Bob Marley & The Wailers Make Island/Tuff Gong Debut on DVD With LEGEND, Featuring Original 'LEGEND' Music Video Compilation Plus Full-Length 1992 Documentary 'TIME WILL TELL'
LOS ANGELES, July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The first Island Records/Tuff Gong DVD release starring Bob Marley & The Wailers brings together a gold-certified music video "best of" compilation and a gold-certified documentary, each originally released separately.
Packaged onto one DVD, LEGEND (Island/Tuff Gong/UMe), released July 29, 2003, combines the DVD debuts of the 1991-issued LEGEND (with its 13 videos this was the visual companion to the 1984 same-titled greatest hits collection, the best-selling reggae album of all time) and the 90-minute 1992- issued biography TIME WILL TELL. A special feature of this DVD is a Personal Playlist option whereby the viewer chooses the sequencing not only of the videos but also 10 additional performances from TIME WILL TELL.
Marley was one of the most charismatic and challenging performers of our time and remains the icon of reggae. Rasta Prophet, Superstar, Visionary, Revolutionary Artist, both his musical and social legacies are captured on the new LEGEND.
The LEGEND clips include live performances of "Jamming," "I Shot The Sheriff" and "Exodus," along with videos compiled from footage over the years of "Is This Love," "Redemption Song" and "One Love/People Get Ready," the latter with a cameo appearance by Paul McCartney. Also included in the video are performances of "Want More," "Could You Be Loved," "No Woman No Cry," "Stir It Up," "Get Up Stand Up," "Satisfy My Soul" and "Buffalo Soldier."
The TIME WILL TELL portion of LEGEND is a cinematic biography which celebrates the life of Marley the musician while showing how his political/spiritual stance has a continuing power and relevance. Interviews, concert performances and rehearsal footage make this the definitive Marley documentary.
The songs heard during TIME WILL TELL are "Get Up Stand Up," "No Woman No Cry," "Want More," "Is This Love," "Jamming," "Could You Be Loved," "Stir It Up," "Satisfy My Soul," "I Shot The Sheriff," "Buffalo Soldier," "Exodus," "Redemption Song" and "One Love/People Get Ready." The bonus performances range from "Concrete Jungle" during a 1973 BBC appearance to "Forever Loving Jah" and "Revolution" from 1980 Kingston rehearsals; from stage renditions of "Them Belly Full" (1976), "Zimbabwe" (Independence Day 1980), "Redemption Song" (1980), "Natural Mystic" and "Get Up Stand Up" (the latter two from unknown dates) to concert collages of "I Shot The Sheriff" (1979/1980) and "War" (1976/1980).
A figure of almost mystical proportions, no artist has so dominated his genre in the history of modern music as Marley has reggae. His legend now continues on DVD.
