripples in a pond Jeff -> He (and they) affected so many different channels on so many different banks. Where would we be without the likes of them? You go on and tell me!
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  6. Sturgell
    Sturgell says deadmandeadman says: It really is amazing how far-reaching the legacy is. I never seem to be amazed by how far it is. Marley touched the world with his music, presence.
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  7. Spike
    Spike says This track is a winner. If he recorded it recently enough to have a white beard, even better!
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  8. Baudolino
    Baudolino says "Hypocrites" was originally recorded by the Wailers on the Wail N Soul M label in 1968 or so, with Clancy Eccles probably overseeing the session. This particular cut was released in the mid-1980s as far as I recall, when Bunny would have been in his late thirties
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  9. runobodyii
    runobodyii says You've created a little salon with this post; I love when that happens.
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  10. deadmandeadman
    deadmandeadman says **??runobodyii says: You've created a little salon with this post; I love when that happens.??** >>>>>>>>Yeah, me too. I always learn so much.
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  11. Bartleby
    Bartleby says If I may add my admiring voice to this conclave, I'll say: Many happy returns to Bunny.
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  12. mollifire
    mollifire says Happy Birthday Neville!!! One of my fave stories about the music biz involves Bunny's first signing to Island Records... Legend has it he insisted that his record contract include a clause that would release Bunny of all obligations to the label if Chris Blackwell died before the contract expired. Incredibly, Blackwell agreed! Bunny smiled mischievously and said something like, "Dat mean I can leave the label anytime I want..." And they say Peter Tosh is the stepping razor!
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  13. HelenMarie
    HelenMarie says Great post. If I may add this energetic celebration of a song.. Roots, Radics, Rockers, Reggae (Live) P.S. Happy belated Mog-iversary!
    Permalink posted 04/11/2008
  14. HelenMarie
    HelenMarie says ??"now there's no stem, leaves, or branches without the roots you'll never find a city of dudes without the radicals you'll never see the earth without the rocks, they're the foundation music wouldn't be music without reggae c'mon"??
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  15. deadmandeadman
    deadmandeadman says hank you Sunshine, a very nice addition to this thread.
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  16. Cody B
    Cody B says Good Stuff Moggers. Happy Birthday Bunny and happy Mog birthday DMDM, nice one. My Fave- Bunny Wailer - Blackheart Man ~iWlR2ICNAsN.mp3~
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  17. mollifire
    mollifire says my fave as well. i jumped over to Bunny's mog page and added all of Blackheart Man to my reggae playlist so it will always be handy...
    Permalink posted 04/12/2008

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