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Peter Tosh

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Peter Tosh, OM (born Winston Hubert McIntosh; 19 October 1944 – 11 September 1987) was a Jamaican reggae musician. [1]

87 relations: Al Anderson (The Wailers), AllMusic, Andrew Tosh, Aston Barrett, Beverley Kelso, Billboard 200, Blackheart Man, Bob Marley, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Bunny Wailer, Burnin' (The Wailers album), Bush Doctor, Can't Blame the Youth, Capital punishment, Capitol Records, Carlton Barrett, Catch a Fire, Cherry Smith, Chris Blackwell, Chrysler, Columbia Records, Commutation (law), Delaware, Der Spiegel, Don't Look Back (The Temptations song), EBay, Edward Seaga, EMI, EMI America Records, Emperor of Ethiopia, Equal Rights (album), Eric Gale, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Extortion, Flashpoint Film Festival, Get Up, Stand Up, Gleaner Company, Grange Hill, Jamaica, Haile Selassie, Home invasion, Island Records, Joe Higgs, Johnny Nash, Joint (cannabis), Junior Braithwaite, Keith Richards, Kingston, Jamaica, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Legalize It, List of Rastafarians, ..., List of reggae musicians, List of vegetarians, M16 rifle, Mama Africa (Peter Tosh album), Melodica, Michael Manley, Mick Jagger, Mystic Man, Negril, Negril (album), Nicholas Campbell, No Nuclear War, One Love Peace Concert, Order of Merit (Jamaica), Parishes of Jamaica, Public relations, Ras Michael, Rastafari, Reggae, Rhythm and blues, Rockers (soundtrack), Rocksteady, Rolling Stones Records, Ska, The Honourable, The Jamaica Observer, The Rolling Stones, The Temptations, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Trenchtown, Tuff Gong, Unicycle, Waiting on a Friend, Wanted Dread & Alive, Westmoreland Parish, Word, Sound and Power, 420 (cannabis culture). Expand index (37 more) »

Al Anderson (The Wailers)

Albert "Al" Anderson (born October 11, 1950)Larkin, Colin (1998) The Virgin Encyclopedia of Reggae, Virgin Books,, p.11 is an American-born songwriter and guitarist.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Andrew Tosh

Andrew Tosh (born Carlos Andrew McIntosh, 19 June 1967) is a Jamaican reggae singer and the son of Peter Tosh.

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Aston Barrett

Aston Francis Barrett (born 22 November 1946), often called "Family Man" or "Fams" for short, is a Jamaican musician and Rastafarian.

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Beverley Kelso

Beverley Kelso (born April 1948)"", Jamaica Gleaner, 30 March 2014.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Blackheart Man

Blackheart Man is the debut album by Bunny Wailer, originally released on 8 September 1976, in Jamaica on Solomonic Records and internationally on Island Records.

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Bob Marley

Robert Nesta Marley, OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican singer-songwriter who became an international musical and cultural icon, blending mostly reggae, ska, and rocksteady in his compositions.

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Bob Marley and the Wailers

Bob Marley and the Wailers was a Jamaican reggae band led by Bob Marley.

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Bunny Wailer

Bunny Wailer (Neville O'Riley Livingston O.M., born 10 April 1947, also known as Bunny Livingston and affectionately Jah B), is a Jamaican singer songwriter and percussionist and was an original member of reggae group The Wailers along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.

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Burnin' (The Wailers album)

Burnin is a reggae album by The Wailers, released in 1973.

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Bush Doctor

Bush Doctor is the third studio album by Jamaican singer Peter Tosh.

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Can't Blame the Youth

Can't Blame the Youth is a compilation album of Peter Tosh's work while with The Wailers.

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Capital punishment

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Carlton Barrett

Carlton "Carly" Barrett (17 December 1950 – 17 April 1987) was an influential reggae drummer and percussionist.

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Catch a Fire

Catch a Fire is a 1973 album by Bob Marley and the Wailers.

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Cherry Smith

Cherry Smith (22 August 1943 – 24 September 2008) was a backing vocalist for the original Wailers from 1963 to 1966.

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Chris Blackwell

Christopher Percy Gordon Blackwell (born 22 June 1937) is an English businessman and former record producer, and the founder of Island Records, which has been called "one of Britain's great independent labels".

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Chrysler

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles US LLC (commonly known as Chrysler) is the American subsidiary of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V., an Italian-American automobile manufacturer registered in the Netherlands with headquarters in London, U.K., for tax purposes.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Commutation (law)

In law, a commutation is the substitution of a lesser penalty for that given after a conviction for a crime.

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Delaware

Delaware is one of the 50 states of the United States, in the Mid-Atlantic or Northeastern region.

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Der Spiegel

Der Spiegel (lit. "The Mirror") is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg.

