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His departure from this planet came at a point when █ his vision of One World, One Love - inspired by his belief █ in Rastafari - was beginning to be heard and felt. The last █ Bob Marley and the Wailers tour in 1980 attracted the largest █ audiences at that time for any musical act in Europe. █ █ Bob's story is that of an archetype, which is why it █ continues to have such a powerful and ever-growing resonance: █ it embodies political repression, metaphysical and artistic █ insights, gangland warfare and various periods of mystical █ wilderness. And his audience continues to widen: to westerners █ Bob's apocalyptic truths prove inspirational and life-changing; █ in the Third World his impact goes much further. Not just among █ Jamaicans, but also the Hopi Indians of New Mexico and the █ Maoris of New Zealand, in Indonesia and India, and especially █ in those parts of West Africa from wihch slaves were plucked █ and taken to the New World, Bob is seen as a redeemer figure █ returning to lead this planet out of confusion. █ █ In the clear Jamaican sunlight you can pick out the component █ parts of which the myth of Bob Marley is comprised: the sadness, █ the love, the understanding, the Godgiven talent. Those are █ facts. And although it is sometimes said that there are no facts █ in Jamaica, there is one more thing of which we can be certain: █ Bob Marley never wrote a bad song. He left behind the most █ remarkable body of recorded work. "The reservoir of music he █ has left behind is like an encyclopedia," says Judy Mowatt of █ the I-Threes. "When you need to refer to a certain situation █ or crisis, there will always be a Bob Marley song that will █ relate to it. Bob was a musical prophet." █ █ The tiny Third World country of Jamaica has produced an artist █ who has transcended all categories, classes, and creeds through █ a combination of innate modesty and profound wisdom. Bob Marley, █ the Natural Mystic, may yet prove to be the most significant █ musical artist of the twentieth century. █ █ Bob Marley gave the world brilliant and evocative music; his █ work stretched across nearly two decades and yet still remains █ timeless and universal. Bob Marley & the Wailers worked their █ way into the very fabric of our lives. "He's taken his place █ alongside James Brown and Sly Stone as a pervasive influence █ on r&b", says the American critic Timothy White, author of the █ acclaimed Bob Marley biography 'Catch A Fire'. "His music was █ pure rock, in the sense that it was a public expression of a █ private truth." It is important to consider the roots of this █ legend: the first superstar from the Third World, Bob Marley █ was one of the most charismatic and challenging performers of █ our time and his music could have been created from only one █ source: the street culture of Jamaica. █ █ The days of slavery are a recent folk memory on the island. █ They have permeated the very essence of Jamaica's culture, █ from the plantation of the mid-nineteenth century to the █ popular music of our own times. Although slavery was abolished █ in 1834, the Africans and their descendants developed their █ own culture with half-remembered African traditions mingled █ with the customs of the British. █ █ This hybrid culture, of course, had parallels with the emerging █ black society in America. Jamaica, however, remained a rural █ community which, without the industrialisation of its northern █ neighbour, was more closely rooted to its African legacy. By █ the start of the twentieth century that African heritage was █ given political expression by Marcus Garvey, a shrewd Jamaican █ preacher and entrepreneur who founded the Universal Negro █ Improvement Association (UNIA). The organisation advocated the █ creation of a new black state in Africa, free from white █ domination. As the first step in this dream, Marcus Garvey █ founded the Black Star Line, a steamship company which, in █ popular imagination at least, was to take the black population █ from America and the Caribbean back to their homeland of Africa. █ █ A few years later, in 1930, Ras Tafari Makonnen was crowned █ Emperor of Ethiopia and took a new name, Haile Selassie, The █ Emperor claimed to be the 225th ruler in a line that stretched █ back to Menelik, the son of Solomon and Sheba. The Marcus Garvey █ followers in Jamaica, consulting their New Testaments for a sign, █ believed Haile Selassie was the black king whom Garvey had █ prophesied would deliver the Negro race. It was the start of █ a new religion called Rastafari. █ █ Fifteen years later, in Rhoden Hall to the north of Jamaica, █ Bob Marley was born. His mother was an eighteen-year-old black █ girl called Cedella Booker while his father was Captain Norval █ Marley, a 50-year-old white quartermaster attached to the