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Born Winston Hubert McIntosh, Peter Tosh grew up in the ghettos of Jamaica. In the early sixties he met Bob Marley in Trenchtown, he, along with Bob, and Neville O'Riley Livingston (Bunny Wailer) formed, and became the three original Wailers. A strong-willed man, Tosh withdrew from the Wailers in 1974 after Chris Blackwell refused to issue his first solo album.

Peter Tosh was an extremely talented man, but, at the same time, he was very bitter. Arrogant, unreasonable, inflexible, he was in many ways almost the personification of Bob Marley's shadow. What bound them together more than anything was that they both naturally rebelled against the "babylon shit-stym."

Chris Blackwell: "Peter was always difficult. I found Bunny easier than him, because Bunny was consistently "No." He didn't want to tour overseas, he didn't want to do this, do that, didn't want to have anything to do with Babylon. Peter was yes and then no, yes and then no. And that was more difficult. So really I hardly worked with Peter at all after Burnin'. But I did continue to work with Bunny."

Peter Tosh's life came to a tragic end in 1987 when he was gunned down during a robbery in his Kingston home by an old acquaintance.

the Wailers set, 3 of 3

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Born Winston Hubert McIntosh, Peter Tosh grew up in the ghettos of Jamaica. In the early sixties he met Bob Marley in Trenchtown, he, along with Bob, and Neville O'Riley Livingston (Bunny Wailer) formed, and became the three original Wailers. A strong-willed man, Tosh withdrew from the Wailers in 1974 after Chris Blackwell refused to issue his first solo album.

Peter Tosh was an extremely talented man, but, at the same time, he was very bitter. Arrogant, unreasonable, inflexible, he was in many ways almost the personification of Bob Marley's shadow. What bound them together more than anything was that they both naturally rebelled against the "babylon shit-stym."

Chris Blackwell: "Peter was always difficult. I found Bunny easier than him, because Bunny was consistently "No." He didn't want to tour overseas, he didn't want to do this, do that, didn't want to have anything to do with Babylon. Peter was yes and then no, yes and then no. And that was more difficult. So really I hardly worked with Peter at all after Burnin'. But I did continue to work with Bunny."

Peter Tosh's life came to a tragic end in 1987 when he was gunned down during a robbery in his Kingston home by an old acquaintance.

the Wailers set, 3 of 3