I was thinking of Bob walking home from work yesterday, listening to his last concert (Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, Sept. 23, 1980), a natural mystic flowing through the air. Does anyone know why Bob took to football instead of cricket? Is it a ‘class’ thing? A Trenchtown thing? Surely, the West Indies were more popular than the Reggae Boyz in the 1960s and 70s . . .
Bob Marley continues to be a critical reference point for my research on struggle songs in the African Liberation Struggle in South Africa with Special Case Study of Robben Island.
I carry my small dell laptop in a green-yellow-red bag with a picture of Bob Marley playing soccer. My two songs, Modim’Oratile and Rethabile, turning 8 and 5 years, respectively, will hopefully be the generation of Bafana Bafana that wins the FIFA World Cup for Africa! I show them the footages of Bob playing soccer in the yard at his Hope Town house in Kingston, Jamaica. One Love–Always, Neo
Robert Nesta Marley will always be one of my all time favorite heroes. Handsome, a genius, and never wanting for a beautiful companion of the opposite sex. Just last week Friday, I was at a friends’ place and she has this biography on Marley. Everything about the man. I was humbled to see just how much music he put down before he was “discovered”. A true hero. My first love is Peter Tosh though. He definately was a Pirates fan
Bob Marley had insightful music, just beyond the Raggae beats…the lyrics were more important to his days than they are now! He was a legend behind the curtains esp when it came to Racism and freedom
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I was thinking of Bob walking home from work yesterday, listening to his last concert (Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, Sept. 23, 1980), a natural mystic flowing through the air. Does anyone know why Bob took to football instead of cricket? Is it a ‘class’ thing? A Trenchtown thing? Surely, the West Indies were more popular than the Reggae Boyz in the 1960s and 70s . . .
Bob Marley continues to be a critical reference point for my research on struggle songs in the African Liberation Struggle in South Africa with Special Case Study of Robben Island.
I carry my small dell laptop in a green-yellow-red bag with a picture of Bob Marley playing soccer. My two songs, Modim’Oratile and Rethabile, turning 8 and 5 years, respectively, will hopefully be the generation of Bafana Bafana that wins the FIFA World Cup for Africa! I show them the footages of Bob playing soccer in the yard at his Hope Town house in Kingston, Jamaica. One Love–Always, Neo
Robert Nesta Marley will always be one of my all time favorite heroes. Handsome, a genius, and never wanting for a beautiful companion of the opposite sex. Just last week Friday, I was at a friends’ place and she has this biography on Marley. Everything about the man. I was humbled to see just how much music he put down before he was “discovered”. A true hero. My first love is Peter Tosh though. He definately was a Pirates fan
Bob Marley had insightful music, just beyond the Raggae beats…the lyrics were more important to his days than they are now! He was a legend behind the curtains esp when it came to Racism and freedom