| Both Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer went on to embarked upon their own solo career immediately after leaving the group. Guitarist Eric Lindo was next to follow, by joining up with Taj Mahal. Between July and August of 1974 the Barrett brothers with Bernard "Touter" Harvey a keyboard player joined Bob Marley along with the I-Threes consisting of Rita Marley, Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt to perform vocal harmonies in the new make up of Bob Marley and the Wailers with the I-Threes. This new formation with other additions to the group signalled a new translational Reggae sound being played by The Wailers band until Bob Marley's death in 1981. Establishing that kind of Reggae music form that was the mainstay of a series of albums recorded for Island, and strenuous extensive touring presenting the new sound of Reggae to the worldwide popularity commercial marketplace. As the influence of Bob Marley spread, not only as a musician but also as a pictogram of accomplishment from the "Third World." 1975 was the year in which the group fused their place in echelons of worldwide sonata with the release of the extremely triumphant Natty Dread album that was received with rapturous criticisms from the music moguls. Concerts at the London Lyceum followed and these concerts was engrossed with black and white patrons which mark the beginnings of the crossover. At the end of that year Bob Marley and the newly formed Wailers achieved their first British chart hit, with the autobiographical "No Woman No Cry," from their first live album,
recorded in front of a live audience at the London Lyceum Theatre. |
