La carrière de Bob Marley est décomposée en 3 périodes distinctes : “Marley was a labor of love for employees of Island Records,” says Charly Prevost, who ran Island in the United States for a time in the ’80s. Cette discographie inclut les enregistrements des Wailers (1963-1973) et de Bob Marley and the Wailers (1974-1980). “I don’t think you’ve got another genre where you’ve got that one album.”. Caucasian college students in the United States — particularly those around Midwestern schools like the University of Michigan, Prevost says — constituted a large percentage of his base. La chambre du chanteur a été laissée telle quelle, une … “It doesn’t just define a career, it defines a genre,” says SoundScan analyst Dave Bakula. Two years later, his mother, Cedella Booker, an African Jamaican, moved the family to Trench Town, a poor, artistically fertile neighborhood in Kingston. Bob Marley’s third album for Island Records “Natty Dread”, released in October 1975, was the first credited to Bob Marley and The Wailers; the harmonies of Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer were replaced with the soulfulness of the I-Threes, Rita Marley, Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt. Le single, produit par Clinton Sparks, contient un sample de Bob Marley, "Johnny Was". For Dave Robinson, this presented an opportunity. He took one look at the artist’s sales figures and was shocked. At the time of his death, in May 1981, Bob Marley was 36 years old, reggae’s biggest star, and the father of at least eleven children. But they loved Marley’s music. She shot back: “No, just call it Legend: The Best of Bob Marley.”. Ben Wheatley's gnarly output can rarely be mistaken for another filmmaker’s. Confrontation est un album posthume de Bob Marley and the Wailers, sorti en 1983, soit 2 ans après le décès de Bob Marley. Robinson balked. Marley’s best-selling album, 1977’s Exodus, had only moved about 650,000 units in the U.S. and fewer than 200,000 in the U.K. Selling roughly 250,000 units annually in the U.S. alone, it has become a rite of passage in pop-music puberty. “I have not listened to that record, really,” he says. Si chère à Bob Marley, l’idée de soulèvement (uprising en anglais) traverse avec une grande force expressive tout l’album, la pochette offrant une parfaite traduction graphique de la musique. Anderson’s group is called the Original Wailers, and Barrett’s band is known simply as the Wailers. Prevost says Island spent $50,000 on TV commercials that didn’t move the needle. Marley remains an international touchstone of rebellion, known as much for his social and cultural convictions (and his affinity for good bud) as for his musical oeuvre. Catch a Fire is the fifth studio album by the reggae band The Wailers, released in April 1973.It was their first album released by Island Records. In fact, it has been the top-selling reggae album in the U.S. for eight of the past ten years. Robinson had a hunch that suburban record buyers were uneasy with Marley’s image — that of a perpetually stoned, politically driven iconoclast associated with violence. Il nous a quitté le 11 mai 1981. Doctors told him that cancer had spread throughout his body. Album «Confrontation [Album posthume]», par Bob Marley. It’s no wonder that on July 1 Universal released yet another deluxe reissue of the album, this time celebrating its 30th anniversary. Ces morceaux étaient destinés à un album qui aurait constitué la dernière partie de la trilogie initiée par Survival et Uprising, mais que Bob n'eut jamais le temps de finir. “My first impression of him was he was a poet and he had a great sense of rhythm,” says Cliff, now 66 and on tour himself this summer. http://www.infodisc.fr/S_ToutTemps.php?debut=1040, http://www.infodisc.fr/Album_Liste_Selection2.php?Lettre=M, Charts.de – Bob Marley & The Wailers – Confrontation, Austriancharts.at – Bob Marley & The Wailers – Confrontation, Dutchcharts.nl – Bob Marley & The Wailers – Confrontation, Swedishcharts.com – Bob Marley & The Wailers – Confrontation, Norwegiancharts.com – Bob Marley & The Wailers – Confrontation, Charts.org.nz – Bob Marley & The Wailers – Confrontation, http://www.infodisc.fr/Album_Certifications.php, One Love: The Very Best of Bob Marley and the Wailers, https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Confrontation_(album)&oldid=179273446, Album certifié disque d'or aux États-Unis, licence Creative Commons attribution, partage dans les mêmes conditions, comment citer les auteurs et mentionner la licence, La double-page centrale de l'album est constituée d'une peinture de la. “Greatest-hits projects, the ones that really work, unfortunately work mainly because the people are dead,” he says. Legend also defines its genre