Bob Marley - Freedom Road - The Tracks Of The Journey

i don't know movie effect it's right there in the eye but all right already so wonder in the early hours of this morning it's british time the body of bob marley was laid to rest in a mausoleum in his birthplace saint anne's in the north of jamaica he was just 36 when he died of cancer 11 days ago thousands of jamaicans lined the streets to watch it pass and it was a remarkable climax to what was surely the most extraordinary funeral ever given to a pop singer but then bob marley was no ordinary pop singer as robin denslow reports it's been a peaceful funeral demonstration so far but suddenly the police and team athletes have growled we don't yet know why tear gas exploding he might not have been surprised that there was a little trouble even at his funeral as he said to me it's not we against the system it's the system against we you know hated violence rastas believe in peace and love we'd use the pen as the sword the police was carrying about molly's coffin out of the stadium it was quite amazing because i mean you know he would never have uh tolerated anything like that that's why i stayed away because i didn't want to be in a carnival you see i didn't want to be at a funeral where his children are jumping up and down on the stage dancing and all this kind of thing and it's supposed to be your father's funeral he had become a commodity even in death that's bob and his desire to see everybody living peace and harmony in this world because that's what let the world go wrong you know love really can't solve a problem with a wire you know it doesn't really solve a problem you don't feel like really killing someone but who's probably my myself when i kill someone you know i mean so i figure the peace is the best thing from unknown trenchtown rasta to one of the world's most influential artists bob marley was a musical prophet and rasta warrior who fought oppression and injustice with his six-string guitar he took the pulsating power of reggae music and tied its vibration to universal anthems of justice and unity as the undisputed sovereign of reggae bob marley's revolutionary music has and continues to have a massive impact on people of all races throughout the world the music follows you wherever you go lots of grown ups say to me you know when i put on a bob marley record and i'm feeling depressed and i put it on the mornings i feel so much better i think it will continue honestly forever in a sense i think that he will be his music will be around forever i think we didn't see a fraction of what he could have done he didn't even have 10 years at the top you know that's nothing there are so many contradictions about bob marley's early life that it is difficult to know what to believe strip away the beautification of an icon and you're still left with half truths myths and untruths jamaica was just awakening to freedom after three centuries of british colonial rule when robert nestomali was born in a tiny rural shack to 19 year old sedela malcolm and captain novel sinclair marley he was an englishman a white man his work were doing um field work in the mountain as a supervisor for the ex-school down it was very likely bob's mum she was from that poor family in jamaica his dad was from a rich family like old school white jamaican family and he left her the day after they got married apparently i wouldn't want to really say on camera what he said about his father but slavery was a very painful thing the white landowners abuse women and and women with their african women are there for their pleasure and whether they marry are not married they have a child and and then they take no responsibility and then they go away and so it's all in the past it does not it's not important but you know out of all of this pain you know out of all of the mess a rose can grow he didn't know his earthly father but he know the almighty so much bob was a man that he took personally like god was his dad one and all got to face reality now bob marley's exact birthdate may never truly be known his passport issued in 1964 lists his birth date as april the 6th 1945 but searches by jamaican archivists have yet to produce a birth certificate his rastafarian brethren greet this news with a sage nod believing that mali like emperor haile selassie of ethiopia was never born and therefore could not die bob marley was a poet he's not a prophet he's not a saint he's not he's a human being he would be very embarrassed by all his prophet saint rubbish that they're trying to put on him and all of this stuff he did want a better world and if he thought he could do that he would go to great lengths that's why he did stand on stage with a gun wound put himself in a position where he could very well have been shot if that makes him a saint cause if he hadn't been shot then it would have been saying bob wouldn't it i mean the real saying bob people believe that bob was a prophet i know bob was a messenger i won't stress his head but is a prophet one good thing about music at the age of five bob moved with his mother to kingston where cedella thought that they would have a greater chance of improving their lives well bob told me about his childhood in the sense of he was a little boy that suffered but then most black children born in poverty are going to suffer his childhood was not you know a cloistered happy conventional childhood it was a straight childhood and you know it wasn't it wasn't easy his mother she was gone when he was very young he said she left went to america but she did send for him and he did try there but of course it was no good for him and