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Who's Bob Marley
In this website, you won't find Bob Marley's biography. His story and his deeds are everywhere on the net, on hundreds of websites. His life has been told by books, magazines and daily papers for many years after his death too; still now, articles, books and unpublished pictures are issued.Well, imagine for a moment, considered the energy and the popularity that he reached at the end of the seventies, if that sad epilogue, verified in 1981,had never happened. In forty years of artistic activity, what could Bob Marley have done and what would have happened? Not even imagination can give us an idea of this hypothetical scenery.
Bob Marley was a singer, an artist, a prophet, a tireless spokesman in search of justice and equality between people. A lot of people like me have welcomed him like a brother. The ones who have loved him, have not forgotten him. His memory is vivid. People say that he had an uneasy character, to throw from the tower.
It might be the provocative campaign linked to the cannabis diffusion, the bold joint appeared on the cover of Catch a Fire in the 1974 or that by his friend Peter Tosh with the album "Legalize it" or the cover of the periodical "High Times" of the 1976. It may be his songs' lyrics that hymned to claim for the broken and stamped rights, his freedom songs, his wish to be the spokesman of black people, who wanted to ransom themselves and come back to origins.
Famous Magazines devoted their cover and severe articles to Bob, but there are also some who snobbed him.
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