''Live at the Marquee'' is an album by
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Afro rock Afro rock is a style of rock music with West African influences. Afro rock bands and artists in the late 1960s and early 1970s included Osibisa, Assagai and Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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band
Osibisa
Osibisa are a Ghanaian-British Afro-Rock band founded in London in the late 1960s by four expatriate West African and three London based Caribbean musicians.
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recorded live at
The Marquee Club, London, April 5, 1983, and released in 1984 by
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under catalog #1035. The concert has been issued as VHS in 1990 by Media 7 under the title ''Warrior'' and as DVD in 2003 by Umbrella Music under the title ''The Marquee 25th Anniversary presents Osibisa in Concert''.
Track listing
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, title1 = Fire
, writer1 = Osei, Tontoh, Amarfio, Ayivor, Mandengue
, title2 = Life
, writer2 = Osei, Tontoh
, title3 = Ayioko
, writer3 = Amarfio, Osei, Tontoh
, title4 = Who's Got the Paper
, writer4 = Osei, Tontoh, Amarfio, Ayivor, Mandengue, Gyan, Golly
, title5 = Woyaya
, writer5 = Amarfio
, title6 = Music for Gong Gong
, writer6 = Osei, Tontoh
, title7 = Too Much Going On
, writer7 = Osei, Tontoh
, title8 = Happy Children
, writer8 = Osei, Amarfio, Tontoh, Ayivor, Mandengue, Roussel
, title9 = The Warrior
, writer9 = Bertha Egnos, Gail Valery Lakier
, title10 = Sunshine Day
, writer10 = Osei, Tontoh, Amarfio
DVD track listing
The same tracks of the show but with some different titles
#Fire
#Life
#Ayioko
#Paper/Match
#Woyaya
#Gong Gong
#Too Much
#Happy Children
#Warrior
#Sunshine Day
Personnel
*Sol Amarfio: drums
*Kari Bannerman: guitar
*Gregg Brown: bass, vocals
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Tony Etoria: guitar
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Teddy Osei
Teddy Osei (born December 1937) is a musician and saxophone player from Ghana. Osei is best known as the leader of the Afro-pop band Osibisa, founded in 1969. Born in Kumasi, Osei was introduced to musical instruments while still a child. He began ...
: saxophone, flute, percussion, vocals
*Daku "Potato" Adams: congas
*Errol Reid: keyboards
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Frank Tontoh
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Life and work
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: drums
*Mac Tontoh: trumpet
Production
*Recorded live at The Marquee Club, London, April 5, 1983
*Production (Original): Phillip Goodhand-Tait, Maurice Bacon, Kate & Derek Burbidge
*Production (DVD): Jeff Harrison, Gil Matthews
*Direction: Don Coutts
*Cameras: Dave Swan, Barrie Dodd, Kevan Debonnaire, Badger
*Vision Mixer: Pam Hicks
*Unit Manager: Dick Allott
*Production Manager: Lucy Ogilvie
*Video Editor: Alan Goddard
*Production Assistant: Heather Staines
*Recording: Doug Bennett
*Mixing: Smudger
*Lighting: Entec Ltd.
*Thanks: Jack Barrie, Nigel Hutchins,
Harold & Barbara Pendleton
*DVD Studio: Eskimo Productions
*Graphic Designer: Tim Webster
*A Zoetrope Ltd., Trilion Pictures Ltd. and Marque Entertainment Production 1983
*Released in 2004 by Umbrella Music
*Length: 53:48 min
*Resolution: 640 x 480 pixels
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1984 live albums
Osibisa albums
Live albums recorded at The Marquee Club