-
Voice, Guitar, and Truth: How a Dying Bob Marley Wrote ‘Redemption Song’
Voice, Guitar, and Truth: How a Dying Bob Marley Wrote “Redemption Song” On the night of September 23, 1980, at the Stanley Theatre in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a thin and visibly weary Bob Marley walked to the front of the stage, sat down on a stool, and did something he had almost never done in his…
-
Bob Marley: The Heart Behind the Anthems
The world knows Bob Marley the prophet — the dreadlocked figure on a million posters, the voice of “One Love,” the man who carried Jamaica’s message to every corner of the earth. But behind the icon was a man: a father of eleven, a husband, a football obsessive, a son who never knew his own…
-
How Bob Marley Turned Exile Into “Exodus”: The Story Behind the Album of the Century
In December 1976, Bob Marley was nearly killed in his own home. Gunmen burst into 56 Hope Road in Kingston and sprayed the house with bullets, wounding Marley, his wife Rita, and his manager Don Taylor. Two days later, Marley walked onto the stage at the Smile Jamaica concert anyway, wounded arm bandaged, and played…
-
The Untold Story of Bob Marley & The Wailers: From Trenchtown to Immortality
By the summer of 1980, Bob Marley was the most famous Jamaican who had ever lived, and arguably the most beloved musical prophet of the twentieth century. He had filled a stadium in Milan with one hundred thousand people, sung a new African nation into being, and survived an assassination attempt that would have ended…