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No Nuclear War
''No Nuclear War'' is the seventh and final studio album by Peter Tosh. It was released on September 21, 1987, ten days after Tosh's murder. It received a Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 1988.Jackson, Kevin (2014)Tosh's call for peace, ''Jamaica Observer'', 23 January 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2014 It was Tosh's second Grammy nomination, ''Captured Live'' having been nominated in the same category in 1985. Track listing Personnel * Peter Tosh – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, horn arrangements * Daniel “Danny AxeMan” Thompson , George "Fully" Fulwood, Leebert "Gibby" Morrison – bass guitar * Carlton "Santa" Davis – drums * Steve Golding – rhythm guitar * Keith Sterling, Tyrone Downie – keyboards * Scully Sims, Uziah Thompson – percussion * David Madden, Dean Fraser, Junior "Chico" Chin, Ronald "Nambo" Robinson – horns * Cynthia Schloss, June Lodge, Nadine Sutherland, Pam Hall, Ruddy Thomas – backing vocals Technical * Dennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uziah Thompson
Uzziah "Sticky" Thompson (1 August 1936 – 25 August 2014) was a Jamaican percussionist, vocalist and deejay active from the late 1950s. He worked with some of the best known performers of Jamaican music and played on hundreds of albums. Biography Thompson was born the third of five children in rural Mannings Mountain, Jamaica on 1 August 1936.Katz, David (2000) ''People Funny Boy: The Genius of Lee "Scratch" Perry'', Payback Press; , pp. 54, 113. Due to his family's poverty he was unable to complete his education and moved to Kingston at the age of 15 in search of work. Thompson found employment with Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, assisting him with running his sound system, in time becoming a deejay with the system under the name "Cool Sticky". He became one of the earliest men to record in the new deejay style, using his mouth to make clicks and other percussive sounds. As a deejay he recorded with The Skatalites and can be heard on the tracks "Ball of Fire", "El Pussy Cat Ska", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 Albums
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Peter Tosh Albums
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Neville Garrick
Neville Garrick is a Jamaican-born Los Angeles-based graphic artist, and photographer. He is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Garrick attended UCLA where he played for the football team, reaching the National Collegiate Athletic Association finals in both 1971 and 1972.Cooke, Melville (2014)Neville Garrick Puts Colour In Reggae, ''Jamaica Gleaner'', 24 June 2014. Retrieved 4 July 2014. After returning to Jamaica he became art director for the ''Daily News''. He is best known for creating the art work for many Bob Marley album covers, and designed the backdrops for the Reggae Sunsplash festival for much of the 1980s. Garrick has also worked with Burning Spear, Steel Pulse and many others. He is the author of ''A Rasta's Pilgrimage: Ethiopian Faces and Places'' (1999). Garrick was a founder and executive director of the Bob Marley Museum The Bob Marley Museum is a museum in Kingston, Jamaica, dedicated to the reggae musician Bob Marley. The museum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruddy Thomas
Ruddy Thomas (12 July 1951 – 10 June 2006) was a Jamaican reggae singer, musician, and recording engineer, who had his greatest successes as a singer in the late 1970s and early 1980s with lovers rock songs. Biography Thomas worked for producer Joe Gibbs in the 1970s, running and arranging recording sessions, and providing percussion and backing vocals. He recorded several singles for Gibbs, including "Every Day Is a Holiday", "Let's Make a Baby" and a version of Dobby Dobson's "Loving Pauper". Thomas's version of "Loving Pauper" was the number one song of the year on the 1978 RJR Top 100. He had a number one reggae hit in the United Kingdom in 1981 with "Just One Moment Away". In 1983, he recorded the duet "(You Know How to Make Me) Feel So Good" with Susan Cadogan, which topped the reggae charts and was followed in 1984 by another duet with Cadogan, "Only Heaven Can Wait", and an album. Thomas also recorded duets with J.C. Lodge ("Time for Love"), Marcia Aitken ("The Closer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pam Hall
Pam Hall is a Jamaican reggae singer whose career began in the 1970s. Career Hall recorded as a solo artist from the mid-1970s as well as providing backing vocals for several other artists including Jimmy Cliff, Judy Mowatt, Beres Hammond, Dennis Brown, and Peter Tosh, sometimes along with her sister Audrey.Pam Hall Biography , . Retrieved 7 July 2014 Among her earliest releases were "Creation", a duet with Orville Wood as Pam & Woody, and "You Should Never Do That", a duet with .Oumano, Elena (1997) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadine Sutherland
