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(From The Gleaner)
Byline: Rhonda Schaffler
More posthumous Marley tracks
sRare and previously unheard tracks from Bob Marley's early years are to get official releases for the first time. The rights to 211 songs recorded from 1967-72 - before Marley found global fame - have been bought by record label Universal from reggae label JAD. The catalogue includes six previously unreleased songs, with the possibility of more being discovered. Marley, who died in 1981, became a reggae legend with album sales of more than 17 million around the world. A Universal spokesman told BBC News Oneline the tracks shed light on a young Marley who had street attitude, was influenced by the US civil rights movement and was at the cutting edge of music.
And there was "every possibility" that more previously unreleased ...