Bob Marley’s last concert was held in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1980; he died of cancer the following year at the age of 36. In February, Universal Music Enterprises/Tuff Gong International is releasing a 2-CD set of the performance titled ““Bob Marley & The Wailers—Live Forever: The Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA, September 23, 1980.”
Marley historian Roger Steffens, author of “The Reggae Scrapbook,” says the Pittsburgh concert had an emotional ending. At the close of the second set of encores, Marley went to the edge of the stage and, in an unusual move for him, shook hands with people in the crowd. After the end of the performance, the reggae great called the band to his room and informed them that he could not continue with the tour.
“Thankfully, the power of the moment is captured fully in this historic recording, and it is only the third official live recording of Bob’s to be offered to the public, a summation of a career that covered all the different elements of Jamaican popular music,” says Steffens
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