British █ West Indian Regiment. █ █ The couple married in 1944 and Robert Nesta Marley was born on █ February 6, 1945. Norval Marley's family, however, applied constant █ pressure and, although he provided financial support, the Captain █ seldom saw his son who grew up in the rural surroundings of █ St. Ann to the north of the island. █ █ For country people in Jamaica, the capital Kingston was the city █ of their dreams, the land of opportunity. The reality was that █ Kingston had little work to offer, yet through the Fifties and █ Sixties, people flooded to the city. The newcomers, despite their █ rapid disillusion with the capital, seldom returned to the rural █ parishes. Instead, they squatted in the shanty towns that grew up █ in western Kingston, the most notorious of which was Trenchtown █ (so named because it was built over a ditch that drained the sewage █ of old Kingston). █ █ Bob Marley, barely into his teens, moved to Kingston in the late █ Fifties. Like many before them, Marley and his mother eventually █ settled in Trenchtown. His friends were other street youths, also █ impatient with their place in Jamaican society. One friend in █ particular was Neville O'Riley Livingston, known as Bunny, with █ whom Bob took his first hesitant musical steps. █ █ The two youths were fascinated by the extraordinary music they █ could pick up from American radio stations. In particular there █ was one New Orleans station broadcasting the latest tunes by such █ artists as Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Curtis Mayfield and Brook █ Benton. Bob and Bunny also paid close attention to the black vocal █ groups, such as the Drifters, who were extremely popular in Jamaica. █ █ When Bob quit school he seemed to have but one ambition: music. █ Although he took a job in a welding shop, Bob spent all his free █ time with Bunny Wailer, perfecting their vocal abilities. They █ were helped by one of Trench Town's famous residents, the singer █ Joe Higgs who held informal lessons for aspiring vocalists in the █ tenement yards. It was at one of those sessions that Bob and Bunny █ met Peter Tosh, another youth with big musical ambitions. █ █ In 1962 Bob Marley auditioned for a local music entrepreneur called █ Leslie Kong. Impressed by the quality of Bob's vocals, Kong took █ the young singer into the studio to cut some tracks, the first █ of which, called "Judge Not", was released on Beverley's label. █ It was Marley's first record. The other tunes - including "Terror" █ and "One Cup of Coffee" - received no airplay and attracted little █ attention. At the very least, however, they confirmed Marley's █ ambition to be a singer. By the following year Bob had decided the █ way forward was with a group. He linked up with Bunny and Peter to █ form The Wailing Wailers. █ █ The new group had a mentor, a Rastafarian hand drummer called Alvin █ Patterson, who introduced the youths to Clement Dodd, a record █ producer in Kingston. In the summer of 1963 Dodd auditioned The █ Wailing Wailers and, pleased with the results, agreed to record █ the group. █ █ It was the time of ska music, the hot new dance floor music with █ a pronounced back-beat. Its origins incorporated influences from █ Jamaica's African traditions but, more immediately, from the heady █ beats of New Orleans' rhythm & blues disseminated from American radio █ stations and the burgeoning sound systems on the streets of Kingston. █ Clement - Sir Coxsone - Dodd was one of the city's finest sound █ system men. █ █ The Wailing Wailers released their first single, "Simmer Down", on █ the Coxsone label during the last weeks of 1963. By the following █ January it was number one in the Jamaican charts, a position it held █ for the next two months. The group - Bob, Bunny and Peter together █ with Junior Braithwaite and two back-up singers, Beverly Kelso and █ Cherry Smith - were big news. █ █ "Simmer Down" caused a sensation in Jamaica and The Wailing Wailers █ began recording regularly for Coxsone Dodd's Studio One Company. █ The groups' music also found new themes, identifying with the Rude Boy █ street rebels in the Kingston slums. Jamaican music had found a tough, █ urban stance. █ █ Despite their popularity, the economics of keeping the group together █ proved too much and the three other members - Junior Braithwaite, █ Beverly Kelso and Cherry Smith - quit. Bob's mother, Cedella, had █ remarried and moved to Delaware in the United States where she had █ saved sufficient money to send her son an air ticket. The intention █ was for Bob to start a new life. But before he moved to America, █ Bob met a young girl called Rita Anderson and, on February 10, 1966, █ they were married. █ █ Marley's stay in America was short-lived. He worked just enough to █ finance his real ambition: music. In October 1966 Bob Marley, after █ eight