Bob Marley is “a black Bob Dylan without a motorcycle accident”  proclaims journalist IDRIS WALTERS in this editorial published in the May 24, 1975 issue of SOUNDS in which THE WAILERS’ NATTY DREAD is compared to THE BEATLES’ SGT. PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND (then considered the best rock album ever recorded).

 

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Bob Marley
Bob Marley, 1973 (Photo: Gary Merrin)
Jamaica, 1974
Jamaica, 1974 (Photo:  Gary Merrin)