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07 People & Places 08 Music & Poems 09 Discography Bob Marley & The 10 Wailers 11 Fun & Games
Real Ting Dis Rasta, Prophecy, Conspiracy Rasta, Prophecy, Conspiracy Family Time Music & Poems
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The Message That Is Robert Nesta Marley.
Bob Marley spoke on Peace, Love and Zion. He was all about togetherness, Jah and Happiness. He wanted us to forget about all our problems put aside our difference and give thanks to The Most High Jah. He preached Zion while staying humble as he continuously produce wonderful music to move the masses. Forever in all our hearts. One Love. Jah Bless Bob Marley.
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Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945 in St. Ann Parish, Jamaica. In 1963, Marley and his friends formed the Wailing Wailers.The Wailers got their big break in 1972 when they landed a contract with Island Records. Marley has sold more than 20 million records, making him the first international superstar to emerge from the Third World. He died in Miami, Florida on May 11, 1981
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There are few musicians whose music has indisputably advanced humanity. Reggae figurehead Bob Marley--a songwriter, poet, activist, and visionary--is one of them. Every single one of the records on Legend is outstanding, and the artist's different faces--revolutionary ("Get Up Stand Up"), romantic ("Is This Love"), devout Rastafarian ("Buffalo Soldier"), and prophet ("One Love/People Get Ready") are equally represented.
In addition to his moving message of love and unity, Marley is a master songwriter, as the timelessness of songs like "Stir It Up," "I Shot the Sheriff," and the gorgeous, poignant "Redemption Song" proves. Of course, a true sampling of Marley's output would require some early ska material, the Wailer's debut (CATCH A FIRE), the definitive NATTY DREAD, and his later-period opus EXODUS, but LEGEND provides a highly satisfying, if brief, overview of Marley's genius. A record well suited to any location, season, or time of day, it has proven universal in its appeal. The music herein is as essential as air.
Recorded between 1972 and 1981. Originally released on Island.
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Discography 1965 - The Wailing Wailers 1970 - Soul Rebels 1971 - Soul Revolution , The Best of The Wailers 1973 - Catch a Fire, Burnin' US GOLD
1974 - Natty Dread 1975 - Live! US GOLD
1976 - Rastaman Vibration
US GOLD
1977 - Exodus
CAN 8X PLAT. - US GOLD
1978 - Babylon by Bus, Kaya
1979 - Survival CAN 2X PLAT.
1980 - Uprising 1983 - Confrontation US 2X PLAT.
1991- Talkin' Blues 2003 - Live at the Roxy 2011 - Live Forever & A host of compilation albums.
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Bob Marley & The Wailers Bob Marley and The Wailers Bob Marley, Aston Barrett, Carlton Barrett, Tyrone Downie, Alvin Patterson, Junior Marvin, Earl Lindo, Al Anderson
Bob Marley & The Wailers were a Jamaican reggae, ska and rocksteady band formed by Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer in 1963. Additional members were Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, Cherry Smith and Aston and Carlton Barrett. The band came to an end with the death of Bob Marley in 1981.They were known variously as The Teenagers, The Wailing Rudeboys, The Wailing Wailers and finally The Wailers.The Wailers disbanded in 1974 due to Tosh and Livingston's refusal to tour. Bob Marley formed Bob Marley & The Wailers with Bob Marley himself as guitarist, songwriter and main singer, the Wailers Band as the backing band, and the I Threes as backup vocalists. The Wailers Band included the brothers Carlton Barrett and "Family Man" Barrett on drums and bass respectively, Junior Marvin and Al Anderson playing lead guitar, Tyrone Downie and Earl "Wya" Lindo playing keyboard, and Alvin "Seeco" Patterson playing percussion. The I Threes, consisted of Bob Marley's wife Rita Marley, Judy Mowatt and Marcia Griffiths. Bob Marley & The Wailers, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer all enjoyed considerable success as reggae music continued to gain popularity during the 1970s and 1980s. Several of the group's members have died subsequent to Marley's death in 1981: Carlton Barrett and Tosh in 1987, Braithwaite in 1999, and Smith in 2008. Bunny Wailer and Beverley Kelso are the only surviving members of the group's original line-up. 06
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Fun & Games
(Facts)
..."Money can't buy life", was the last words to his son Stephen? ...He was shot in the kitchen of his Kingston home two days before a free concert by a "politikal monkey"? He performed injured. ...He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, March 1994? ...He was buried with a soccer ball, Gibson Les Paul(guitar), The Holy Bible and a bud of marijuana? ...His mother, Cedella Booker was an African-American woman and his father, Norval Sinclair Marley was a British man. ...In 2001, Bob Marley received a star on the Hollywood Blvd. He also received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award the same year. ...Bob Marley drove a BMW and claimed that it stood for Bob Marley & The Wailers? ....He was a immaculate soccer player? ...As a child, Bob Marley read palms? ...His long dreads began to fall out at the end of his life?