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Don't Look Back (The Temptations song)

"Don't Look Back" is a 1965 song recorded by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label.

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EBay

eBay Inc. is a multinational e-commerce corporation based in San Jose, California that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website.

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Edward Seaga

Edward Philip George Seaga (or; ON, PC; born 28 May 1930) is a former Jamaican politician.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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EMI America Records

EMI America Records was started in 1978 by EMI as a second US label next to Capitol Records and Virgin Records America.

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Emperor of Ethiopia

The Emperor of Ethiopia (ንጉሠ ነገሥት, nəgusä nägäst, "King of Kings") was the hereditary ruler of the Ethiopian Empire, until the abolition of the monarchy in 1975.

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Equal Rights (album)

Equal Rights is the second studio album by Peter Tosh.

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Eric Gale

Eric J. Gale (September 20, 1938 – May 25, 1994) was a leading American jazz and session guitarist.

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Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (የኢትዮጵያ:ኦርቶዶክስ:ተዋሕዶ:ቤተ:ክርስቲያን; Yäityop'ya ortodoks täwahedo bétäkrestyan) is the largest of the Oriental Orthodox Christian Churches.

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Extortion

Extortion (also called shakedown, outwrestling and exaction) is a criminal offense of obtaining money, property, or services from an individual or institution, through coercion.

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Flashpoint Film Festival

The Flashpoint Film Festival is a four-day Caribbean film festival with regional and international film submissions that have at least one strong Caribbean element (cast, writer, director, location, etc.) or explore subjects that resonate with the Caribbean experience.

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Get Up, Stand Up

"Get Up, Stand Up" is a song written by Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.

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Gleaner Company

The Gleaner Company Ltd. is a newspaper publishing enterprise in Jamaica.

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Grange Hill, Jamaica

Grange Hill is a settlement in Jamaica, located in the parish of Westmoreland.

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Haile Selassie

Haile Selassie I (ቀዳማዊ ኃይለ ሥላሴ, qädamawi haylä səllasé,;, born Ras Tafari Makonnen, was Ethiopia's regent from 1916 to 1930 and emperor from 1930 to 1974.

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Home invasion

In some parts of the United States and some other English speaking countries home invasion is an illegal and usually forceful entry to an occupied, private dwelling with intent to commit a violent crime against the occupants, such as robbery, assault, rape, murder, or kidnapping.

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Island Records

Island Records is a British-Jamaican record label that operates as a division of Universal Music Group (UMG).

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Joe Higgs

Joseph Benjamin "Joe" Higgs (3 June 1940 – 18 December 1999) was a reggae musician from Jamaica.

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Johnny Nash

John Lester "Johnny" Nash, Jr. (born August 19, 1940) is an American reggae and pop music singer-songwriter, best known in the US for his 1972 hit, "I Can See Clearly Now".

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Joint (cannabis)

A joint, spliff, jay, or doobie, is a rolled marijuana cigarette.

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Junior Braithwaite

Franklin Delano Alexander Braithwaite, better known as Junior Braithwaite (4 April 1949 – 2 June 1999), was a reggae musician from Kingston, Jamaica, the youngest member of the vocal group, The Wailing Wailers.

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Keith Richards

Keith Richards (born 18 December 1943) is an English musician and songwriter, best known as a guitarist and founder member of the Rolling Stones.

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Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island.

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Lee "Scratch" Perry

Lee "Scratch" Perry OD (born Rainford Hugh Perry; 20 March 1936) is a Jamaican music producer and inventor noted for his innovative studio techniques and production style.

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Legalize It

Legalize It is an album and song by Peter Tosh.

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List of Rastafarians

This is a list of notable Rastafari.

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List of reggae musicians

This is a list of reggae musicians.

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List of vegetarians

This is a list of notable people who have adhered to a vegetarian diet at some point during their life.

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M16 rifle

The M16 rifle, officially designated Rifle, Caliber 5.56 mm, M16, is a United States military adaptation of the ArmaLite AR-15 rifle.Kern, Danford Allan (2006).. m-14parts.com. A thesis presented to the Faculty of the US Army Command and General Staff College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree MASTER OF MILITARY ART AND SCIENCE, Military History. Fort Leavenworth, KansasKokalis, Peter G.. Nodakspud.com The original M16 was a selective fire 5.56mm rifle with a 20-round magazine. In 1964, the M16 entered U.S. military service and the following year was deployed for jungle warfare operations during the Vietnam War. In 1969, the M16A1 replaced the M14 rifle to become the U.S. military's standard service rifle.Ezell, Edward Clinton (1983). Small Arms of the World. New York: Stackpole Books. pp. 46–47..Urdang, p. 801. The M16A1 improvements include a bolt-assist, chrome plated bore and a new 30-round magazine. In 1983, the U.S. Marine Corps adopted the M16A2 rifle and the U.S. Army adopted it in 1986. The M16A2 fires the improved 5.56×45mm NATO (M855/SS109) cartridge and has a new adjustable rear sight, case deflector, heavy barrel, improved handguard, pistol grip and buttstock, as well as a semi-auto and three-round burst only fire selector. Adopted in 1998, the M16A4 is the fourth generation of the M16 series.Weapons of the Modern Marines, by Michael Green, MBI Publishing Company, 2004, page 16 It is equipped with a removable carrying handle and Picatinny rail for mounting optics and other ancillary devices. The M16 has also been widely adopted by other militaries around the world. Total worldwide production of M16s has been approximately 8 million, making it the most-produced firearm of its 5.56 mm caliber. The U.S. Military has largely replaced the M16 in combat units with a shorter and lighter version named the M4 carbine.