unlike any other album, introducing record buyers to reggae in one safe and secure package. The initial printing for the first LP, 1973’s Catch a Fire, opened on a hinge to look like a Zippo lighter, at a time when Americans could do hard time for possessing even a single joint. Robinson swears that his unborn son would “kick his mother to pieces” when he liked what he heard. “Some people like to do it chronologically, and I think that’s all rubbish. Bunny Wailer) and Peter Tosh. Bob Marley aurait eu 76 ans cette année. Though Legend may be the preferred dinner-party soundtrack for polite company, it’s also been the gateway drug for generations of Marley aficionados, who heard something in the record and wanted more. Beyond the Mascot, The Man (and His Faults) in. La compilation a ensuite été remasterisée en 2002, avec l'ajout du titre Positive Vibration en avant-dernière position. But when the tour got to Ireland, Anderson says, Marley mentioned that he was having trouble singing and performing. The millions of dollars that Marley albums have brought in have sparked a tug of war between Marley’s musicians and the songs’ rights holders; numerous lawsuits have been filed by members of the Wailers against Island and Universal. Robinson spent months arranging the order of the tracks. Il est mort jeune, en 1981, d'un cancer. At the time, his wife was pregnant; they’d go for drives, listening to different sequences of the album on cassette. In doing so, he did something bigger: He helped make Marley’s image and message ubiquitous. Bob Marley : un héritage qui suscite toujours des convoitises. In the sprawling U.S., success didn’t come as quickly. He tapped Paul McCartney to make a cameo in the music video for the album’s first single, “One Love,” which portrayed Marley as a smiling family man. Natural Mystic est un album compilation posthume de Bob Marley and the Wailers sorti en 1995 sous le label Island Records . But if you have one Bob Marley album, it’s probably Legend, which is one reason members of his former backing band, the Wailers, are performing it in its entirety on the road this summer. Trueman also met with traditional Marley fans to ensure the label didn’t package the album in a way that would offend his core audience. Two years after Marley’s passing, Chris Blackwell, the founder of Marley’s label, Island Records, brought Robinson in to run his U.K. operation. Il a ensuite été remasterisé en 2006. L’immense popularité du titre, présent sur l’album 461 Ocean Boulevard, a largement contribué à faire connaître Bob Marley aux États-Unis et relancé par la même occasion la carrière du guitariste américain. “And I think he carried that on throughout his career.”, See also: “Beyond the Mascot, The Man (and His Faults) in Marley“. Despite, or perhaps because of, its success, Legend left behind it a host of problems. Al Anderson, a guitarist with Bob Marley and the Wailers, remembers the Uprising tour as “an amazing time,” with the band picking up momentum. He also became entrenched in Jamaica’s often violent political wars. Legend (album de Bob Marley and the Wailers) Let It Be (album des Beatles) Life After Death; Lioness: Hidden Treasures; Live and Loud 1993; Live at Reading; Live at the House of Blues (album de 2Pac) Live at the Paramount; Live: Her Greatest Performances; Live! He even chose not to use the word “reggae” to promote the record in a marketing campaign that included radio and television commercials — a novel and expensive idea at the time, but one Robinson felt was necessary. Though Marley had been treated for a malignant melanoma on his toe in 1977, Cliff noticed nothing out of the ordinary about his health as Marley embarked on a tour in support of his latest album, Uprising. Meanwhile, Barrett’s and Anderson’s camps have been involved in lawsuits over the right to perform under the Wailers name, and today each musician leads a competing version of the group. On September 20, 1980, following a two-night stand at Madison Square Garden, Marley went for a jog in Central Park. Il est composé pour moitié de chansons enregistrées entre le retour des Wailers du Zimbabwe (en avril 1980) et le début du Uprising Tour (le 30 mai 1980 à Zurich). For their parts, Blackwell calls the album “wonderful,” Anderson says it is “likable” and Cliff is ambivalent. A budding musician at age sixteen Marley scored an audition with a not-yet-famous Jimmy Cliff, then a label scout. His next show would be his last. They weren’t keen on the dope, the religion, the violent undertones, or even reggae as a genre. Cependant il avait déjà choisi le titre de ce troisième opus. Robinson believed he could sell a million copies of the album, but to do it he would have to repackage not just a collection of songs but Marley himself. “My vision of Bob from a marketing point of view,” Robinson says, “was to sell him to the white world.”