Book description
Over one dramatic decade, a trio of Trench Town R&B crooners,
Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer and Bob Marley, swapped their 1960s Brylcreem
hairdos and two-tone suits for 1970s battle fatigues and dreadlocks to
become the Wailers - one of the most influential groups in popular
music. Now one of our best and brightest non-fiction writers examines
for the first time the story of the legendary reggae band.
Charting their complex relationship, their fluctuating fortunes,
musical peak, and the politics and ideologies that provoked their
split, Colin Grant shows us why they were not just extraordinary
musicians, but also natural mystics. And, following a trail from
Jamaica through Europe, America, Africa and back to the vibrant and
volatile world of Trench Town, he travels in search of the last
surviving Wailer.
Colin Grant is a historian and BBC radio producer. He is the author
of
Negro with a Hat
, a biography of Marcus Garvey and
Bageye at the Wheel,
the story of a 1970s childhood. The son of Jamaican emigrants, he lives
in Brighton.