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Mama Africa (Peter Tosh album)

Mama Africa is the sixth studio album by Peter Tosh.

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Melodica

The melodica, also known as the pianica, blow-organ, key harmonica, free-reed clarinet, or melodyhorn, is a free-reed instrument similar to the pump organ and harmonica.

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Michael Manley

Michael Norman Manley ON OCC (10 December 1924 – 6 March 1997) was a Jamaican politician who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1972 to 1980 and from 1989 to 1992.

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Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943), known professionally as Mick Jagger, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor who gained fame as the lead singer and one of the founder members of the Rolling Stones.

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Mystic Man

Mystic Man is the fourth studio album by Peter Tosh.

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Negril

Negril is a small (pop. 6,900) but widely dispersed beach resort town located across parts of two Jamaican parishes, Westmoreland and Hanover.

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Negril (album)

Negril is an album released in 1975 from a session produced, arranged, and almost entirely composed by guitarist Eric Gale.

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Nicholas Campbell

Nicholas Campbell (born 24 March 1952) is a Canadian actor and filmmaker, who won three Gemini Awards for acting.

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No Nuclear War

No Nuclear War is the seventh and final studio album by Peter Tosh.

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One Love Peace Concert

The One Love Concert was a large concert held on 22 April 1978 at The National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica.

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Order of Merit (Jamaica)

The Order of Merit is part of the Jamaican honours system, and it is the fourth-highest honour awarded by the nation of Jamaica.

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Parishes of Jamaica

Administratively, Jamaica is divided into fourteen parishes.

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Public relations

Public relations (PR) is the practice of managing the spread of information between an individual or an organization (such as a business, government agency, or a nonprofit organization) and the public.

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Ras Michael

Michael George Henry OD (born 1943), better known as Ras Michael, is a Jamaican reggae singer and Nyabinghi specialist.

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Rastafari

Rastafari, sometimes termed Rastafarianism, is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Rockers (soundtrack)

The soundtrack to the film Rockers was released in 1979.

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Rocksteady

Rocksteady is a music genre that originated in Jamaica around 1966.

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Rolling Stones Records

Rolling Stones Records was the record label formed by the Rolling Stones members Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman in 1970, after their recording contract with Decca Records expired.

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Ska

Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.

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The Honourable

The prefix The Honourable or The Honorable (abbreviated to The Hon., Hon. or formerly The Hon'ble—the latter term is still used in South Asia) is a style that is used before the names of certain classes of people.

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The Jamaica Observer

Jamaica Observer Limited is a daily newspaper published in Kingston, Jamaica.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962.

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The Temptations

The Temptations are an American vocal group who released a series of successful singles and albums with Motown Records during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales in the United States and is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan.

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Trenchtown

Trench Town (also Trenchtown) is a neighborhood located in the parish of St. Andrew which shares municipality with Kingston, the capital and largest city of Jamaica.

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Tuff Gong

Tuff Gong is the brand name associated with a number of businesses started by Bob Marley and the Marley family.

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Unicycle

A unicycle is a vehicle that touches the ground with only one wheel.

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Waiting on a Friend

"Waiting on a Friend" is a song by the Rolling Stones from their 1981 album Tattoo You.

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Wanted Dread & Alive

Wanted Dread & Alive is the fifth studio album by Peter Tosh.

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Westmoreland Parish

Westmoreland is the westernmost parish in Jamaica, located on the south side of the island.

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Word, Sound and Power

Word, Sound and Power are a Jamaican reggae band, formed in 1976 as Peter Tosh's backing band after Tosh left The Wailers.

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420 (cannabis culture)

420, 4:20, or 4/20 (pronounced four-twenty) is a code-term in cannabis culture that refers to the consumption of cannabis, especially smoking cannabis around the time 4:20 p.m. (or 16:20 in 24-hour notation) and smoking cannabis in celebration on the date April 20 (which is 4/20 in U.S. form).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Tosh

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