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Peter Tosh
Equal Rights
Music On Vinyl (MOVLP341)
Columbia (MOVLP341)
Legacy (MOVLP341)
Release date: Feb 20, 2026, Europe
Equal Rights is a remastered double 180 gram vinyl edition on Music on Vinyl with rare and unreleased dub mixes. Peter Tosh served as a counterpoint to the worldwide success of his former partner Bob Marley. Their relationship is often compared to that of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, with Tosh playing the role of the cynical Lennon to Marley's love-song-oriented McCartney.
The analogy worked loosely at best, as both musicians simply followed different muses after the 1974 break-up of the original Wailers. Tosh's recorded output had as much cross-over appeal as Marley's more commercial work, culminating in a duet with Mick Jagger on the song "Walk and Don't Look Back." But Tosh always had the more militant stance which resulted in many beatings and arrests leading up to his murder in 1987.
Tosh's 1977 album, 'Equal Rights', is a peak in his career. It begins with a new version of "Get Up, Stand Up," one of Marley's signature songs (co-written by Tosh). Tosh's version is more sinewy than Marley's, with biting guitar lines snaking throughout. Likewise, "Stepping Razor" struts with a dangerous swagger, "African" plays like a mirror to Marley's pan-Africanism, and "Apartheid" shows that Tosh is not afraid to indict any enemy, no matter how large.
A1
Get Up, Stand Up
A2
Downpressor Man
A3
I Am That I Am
A4
Stepping Razor
B1
Equal Rights
B2
African
B3
Jah Guide
B4
Apartheid
C1
Dub-Presser Man (Dub Version)
C2
I Am That I Am (ShaJahShoka Dub Plate)
C3
Heavy Razor (ShaJahShoka Dub Plate)
C4
African (London Sound System Dub Plate)
D1
Jah Guide (Dub Plate)
D2
Hammer (ShaJahShoka Dub Plate)
D3
Blame The Youth (Dub Version)
D4
Babylon Queendom (Dub Version)
D5
Vampires (Dub Version)





