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Kate Simon (2004) Rebel Music: Bob Marley and Roots Reggea , UK limited edition, published by Genesis Publications. Limited to only 350 deluxe copies of which this is no. 101. Signed by Eric Clapton and Kate Simon. Condition: fine with all extras. Production details according to the publisher: Deluxe 350 copies Signed by: Kate Simon, Eric Clapton Contributors: Junior Marvin, Family Man Barrett, Neville Garrick, Chris Blackwell, Patti Smith, Eric Clapton Paper: Five different paper stocks, including hemp Binding: Full leather Box: Sliding silk-screened wooden box Extras: Signed print an outake from the Kaya album cover shoot. Kate Simon gained unique access to Bob Marley and the Wailers, capturing moments from the candid and intensely personal to events of momentous importance. Rebel Music presents over 400 photographs from Kate Simon s remarkable archive, most of which are published here for the first time. Simon captured it all: Marley s nightly shamanic performances; birthday celebrations on the tour bus; the endless games of football played in rehearsals and hotel rooms; the group s joyous devotion to the Rastafarian faith; the airports and aeroplanes; the smiles; the occasional frowns; the jamming and, of course, the group s religious dedication to marijuana. She had a sort of war correspondent feel to her; she would get right into it. She travelled the whole way on the bus with them, roughed it up with everybody; she was really ready to do that and somehow she had the ability to communicate and to get everybody to relax and to take the great pictures that she got. Chris Blackwell Rebel Music features live photographs from The Wailers 1975 concert at The Lyceum in London where the legendary performance of No Woman No Cry was recorded; photographs of the reggae greats of the late Seventies such as Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh; candid shots of The Wailers on the Exodus Tour and the One Love Peace Concert where Bob famously united the opposing political leaders dragging Jamaica towards civil war. Alongside Kate Simon s photographs are the stories behind the images. Introduced by Patti Smith, Kate Simon s own narrative is augmented by a cast of 24 contributors, including ex-Wailers Junior Marvin and Aston Family Man Barrett; musicians such as Steven Van Zandt, Spencer Davis, Junior Delgado, and Steve Jordan; filmmaker Don Letts and producer Danny Sims; and Island Records founder, Chris Blackwell. Rebel Music also includes a comprehensive timeline of Bob Marley s life, along with a complete chronology of his recordings, UK and US releases and respective charts placings, put together with the help of the world s foremost reggae expert, Roger Steffens. He often seemed to have a kind of melancholy about him. He was serious, pensive. Kate Simon That man have the blues, ya know? Bob Marley, full up of the blues. And it s the same music, just played in a different way. Junior Delgado It was almost a spiritual experience. I was blessed to see so many performances. Bob didn t actually perform very often in Jamaica himself, but when he did it was very special. But so many times I ve had the privilege of concentrating on different aspects of the performances and it was like a religious experience. He was connecting with your head; he was freeing your spirit; he was teaching you something, not just entertaining. They often say an artist needs to look at the audience to connect: Bob really didn t. His eyes were closed, he was deep in meditation, sometimes almost in a trance. Dera Tomkins. First and Fine.
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