. When Livingston and Tosh left the band, in 1974, Marley continued on as Bob Marley and the Wailers. Le reggae est évidemment indissociable du nom de Bob Marley. “We didn’t use no drugs; we only used herb,” says Aston “Family Man” Barrett, a bass player, long-time Marley collaborator and current leader of the Wailers. Ce titre apparaîtra également sur le prochain album posthume de Notorious B.I.G., And ironically, over the past three decades, rebelliousness and violence have become a routine method of marketing pop stars. Le sous-titre The Legend Lives On apparaît sur la pochette. 0 0. Un album posthume n'est pas forcément qu'une usine à fric Temps de lecture : 7 min. “There was almost this sense of guilt that they hadn’t got a Bob Marley album,” Trueman says. And yet musically, it’s hard to argue that Legend isn’t an iconic work. In 1976 he and several members of his entourage were shot two days before he performed at the Smile Jamaica Concert, an event intended to help ease tensions ahead of an election. “Natural Mystic” from Bob Marley & The Wailers’ 1977 album, Exodus! He collapsed, had what appeared to be a seizure, and was rushed to a hospital. Catch a fire, ... Pour les ignorants, lorsque que sort cet album posthume en 1983, Bob Marley est encore vivant. AllMusic [1]Robert Christgau (B+)[2]Rolling Stone [3]. « Natural Mystic » est originellement une chanson de Bob Marley extraite de l'album Exodus. Listening to Legend to understand Marley is like reading Bridget Jones’s Diary to get Jane Austen.”. The result of that coolly pragmatic vision was Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and the Wailers, an album that became one of the top-selling records of all time, far exceeding even the ambitious goals Robinson had set for it. All three men practiced Rastafari, a religion and lifestyle that emphasizes the spiritual qualities of marijuana. Perhaps most critically, Robinson softened Marley’s image. Date de sortie : 23 mai 1983. His father, Norval Marley, was white, of British descent. For Legend, Island Records' Dave Robinson chose a cover photo in which Marley appears more reflective than rebellious. Les morceaux furent donc complétés avec des titres plus anciens : Le manque d'unité musicale et thématique de l'album est dû à ce mélange d'époques. An Island employee named Trevor Wyatt, known as the label’s reggae guy, gave Robinson an initial list of songs, which were played to focus groups for feedback. 'God Damn New York' and 'Let’s Get the Band Back Together' are classic Dictators — cynical, hilarious lyrics, punk 'tude but lashing of glitter stomp. Natural Mystic est un album posthume de Bob Marley and The Wailers sorti en 1995 sous le label Island Records, avec la société de production Tuff Gong studio. Confrontation est un album posthume de Bob Marley and the Wailers, sorti en 1983, soit 2 ans après le décès de Bob Marley. Robinson may have softened Marley’s image, but he didn’t whitewash it. 2013. “We use it for spiritual meditation and musical inspiration.”. Andrew Cuomo and the Incredible Shrinking Congressional Delegation, NYC Normal: Analog Pleasures at Film Forum, Andy Shernoff Gets The Dictators Back Together, UNBINGED: Steampunks and Superheroes: Reviews of Joss Whedon’s ‘The Nevers,’ Netflix’s ‘Shadow and Bone’ and More, ‘State Funeral’ Marches Viewers Past Stalin’s Coffin, “He failed to do it. Il fit pourtant de bonnes ventes, notamment grâce au single Buffalo Soldier qui en fut extrait (il s'en vendra 330 000 exemplaires sur le territoire français[4]). ©2017 Village Voice, LLC. “He knew he wasn’t well,” says Anderson. Confrontation est un album posthume de Bob Marley and the Wailers, sorti en 1983, deux ans après le décès de Bob Marley. Après Defend Jah sorti l'été dernier, Polarities paraît en qualité de nouvel album posthume de Vaughn Benjamin, disparu en novembre 2019.Cette sortie prouve encore une fois à quel point l'ex-chanteur de Midnite était productif et son oeuvre prolifique. Buffalo Soldier est une chanson écrite par Bob Marley et Noel "King Sporty" Williams, et enregistrée par Bob Marley and the Wailers autour de 1978. Il est composé pour moitié de chansons enregistrées entre le retour des Wailers du Zimbabwe (en avril 1980) et le début du Uprising Tour (le 30 mai 1980 à Zurich). It’s also worth noting that Robinson didn’t intend for the record to be comprehensive; he just wanted to get Marley’s music onto stereos worldwide. But in order for the compilation to meet Robinson’s lofty sales goals, those students’ parents had to buy the album, too. But the album sold gradually and relentlessly. La dernière modification de cette page a été faite le 27 janvier 2021 à 16:27. Le chanteur Jimmy Cliff - dont le nom parle presqu'autant au grand public que celui de Bob Marley - est à ce jour le seul artiste vivant détenteur de l'Ordre Jamaïcain du Mérite - qui est la plus haute distinction de l'Île dans le domaine des arts et des sciences. Even Legend‘s music itself is not without its critics. Et d'une certaine manière, le ska et le rocksteady doivent aussi à cet artiste jamaïcain hors norme. Today you’ll see the artist’s face on beach towels and his lyrics on posters in countries from Russia to Chile. I thought that was happening and had restricted his possible market.”