Bob Marley’s Lost Seventies Live Recordings Rediscovered, Restored

A batch of Bob Marley live recordings, which lay dormant and damaged in a London hotel for nearly 40 years, have been rediscovered and restored.

A batch of Bob Marley live recordings that had laid dormant and damaged in a London hotel for nearly 40 years have been rediscovered and restored.

The 13 analog, reel-to-reel tapes – which documented four of the reggae legend’s London and Paris concerts from 1974 to 1978 – were recovered by Joe Gatt, who obtained the recordings after a friend found them in a cardboard box within London’s rundown Kensal Rise hotel where Marley stayed in the Seventies.

“He was doing a building refuse clearance that included some discarded two-inch tapes from the…