Bob Marley at Peckham Manor School

[Parkdrive]

I was present at this event, and Keith Baugh was my Art teacher at the time. I've still got a promotional black and white postcard of Johnny Nash signed by both him and Bob. A real treasure

Peckham Manor School, Cator Street SE15

This was one such venue, and photographs have recently come to light in a south London blog showing Marley - with short Afro hair topped off with a striped beanie - and Nash in situ here in 1972.

Former art teacher Keith Baugh had met the pair in a Soho club. "They were bemoaning the fact they couldn't get their single in the top 40," he recalls.

"I suggested as a bit of a promotion they should come down and play to the kids at our school, and a few days later they came down and played two 45-minute sets."

The show took place in the school's gym in Cator Street - now part of the Damilola Taylor Youth Centre in Peckham, the school having long closed down.

The set-list included Reggae on Broadway and Nash's hit single I Can See Clearly Now.

There was also a Marley song, Stir it Up, which would soon come to the attention of Island Records boss Chris Blackwell, usher in the Ridgmount Gardens period and change the fortunes of the Wailers for good.

[Jah Lush]

Great story. We had Muhammed Ali at mine. Unfortunately, I missed it as I'd bunked off not knowing he was coming. But that's my old school friend Tony Sibleys sparring with the great man himself.

http://greatwen.com/2012/01/17/muhammed-ali-in-tulse-hill-1974/

[PeckhamRose]

Do write to the Peckham Society about this. They like publishing this sort of thing x

[Parkdrive]

PeckhamRose Wrote:

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> Do write to the Peckham Society about this. They

> like publishing this sort of thing x

To be honest this was reported in the South London Press and a local paper called Southwark News, at least I think that's what it was called.