he returned to jamaica which is a good thing but at the same time there was happiness he had happy times with his grandfather when he would go to the fields on the donkey and help big yams and things like that so he had great memories of his grandfather that's bob's house right bob's used to be living over there long time now about 16 17 years old bubble he thought of the calabash and so forth he would not you don't have any other player utensils and he will live in on a single bed inside this room here sedela took bob to live with the livingston family and it was here that bob and his newfound friend bunny livingston began to experiment with music bonnie father was living with bob mother there was like man woman you see so bob come into that our swear mother was live with bonnie so my body is really good good friend you see so my understanding attraction people were singing every day people was making music and all these things was happening but isabel was very different from most of the musicians that were in town you see baba the part of the country in his life already which in most of the musicians in the town they haven't been to country they don't know what is about all his aim is desire was in music nothing else you know nothing else really that he was interested in beside you know music that was his main thing bob finished school at 16 and peter and all of them very young age they did not go on to further education they did not have time to read books to enhance their vocabulary anymore so they were just he was very interested in world affairs you'd read the papers every morning and so he was very much tuned into how the world was going but that doesn't mean that he was an intellectual he was more educated from the street he really learnt what he needed to learn inspiration instead of education is how he'd like to put it he was hanging out with you know the gangs what later became known as rude boys he was playing football on the street hanging out on the street hearing music on the street i mean that's most of his education came from there bob took his first job as an apprentice welder however after an accident that filled his right eye with metal he became determined to make it as a singer bob and bunny along with another teenager peter mcintosh formed the wailing rude boys who later became known as the whalers their first song simmerdown was an instant number one in jamaica early whaler songs were based on the popular dance music style of scar over time the whalers slowed down the beat preferring the slower bass heavy sound of reggae you had scar first of all which was quite up frantic but then it was about mid 60s and it was really hot and scarf proved to be a little bit too energetic to leap back to so it kind of slowed down and it turned into rock steady which was like the link between scar and what became known as roots reggae which is when it really got slow and i think that's when like the ganja was kicking in as well and it was kind of a slow evolution the very soul of reggae music was from the ground nation ceremonies which the rastafarians used to just chant they call it rastafarian hymns they sing these old songs over the drumming they'd be like about 20 drummers just playing this kind of heartbeat it was based on a heartbeat they'd be chanting away like this and listening to american r b like popular us hits of the day somewhere along the line the two combined but it reggae was a very slowly evolving thing slow down yeah and it's like you play regular music in jamaica those years like you call in the police because reggae music starts playing with a lot of rasta people a lot of people say they're from music and you can't play reggae music the other change was more spiritual than musical after the 1966 state visit of ethiopian emperor haile selassie to jamaica the whalers became deeply involved in the rastafarian movement bob and the rasta elders prophesied that jesus would come again but in another name he believed that the powers of the west were being deceived by looking for the redeemer in the name of jesus with no apology and this is the rastaman vibration rasta is something from your heart rastafari is not like a religion it's like more like a concept for the people and something to believe in growing up as a rasta when your parents say go on caught you treat me and why you know it was a problem because everybody's supposed to like america and jericho and you know most jamaican people are slaves like come from africa and slaves so you'll find the rasta people but it was more like the underprivileged you know rasta was really well like a burden to the society the policeman i mean jamaica know well um there was more racism with them you see because if you arrest the attack or wrestling a policeman catch you're going to jail the police gave us a hard time there's roadblocks everywhere it was very very difficult um taxis wouldn't stop for us he said esther you go and stand in the street and he'll stand for you for example his car would break down and things like that and he can't get it fixed and so it was really very odd rastafarianism is very popular in jamaica yet in canada the united states it has a bad reputation people are associated with drugs in the trafficking of marijuana and violence police arrest crucified christ remember christ was a christian and them crucified christ's same is not what let's go back to the facts people have been arrested and the rastafarians in toronto for example have a very bad reputation i mean you know i would say i wouldn't say that rastafarians have a bad reputation i would say people give the rest appearance