. He’d seen the way Island had marketed Marley in the past and believed it was precisely this type of portrayal that was responsible for the mediocre numbers. “There was a lot of hard work from the Wailers band members to help produce Bob’s music that just never got credited,” says guitarist Anderson, who, like Barrett, recorded extensively with Marley and who appears on Legend cuts like “Could You Be Loved.”, (Neither Chris Blackwell’s spokesperson nor Universal’s spokesperson responded to requests for comment about the allegation.). It has to get to the end and you want to put it back on again.”. Les morceaux Babylon Feel This One et She Used To Call Me Dada, enregistrés en 1979 ou 1980 avec des musiciens des Douze Tribus d'Israël, ne figurent pas dans l'album. Un genre à lui presque tout seul ? The songwriting on tracks like “No Woman, No Cry” and “Redemption Song” is so compelling that the works transcend genre, as Clapton’s success with “I Shot the Sheriff” demonstrates. In 1980 Marley visited Cliff at a studio in Kingston. Il est composé pour moitié de chansons enregistrées entre le retour des Wailers du Zimbabwe (en avril 1980) et le début du Uprising Tour (le 30 mai 1980 à Zurich). La musique de Marley fortement influencée par les thématiques sociales et politiques de sa Jamaïque natale sera sans doute la plus puissante voix de cette île. Le 9 mai, à l'occasion des 40 ans de sa mort, la Selection Reggae sur Mouv' lui rend hommage dans le cadre d'une émission spéciale. Celui-ci devint vite un classique de Bob Marley pour une génération trop jeune pour avoir connu les années 70. “U2 and Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Robert Palmer is what paid your salary.”, Blackwell handed Robinson — the cofounder of Stiff Records, famous for rock acts such as Nick Lowe and Elvis Costello — an outline of his vision for the compilation, which Blackwell says presented Marley as somewhat “militant.”, “I always saw Bob as someone who had a strong kind of political feeling,” he says, “somebody who was representing the dispossessed of the world.”. Au total, six albums se sont enchaînés depuis la mort de Kurt Cobain. La compilation a ensuite été remasterisée en 2002, avec l'ajout du titre Positive Vibration en avant-dernière position. The gunmen were never found. It’s not that Bob Marley didn’t have white fans when he was alive. He was largely absent from his son’s life and died when Marley was ten. All rights reserved. Soon after, Marley formed the Wailing Wailers (later shortened to the Wailers) with a core group of musicians that included Neville Livingston (a.k.a. Deux après la mort de Bob Marley, l'album Confrontation est sorti par sa veuve et sa maison de disques en 1983. The result of that coolly pragmatic vision was Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and the Wailers, an album that became one of the top-selling records of … Albums Bob Marley - Toute sa discographie Partager sur Facebook ... Après la mort de Bob Marley, le 11 mai 1981, l’album posthume"Confrontation" et l’emblématique compilation"Legend" viendront achever une discographie vendue à plus de 200 millions exemplaires. By this time both men were internationally recognized reggae stars; Cliff had broken through with the 1972 movie The Harder They Come and its corresponding soundtrack. Le sous-titre The Legend Lives On apparaît sur la pochette. Above: Dave Robinson, cofounder of Stiff Records, worked on Legend for Island Records in the early '80s. Confrontation est un album posthume de Bob Marley and the Wailers, sorti en 1983, deux ans après le décès de Bob Marley. Few artists have hits collections that become their definitive works. Robert Nesta Marley was born on his grandfather’s farm in the Jamaican countryside in 1945. While it’s unfortunate that Marley didn’t live to see the success of Legend, Robinson speculates that the album might never have been made on his watch. Unlike the Backstreet Boys’ Millennium, ‘N Sync’s No Strings Attached and many other best-selling albums in recent decades, Legend isn’t a time capsule of a passing musical fad.