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Lost Bob Marley records discovered rotting in a London hotel basement by a Maltese businessman will go under the hammer later this month at an auction expected to reach tens of thousands of pounds. The 24-track tapes, known in music circles as “the lost masLost Bob Marley tapes found by Maltese man to be auctioned
Lost Bob Marley records discovered rotting in a London hotel basement by a Maltese businessman will go under the hammer later this month at an auction expected to reach tens of thousands of pounds. The 24-track tapes, known in music circles as “the lost masters”, feature previously-unheard recordings of some of the Jamaican reggae superstar’s greatest songs, recorded live at the Lyceum and Rainbow in London and the Pavilion in Paris in the 1970s. It was just chance, and a painstaking restoration process, that saved them from being lost forever. Two years ago, Joe Gatt, who has lived in the UK since 1971, received a call from a friend who worked for a clearing company, informing him he had found some discarded and severely-damaged Bob Marley tapes sitting in cardboard boxes in a waterlogged basement. Mr Gatt, already a great Marley fan who had been in the audience for the storied 1975 Lyceum performance, immediately knew he was onto a potential treasure but the extent of the damage the tapes had endured made it seem unlikely they could ever be heard in their full glory. “There were fragments falling off the reel and white gunge on them,” he told the Times of Malta. “I spoke to a... Read more
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