bad reputation because they're astophyrians i mean you know i mean all of these things happening before the rest of firearms even start coming to canada anywhere around here but but the things that are very obvious are things like the way you look right to most people who are very conservative in dress you look quite strange plus the fact that you advocate smoking yes could they tell god that it's not legal no but you're they couldn't tell god that you have a very strong religious belief but other people don't necessarily share that and what they see are the obvious things and isn't it in fact true that many jamaican people get involved in the trafficking of marijuana and therefore get the bad reputation associated with rastafarians people get trafficking you see we're really i don't really know anything about those parts of life you know all i know about his rastafari you know try bringing this truth to the people what the people do with them life i don't really know about that i know about my own music producer lee perry was jamaica's answer to phil spector in 1969 he recorded a series of sessions with the whalers perry believing the masters to be his took them to london and sold them for ten years he said they worked and worked and worked and never had a penny all their music was pirated lee perry had already been quite successful in his own right he already had a reputation as a nutcase it was traditional that the producer took all the money and the artist basically got a pittance and this happened with the whalers for some years they had to go through what every every artist in jamaica has to go through which is getting ripped off stupid the whalers were furious but ironically it was this betrayal which brought them to the attention of esther anderson and her partner chris blackwell of ireland records well i came to england and studied acting at the actors workshop when i finished drama school i i did all the usual things like dixon of dark green the same i mean no danger man and the avengers you know all these kind of work that was available for black people which was not a lot at the time eventually did a film with sidney poche which won the image award for me and gave me an oscar nomination and i grew up in england struggling to actually express myself because there wasn't that much work but alongside that i was helping to introduce our music here through island records my partner to bring our people and bring out the music from jamaica we started island records here in england it seemed at the time an impossible sort of dream but between my partner and myself it was just a little mini we went from record shop to record shop and i would go and i would um bombard everybody with the records we started out like that and eventually people started buying the records it was always on a sale on return basis so it was 25 years it took we worked very hard and we achieved our goals i mean were one of the first independent labels so it was kind of like a revolution that took place and gave the industry you know something that the young people young musicians could then take control of their lives and be free to express themselves what bob was losing out financially he was gaining in finding his feet studio experience and then chris blackwell noticing and signing him up and it has to be taken into account that when blackwell signed him ireland was not a reggae label it was reggae was not popular i known jimi hendrix right and bob reminded me of hendrix but i knew with bob and the waiters no proper loans for bob and the whalers the wailers as a group strung i could see once i heard concrete jungle and slave driver that was it i was totally committed by 1973 the whalers had cracked jamaica now it was time for them to take on the world they were signed to island records and for the first time a reggae band had access to the best recording facilities we took him all around the caribbean and i photographed him all the time we developed a very close relationship where we started to write together what was very beautiful to look at to photograph he was just what the white world wanted they can't they would not accept peter tosh who was very very bright also because he was too black they never let jimmy cliff through because he was too black but bob as the person leading the group could go through and pull all the others through and he could be the voice for them bob really wanted to get his voice out to really stand as an example for liberation the first album released with ireland was 1973's catch a fire when ireland released the first album catch a fire with the zipper lighter for about a year and a half it would not it didn't set i mean it didn't even sell enough to cover the recording session and so basically i knew that i had the answer i said to him if you smoke you shouldn't be ashamed of it it is part of your culture my approach was to photograph bob in this light that we have in jamaica showing the color of our skin the way it should be shown and i took his shirt off because he has a lovely color and once the light hit his skin and bounce back onto my lens that was it catcher fire was re-released with a new cover shot by esther that was such a controversial record in america because it was banned and because it was bad it became huge hit bob's songs were parables messages of faith and warning he never ceased to speak out against the oppressors using his influence to highlight the exploitation of the black race his lyrics reflected the plight of the demoralized people of jamaica seeking escape from the slums the way jamaica is have one television station at those days yeah