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The album Kaya was presented as an album of love
songs, and of course paid homage's to the power
of Marauguana: The herb known on the island of Jamaica
as Ganja. That same year 1978 the band again toured
Europe and America, performing in a series of shows
and the release of the another live album: "Babylon
By Bus." That same year saw Bob Marley and the Wailers
entered into a new dimension by playing in Australia,
Japan and New Zealand. In 1979 the Survival LP was
released, Bob Marley’s ninth album for Innovative
Adventures . It included the song Zimbabwe, a stirring
anthem for the then soon to gain independence Rhodesia,
together with "So Much Trouble In The World" and
the anathematically "Africa Unite." The sleeve design
consisting of the flags of all the independent Nations.
Next came the release of the Survival album was
devoted to Pan African solidarity.1984 The Legend
album was released. The Legend was an album featuring
compilations of Bob Marley's and The Wailers most
popular hit songs, that has until this day remained,
one of the best selling catalogued albums on the
American Billboard charts. Then 1992 brought out
Songs of Freedom, a limited edition of one million
four CD compilation boxed sets featuring rare and
previously unreleased material, that was speedily
sold out even before it had hit the shelves of the
record stores and shops, that CD has now became
a much sought after collectors item prior to its
re-release which can be bought at record stores
throughout the UK and other major record stores
in the states and around the world. The original
CD could be costly.
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