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Live! (Bob Marley and the Wailers album)

1975 live album by Bob Marley and the Wailers

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ935400 ↗
Source-derived summary

Live! is a 1975 album by Bob Marley and the Wailers which was recorded live in concert during July 1975 at the Lyceum Theatre, London. "No Woman, No Cry (Live '75)" was released as a single. A two-disc deluxe edition was released in 2016 containing both the concerts that were used to compile the original album.

Background

The band's concerts at the Lyceum Theatre, London, on 17 and 18 July 1975, were recorded by Island Records employee Danny Holloway, using the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio. The tracks selected were mostly from the 17 July performance, with "Lively Up Yourself" (not played on the 17th) from the 18th.

"I wasn't prepared for what I saw that night," recalled Sounds photographer Kate Simon (who shot the cover of Marley's 1978 album Kaya). "It was like seeing someone who was as good-looking as Steve McQueen, playing with a group that was peerless – as tight as anything you'd ever heard. And not only did you hear this magnificent voice, but the message was one of faith, truth and doing the right thing… To see someone who sang about principles, and did it in such a way that made even me dance, that was quite something."

At the concert on the 17th, Chris Blackwell noted the audience's reaction to "No Woman, No Cry".

Production was credited to Bob Marley and the Wailers, Steve Smith and Chris Blackwell.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Live! (Bob Marley and the Wailers album)” is 1975 live album by Bob Marley and the Wailers. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Live, Marley and Wailers, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1975, 2016, 1978—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975-12-05. For this dossier, Live, Marley and Wailers is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “1975 live album by Bob Marley and the Wailers” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q935400. Authority coordinates are 51.512, -0.120. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975, 2016 and 1978.

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This entry incorporates text from “Live! (Bob Marley and the Wailers album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.