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Bob Marley and the Wailers is the band which succeeded The Wailers. This article gives a muddled and unclear picture. It misleads. Bob Marley was a member of The Wailers, a band he created with his childhood friends McIntosh (Tosh), Braithwaite, Livingston (Bunny Wailer), and others. When they split, Marley proceeded with the band Bob Marley and the Wailers, a group with Marley as the leader, but which also included musicians from the precursor bands The Wailers, and the Upsetters. Go to your local library and you will find at least one book which will educate you on this. Even the well-written Wikipedia article on Bob Marley repudiates what this article and The Wailers (disambiguation) claims. We should make it clear that The Wailers was from 1963(ish) to 1973 and Bob Marley and the Wailers was from 1973 to Marleys death in 1981. Yes, Bob Marley has always been the lede singer/songwriter of these bands, but it is an after contract to assume he was always a solo act. Buy claiming that Bob Marley and the Wailers is the same entity as The Wailers, one denigrates the contributions of Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, The Upsetters and the I Threes to the genre of Reggae, and what they meant for the music of Reggae's main figure, Bob Marley. Ezeu ( talk) 13:56, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
The article is confusing because it switches back and forth. I'm reading along, about how the band is made up of Marley, Wailer, and Tosh, and then I read that Tosh and Livingston leave the band. Huh? Who's Livingston? I thought it was Bunny Wailer? Oh, yeah, it is. Wailer is Livingston's stage name, and that's noted early in the article, but then the article mostly talks about Wailer before abruptly switching back to Livingston.
The article should be more consistent, but I'm too lazy to edit it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JGWatts ( talk • contribs) 18:52, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
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I thought I heard on the BBC Radio 4 programme Last Word that the band were originally called "The Wailing Wailers". This names does not appear to be used in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rollo August ( talk • contribs) 21:52, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
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