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Bob Marley during an interview at the Barbizon Plaza Hotel. '75

Bob Marley Speaking To The Press In 1975

Bob Marley on stage at the Beacon Theatre.

Photographer: Bob Gruen Date: 1976-05-01 Location: Beacon Theatre, NYC, USA.

Some of the many great photographs by Peter Simon during the 1976 interview that Bob Marley had with Stephen Davis.

A rare photograph of Bob Marley jamming onstage with a local reggae band at the New Ardri Ballroom in Hulme, late 1970s. Marley visited the club to attend a meeting of the 12 Tribes of Israel Rastafari group, of which he was a prominent member.

Photographer: Larry Benji

Marley Visits The Wax Museum Record Store And The Third Stone Music. '79

While on tour in Minneapolis for the Northrop Auditorium concert, Bob Marley swings by the Wax Museum record store on West Lake Street for an in-store meet-and-greet appearance. He also stops into nearby Third Stone Music.

Photographer: Ryan Cameron

Bob Marley having fun and performing a soundcheck for his concert at the Palais des Sports, Grenoble, France.

Photographer: Unknown

Roger Schawinski (left) a journalist, media entrepreneur, radio pioneer and reggae fan with Bob Marley. On May 30th, 1980, he picked up Bob Marley at the airport in Zurich, conducted an interview and accompanied Marley and The Wailers during their two days in Switzerland.

Photographer: Unknown

‘I first met Bob in 1973 outside the Speakeasy club in London on the first date of the Wailers UK Catch a Fire tour to promote the Catch a Fire album, his first for Island Records. Bob invited me into the club.’ During a break, he says Marley asked him: ‘So, you wanna be a photographer? Well, they will tell you you can’t do it. You have to believe, Dennis’

Photographer: Dennis Morris

Bob Marley in Brussels, on the Exodus Tour, in 1977.

Photographer: Kate Simon

Bob Marley Opens the Rastaman Vibration Tour at the Tower Theater on April 23, 1976!

Bob Marley and the Wailers open their Rastaman Vibration Tour at the Tower on April 23, 1976.  It’s a special night for Bob and The Wailers.  They are scheduled to play two shows.  Bob’s mother, Cedella Booker, will travel the 30 minutes from her home in nearby Wilmington, Delaware to see her son, now a bona fide rock star, play at a North American venue for the first time.  The Wailers, now sporting roots guitarist Donald Kinsey and a game Earl “Chinna” Smith, are both excited and apprehensive about playing the new songs off their Rastaman Vibration album – which will hit stores the following week on April 30, 1976.  What a way to introduce the new songs…to an eager audience in one of North America’s most historic cities.

Photographer: Neil Fitzpatrick

Bob Marley Getting Ready For The Wonder Dream Concert!

Bob Marley and The Wailers preforming a soundcheck a couple hours before the Wonder Dream concert would begin. The event was a benefit concert to raise funds to help blind people. (Jamaican Institute For The Blind). They would end up receiving 23,000 dollars.

Photographer: Kwame Brathwaite

Peter Tosh At The 1st Ann. Reggae Sunsplash. '83.

Rare photographs of Peter Tosh performing at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds!

Photographer: Rodger Hisken

The One Love Peace Concert:

Bob Marley uniting the political leaders of Jamaica at the One Love Peace Concert in 1978!

Photographer: Howard Moo Young