1977 · album
A Chelsea base and the Basing Street recording sessions locate Exodus in London, while the album’s later reinterpretation reveals the continuing life of its session tapes.
Exodus was made during Bob Marley and the Wailers’ London period and released on 3 June 1977. The location story has two practical anchors: Oakley Street as a temporary base and Basing Street as a recording workplace. Their roles are distinct. Later, the original sessions became material for Ziggy Marley’s Exodus 40 project, giving the record an afterlife beyond the rooms in which it was made.
Markers identify buildings or documented location references. They do not mark an exact recording room, stage position or camera angle.
1 place remains listed without a pin.
English Heritage identifies 42 Oakley Street as the base found for Marley and the Wailers in 1977, in a house then used as serviced apartments. It supplies the domestic side of the London story. A place to live during a recording period is a meaningful musical setting without needing to become a studio in the telling. No recording session at the house is asserted here. [2]
The same account places the recording sessions at Basing Street Studios in Ladbroke Grove. It connects the period with songs including Jamming, Three Little Birds and Waiting in Vain. The house and studio therefore describe two parts of the band’s working routine. The source does not establish an exact daily journey, recording-room number or microphone position. [2]
The official album record gives 3 June 1977 as the Island release date and identifies the music as recorded in London after Marley left Jamaica. Its track inventory brings the title song together with Natural Mystic, The Heathen, Jamming and other recordings. The album title should not collapse those individual songs into one session. The geographic claim is about a documented recording project, while the release date describes its arrival as a finished record. [1]
The official fortieth-anniversary description explains that Ziggy Marley returned to the original session recordings. Unused vocal material, phrasing and instrumentation became ingredients in Exodus 40 — The Movement Continues, presented alongside the original album. That later work is a reinterpretation of recorded material. The description supplies no exact new studio location, so it does not justify adding another pin to the 1977 map. [3]
The original album and the anniversary restatement offer different encounters with the same body of recording material. One preserves the released sequence associated with 1977; the other revisits the sessions from a later perspective. This World keeps both the date and the location roles legible. Basing Street belongs to making the record, Oakley Street to the temporary London base, and the anniversary edition to the continuing use of the tapes rather than a reconstructed itinerary. [1] [3] [2]
Chelsea, London SW3
1977 London period
English Heritage identifies 42 Oakley Street as Marley and the Wailers’ temporary London base during the period when they recorded songs for Exodus. It is residential context, not an asserted recording studio. [2]
A residential location: respect the occupants’ privacy.
8–10 Basing Street, Notting Hill, London W11
Oakley Street is residential: respect present occupants and do not seek interior access. Treat Basing Street as a historical studio reference and check present operators before planning any visit. No exact room or residential pin is supplied, and no new image rights are inferred from the album’s official website.
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