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The latest of several Bob Marley documentaries on the market contains little footage of the man himself. But Spiritual Journey makes up for it with revealing interviews from the likes of son Ziggy and former Jamaican premier Michael Manley, and such fascinating archive material as BBC2's Newsnight report on Marley's funeral in 1981. The result is a thoughtful film that intelligently explains just how and why he became the Third World's first genuine superstar.

Second likeable album by singer/guitarist once known as Spiral Stairs

Feisty, top-drawer compilation from Californian shit-stirrers

Limited edition third album, recorded live over seven days and out in double-quick time

Exhaustive trawl through Pierce's archives

Legendary '60s Bay Area quintet featuring the notoriously frazzled Skip Spence

Mountain-harmony brilliance revisited

The Damned were always a proficient and exciting live band, and they still are. However, their air of danger disappeared with Rat Scabies, and it's disturbing to find a keyboard-playing goon with a perm and a drummer in a gorilla costume compounding Sensible's permissible buffoonery.

Red House Painters mainman returns, a little better adjusted

Classy follow-up to multi-platinum Come Away With Me from new Bonnie Raitt