Nadine Sutherland (born 15 March 1968) is a Jamaican reggae singer whose early career was nurtured by Bob Marley. She went on to become a successful dancehall artist in the 1990s. Biography Sutherland was born in Kingston, Jamaica and raised in Above Rocks in Saint Catherine Parish. She began performing in 1979, winning the Tastee Talent Contest that year (beating Paul Blake and Yellowman), with her parents managing her career while she studied at St Andrew High School.Cooke, Mel (2007)Nadine Sutherland encourages 'Call My Name', ''Jamaica Gleaner'', 15 April 2007, retrieved 23 April 2011Larkin, Colin (1998) ''The Virgin Encyclopedia of Reggae'', Virgin Books, , p. 287 She combined her musical career with studies in business administration, and was the first artist signed by Bob Marley to his Tuff Gong label, recording "Starvation on the Land" while aged eleven.Smith, Stan Evan (2007)Interview With Nadine Sutherland, Jamaicans.com, 31 March 2007, retrieved 23 April 2011Cooke, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June Lodge
J.C. Lodge, (born June Carol Lodge, 1 December 1958, London, England), is a British-Jamaican reggae singer, actress, fine artist and teacher. Her breakthrough hit " Someone Loves You, Honey" became the best-selling single of 1982 in the Netherlands. Lodge is also an accomplished painter, having exhibited in Kingston art galleries, and has acted in several theatre productions. Music career British born to a Jamaican father and British mother, J.C. Lodge was taken to Jamaica as a child. There, the Beatles fan soon became immersed in R&B and reggae, and sang along to everything she heard. Toward the end of high school, a relationship with Errol O'Meally led her further along her music path. He was a budding songwriter, and used her voice to present some of his material to Joe Gibbs' Recording Studio.Huey, Steve " June Lodge Biography, AllMusic, Macrovision Corporation Both the songs and the singer were well received, and J.C. was asked to record Charley Pride's hit "Someone Love ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Fraser
Dean Ivanhoe Fraser (sometimes appearing as Dean Frazer) (born 4 August 1957) Allmusic.com biography by Sandra Brennan/ref> is a Jamaican saxophonist who has contributed to hundreds of reggae recordings since the mid-1970s. He was awarded the Musgrave Medal by the Jamaican government in 1993 in recognition of his services to music.Larkin, Colin: ''The Virgin Encyclopedia of Reggae'', Virgin Books, 1998. . Biography Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Fraser started to play the clarinet at the age of 12. Around this time he met Ronald "Nambo" Robinson and Junior "Chico" Chin at a youthclub in Jones Town and the three boys would eventually form a brass section. Fraser took up saxophone at the age of 15. The trio became the foremost horn section in Jamaica in the 1980s. In 1977 he joined Lloyd Parks' We The People Band, backing Dennis Brown on several of his recordings for Joe Gibbs. Fraser's first album, 1978's ''Black Horn Man'', was produced by Gibbs. This was followed in 1979 by ''Pure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Madden (musician)
David Madden (born 1943) is a Jamaican trumpeter known for his solo recordings and as a member of Zap Pow, as well as playing on records of Bob Marley and many other great reggae artists. Biography David Madden has been around for many years in the Jamaican music business – composing, arranging, singing, and playing the trumpet. He has recorded with artists such as Bob Marley & the Wailers,Campbell, Howard (2013)David Madden is Pon Di Internet, '' Jamaica Observer'', 12 October 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2013 Ernest Ranglin, Freddie McGregor, Jimmy Cliff, Burning Spear, Bob Andy, Peter Tosh, Beres Hammond, Ziggy Marley, Dawn Penn, Dennis Brown, and Sean Paul. Madden began playing the trumpet at Alpha Boys School. By age 17, he went to Jamaica Military Band, then on to the Jamaican entertainment pop scene.Campbell-Livingston, Cecelia (2014)David Madden gives ‘good measure’, '' Jamaica Observer'', 21 May 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2014 Madden teamed with saxophonist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Simms
Noel Bartholomew Simms (18 March 1935 – 4 February 2017), better known by his nickname and artistic name Scully, was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae percussionist. Biography Born in the Smith Village area of Kingston in 1935 and educated at the Alpha Boys School, he initially worked as a singer in a duo with his schoolfriend Arthur "Bunny" Robinson, known as Simms & Robinson and later Bunny & Scully.Katz, David (2003) ''Solid Foundation: An Oral History of Reggae'', Bloomsbury, , p. 14, 15, 34, 321 The duo won the Vere Johns talent contest two years running and were the first Jamaican artists to make R&B records on the island, starting with acetates for sound system use in 1953 (previous Jamaican-made singles were calypso). They went on to release singles in the early 1960s for producer Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, with Simms also recording solo sides for Prince Buster, and as part of another duo, Simms & Elmond.Cooke, Mel (2004)Studio One shows depth at Mas Camp, ''Jamaic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
