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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
As told to Rich Pelley

‘I wish I’d written Redemption Song’: Stephen Marley’s honest playlist

Stephen Marley
‘I don’t really do a lot of streaming. I’m too busy making the music that’s going to be streamed’ … Stephen Marley. Photograph: Bennett Raglin/BET/Getty Images

The first record I bought
My father had a record store, so it was less buying a record, more saying: “Can I have this record?” But the first record I remember purchasing was One Wheel Wheelie by Early B, from Harry J’s record store in Jamaica.

The first song I remember hearing
Lively Up Yourself by Bob Marley and the Wailers which came out in 1974. I was born in 1972, so I would have been two years old. We had a turntable at home in Jamaica, so it would have been on vinyl.

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