On this day in 1987 Peter Tosh was murdered at home by robbers.
One of the original members along with Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer, the Wailers were to change reggae and rock music during the 1970's and early 80's. Punk music and reggae lived side by side in 1977. The infamous Roxy Club, London, had housed punk gigs and reggae sound systems. From then reggae was to feature on the PA systems of many punk clubs during 1976-79. The 12" vinyl singles of Tosh and Marley were always sort after in record shops and many were hits in the UK with white and black audiences alike. It was a golden era of Jamaican reggae and had developed on from Ska (the first import of Jamaican and Caribbean music in the 1960's).
Bob Marley and Peter Tosh had made reggae relevant and compelling. With the demise of these two great musicians reggae would never really have the same importance as it had in those heady days.
Here is Peter Tosh doing Johnny B. Goode.
