| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxvii, 434 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the people speak / by Linton Kwesi Johnson -- Where is my mother? -- Trench town rocks -- The Wailers at Studio One -- Good good rudies -- Love and affection -- Rasta shook them up -- Wailers a go wail -- Nine Mile exile -- The JAD years -- Leslie Kong meets the Tuff Gang -- Lee Perry and Jamaican politricks -- Cold cold winters in Sweden and London -- Island's kinky reggae -- Burnin' out in London -- The end of the beginning -- Natty Dread -- Hope Road runnings -- Cindy Breakspeare and the 1975 tour -- Rastaman vibration and fatal reissue -- Ambush in the night -- The CIA and the assassination attempt -- Smile, you're in Jamaica -- Who shot Bob Marley? -- Exodus to London -- Blackwell, Bob and business -- The bloody toe in the Paris match -- The One Love Peace concert -- Babylon by bus from the U.N. to Ethiopia -- Charity and survival -- From the Apollo to Gabon -- Natty mash it inna Zimbabwe -- Uprising -- Madison Square Garden then everything crash -- Dr. Issels and the final days -- Marley's legacy and the Wailers' favorite songs. |
| Summary |
Draws on forty years of intimate interviews with band members, family, lovers, and confidants, many speaking publicly for the first time, to offer an oral history depicting the reggae icon's life. |
| Local Note |
LEASE 2017-07 |
| Subject |
Marley, Bob.
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Marley, Bob -- Friends and associates -- Interviews.
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Reggae musicians -- Jamaica -- Biography.
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Reggae musicians -- Jamaica -- Interviews.
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| Genre |
Oral histories.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Johnson, Linton Kwesi, 1952- writer of introduction.
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| ISBN |
9780393058451 hardcover : $29.95 |
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039305845X hardcover |
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