TOOTS & THE MAYTALS, LINTON KWESI JOHNSON: FULL CAMPAIGN DETAILS SEE PAGE IV 1 i ISUVHI If t Tr®(o®gs LKJ: biffs1 ^BOB MARLEY & THE WAITERS start their world tour with their first- A POET mmum 111111© ever Japanese concerts this month. The band also play in Australia - again a first - before hitting Hawaii in May. The Wailers' new album will be avail- &HIS able in June ... m ; -'.ii ^ A-.--: BIFFS THIRD WORLD are working on a new album, the follow-up to the brilliant JOURNEY TO ADDIS. The fm new elpee is being recorded in Los Angeles with Ibo, the band's key- boards player, as producer. Again, we're aiming for a summer release ... Tfi RIFFS O Toots Hibbert is a genuine reggae 1LPS 9534), which has been available t legend. Few artists can boast the kind since April 6. This is a stunning album, HI-TENSION'S new single will of revered status Toots has won for fully the equal of Toots' past achieve- be released in mid-May, just before himself over the past decade or so. ments, But, of course, you've already the band embark on a headlining Toots & The Maytals have been re- heard one of the tracks, FAMINE, British tour. Dates have yet to be sponsible for countless classics of which came out as a single back in finalised, but they will include at least Jamaican music during that period, January. FAMINE hit Radio One's one major London show^ from the compulsive DO THE REG- playlist and even figured in the BMRB/ GAY (the first time the word 'reggae', Music Week chart. albeit with a different spelling, had Full track listing is, side one. Famine, been used in a song title), to PRES- Inside Outside, Feel Free, Get Up t SURE DROP the brilliant FUNKY Stand Up. Side two: No Difference KINGSTON album and REGGAE Here, Rhythm Down Low, My Love Is , , Expect a real bonanza this sum- GOT SOUL. So Strong. Take It From Me (No mer with new platters by the SLITS, E And now comes Toots & The Maytals' Money No Love). MARIANNE FAITHFULL, CHARLIE new album, PASS THE PIPE (Island DORE and the JAGS. ★ Linton Kwesi Johnson has been recognised as one of Britain's most important black artists. The music critics have been unani- mous in their praise of FORCES OF VICTORY; the prelude to an exten- sive media campaign for the album. Island Records marketing campaign for the album features : ★ Strip advertisements in the New Musical Express, Melody Maker and Sounds for two weeks, starting on April 7 ; ★ Full page advertisements in the New Musical Express and Sounds on April 21 ; ★ Special Linton Kwesi Johnson shirts - featuring the microphone sleeve A design - for distribution to both record dealers and the media; • Nick Drake died on November 25, choly to the point of morbidity. Yet viously unreleased tracks, VOICE somehow he escaped self-indulgence FROM THE MOUNTAIN, RIDER ★ Thousands of LK] badges ; 1974. He was 26-years-o!d, His legacy ★ Posters, for use as in-store displays. was three albums, FIVE LEAVES . , listening to music so beautiful, you ON THE WHEEL, BLACK-EYED are shamed by the ugliness of the DOG and HANGING ON A STAR. They will be also flyposled in major LEFT, BRYTER LAYTER and PINK The album, which includes a booklet, cities. MOON, all of which must now be world," commented a recent issue of In addition, a 45 minute television regarded as classics of contemporary the American magazine, New Times. lyrics, photographs and illustrations, On April 20, Island Records release is a celebration of brilliance, -a com- documentary on Linton, called Dread music. memoration of Nick Drake's achieve- Beat And Blood, will be screened by "If he won any battles in his short life, FRUIT TREE: THE COMPLETE BBC-1 on June 7. This much-acclaimed Nick Drake mastered the challenge of RECORDED WORKS (NDSP 100), a ments. three-album box set featuring all the The album is released as a 10,000 film has already been on selected authenticity. He was of one piece. His limited edition. Retail price is £9.50. cinema release. songs, like his clothes, were melan- material from his LPs plus four pre- .