bodyType

customContents

entityId

printArticlePageQuery

filter

article

body

urlAlias

articleSectionsContent

articleSeoArticle

articleSourceHeaderArticle

contentSchemaRenderContent

contentSubHeadlineContent

contentHeadlineContent

mainImagePrintArticleArticle

authorBlockPrintArticleArticle

contentSponsorTagContent

articlePianoPaywallContent

scmpYoutubeContent

hooksTrackPageViewArticle

query printArticlePageQuery(
  $entityId: String!
  $customContents: [CustomContentInput]
  $bodyType: BodyFormatTypeEnum
) {
  article(filter: {entityId: $entityId}) {
    entityId
    body(customContents: $customContents, type: $bodyType) {
      json
    }
    urlAlias
    ...articleSectionsContent
    ...articleSeoArticle_3o8td4
    ...articleSourceHeaderArticle
    ...contentSchemaRenderContent
    ...contentSubHeadlineContent
    ...contentHeadlineContent
    ...mainImagePrintArticleArticle
    ...authorBlockPrintArticleArticle
    ...contentSponsorTagContent
    ...articlePianoPaywallContent
    ...scmpYoutubeContent
    ...hooksTrackPageViewArticle
    id
  }
}

fragment articlePianoPaywallContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...hooksPaywallPromiseContent
}

fragment articleSectionsContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  sectionsV2 {
    value {
      __typename
      ... on Section {
        name
        published
      }
      ... on VideoSection {
        name
        published
      }
      ...helpersCheckIfNewsSectionInFirstIndexSection
      ...entityLink
      ... on Node {
        __isNode: __typename
        id
      }
    }
  }
}

fragment articleSeoArticle_3o8td4 on Article {
  ...hooksArticleSeoArticle
  ...helpersGetArticleTypeArticle
  entityId
  publishedDate
  updatedDate
  summary {
    text
  }
  subHeadline {
    text
  }
  body(customContents: $customContents, type: $bodyType) {
    text
  }
  keywords
  sectionsV2 {
    value {
      __typename
      ... on Section {
        name
      }
      ... on Node {
        __isNode: __typename
        id
      }
    }
  }
  topics {
    name
    entityId
    id
  }
  urlAlias
  authors {
    name
    id
  }
  images {
    style(filter: {style: "768x768"}) {
      url
    }
  }
  readingTime
}

fragment articleSourceHeaderArticle on Article {
  urlAlias
  ...entityLink
}

fragment authorBlockPrintArticleArticle on Article {
  ...defaultArticleDateContent
  ...authorNamesArticle
}

fragment authorNameAuthor on Author {
  ...entityLink
  name
  entityUuid
}

fragment authorNamesArticle on Article {
  authorLocations
  authors {
    entityId
    location
    ...authorNameAuthor
    id
  }
}

fragment blockquoteQuoteContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...contentShareWidgetContent
}

fragment checkersCheckContentContainsStarlingImageContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  topics {
    entityId
    id
  }
}

fragment contentHeadlineContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  headline
  socialHeadline
  ...contentHeadlineTagContent
  ...helpersUseContentSponsorContent
}

fragment contentHeadlineTagContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...hooksContentHeadlineTagContent
}

fragment contentNewsletterWidgetContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  topics {
    relatedNewsletters {
      ...helpersMassageToNewsletterItemNewsletter
      id
    }
    id
  }
  sectionsV2 {
    value {
      __typename
      ... on Section {
        relatedNewsletters {
          ...helpersMassageToNewsletterItemNewsletter
          id
        }
      }
      ... on Node {
        __isNode: __typename
        id
      }
    }
  }
  ... on Article {
    relatedNewsletters {
      ...helpersMassageToNewsletterItemNewsletter
      id
    }
  }
}

fragment contentSchemaRenderContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...blockquoteQuoteContent
  ...hooksInlinePlusWidgetContent
  ...imageContent
  ...inlineWidgetContent
  ...photoGalleryWidgetContent
  ...scmpYoutubeContent
}

fragment contentShareWidgetContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  __typename
  entityId
  urlAlias
  shortUrl
  socialHeadline
  headline
  ... on Video {
    youtubeId
  }
}

fragment contentSponsorTagContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...helpersUseContentSponsorContent
}

fragment contentSubHeadlineContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  subHeadline {
    json
  }
  summary {
    json
  }
  ...contentSchemaRenderContent
}

fragment defaultArticleDateContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...hooksArticleDateUtilsContent
}

