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Bunny Wailer

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Neville Livingston (1947-2021), singer, percussionist and the longest-surviving of the three original Wailers. He declined the international touring that took Marley and Tosh abroad, staying in Jamaica and building a body of work — Blackheart Man (1976) chief among it — that holds to roots and Rastafari without compromise. He remained an authority on the group's early history and a custodian of its catalogue until his death.

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Rolling Stone — Reggae Icon Bunny Wailer, Founding Member of the Wailers, Dead at 73

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