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Bob Marley’s 70th birthday year-long celebration continues with the release of two new LP box sets!

These two stunning vinyl collections feature 11 albums on 180 gram vinyl spanning a decade’s worth of Bob Marley & The Wailers releases on Island Records.

The Complete Island Recordings includes 11-LPs packaged in a rigid card box with lift top lid, and wrapped in silver paper that simulates the brushed metal finish of a flip-style lighter. The box includes Bob’s 70th Birthday logo and all nine Bob Marley & The Wailers studio albums recorded for Island Records.

LP’s faithfully replicate the original pressings, including the following details:

• Live! Will include the original poster with the vinyl

• Exodus features the original gold metallic jacket with embossed lettering

• Babylon By Bus features the die-cut cover with colour printed inner sleeves showing through

• All pressed on 180g heavyweight audiophile vinyl with free ‘Back To Black’ mp3 redemption codes

• All vinyl will be cut from new 24bit/96k sources

Bob Marley’s 70th birthday year-long celebration (2015) continues with the release of two new box sets, The Complete Island Recordings and The Complete Island Recordings: Collector’s Edition. These two stunning vinyl collection sets feature 11 albums on 180-gram vinyl spanning a decade’s worth of Bob Marley & The Wailers releases on Island Records. The Complete Island Recordings will include 11-LPs packaged in a rigid card box with lift top lid, and wrapped in silver paper that simulates the brushed metal finish of a hinged lighter. The Complete Island Recordings: Collector’s Edition will include 11-LPs, a 70th anniversary slip mat and two photos in glassine envelopes, all packaged in a unique metal box set, numbered and lined with velvet and connected to truly emulate a hinged lighter. Both boxes will include Bob’s 70th Birthday logo and all nine Bob Marley & The Wailers studio albums recorded for Island Records, featuring some of their most celebrated releases, including Catch A Fire, their 1973 label debut, and Rastaman Vibration, their 1976 breakthrough album in the United States, along with two live albums, Live! and Babylon By Bus.

The LP’s faithfully replicate the original album pressings.  The Live! album will include the original poster with the vinyl, while the Exodus album will feature the original gold metallic jacket with embossed lettering.  The Babylon By Bus album will feature the die-cut cover with the color printed inner sleeves showing through.

LP’S INCLUDED IN BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS – THE COMPLETE ISLAND RECORDINGS & THE COLLECTOR’S EDITION:

• Catch A Fire

• Burnin’

• Natty Dread

• Live!

• Rastaman Vibration

• Exodus

• Babylon By Bus

• Kaya

• Survival

• Uprising

• Confrontation

LP Track Listings:

CATCH A FIRE

Side A

1. Concrete Jungle

2. Slave Driver

3. 400 Years

4. Stop That Train

5. Baby We’ve Got A Date (Rock It Baby)

Side B

1. Stir It Up

2. Kinky Reggae

3. No More Trouble

4. Midnight Ravers

BURNIN’

Side A

1. Get Up, Stand Up

2. Hallelujah Time

3. I Shot The Sheriff

4. Burnin’ And Lootin’

5. Put It On

Side B

1. Small Axe

2. Pass It On

3. Duppy Conqueror

4. One Foundation

5. Rastaman Chant

NATTY DREAD

Side A

1. Lively Up Yourself

2. No Woman No Cry

3. Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)

4. Rebel Music (3 O’Clock Roadblock)

Side B

1. So Jah S’eh

2. Natty Dread

3. Bend Down Low

4. Talkin’ Blues

5. Revolution

LIVE!

Side A

1. Trenchtown Rock - Live At The Lyceum, London/1975

2. Burnin’ And Lootin’ - Live At The Lyceum, London/1975

3. Them Belly Full (But We Hungry) - Live At The Lyceum, London/1975

4. Lively Up Yourself - Live At The Lyceum, London/1975

Side B

1. No Woman, No Cry - Live At The Lyceum, London/1975

2. I Shot The Sheriff - Live At The Lyceum, London/1975

3. Get Up, Stand Up - Live At The Lyceum, London/1975

RASTAMAN VIBRATION

Side A

1. Positive Vibration

2. Roots, Rock, Reggae

3. Johnny Was

4. Cry To Me

5. Want More

Side B

1. Crazy Baldhead

2. Who The Cap Fit

3. Night Shift

4. War – Album Version

5. Rat Race

EXODUS

Side A

1. Natural Mystic

2. So Much Things To Say

3. Guiltiness

4. The Heathen

5. Exodus – Album Version

Side B

1. Jamming

2. Waiting In Vain

3. Turn Your Lights Down Low

4. Three Little Birds

5. One Love/People Get Ready

BABYLON BY BUS

Side A

1. Positive Vibration - Live At The Pavillion De Paris/1977

2. Punky Reggae Party - Live At The Pavillion De Paris/1977

3. Exodus - Live At The Pavillion De Paris/1977

Side B

1. Stir It Up - Live At The Pavillion De Paris/1977

2. Rat Race - Live At The Pavillion De Paris/1977

3. Concrete Jungle - Live At The Pavillion De Paris/1977

4. Kinky Reggae - Live At The Pavillion De Paris/1977

Side C

1. Lively Up Yourself - Live At The Pavillion De Paris/1977

2. Rebel Music – (3 O’Clock Roadblock) - Live At The Pavillion De Paris/1977

3. Medley: War/No More Trouble - Live At The Pavillion De Paris/1977

Side D

1. Is This Love - Live At The Pavillion De Paris/1977

2. Heathen - Live At The Pavillion De Paris/1977

3. Jammin’ - Live At The Pavillion De Paris/1977

KAYA

Side A

1. Easy Skanking

2. Kaya

3. Is This Love

4. Sun Is Shining

5. Satisfy My Soul

Side B

1. She’s Gone

2. Misty Morning

3. Crisis

4. Running Away

5. Time Will Tell

SURVIVAL

Side A

1. So Much Trouble In The World

2. Zimbabwe

3. Top Rankin’

4. Babylon System

5. Survival

Side B

1. Africa Unite

2. One Drop

3. Ride Natty Ride

4. Ambush In The Night

5. Wake Up And Live

UPRISING

Side A

1. Coming In From The Cold

2. Real Situation

3. Bad Card

4. We And Dem

5. Work

Side B

1. Zion Train

2. Pimper’s Paradise

3. Could You Be Loved

4. Forever Loving Jah

5. Redemption Song

CONFRONTATION

Side A

1. Chant Down Babylon

2. Buffalo Soldier

3. Jump Nyabinghi

4. Mix Up, Mix Up

5. Give Thanks & Praises

Side B

1. Blackman Redemption

2. Trench Town

3. Stiff Necked Fools

4. I Know

5. Rastaman Live Up