fragment entityLink on BaseWithApplicationAndUrlAlias {
  __isBaseWithApplicationAndUrlAlias: __typename
  __typename
  entityId
  entityUuid
  urlAlias
  urlRedirect {
    toUrl
    id
  }
  application {
    entityId
    id
  }
  ... on Section {
    fullSectionPath {
      entityId
      id
    }
    parentSection
  }
  ...helpersAppBarVariantBase
  ...helpersApplicationBase
  ...helpersCheckIsPlusArticle
  ...helpersStyleSectionContent
}

fragment helpersAppBarVariantBase on BaseWithApplicationAndUrlAlias {
  __isBaseWithApplicationAndUrlAlias: __typename
  ...helpersCheckIsLiveArticle
  ...helpersCheckIsPlusPage
  ...helpersCheckIsPostMagazineArticle
  ...helpersCheckIsStyleArticle
  ...helpersSectionContent
  ...helpersStyleSectionContent
}

fragment helpersApplicationBase on BaseWithApplicationAndUrlAlias {
  __isBaseWithApplicationAndUrlAlias: __typename
  ...helpersCheckIsPlusPage
}

fragment helpersCheckIfNewsSectionInFirstIndexSection on SectionUnion {
  __isSectionUnion: __typename
  ... on Section {
    name
  }
  ... on VideoSection {
    name
  }
}

fragment helpersCheckIsAmpEnabledArticle on Article {
  entityId
  types {
    value {
      entityId
      id
    }
  }
  sectionsV2 {
    value {
      __typename
      ... on Section {
        entityId
      }
      ... on Node {
        __isNode: __typename
        id
      }
    }
  }
  disableOffPlatformContent
  sponsorType
  published
  ...helpersCheckIsPlusArticle
}

fragment helpersCheckIsLiveArticle on Article {
  flattenTypeIds
  liveArticle {
    status
    id
  }
}

fragment helpersCheckIsMainTopicContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  topics {
    entityId
    id
  }
}

fragment helpersCheckIsPlusArticle on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ... on Article {
    paywallTypes {
      entityUuid
      id
    }
  }
}

fragment helpersCheckIsPlusPage on Page {
  urlAlias
}

fragment helpersCheckIsPostMagazineArticle on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  sectionsV2 {
    value {
      __typename
      ... on Section {
        entityId
      }
      ... on Node {
        __isNode: __typename
        id
      }
    }
  }
}

fragment helpersCheckIsStyleArticle on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  sectionsV2 {
    value {
      __typename
      ... on Section {
        entityId
      }
      ... on VideoSection {
        entityId
      }
      ... on Node {
        __isNode: __typename
        id
      }
    }
  }
}

fragment helpersGetArticleTypeArticle on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ... on Article {
    types {
      value {
        entityId
        id
      }
    }
  }
}

fragment helpersMassageToNewsletterItemNewsletter on Newsletter {
  entityId
  name
  alternativeName
  description {
    text
  }
  summary {
    text
  }
  homepageDescription {
    text
  }
}

fragment helpersSanitizeArticleTypeEntityIdsArticle on Article {
  types {
    value {
      entityId
      id
    }
  }
}

fragment helpersSanitizeAuthorTypesArticle on Article {
  authors {
    types
    id
  }
}

fragment helpersSanitizedAuthorEntityIdsArticle on Article {
  authors {
    entityId
    id
  }
}

fragment helpersSectionContent on Section {
  fullSectionPath {
    entityId
    id
  }
}

fragment helpersStyleSectionContent on Section {
  fullSectionPath {
    entityId
    id
  }
}

fragment helpersUseContentSponsorContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  topics {
    entityId
    sponsor {
      ...sponsorTagSponsor
      name
      type
      id
    }
    id
  }
  ... on Article {
    sponsorType
  }
  ...helpersCheckIsMainTopicContent
}

fragment hooksArticleDateUtilsContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  createdDate
  publishedDate
  updatedDate
}

fragment hooksArticleSeoArticle on Article {
  ...helpersCheckIsPostMagazineArticle
  ...helpersCheckIsStyleArticle
  ...hooksContentHeadlineTagContent
  ...helpersCheckIsAmpEnabledArticle
  entityId
  headline
  socialHeadline
  types {
    value {
      entityId
      id
    }
  }
  authors {
    entityId
    id
  }
  images {
    generic_og: style(filter: {style: "og_image_scmp_generic"}) {
      url
    }
    styles(filter: {styles: ["og_postmag", "og_image_style", "og_image_scmp_analysis", "og_image_scmp_explainer", "og_image_scmp_editorial", "og_image_scmp_fact_check", "og_image_scmp_debate", "og_image_scmp_live", "og_image_scmp_obituary", "og_image_scmp_opinion", "og_image_scmp_review", "og_image_scmp_series", "og_image_scmp_generic"]}) {
      url
      style
    }
    type
  }
  urlAlias
}

fragment hooksContentHeadlineTagContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  __typename
  ... on Article {
    types {
      value {
        name
        entityId
        description {
          text
        }
        id
      }
    }
    ...helpersCheckIsStyleArticle
  }
  flag
  sectionsV2 {
    value {
      __typename
      ... on Section {
        name
      }
      ... on VideoSection {
        name
      }
      ... on Node {
        __isNode: __typename
        id
      }
    }
  }
  ...hooksContentHelperContent
}

fragment hooksContentHelperContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...helpersSanitizeArticleTypeEntityIdsArticle
  ...helpersSanitizeAuthorTypesArticle
  ...helpersSanitizedAuthorEntityIdsArticle
  flag
}

fragment hooksInlinePlusWidgetContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  topics {
    entityId
    id
  }
}

fragment hooksPaywallPromiseContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  entityId
}

fragment hooksTrackPageViewArticle on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  entityId
  publishedDate
  headline
  sectionsV2 {
    value {
      __typename
      ... on Section {
        name
      }
      ... on Node {
        __isNode: __typename
        id
      }
    }
  }
  urlAlias
  authors {
    name
    id
  }
  entityUuid
}

fragment imageContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  headline
  ...checkersCheckContentContainsStarlingImageContent
}

fragment inlineWidgetContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...contentNewsletterWidgetContent
}

fragment mainImagePrintArticleArticle on Article {
  images {
    title
    url
    isSlideshow
    size_652x446: style(filter: {style: "652x446"}) {
      url
    }
  }
}

fragment photoGalleryDialogContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  __typename
  ...contentShareWidgetContent
}

fragment photoGalleryWidgetContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  ...photoGalleryDialogContent
}

fragment scmpYoutubeContent on Content {
  __isContent: __typename
  entityId
  urlAlias
  publishedDate
}

fragment sponsorTagSponsor on Sponsor {
  name
  type
  images {
    url
  }
}


types

sectionsV2

disableOffPlatformContent

sponsorType

published

headline

socialHeadline

authors

images

publishedDate

updatedDate

summary

subHeadline

keywords

topics

readingTime

authorLocations

Kylie Knott

Hong Kong is having a reggae moment, fuelled by the release this month of the much-hyped biopic Bob Marley: One Love.
Starring British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir as Marley, it explores the reggae legend’s 1977 album Exodus, which he made with his band The Wailers, and the lead-up to the 1978 One Love Peace Concert in the singer’s native Jamaica.
Known for hits such as “I Shot the Sheriff”, “Get Up”, “Stand Up”, “Jamming”, “No Woman, No Cry” and “Is This Love”, Bob Marley and the Wailers created culture-defining music that embodied the spirit of the ’70s reggae movement and left a deep groove in the industry, their beats reaching bars, beaches and backyards around the globe.
Marley died from a rare form of skin cancer in 1981, aged just 36. But The Wailers played on. And next month they will hold their first gig in Hong Kong, at Central’s Hong Kong Observation Wheel and AIA Vitality Park, on April 5.


The band will play the full Legend album, a compilation of Bob Marley and the Wailers’ hits released in 1984 that is the bestselling reggae album of all time. It has topped the US Billboard 200’s year-end reggae chart for the last four years.
“If people have just one reggae album in their collection, it’s usually Legend,” says Paul Thompson, co-founder of the Hong Kong International Reggae Ska Festival, which is organising the event.
“[The Observation Wheel] is an iconic venue and with the Rugby Sevens happening in the city [at the same time], the vibe will be amazing.”


The Hong Kong show will see Aston Barrett Jr, The Wailers’ drummer since 2016, perform for one of the first times since portraying his father, Aston Barrett, in Bob Marley: One Love. Barrett Snr was the Wailers’ bass player and musical director, who played with Marley as well as for decades with the band after the singer’s death. Known by the nickname “Family Man” because of his close relationship with the band, he died in February aged 77.
While The Wailers’ performance is no doubt the highlight for Marley fans in Hong Kong, they can also celebrate his life at the Dead& bar in Central’s Lan Kwai Fong area on March 23 when it hosts the Hong Kong launch of the single “Missing Mr Marley”.
Originally written and sung by the late British singer-songwriter Colin Scot as a tribute to Marley in the year he died, “Missing Mr Marley” was recorded in 1982 at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen. The song was co-produced by Danish entrepreneur Jens Peter Jensen, who later relocated to Hong Kong, but it was never publicly released.

