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An unsung legend in rock circles, someone who has trod the boards with the best, and sustained a lengthy career from the 60's to the present day. Initially Donald Hanson Marvin Kerr Richards, Jr. , orginating from Kingston ,Jamaica first hit the stage in England with scensters Herbie Goins and The Nightimers, followed by a spell with Linda Lewis, from the mid to late 1960's. There followed two years playing blues rock guitar with Keef Hartley, live and on record billing himself as Junior Kerr. A name change to Junior Hanson and progression to playing somewhere between Hendrix and Santana, with his own band billed as HANSON,our hero scores a deal with ELP's record label Manticore (through Atlantic) in 1973 for the release of Now Hear This, recorded at Island Studios.(A thank you credit appears on the LP to Keith Emerson, for the loan of his Moog !). After a second album, touring, and then sessions (with the likes of Sandy Denny , Stevie Winwood, Toots & The Maytals) the newly renamed Junior Marvin joins Bob Marley as lead guitarist for the Wailers in 1977. He plays on all the subsequent albums (including Exodus) and post 1981 (when the world tragically loses Marley) Marvin stays on with the Wailers even adding lead vocals. This continues until 1997.