Hey World!

{{distinguish|Hey, World!}} {{Infobox album | name = Hey World! | type = studio | artist = Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers | cover = ZMMM_HeyWorld.jpg | alt = | released = 1986 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Reggae | length = | label = EMI Records (UK)<br />EMI America Records (US)<ref name=MH/><br />Rita Marley Music/Tuff Gong (Jamaica) | producer = Ashley "Grub" Cooper, Ricky Walters, Tyrone Downie, David Marley | prev_title = Play the Game Right | prev_year = 1985 | next_title = The Time Has Come: The Best of Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers | next_year = 1988 }} {{album ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/hey-world!-mw0000205828|title=Hey World! - Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers, Ziggy Marley | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}</ref> |rev2 = ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' |rev2score = {{rating|2|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=5 |page=512}}</ref> }} '''''Hey World!''''' is the second album by Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, released in 1986.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ziggy-marley-the-melody-makers-mn0000600720/biography|title=Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OjsKOgefEAMC&pg=PA353|title=Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley|first=Timothy|last=White|date=September 15, 1998|publisher=Macmillan|via=Google Books}}</ref>

==Production== Although now credited to Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, Ziggy and Stephen Marley shared the songwriting and singing.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ARrDQKqFo7AC&pg=PA176|title=Reggae & Caribbean Music|first=Dave|last=Thompson|date=June 1, 2002|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|via=Google Books}}</ref> The album was produced by David Marley, Tyrone Downie, Ricky Walters, and Grub Cooper.<ref name="MH">{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=717}}</ref>

==Critical reception== AllMusic wrote that "the song arrangements and production may sound terribly dated today, but the strength of the songwriting, by both Ziggy and the fast maturing Stephen, and the pair's emotive vocal deliveries still pack a powerful punch and a keen vision."<ref name="auto"/> ''Trouser Press'' called the album "wonderful," writing that "the Melody Makers bend delightfully light reggae grooves to new stylistic ends."<ref name="TP">{{cite web |title=Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/ziggy-marley-and-the-melody-makers/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=1 June 2021}}</ref> The ''Los Angeles Times'' wrote that Ziggy's "social and political commentaries bristle with informed insights, pointed observations and pithy pleas—all rather amazing from someone still in his teens."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Strauss |first1=Duncan |title=MARLEY'S GHOST |work=Los Angeles Times |date=21 Dec 1986 |location=Calendar |page=88}}</ref>

==Track listing== #"Give a Little Love" (Albert Hammond, Diane Warren) #"Get Up Jah Jah Children" #"Hey World!" #"Fight to Survive" #"Freedom Road" #"Say People" #"666" #"Police Brutality" #"Lord We a Come" #"Reggae Revolution"

==Personnel== *Ziggy Marley - vocals, guitar, percussion, synthesizer, backing vocals *Stephen Marley - vocals, backing vocals *Chinna Smith, Jimmy Haynes, Ricky Walters, Steve Golding - guitar *Alvin Ewen, Robbie Shakespeare - bass *Sly Dunbar - drums *Ashley "Grub" Cooper - drums, piano *Robbie Lyn, Tyrone Downie - piano *Andrew P. Richardson - saxophone *Charles E. Beasley - trumpet *Cedella Marley, Sharon Marley - backing vocals *Rita Marley - executive producer

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Category:Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers albums Category:1986 albums Category:EMI Records albums