months in America, returned to Jamaica. It was a formative period █ in his life. The Emperor Haile Selassie had made a state visit to █ Jamaica in April that year. By the time Bob re-settled in Kingston █ the Rastafarian movement had gained new credence. █ █ Marley was increasingly drawn towards Rastafari. In 1967 Bob's music █ reflected his new beliefs. Gone were the Rude Boy anthems; in their █ place was a growing commitment to spiritual and social issues, the █ cornerstone of his real legacy. █ █ Marley joined up with Bunny and Peter to re-form the group, now known █ as The Wailers. Rita, too, had started a singing career, having a big █ hit with "Pied Piper", a cover of an English pop song. Jamaican music, █ however, was changing. The bouncy ska beat had been replaced by a █ slower, more sensual rhythm called rock steady. █ █ The Wailers new commitment to Rastafarianism brought them into conflict █ with Coxsone Dodd and, determined to control their own destiny, the █ group formed their own record label, Wail 'N' Soul. Despite a few early █ successes, however, the Wailers' business naivete proved too much and █ the label folded in late 1967. █ █ The group survived, however, initially as songwriters for a company █ associated with the American singer Johnny Nash who, the following █ decade, was to have an international smash with Marley's "Stir It █ Up". The Wailers also met up with Lee Perry, whose production genius █ had transformed recording studio techniques into an art form. █ █ The Perry / Wailers combination resulted in some of the finest music █ the band ever made. Such tracks as "Soul Rebel", "Duppy Conqueror", █ "400 Years" and "Small Axe" were not only classics, but they defined █ the future direction of reggae. █ █ In 1970 Aston 'Family Man' Barrett and his brother Carlton (bass and █ drums respectively) joined the Wailers. They had been the rhythm █ nucleus of Perry's studio band, working with the Wailers on those █ ground-breaking sessions. They were also unchallenged as Jamaica's █ hardest rhythm section, a status that was to remain undiminished █ during the following decade. The band's reputation was, at the start █ of the Seventies, an extraordinary one throughout the Caribbean. █ But internationally the Wailers were still unknown. █ █ In the summer of 1971 Bob accepted an invitation from Johnny Nash █ to accompany him to Sweden where the American singer had taken a █ filmscore commission. While in Europe Bob secured a recording contract █ with CBS which was also, of course, Nash's company. By the spring of █ 1972 the entire Wailers were in London, ostensibly promoting their █ CBS single "Reggae on Broadway". Instead they found themselves █ stranded in Britain. █ █ As a last throw of the dice Bob Marley walked into the Basing Street █ Studios of Island Records and asked to see its founder Chris Blackwell. █ The company, of course, had been one of the prime movers behind the █ rise of Jamaican music in Britain; indeed Blackwell had launched Island █ in Jamaica during the late fifties. █ █ By 1962, however, Blackwell had realised that, by re-locating Island █ to London, he could represent all his Jamaican rivals in Britain. █ The company was re-born in May, 1962, selling initially to Britain's █ Jamaican population centered mostly in London and Birmingham. █ █ The hot ska rhythm, however, quickly became established as a █ burgeoning dance floor beat with the then growing Mod culture and, █ in 1964, Blackwell produced a worldwide smash with 'My Boy Lollipop', █ a pop/ska tune by the young Jamaican singer Millie. █ █ Through the Sixties Island had grown to become a major source of █ Jamaican music, from ska and rock steady to reggae. The company had █ also embraced white rock music, with such bands and artists as Traffic, █ Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Cat Stevens, Free and Fairport Convention █ so, when Bob Marley made his first moves with Island in 1971, he was █ connecting with the hottest independent in the world at that time. █ █ Blackwell knew of Marley's Jamaican reputation. The group was offered █ a deal unique in Jamaican terms. The Wailers were advanced L4000 to █ make an album and, for the first time, a reggae band had access to the █ best recording facilities and were treated in much the same way as, █ say, their rock group contemporaries. Before this deal, it was considered █ that reggae sold only on singles and cheap compilation albums. █ The Wailers' first album Catch A Fire broke all the rules: it was █ beautifully packaged and heavily promoted. It was the start of a long █ climb to international fame and recognition. █ █ Years later the acclaimed reggae dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, commenting █ on Catch A Fire, wrote: "A whole new style of Jamaican music has come into █ being. It has a