The last surviving original member of The Wailers, Bunny Wailer, has died, aged 73. He had been in poor health since having a stroke in July last year.
Wailer’s manager Maxine Stowe confirmed the news of his death to the Jamaica Observer yesterday.Born Neville Livingston in 1947 in Kingston, Jamaica, Bunny Wailer co-founded The Wailers with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh in 1963.
They had their first hit with ‘Simmer Down’ the following year, and released their debut album, ‘The Wailing Wailers’, in 1965.The band went on hiatus after Marley moved to the US and Wailer received a prison sentence for marijuana possession.
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