most people listen to the radio or you buy the paper some people can afford the paper so a lot of people can get the message within one a year through the music if you go to jamaica and you look around you can see what bob talking about you see you don't have to guess it's not like a dream you know you know some people write and write like fear it tears you ever checks a bubble with a poet also at times he called me a slave driver because i was always pushing him to write and said come on let's write a song and so basically i encourage him to take his guitar with us everywhere we go and so we would um call on the island so he'd bring this guitar and he'd do the reggae rhythm and the song would be born it wasn't very hard to write songs because it was what was happening around us yeah logic and common sense he was strong to his course we developed a very close relationship where we started to write together and we wrote get up stand up flying over haiti a country which had experienced the most awful poverty and the most awful pain with slavery we just wrote it there on the plane on the paper and just started talking and he beat out a little rhythm on the seat of the plane and that would be it he wrote some great pop songs with catchy choruses that you can sing right that's the surface level on an emotional level and especially a groove level the whalers were an incredible band bob was incredibly passionate singer and these are things that strike an emotional chord no matter what style of music you're in into i mean you can hate reggae and love bob marley you know it's just universal and he's got a universal message he's positive the revolution and the struggle was using the pen to speak for us and using the music to drive that the lyrics to put the thing out so that all people could identify it that it could become universal and really cross over so i encourage you to write more protest songs rather than love songs bob managed to have like these different personalities i mean the same album he could be doing a song about war really brutal graphic realistic song and then he'll be singing waiting in vain or is this love you know he just was able to translate whatever was going on in his head it just came out and it was always sounding like bob and he never sold out got soppy or soft or anything like that it was all part of him just he wasn't ever going to be just a relentless medicine hey what is your own what's your meaning my music to me music is more than music to me it go further on music you know it go with i don't know it further music but you used it as a strong message i mean words like a hungry man is an angry man whatever it is there's no doubt bob marley knows how to use his music twelve thousand people more than half of them white came to hear him perform and in a trance-like mystical state he carried them with him and left them shouting for more despite this obvious commercial success he appears to live the life he preaches but as bob's fame amplified so did the media pressure he wasn't the god polite figure that he is now but he was certainly one of the most famous men in the world people started coming from harvard oxford university cambridge and so to investigate the whole what was going on in jamaica um i coach them i just say to bob now you just have to be yourself be strong speak with your own dialect the way you speak don't try to you know articulate for them the way they want to do it all the reporters had to come through me and bob rose was then free to be himself to speak in his own uh way to articulate the way he articulate and for jamaicans not to be ashamed of their accent he didn't get a good time from the press i asked him about this and said you know why you're always getting slagged off why are you sitting here talking to me now and he just said um you know it comes with the territory i've got to keep going out there and playing and trying to make myself better the first tour went to america but still people were calling him you know talking about weird hair and savages or whatever i asked him too if he ever got sick of trotting out the same set every night his shows had been slagged off for going through the motions knowing if you've ever seen any footage of bob marley you know he's no way going through the motions i mean he he gets carried away and he was going to another place in himself every night he was up there with the rock eyed you know he could play in los angeles and the the front tables would be the stones and you know the rock royalty come to check him out and not put off by the fact that he was a ghettoised reggae artist by 1974 the whalers had fallen apart i think the wilder split up because bob was getting all the attention um that's tosh i mean he tosh wanted to be bob he was very very upset because he didn't want to be a front man he didn't want a front he just wanted to just help to do the work and get the message out so i encouraged him to just reform and so he went back and he got himself a manager and the manager renegotiated a new contract and then they became bob marley and the whalers so the whalers could be anyone after that but basically with family man and carly driving the rhythm section although they broke up and it was a very sad time because peter and bob were like john lennon and paul mccarthy together however bob marley's star was on the rise now that he had become an international celebrity politicians sought to use him as a pawn in their power games jamaica's rival parties were both keen to conscript him because he had street credibility he was not just a jamaican singer he was an international singer because