13 April 1973 – BOB MARLEY And His WAILERS Release Monumental Album ‘CATCH A FIRE’ 52 Years Ago Today
Significant longplayers from the past
13 April 2025
The late reggae icon BOB MARLEY and his WAILERS
released their monumental 5th LP CATCH A FIRE.
Info on the album’s cover: The original 1973 vinyl release was enclosed in a sleeve depicting a Zippo lighter. The sleeve functioned like a real Zippo lighter case, opening
at a side hinge to reveal the record within. Only the original pressing of 20,000 had the Zippo cover; because each cover had to be hand-riveted, which was not cost-effective.
Subsequent pressings had an alternative cover featuring an Esther Anderson portrait of Marley smoking a spliff. with the album now credited to Bob Marley and the Wailers.
Rolling Stone: “‘Concrete Jungle’ and ‘Slave Driver’ crackle with streetwise immediacy, while ‘Kinky Reggae’ and ‘Stir It Up’ revel in the music’s vast capacity for good-time skanking. ‘Stop That Train’ and ‘400 Years,’ both written by Peter Tosh, indicate the original Wailers weren’t strictly a one-man show”.
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