Book Preview: Babylon By Bus - Bob Marley & The Wailers Live and Up Close

In April 1976, the new album Rastaman Vibration appears in stores. It is internationally enthusiastically received. The influential American music magazine Rolling Stone proclaims Bob Marley & The Wailers ‘band of the year’. The first tour of the European mainland starts on June 6 in Germany with a concert in Offenburg at the Sunrise Festival. In the following week there are concerts in Düsseldorf, Hamburg, and the Swedish capital Stockholm. It is the biggest tour undertaken by Marley and his associates up until then, reaching a new and wider audience than ever before. On June 13, Marley and his fellow Jamaicans set foot on Dutch soil for their first Dutch concert.