the message that he carried was the message of third world people all over the world in doing so of course he helped to put jamaican music on the map internationally he's also very significant i think because he's one of those rare figures that come along perhaps once in a generation who by some chemistry of themselves their own genius takes what is up to then just a fork form and makes it a part of the universal art of the world but bob marley wanted nothing to do with party politics yet when he was approached by the then jamaican prime minister michael manley offering to stage a free concert he agreed on the night of the 25th of november 1976 assassins creek into bob marley's home and opened fire i picked up the newspaper and i couldn't believe it he said bob marley shot five gunman came in and splattered the room i got him on the phone in nassau and he started to tell me in detail what had happened how they'd come in these men and and shut up the house and him and the musicians and his manager it was never you know found out by the police who did it but like i said it's a popular theory that it was organized by the same guy siegel who when bob died got a posthumous jamaican equivalent of the knighthood or whatever no they tried to kill him of course politician very dangerous you know politics is life and death you know very selfish to be a president in jamaica have to be corrupted any kind of politician you have to be corrupted i would believe that that burma was shot by a politician you know he came to england and then he acted out everything he acted it out and showed me where the bullet was in his arm because he still had a bullet in his hand and he made me write it down he made me he said you've got to write it all down anyway he survived and he did the show he still went back and he did the the concert and some people say it was political some people say it had something to do with some of his friends who attached themselves to him he did the gig wearing the bandage and i think it was rita marley got shot in the head she did the gig in a 90 with a bandage on on a red and a lot of the bands pulled out bob i mean fair play he could have just walked on stage and didn't machine calm down you know i mean that really took a bit of courage to do that but you know he stood there the famous picture where he's got the two leaders and he's bringing their hands together i mean he was a sitting target there i'm surprised he got away that lightly bob status had increasingly attracted those seeking to exploit his popularity for their gain his refusal to be controlled by others had almost cost him his life did you see him as a political figure in any way there was an assassination attempt on him just before he was to give a concert which some people saw as being a sign of support for you in the election before last yes the um political figure yes political figure no political figure no in the sense that bob was not by temperament or mind the kind of person would ever become say a part of a party wasn't that that length at that level or that wavelength at all political yes in that he was one of the most articulate troubadours of the ghetto its suffering it's pressures that i have ever ever heard ghetto youth tired of the constant political infinity banded together in a mammoth reggae concert for peace it ended with prime minister michael manley and opposition leader edward sayaga on stage shaking hands in an appeal for peace the man responsible for it all they say was bob marley but isn't what you need some sort of social legislative change the economic conditions are bad you have a lot of people who are unemployed what's really going on now is that we don't really want the island to change we want the world to change and his music is how he gets his message across after the attempt on his life bob marley exiled himself to london for 18 months after the shooting first of all he took off to the bahamas and then he he came to london spent 18 months um living in chelsea recording exodus we were all shot the sheriff in this flat and and finished get up stand up also here and from here we did all the way for him to go into the recording i cook for them and take it so the place has got memories he adapted very easily to what was going on in britain because i mean he he chose to live in london when the punk thing was exploding mitt just lived down the road here in bianca and marion all of us were all very close uh into juice bob to make in the street down there and bianca came up roughed up he she came home and mick was saying esther's just introduced me to a musician she just brought from jamaica bianca ran up here and come to meet meet bob and was just so amazing and they actually came to the speak easy to the gig and scream bianca was at the back screaming rest of our eye and everything it wasn't that he was the name that made him the person you know he was a person before the name you know he's a strong person it's not a person you would say who's that over there you would know that there's someone over there who is like a strong person you know he had that kind of energy oh bob if you wanted to work he's ready to work of course he was a disciplinarian if something was wrong he would have a go at the studio at bbc there was a young show-off lady and she was behaving very bad this is where i learned from bob marley the lady was smoking a cigarette in the electrical part around the back a whole man came and said could you hold the cigarette the lady told him you know very bad words where to go i just heard bob come and tell her off in the right way you know he asked her is it your