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Cool reggae find. Peter Tosh poster live in Paris at Espace Balard, October 4, 1983. Love this design shaped like a pair of sunglasses. Pure early 80s vibe. By this time, Tosh, founding member of The Wailers, was fully into his solo era, touring Europe and spreading the Stepping Razor militantism
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The first ever billboard for Bob Marley and the Wailers, promoting Rastaman Vibration and their appearance at the Shrine Auditorium. Photo by Roger Steffens. Seen here on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Artwork designed by Neville Garrick. One of the earliest large-scale outdoor promotions for Marley in the United States marked the moment reggae broke into the American mainstream.
In this clip, reggae historian Roger Steffens shares an incredible story about how reggae records and cassette tapes carrying messages of support for Nelson Mandela were secretly sent to Robben Island during his imprisonment.
Reggae has always been more than music. It has been a voice for freedom and justice around the world.
It’s a reminder of how the sound of Jamaica reached even the darkest places
Happy 4/20 from the LIVICATED team!!!
When we first started the movie, ganja was illegal everywhere in the U.S. Thankfully, things have evolved.
Dan Rather filmed this piece walking through the ganja fields of Jamaica (aired in 1980). Must have smelled really good.
Rare Photo Of Bob Marley Taken By Roger Steffens in San Diego in 1979.
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No Belafonte, no global stage for reggae.
A signed copy of Calypso by Harry Belafonte, part of Roger Steffens’ collection.
Released in 1956, Calypso became the first album to sell over 1 million copies, introducing Caribbean music to a global audience. Long before reggae emerged, Belafonte helped bring the sounds of the Caribbean into the mainstream.
Beyond music, Belafonte was a major figure in the U.S. civil rights movement, working closely with Martin Luther King Jr. and supporting global struggles against colonialism and injustice. That same spirit of resistance and social awareness would later define roots reggae.
From calypso to reggae, the connection is not just musical, it’s political.
Wednesday night, Roger was interviewed along with Santa Davis for a film about Peter Tosh's historic appearance at the Jamaica World Music Festival in Montego Bay in 1982, produced by Wayne Jobson, on the left. Roger produced the cd of the event, from the master tape discovered by Joe Jurgensen, Marley's bibliographer, and mixed by ace engineer Karl Pitterson at his studio in Miami. Peter is having a major revival this year, with a 14-episode podcast on his life coming shortly. We'll keep you informed.
Here's a shot from Saturday at a YouTube party for Fela Kuti to celebrate his Grammy Lifetime Achievement award. I am with his archivist, daughter, and in the center, Femi Kuti. I was able to donate 56 years of Fela clippings and memorabilia to the Kuti Museum in Lagos. In the Verse party facility, they created a room filled with artifacts from my record and magazine collections, including about a dozen autographed album covers.
