

If Bob Marley was the visionary of The Wailers, Peter Tosh was the tough one. He wrote unflinchingly about the need for equal rights, and what he might do if he doesn't get them. No wonder The Rolling Stones were fans. They signed him to their own label, and Mick Jagger joined him on the hit 1978 duet “(You Gotta Walk And) Don't Look Back”. Tosh was arguably the Wailer who did the most to bring the righteousness of reggae and Rastafarianism to the mainstream without compromising his sound or his beliefs.