name on this or is it my name you know properly and i felt embarrassed for her you see and i walked off and i know that he's a man you know because that lady was a very show-off lady she you know because i'm little me i was little you know a 17-year-old rasta so you know she don't see you but bob marley see everybody you know yeah he was good like that i think bob was single-minded into the music he wanted his family around him when i say family his extended family of musicians a complex network of female company miss world was living in the house and she said what is your big famous movie started with my boy like that but um i said one day you'll all see you know and anyway she end up asking miss mrs maria or whatever women used to chase that man because as i say of his aura he was a man who loved women and they'd come to heat him up you never go running after them but like all rock stars you know you attract girls what's wrong while in london bob heard the clash for the first time he admired their courage and anger in the face of england's class-based economic oppression and identified with their fight against racism and the system bob came to realize that there were a lot of similarities between the the punks and the young black kids in london who were getting stopped by the police and a lot of similarities between you know kids he knew back home in trench town bob started off taking the mickey but he ended up doing a record called punky reggae party which you know name checks the clash he fitted like a glove and then he was playing football and there was a lot of um you know regular football matches going on through 1977 including one of the clash i believe we used to play link up with bob marley and play football and stuff like that in the team make a team and you know go out as the whalers and play football and you know do quite good you know never got flushed really you know i i don't know i think the wailers slaughtered the clash but um and they were a good team could read the game we call it could read the game strong you're a little short man strong i asked him if if he'd ever considered being a footballer as opposed to a musician and he said never because he's music's in his soul and he made a point of saying football's too rough he used to like to play football which i've totally disapproved of because i used to say you should you know you're not a football player and so you had this friend who used to encourage him to go after to play this football and i said but people are waiting on you you have to go on tour and you should be rehearsing and writing songs but you like the footballer of course that's what damaged his toe that then became malignant and created all this cancer cancer cells in his body that took him over eventually in was it may 77 bob sustained the football injury which would become the cancer and um it was bob's passion for football which really he kept playing you know he didn't stop in may 1977 he was still playing in 1980 when i was a bit silly really by the late 1970s bob marley had catapulted from the hottest new celebrity in black music to global superstar he had become a world figurehead like a jamaican martin luther king his record sold millions his tours sold out and from asia to america from africa to europe he sang the message but despite his fame he never lost touch with his own humanity the interesting thing about him is that as he grew in stature as he became a millionaire for example one often wondered will he tend to go soft to become gimmicky to try to appeal to a more commercial market by compromising his statement and instead he remained absolutely uncompromising the range of his interest grew said he would sing of zimbabwe as well as trench town in jamaica but the concern remained absolutely the same uncompromisingly the same the money didn't change mr marley i think that the it changed the people around him no matter how much money you may have you gotta leave it anyway so he's not somebody that really worshipped money and things like that are fame i remember once he took the pair of jeans off of the washing machine and had lots of fibers all and he didn't even know that his trousers pocket was got all his money in it and just well you know it didn't it didn't even matter to him but yet he never had any money either and in in a way when he was sick he kind of live in some sort of terrible poverty what do you do with the money that you make do you take it back to jamaica do you give it to the people give it to you you give all your money away how do you survive oh rastafari is god how do you feel the people of jamaica see you as a musician see me people as you make an obvious to me we show the people that you make a rastafari no no no do they like you these are people like me you're the people love i the people over the people the influence with our father and music is that in bringing the people of ice to the world and to use music not only to make money or entertain but for educate and enlighten people he said mama the doctor said i have cancer and maybe they have to cut it off i couldn't believe you know i said what he said yes but he said why would you give me cancer i never do anybody any wrong i never do anything that is wrong what is it why so i didn't really have the answer for that i could only say who gel of it he just ties it so you know whatever comes we have to just we have to just face what is before us he was limping you know he was hopping away on his bandage foot and obviously the first thing i said was oh what you done there and um he laughed and that is the nearest he got to he was basically saying