different character, a different sound. . . what I can █ only describe as International Reggae. It incorporates elements from █ popular music internationally: rock and soul, blues and funk. These █ elements facilitated a breakthrough on the international market." █ █ Although Catch A Fire was not an immediate hit, it made a considerable █ impact on the media. Marley's hard dance rhythms, allied to his militant █ lyrical stance, came in complete contrast to the excesses of mainstream █ rock. Island also decided The Wailers should tour both Britain and █ America; again a complete novelty for a reggae band. █ █ Marley and the band came to London in April 1973, embarking on a █ club tour which hardened The Wailers as a live group. After three █ months, however, the band returned to Jamaica and Bunny, disenchanted █ by life on the road, refused to play the American tour. His place █ was taken by Joe Higgs, The Wailers' original singing teacher. █ █ The American tour drew packed houses and even included a weekend █ engagement playing support to the young Bruce Springsteen. Such was █ the demand that an autumn tour was also arranged with seventeen dates █ as support to Sly & The Family Stone, then the number one band in █ black American music. █ █ Four shows into the tour, however, The Wailers were taken off the bill. █ It seems they had been too good; support bands should not detract from █ the main attraction. The Wailers nevertheless made their way to San █ Francisco where they broadcast a live concert for the pioneering rock █ radio station, KSAN. █ █ In 1973 The Wailers also released their second Island album, Burnin', █ an LP that included new versions of some of the band's older songs: █ 'Duppy Conqueror', for instance, "Small Axe" and "Put It On" - together █ with such tracks as 'Get Up Stand Up' and "I Shot The Sheriff". The █ latter, of course, was a massive worldwide hit for Eric Clapton the █ following year, even reaching number one in the U.S. singles' chart. █ █ In 1974 Marley spent much time of his time in the studio working on █ the sessions that eventually provided Natty Dread, an album that █ included such fiercely committed songs as 'Talkin' Blues', "No Woman █ No Cry", "So Jah Seh," "Revolution", "Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)" █ and "Rebel Music (3 o'clock Roadblock)". By the start of the next year, █ however, Bunny and Peter had quit the group; they were later to embark █ on solo careers (as Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh) while the band was █ re-named Bob Marley & The Wailers. █ █ Natty Dread was released in February 1975 and, by the summer, the band █ was on the road again. Bunny and Peter's missing harmonies were replaced █ by the I-Threes, the female trio comprising Bob's wife Rita together █ with Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt. Among the concerts were two shows █ at the Lyceum Ballroom in London which, even now, are remembered as █ highlights of the decade. █ █ The shows were recorded and the subsequent live album, together with █ the single "No Woman No Cry", both made the charts. Bob Marley & The █ Wailers were taking reggae into the mainstream. By November, when The █ Wailers returned to Jamaica to play a benefit concert with Stevie Wonder, █ they were obviously the country's greatest superstars. █ █ Rastaman Vibration, the follow-up album in 1976, cracked the American █ charts. It was, for many, the clearest exposition yet of Marley's music █ and beliefs, including such tracks as "Crazy Baldheads", "Johnny Was", █ "Who the Cap Fit" and, perhaps most significantly of all, "War", the █ lyrics of which were taken from a speech by Emperor Haile Selassie. █ █ Its international success cemented Marley's growing political importance █ in Jamaica, where his firm Rastafarian stance had found a strong resonance █ with the ghetto youth. By way of thanking the people of Jamaica, Marley █ decided on a free concert, to be held at Kingston's National Heroes Park █ on December 5, 1976. The idea was to emphasise the need for peace in the █ slums of the city, where warring factions had brought turmoil and murder. █ █ Just after the concert was announced, the government called an election █ for December 20. The campaign was a signal for renewed ghetto war and, █ on the eve of the concert, gunmen broke into Marley's house and shot him. █ In the confusion the would-be assassins only wounded Marley, who was █ hastily taken to a safe haven in the hills surrounding Kingston. For █ a day he deliberated playing the concert and then, on December 5, he █ came on stage and played a brief set in defiance of the gunmen. █ █ It was to be Marley's last appearance in Jamaica for nearly eighteen █ months. Immediately after the show he left the country and, during █ early 1977, lived in London where he recorded his next