| Peter Tosh "Rastafari Is" |
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In 1987, Tosh appeared to be on the way to a
career revival. He was awarded a Grammy for
Best Reggae Performance in 1987 for No
Nuclear War. However on September 11, 1987
three men came to his house demanding money,
and when Tosh replied that he did not have
any with him he was shot dead, along with
disk jockey Jeff "Free I" Dixon. The leader
was Dennis 'Leppo' Lobban, a man whom Peter
had befriended and tried to help find work
after a long jail sentence. Leppo turned
himself over to the authorities, and was
tried and convicted in the shortest jury
deliberation in Jamaican history: eleven
minutes. He was sentenced to death, but his
sentence was commuted in 1995 and he remains
in prison. Neither of his two alleged
accomplices were found, though rumors persist
that both were gunned down in the streets.
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| Peter Tosh "Bush Doctor"83 Holland |
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Peter Tosh sings Bush Doctor at the Ahoy
Hallen, Rotterdam, Holland. The day was the
30 September 1983. "Warning! The Surgeon
General warns
Cigarette smoking is dangerous, dangerous
Hazard to your health
Does that mean anything to you?..We..
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| Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and the Wailers "Rasta Man Chant" |
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Singer, musician, composer, and rebel Peter
Tosh cut a swathe through the Jamaican
musical scene, both as a founding member of
the Wailers and as a solo artist. He toured
with the Rolling Stones and had an
international hit with a duet with Mick
Jagger, then toured again to equally
rapturous world audiences as the headlining
act. His words would cause an uproar at the
One Peace concert, but then unlike fellow
Wailer Bob Marley, Tosh always made his true
feelings known. He was born Winston Hubert
McIntosh on October 19, 1944, in the small
rural village of Grange Hill, Jamaica. Like
so many young island teens searching for a
better life, he left home at 15 and headed
for Kingston. Once there, he made his way to
Joe Higgs' tenement yard, joining other
aspiring youths eager for the vocal coaching
lessons the singing star provided to local
teens. Amongst these youthful wannabes were
Bunny, Bob Marley, and the much younger
Junior Braithwaite; the four, buttressed by
backing vocalists Cherry Green and Beverley
Kelso, joined forces initially as the
Teenagers before eventually settling on the
moniker the Wailers.
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