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KING OF REGGAE
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Rasta, Prophecy, Conspiracy
In July 1977, Robert Nesta Marley was found to have malignant melanoma due to a "football injury" on his right hallux (big toe). Marley refused amputation, knowing that the operation would affect his dancing as well as the Rastafarian belief that the body must be "whole". On May 11, 1981, as the world knows, Marley died from a brain tumor that was the result of cancer that had wracked his body since 1977. Keeping in mind a year earlier, before he was diagnosed with cancer in 1976, seven gunmen, "the death squad", surrounded the grounds of Marley's home in Kingston, Jamaica attempting to assassinate the reggae star and other members of his band, including his wife and manager. Miraculously after a shower of bullets, fortunately there were no fatalities. Former Black Panther cinematographer and director Lee Lew-Lee casts a very different light on the singers illness. Lew-Lee was close friends with members of the Wailers and was camped out with Marley and his band in the peaks of the Blue Mountains near Kingston. The band was preparing to perform at the Smile Jamaica Festival. Bob Marley and The Wailers were in hiding before the concert after the nasty run-in with a death squad at Marley's house 1976. The encampment in the Blue Mountains was armed and surrounded by machete wielding Rastafari. Understandably, any white face that were to appear in this place would have been quite conspicuous. Yet a white face did show up at the compound, Carl Colby, the son of former CIA director, William Colby. Colby claimed to be a camera-man with the film crew that was there for the concert, yet he never carried a camera and he came bearing a gift for Marley: a pair of boots. Lew-Lee recounts the events: "People came by his house. There were always people going in and out. Someone gave Bob a pair of boots. He put his foot in and said "Ow! A friend got in there" - you know how Jamaicans are. He said,"let's get in here" - in the boot, and he pulled a piece of copper wire out. It was embedded in the boot. Now, we are suspicions that the wire was radioactive and planted inside the boot to harm Bob Marley. Due to the fact that Marley later broke his toe playing soccer the wire planted in his boot given to him by Colby is now evident that the wire was in fact, hazardous to Marley's health, contributing to his death. When the bone wouldn't mend, the doctors found that the toe had
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Rasta, Prophecy, Conspiracy cancer. The cancer metastasized throughout his body". Don Taylor, Bob Marley's manager stated that a "senior CIA agent" had been planted among the crew and that an assassination was the objective. When Marley was diagnosed with cancer, he returned to Jamaica where he was referred to Dr. Carl "Pee Wee" Fraser. Fraser advised Marley to seek treatment from a Dr. Josef Issels in Bavaria. Issels has an interesting past. "He was tortured toward the end of his life, the last 6 months of his life he was in the hands of a Nazi doctor. In fact, Dr. Issells, who was supposedly treating Marley may have saved his life if he was a legitimate doctor, was in fact starving him and shoving long needles through his body, having nothing to do with the treatment of his cancer. This is the behavior of an SS officer, and that's what the doctor was." It is clear to see that his death was a conspiracy by the babylon system to destroy the black man. Bob Marley was a revolutionary standing up for peace, justice and love. He was a threat to the entire babylon system that is the white man. Their first attempt to take his life with bullets was unsuccessful but it did not stop them from harming him internally. He was tortured at the time when babylon had a chance to get it right and aid him to recovery. Babylon intentionally set up Bob Marley to take his prophetic mind. He was murdered by the forces of darkness. No coincidence. Right On.
ONE LOVE
Issels, then 72, specialized in helping “hopeless” cancer sufferers. At one point the Bavarian Medical Council charged Issels with fraud and manslaughter, but he was acquitted after a four-year legal battle. He’s pictured above with Bob’s mother Cedella. A gaunt Marley shares the couch with an unidentified friend.
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Family Time The best of Bob Marley is not limited to his music, but also includes the legacy carried on by his talented children. His children by birth order are: Sharon, Cedella, Ziggy, Stephen, Robbie, Rohan, Karen, Stephanie, Julian, Ky-Mani, and the youngest Damian. With a host of beautiful grandchildren, nieces and nephews he shall remain alive. I am from Bob Marley.
(L to R): Robbie Marley, Julian Marley, Damian "JR Gong" Marley, Ky-Mani Marley, Rohan Marley, Stephen Marley and eldest son Ziggy Marley.
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Music & Poems Redemption Song Old pirates, yes, they rob I Sold I to the merchant ships Minutes after they took I From the bottomless pit But my hand was made strong By the hand of the almighty We forward in this generation Triumphantly Won't you help to sing These songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever have Redemption songs Redemption songs Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our minds Have no fear for atomic energy 'Cause none of them can stop the time How long shall they kill our prophets While we stand aside and look? Ooh Some say it's just a part of it We've got to fulfill the book Won't you help to sing These songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever have Redemption songs Redemption songs Redemption songs Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our mind Woh, have no fear for atomic energy 'Cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time How long shall they kill our prophets While we stand aside and look? Yes, some say it's just a part of it We've got to fulfill the book Won't you help to sing These songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever had Redemption songs All I ever had Redemption songs These songs of freedom Songs of freedom
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Rasta Dictionary If yu waan good, yu nose haffi run – If you want to succeed, you must work hard for it All who don’t hear mus feel – If you do not listen to what you are told, there will be consequences Empty barrel mek di most noise – Ignorant people make the most unnecessary and irrelevant noise Mi trow mi corn but mi no call no fowl – when you are speaking about a person but you do not specify that you are talking about them, when in fact, it is really them you are gossiping about. Rain a fall but dutty tough - Times are hard Trouble no set like rain – You cannot predict when trouble will arise Wah sweet nanny goat a go run him belly - things that bring pleasure to you too much, will bring sorrow in the long run Yu caan wash yu dutty linen inna public - Do not tell people every detail of your personal life
NATTY DREADA person with dreadlocks. NICE UPTo promote and foster a positive feeling. To "nice up the dance" means to get the party going. RAGGAMUFFIN Jamaican ghetto dweller. RUDE BOY 1. A criminal. 2. A hard hearted person. 3. A tough guy. SKANK1. To dance to reggae music 2. To move with cunning, ulterior motives
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