Fast-forward and Jensen’s daughter Christina Brandt Jensen, a familiar face on Hong Kong’s arts scene – she is a founder of the Cheung Chau Wave and After Sunset festivals – was determined to make sure the track saw the light of day.
She approached Filipino musician Budoy Marabiles to work on the song with his reggae band Junior Kilat, who then teamed up with another reggae band, Selah Dub Warriors, also from the Philippines. The track they created uses Scot’s original lyrics with entirely new music.
The event at Dead& will bring together a unique line-up of reggae artists from Hong Kong, the Philippines and Shanghai.

Filipino musicians performing a song in Hong Kong that was written by a Briton, originally recorded by a Dane and honouring a Jamaican is the sort of coming together of nationalities in the name of peace, love and music that flows heavily through Marley’s music.
His lyrics resonate with musician Christy Chow. Born in Singapore, Chow has called Hong Kong home for 15 years, where she has been busy building cultural bridges between Jamaica, Hong Kong and the rest of China.
“With his messages for humanity, Bob Marley crosses generations,” Chow says.

In 2019, Chow joined MouseFX, dubbed the father of Cantonese reggae in Hong Kong, on a trip to Jamaica to shoot a documentary and record the musician’s album MouseFX In Jamaica. His “See Jah Light” music video was also shot on the Caribbean island.
In the studio with them was Skunga Kong, the grandnephew of the late Chinese-Jamaican reggae producer Leslie Kong, who founded the Jamaican record label Beverley’s and who, in 1962, recorded Marley’s first singles, “Judge Not” and “One Cup of Coffee”.


MouseFX, real name Mathias Tong, was introduced to reggae in the 1990s while working at his uncle’s fashion boutique in Tsim Sha Tsui.
“The shop only played reggae as background music, including Bob Marley and The Wailers,” he says. “I remember one album, Talkin’ Blues, that had interviews between songs. I tried playing some of Marley’s songs after that.”
He started out singing in reggae bands Crazy Lion and Sensi Lion before going solo in 2015.

Now a songwriter and producer, who also conducts workshops in Hong Kong that focus on reggae culture, he says the reggae scene has slowly gathered pace in the city over the years.
“Looking back more than 20 years ago, many people didn’t even know who Bob Marley was. And it was not common to meet someone with dreadlocks,” he says, his hair a nod to Marley’s long locks that grew from his belief in the Rastafarian spiritual movement that was rooted in 1930s Jamaica.
“The scene in Hong Kong is still growing … hopefully more people will love reggae music.”
The Wailers Live in Hong Kong, April 5, Hong Kong Observation Wheel and AIA Vitality Park, 33 Man Kwong St, Central. Tickets (HK$560) available from Ticketflap.
“Missing Mr Marley” Hong Kong launch, March 23, 9pm-2am, Dead&, 18 Wo On Ln, Central. HK$350 including free-flow drinks.


Bob Marley’s band The Wailers to play in Hong Kong for the first time, while new tribute single Missing Mr Marley to launch in the city this month

FILE - In this July 4, 1980 file photo, Jamaican reggae singer Bob Marley performs at a reggae festival concert in Paris. The family of Bob Marley are covering his song “One Love” to raise money for coronavirus relief efforts. (AP Photo/File)

Bob Marley (second left) with his band The Wailers (from left) Earl Lindo, Carlton Barrett, Peter Tosh and Aston Barrett in Jamaica circa 1972. The Wailers will play in Hong Kong for the first time on April 5. Photo: Getty Images

A still from Bob Marley: One Love. Photo: Chiabella James

Filipino reggae band Junior Kilat (pictured) teamed up with Selah Dub Warriors to create the new version of “Missing Mr Marley”. Photo: Courtesy of Christina Brandt Jensen

Hong Kong-based musician Christy Chow on the decks. Photo: Courtesy of Christy Chow

MouseFX performs in Hong Kong in 2021. Photo: Courtesy of MouseFX

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The Wailers will perform at Central’s Hong Kong Observation Wheel and AIA Vitality Park on April 5, where they will play the full 1984 album Legend
New tribute single will see its Hong Kong launch at the Dead& bar on March 23, bringing together reggae artists from Hong Kong, the Philippines and Shanghai


The Wailers will perform in Hong Kong in April hot on the heels of Bob Marley: One Love opening in the city, while a new tribute single to the reggae legend will have its Hong Kong launch this month.


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