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Marley became a symbol of peace and unity; some of his less accommodating bandmates thought justice mattered more.Photograph by David Burnett / Contact Press Images
When Bob Marley died, on May 11, 1981, at the age of thirty-six, he did not leave behind a will. He had known that the end was near. Seven months earlier, he had collapsed while jogging in Central Park. Melanoma, which was first diagnosed in 1977 but left largely untreated, had spread throughout his body. According to Danny Sims, Marley’s manager at the time, a doctor at Sloan Kettering said that the singer had “more cancer in him than I’ve seen with a live human being.” As Sims recalled, the doctor estimated that Marley had just a few months to live, and that “he might as well go back out on the road and die there.”
Marley played his final show on September 23, 1980, in Pittsburgh. During the sound check, he sang Queen’s “Another One Bites the Dust” over and over. He asked a close friend to stay near the stage and
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The Bob Marley Story (The New York Review of Books)
The Bob Marley Story Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Contact Press Images Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley by Christopher John Farley. Amistad, 216 pp., $9.95 (paper) Bob Marley: Herald of the Postcolonial World? by Jason Toynbee. Polity, 252 pp., $69.95; $22.95 (paper) The Book of Exodus: The Making and Meaning of Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Album of the Century by Vivien Goldman. Three Rivers, 325 pp., $14.95 (paper) Soul Rebel: An Intimate Portrait of Bob Marley by David Burnett. Insight Editions, 141 pp., $39.95 1. Bob Marley died of cancer on May 11, 1981, at the premature age of thirty-six. By then he was well known to college kids worldwide, but few could have foreseen the celebrity he has attained since. Born in Jamaica, he is the only third-world performer to be elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1999, the BBC named his “One Love” the “Song of the Millennium”; the same year Time declared his 1977 Exodus the “Bes
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Bob Marley
Bob Marley (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981). Reggae singer. His original name is Nesta Robert Marley. He was born in Nine Miles, north of Jamaica. His mother was a 19-year-old girl, Cedella Malcolm. On the other hand, his father a 50-year-old adult, Norval Sinclair Marley, belonging to the upper class. Although, being married they could never live in the same home because of the disapproval of Marley’s family. Sometime later, Cedella asked Marley to take care of the little boy for a while but he refused to do it. Therefore, little Robert and Cedella continued their lives, the father of the ung woman, Omeriah Malcolm, always supported them. He saw in his grandson something supernatural. They moved to the capital of the country, to look for a better future. This event was for Robert the beginning of his musical life.
They settled in the humble neighborhood of Trench Town, where Robert quickly forged friendships. His beloved friends were the little Neville