Musician claims he is owed €85m of Bob Marley’s estate
Barrett, one of Marley’s backing band The Wailers, sat at the back of the English High Court as his barrister told how he and his fellow musicians had been left “desperately short of money” since the singer died from cancer in 1981.
The colourful musician, soberly dressed in suit and tie and with his dreadlocks in a pony tail, is claiming he is owed royalties from a contract signed with Island Records in 1974, together with earnings from songs he had co-written with Marley.
