Bob Marley: The Untold Story. Chris Salewicz

Road, all three of the main Wailers were there. But they adopted a distinctly distant air until Rita reminded Peter that she was the girl who they would see standing on Greenwich Park Road. The Soulettes’ audition impressed Coxsone; moreover, the mixed-sex group was passed on to Bob for management and to find material for them.

      If anything, Rita now realised, it was shyness that had been behind the offhand manner exhibited by the Wailers, and especially by Bob, towards her: their hit records had not gone to their heads, as she had initially suspected. Now she saw that staying on top of current music and being consistent, with hits one after another, was not easy. Especially when she discovered that though the Wailers were immensely popular, they were making virtually no money.