that well look you know my foot it hurt he must have known he was seriously ill but he didn't it he wasn't even putting a brave face on it he was genuinely sitting there really chilled out watching the olympics on the tv with the sound off and he was just very very content i always remember his last words though he grabbed hold of my hand looked me in the eye and this massive grin that he had with a twinkling warm grin and he just said everything cool and that was it you know but just the way he said it was everything cool you know he passed away you know it was was terrible i was in jamaica when it happened and i phoned here in london and and i couldn't believe it i was totally shocked i mean i would never have in a million years thought that he did that would be the last interview in a year later he'd be dead i don't think he should have been made to do that last american tour because you know you've got photos of him in 77 with the bandage and his areas in 1980 still wearing the bandage which was basically a permanent fixture in that period so um i don't know why he was forced to do that last tour he looked really knackered when i saw him i think the kind of people he had around him he was not advised properly the record company should have taken better care of him but there was nobody intervening for bob as far as i know the friends that bob had around him by then was a very dark energy he had some bad elements around him that um was not helpful to he his growth or helping him to really sort this problem out and he was overworked you could say because he was touring very hard and he should have had a holiday i just think that the people around him just didn't take any care and they know it and i know i feel about it especially one who knows exactly who he is and i'm talking to him no and i hope that he watched this documentary that he can see it because he had a big big influence on bob and so they could have done something more for him instead of these people out of i don't know where they came from saying that they know how to cure cancer and when it was too late he goes to germany and was too late the treatment in bavaria wasn't recognized by the american cancer society at all this was kind of renegade you know holistic treatment almost and i think bob was believing you know willing himself to believe that he was getting better absolutely not the right care for somebody with that kind of money at that point in his life he wouldn't go with traditional western medicine because of rastafarian belief he was a deeply religious bloke during his brief lifetime bob marley had risen from the ghettos of kingston to become one of the most influential and charismatic performers the world has ever seen but what is so remarkable is how immensely powerful his music remains today how undiminished his message is and that it still resonates so deeply i and i know i have words to really talk about bob marley for the good that he have done he's really a prophet no doubt about that he was going to be a superstar whatever you know he he had that in him he was strung to his course genuine you know i don't think that he would have thought of himself as any saint or any prophet or anything he'd tell you to go away with that you know he just would not have uh tolerated any of that bob's one of the most influential figures of the 20th century if he hadn't done what he did the world would be a much poorer place they have made him into a commodity now you can buy bob marley shoes on the internet or whatever it is you know he would have just been sick it's pretty spirit and it's not something you can see our old you know what you just feel i can always feel him because right now he's here my father mean to me just being a father really you know and a teacher what does that teach our true actions more than words bob had a lot more to offer um i think we only really saw the start of it if he was still around now i'd love to hear what he'd be doing he's always with us and uh and the music is always there i mean what do you have done live aid you know you can speculate you can go on you know we like but i think if you've had another few years even you know just a couple i think we would have seen a lot more of another side of bob his music he did it from his heart and from his experience you know the fact he'd gone back to africa which is like the big thing that rastafarians wanted to do bob was in a position to do it and he was not only in a position to do that he could go back to africa and make a difference there i think we didn't see a fraction of what he could have done musicalism was freedom and justice for other people especially for african people to freedom of african justice of africa yeah bob couldn't have lived to a nice old age and enjoy his children his grandchildren and and be around with us and still be jamming as him say why this day we're gonna stop playing music i won't sing no song no more you know just put the trumpet up you know see well the trumpet is still blowing bob no my name is nazi drake naughty dress positive vibrations not israel positive vibrations nothing i you

Channel: onemediamusic

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Rating: 4.5337005 out of 5

Keywords: Bob Marley (Musical Artist), Reggae, Roots, Lively Up Yourself, 2008, Sonia Anderson, Jamaican, Esther Anderson, Oscar, Jamaica (Country), Oscar nominated, actress, Hope Road, London, Freedom Road, behind the scenes, UK interview, Bob Marley (Singer-songwriter), Ziggy Marley (Musical Artist)

Id: uXfv3LDUjC4

Length: 54min 55sec (3295 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 01 2012