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Frogtoon Music Album Info: Catch A Fire
Published: 01 Jan 2010, 01:18
Catch A Fire Is The Major-Label-Debut Album For Jamaican Reggae Band The Wailers Released On Island Records In 1973. The Album Established The Band As International Superstars. Leader Bob Marley In Particular Became World-Famous. The Socially Aware Lyrics And Militant Tone Surprised Many Listeners But Others Were Attracted To Songwriters Marley And Peter Tosh's Confrontational Subjects And Optimistic View Of A Future Free From Oppression. Catch A Fire Peaked At #171 And #51 On Billboard's North America Pop Albums And Black Albums Charts Respectively. It Is Number 123 On Rolling Stone's List Of The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time The Second Highest Placement Of The Four Bob Marley Albums On The List. On Completion The Master Tapes Were Taken To The UK For Remixing And Chris Blackwell Enlisted The Help Of Two US Musicians - Making An "English" Version Of The Album. Wayne Perkins Re-Did Some Of The Rhythm/ Lead Guitar Whilst John "Rabbit" Bundrick Added Some Organ Electric Piano Clavinet And Synthesizer. The First 20 000 Copies Of The Original 1973 Vinyl Release Designed By Graphical Artists Rod Dyer And Bob Weiner Were Encased In A Sleeve Depicting A Zippo Lighter. The Sleeve Functioned As A Real Zippo Lighter Case Opening At A Side Hinge To Reveal The Record Within. As Machinery Available Was Not Sufficient To Rivet The Upper And Lower Halves Of The Sleeve Together The Assembly Operation Required Hand-Manufacture And Was Deemed Too Expensive To Mass-Produce. Hence Subsequent Pressings Are Recognizable By Their Alternate Cover Art Containing An Ester Anderson Portrait Of Marley Smoking A Joint. Copies Of The Record From These Original Pressings Have Since Become Collectors' Items. The Original Cover Art Was Used Again In 2001 For The Deluxe Compact Disc Edition.