With the release of Natty Dread the band lined up as Bob Marley & The Wailers. The Wailers and Bob Marley became more popular after Eric Clapton recorded I Shot The Sheriff. The follow-up album at Island was Burnin’ and it included some of the band’s older songs together with tracks like Get Up, Stand Up and I Shot The Sheriff. The band made successful tours through the U.K. The Wailers made the first reggae-album Catch A Fire. Before The Wailers signed with Island it was considered that reggae sold only singles and cheap compilation albums. It was a revolutionary move: for the first time a reggae band had access to the best recording facilities and they were treated in much the same way as, say, a rock group. Chris gave them 8,000 pounds (in advance) to make an album. In December 1971 Bob went to Chris Blackwell of Island Records and he asked Chris if the band could get a record deal. It went uphill with the band and their own label. The band set up a new label Tuff Gong and the first single on that label was Run For Cover. In 1970 The Upsetters joined The Wailers: Aston ‘Family Man’ Barret played bass and his brother Carlton played the drums. The Wailers recorded songs for the record company JAD Records. That same year Bob met American singer Jonny Nash. In 1968 Bob’s first son, David (better known as Ziggy) was born. At the end of that year, that same label was put to an end. Their first single from this label was Bend Down Low/Mellow Mood. The next year (the same year Bob’s first child, Cedella, was born) the band left Coxsone and set up their own record label Wail ‘N Soul ‘M Record, also known as Wailing Souls, Wail ‘M Soul ‘M. The Wailers changed their music from ska to rocksteady now known as reggae. Marley was increasingly drawn towards this movement. He was the leader of the increasingly growing Rastafarian movement/religion. During that year, the Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie had made a state visit to Jamaica. During Bob’s stay in the States, he worked as a welder, only to finance his real ambition: music. The day after, Bob went to the United States to visit his mother and her new husband. It was Februwhen Bob Marley married Rita Anderson. On the Coxsone-label they recorded several hits: Simmer Down, It Hurts To Be Alone, Rule Them Rudie.
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The Wailers became very popular in 1965: they played full houses.
Bob Marley acted as the leader of the band and he wrote most of the material. For the recording of their songs they used ska musicians of Coxsone Dodd’s Studio One. Cherry and Junior left the band after a few recording sessions. In 1964 Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingstone (alias Bunny Wailer), Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, Cherry, Constantine ‘Dream Vision’ Walker and Bob Marley formed the band The Wailers.
The album received little airplay and attention. Bob recorded several tracks with Kong, and his first album was released on Beverley Records. In 1962, Marley was introduced to local music entrepreneur, Leslie Kong. It was during one of these informal lessons for aspiring vocalists that Bob and Bunny met Peter McIntosh (who later became known as Peter Tosh) another youth with big musical ambitions. One of Bob’s friends, known as “Bunny” was into music and he and Bob, with the help of Trenchtown’s famous singer, Joe Higgs, perfected their vocal abilities. Bob Marley loved the fast life in the big city, as well the music of Fats Domino and Ray Charles. A couple of years later Bob and his mother moved to Trench Town (West-Kingston) because his mother was looking for a job. She told his mother and soon Bob was reunited with his mother. He told her that he had not received the education his father had intended for him.
One year later Bob bumped into one of his mother’s friends. He ended up on the streets hanging out with the various gangs of Kingston, later known as “Rude Boys”. When Bob was five, his father took him to Kingston so he could get a better education however, Marley ended up living with his grandmother, who was unable to properly look after him. After Bob was born, his father left his mother. His father (Norval Sinclair Marley) was an English marine-officer and his mother (Cedella ‘Ciddy’ Malcom) was a native Jamaican who lived in Rhoden Hall. Bob Marley (Robert Nesta Marley) was born on February 6, 1945, in Nine Miles in the parish of St.