Knockouts from the past…

3 June 2019

Today 42 years ago, on 3 June 1977 amidst the punk explosion BOB MARLEY and his WAILERS released their ninth studio album, the highly triumphant EXODUS, recorded in London as Marley has left Jamaica after gunmen tried to kill him a year before in his native country. The LP made Marley a global star as it received gold certifications in the US, UK and Canada.

ALL MUSIC wrote: “Thematically, ‘Exodus’ represented a subtle but significant shift for Marley, while he continued to speak out against political corruption and for freedom and equality for Third World people, his lyrics dealt less with specifics and more with generalities and the need for peace and love ‘Exodus’ was recorded at a time when Bob Marley was learning about the unexpected costs of international stardom, but it hadn’t yet sapped his creative strengths, and this is one of the finest albums in his stellar catalog.”

One of his most famous songs ever ‘ONE LOVE/PEOPLE GET READY’ was one of the singles that helped to make EXODUS a huge success. Still a great song, still a great message given the sad reality of our nowadays severely divided world…

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The album…