The Natty Dread Tour was a concert tour organised to support the album Natty Dread by Bob Marley & The Wailers.
The tour began in Miami, Florida, on June 5, 1975, and ended in Manchester, England, on July 20, 1975. In late June Marley did 14 shows in seven days at Paul's Mall in Boston. During the second tour leg in England the first live album Live! was recorded at the Lyceum Ballroom in London. Before the tour started Marley performed a concert along with Jackson Five in March in Kingston. After the tour Marley performed the Wonder Dream Concert, featuring Stevie Wonder and his old bandmates Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer.
While on the Natty Dread Tour Marley did his first performance outside Jamaica, England and the United States when playing the Massey Hall in Toronto, Canada.
Read more about Natty Dread Tour: Setlist, Tour Dates
Famous quotes containing the words dread and/or tour:
“Backward and forward, eternity is the same; already we have been the nothing we dread to be.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Left Washington, September 6, on a tour through Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and Virginia.... Absent nineteen days. Received every where heartily. The country is again one and united! I am very happy to be able to feel that the course taken has turned out so well.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)