album, Exodus. █ Released in the summer of that year, Exodus properly established the █ band's international status. The album remained on the UK charts for █ 56 straight weeks, and its three singles - "Exodus", "Waiting in Vain" █ and "Jammin" - were all massive sellers. The band also played a week █ of concerts at London's Rainbow Theatre; their last dates in the city █ during the seventies. █ █ In 1978 the band capitalised on their chart success with Kaya, an album █ which hit number four in the UK the week after release. That album saw █ Marley in a different mood; a collection of love songs and, of course, █ homages to the power of ganja. The album also provided two chart singles, █ "Satisfy My Soul" and the beautiful "Is This Love". █ █ There were three more events in 1978, all of which were of extraordinary █ significance to Marley. In April he returned to Jamaica to play the One █ Love Peace Concert in front of the Prime Minister Michael Manley and the █ Leader of the Opposition Edward Seaga. He was then invited to the United █ Nations in New York to receive the organisation's Medal of Peace. At the █ end of the year Bob also visited Africa for the first time, going initially █ to Kenya and then on to Ethiopia, spiritual home of Rastafari. The band █ had earlier toured Europe and America, a series of shows that provided a █ second live album, Babylon By Bus. The Wailers also broke new ground by █ playing in Australia, Japan and New Zealand: truly international style █ reggae. █ █ Survival, Bob Marley's ninth album for Island Records, was released in █ the summer of 1979. It included "Zimbabwe", a stirring anthem for the █ soon-to-be liberated Rhodesia, together with "So Much Trouble In The █ World", "Ambush In The Night" and "Africa Unite"; as the sleeve design, █ comprising the flags of the independent nations, indicated, Survival █ was an album of pan-African solidarity. █ █ At the start of the following year - a new decade - Bob Marley & The █ Wailers flew to Gabon where they were to make their African debut. It █ was not an auspicious occasion, however, when the band discovered they █ were playing in front of the country's young elite. The group, █ nevertheless, was to make a quick return to Africa, this time at the █ official invitation to the government of liberated Zimbabwe to play at █ the country's Independence Ceremony in April, 1980. It was the greatest █ honour ever afforded the band, and one which underlined the Wailer's █ importance in the Third World. █ █ The band's next album, Uprising, was released in May 1980. It was an █ instant hit, with the single, "Could You Be Loved" a massive worldwide █ seller. Uprising also featured "Coming In From the Cold", "Work" and █ the extraordinary closing track, "Redemption Song". █ █ The Wailers embarked on a major European tour, breaking festival records █ throughout the continent. The schedule included a 100,000-capacity crowd █ in Milan, the biggest show in the band's history. Bob Marley & The █ Wailers, quite simply, were the most important band on the road that █ year and the new Uprising album hit every chart in Europe. It was a █ period of maximum optimism and plans were being made for an American █ tour, in company with Stevie Wonder, that winter. At the end of the █ European tour Marley and the band went to America. Bob played two shows █ at Madison Square Garden but, immediately afterwards, was taken seriously █ ill. █ █ Three years earlier, in London, Bob hurt a toe while playing football. █ The wound had become cancerous and was belatedly treated in Miami, yet █ it continued to fester. By 1980 the cancer, in its most virulent form, █ had begun to spread through Marley's body. He fought the disease for █ eight months, taking treatment at the clinic of Dr. Joseph Issels in █ Bavaria. Issels' treatment was controversial and non-toxic and, for █ a time anyway, Bob's condition seemed to stabilise. Eventually, however, █ the battle proved too much. At the start of May Bob Marley left Germany █ for his Jamaican home, a journey he did not complete. He died in a Miami █ hospital on Monday May 11, 1981. █ █ The previous month, Marley had been awarded Jamaica's Order Of Merit, █ the nation's third highest honour, in recognition of his outstanding █ contribution to the country's culture. █ █ On Thursday May 21, 1981, the Hon. Robert Nesta Marley O.M. was given █ an official funeral by the people of Jamaica. Following the service █ attended by both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition █ Marley's body was taken to his birthplace at Nine Mile, on the north █ of the island, where it now rests in a mausoleum. Bob Marley was █ 36-years-old. His legend, however, has conquered the years. ░ █ ▒ █ This release is dedicated to all Bob Marley Fans! 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