Peter Tosh met Bob Marley in Trenchtown, and became one of 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 "shit-stem."
Tosh was no stranger to tragedy. His legendary prickliness intensified after he wrote off his car on the new bridge being built on the Spanish Town Road in 1973: his then girlfriend was killed and Tosh suffered severe fractures of the skull. Although there were those who would always be suspicious of Marlene Brown, his later common-law wife, many understood her as being a tower of strength to this erratic, enormously talented man, whose pain could match Marley's.
Yet his accusation that Bob's success was only because he had white blood was inexcusable. Rita Marley: "That's the opposite of what it took him to get there. And if so be the case, there really had to be something at the end to pay off the sacrifice during the early years of coming up.
Because there is still a God. And he looks out for all of us. Like the song says, 'When the rain falls, it don't fall on one man's house.' So the sacrifices Bob had to make in his teenage years for being half-white allowed him to become famous or successful. And he deserves it, because he bore a sacrifice."
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