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Exodus Tour

1977 concert tour by Bob Marley & The Wailers

1977 concert tour by Bob Marley & The Wailers

FieldValue
concert_tour_nameExodus Tour
imageBob Marley-1977-Paris.png
album*Exodus*
artistBob Marley and the Wailers
start_date10 May 1977
end_date4 June 1977
number_of_legs1
number_of_shows15 in Europe
last_tourRastaman Vibration Tour
(1976)
this_tour**Exodus Tour**
(1977)
next_tourKaya Tour
(1978)
captionPoster to the concert in Paris, France

(1976) (1977) (1978)

The Exodus Tour was a concert tour organised to support the album Exodus by Bob Marley and the Wailers.

The tour began at the Pavillon de Paris, Porte de Pantin in Paris, France, on 10 May 1977. During the tour, Marley performed for the first time in Belgium and Denmark. The tour ended in early June after four of the six shows planned at the Rainbow Theatre in London due to a serious toe injury Marley received in a football friendly game with French journalists just before the tour's start. The tour's second leg in the United States was first postponed and then cancelled.

The final show has been released on VHS and DVD, labeled Live! at the Rainbow. It is reported that all four London shows have been recorded. The cancellation of the U.S. leg has been suggested as the main reason for Marley's underrated reputation there, as the Exodus album was Marley's route to international superstardom; being honoured as the Greatest Album of the Century by Time in 2000.

On 12 June 2020 all four Rainbow concerts were officially released as a streaming/download only series of albums.

Setlist

The standard setlist of the tour was the following:

  • "Natural Mystic"
  • "So Much Things to Say"
  • "Guiltiness"
  • "Trenchtown Rock"
  • "Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)"
  • "Concrete Jungle"
  • "I Shot the Sheriff"
  • "Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Roadblock)"
  • "Lively Up Yourself"
  • "Crazy Baldhead" / "Running Away" (medley)
  • "War" / "No More Trouble" (medley)
  • "The Heathen"
  • "Burnin' & Lootin'"
  • "Positive Vibration"
  • "No Woman, No Cry"
  • "Jamming"
  • "Get Up, Stand Up"
  • "Exodus"

The militant songs from the first side of the Exodus album had all been performed at least once before the tour, whilst performances of the soft love songs from the second side remained widely rare; only "Jammin'" had been performed a few times and later became a classic Marley tune and a standard of later tours. "Waiting in Vain" and "One Love / People Get Ready" had been performed at least once during the Kaya Tour in 1978, as had "Three Little Birds" at least once during the Uprising Tour in 1980). The tour featured performances of two songs which are not featured on any of previous Island albums: "Trenchtown Rock" (an early pre-Island song) and "Running Away" (a song released on the 1978 album Kaya).

During some shows, an additional song was added to the middle of the setlist (especially during the Rainbow Theatre shows when Marley widely varied the setlists), like "Stir It Up" "Jammin'", "Positive Vibration", "Concrete Jungle", "Crazy Baldhead", "Running Away", "Trenchtown Rock", "Natural Mystic", "So Much Things To Say" and "Guiltiness". Live performances of each of these songs happened very rarely during the tour. In 2020, the final concert was released on Marley's official YouTube channel.

Tour dates

DateCityCountryVenueNotes
10 May 1977ParisFrancePavillon de Paris
11 May 1977BrusselsBelgiumForest National
13 May 1977The HagueNetherlandsHoutrust Hallen
15 May 1977MunichWest GermanyCircus Krone
16 May 1977HeidelbergRhein-Neckar-Halle
17 May 1977HamburgCongress Centrum Hamburg
18 May 1977West BerlinEissporthalle an der Jafféstraße
20 May 1977StockholmSwedenGröna Lund
22 May 1977CopenhagenDenmarkFolketeatret
23 May 1977GothenburgSwedenScandinavium
May 1977LondonEnglandTop of the PopsBBC TV program
1 June 1977Rainbow Theatre
2 June 1977
3 June 1977
4 June 1977

Cancellations

  • 5 June 1977: London, United Kingdom
  • 6 June 1977: London, United Kingdom

References

References

  1. (12 June 2020). "Watch Bob Marley's 1977 'Live at the Rainbow' Concert in Full".
  2. (17 April 2017). "Bob Marley had a competitive side – and 'the beautiful game' helped fuel it".
  3. "Qobuz".
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  7. (15 June 2020). "Watch A Previously-Unreleased Live Bob Marley Concert From 1977 [Full Pro-Shot Video]".
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