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... If I am just mellowing out with my friends I will listen to Kottonmouth Kings, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Jimmy Buffet, Red Hot Chillie Peppers, Pink Floyd, and Led Zeppelin. ...
For my research project I decided to do it on Bob Marley. I picked Bob Marley because I have always loved his music. Bob Marley was one of the first artists that I started listening to. ... I don’t remember which Bob Marley CD he told me to get but I got it and fell in love with his music. ... I know there is tons of information on Bob Marley that will help me make my research paper great and be historically correct.
Even though Bob Marley lived through harsh times, he grew up to become one of the greatest reggae musicians of all time. In 1944 a fifty year old British military man named, Captain Norval Marley, married an eighteen year old black Jamaican girl named Cadella Booker. They named him Robert Nesta Marley, later known as Bob, who was born on February 6, 1947 in Nine Miles, Jamaica. Captain Marley seldom saw his son, although he provided some financial support for the family. When Bob was five years old, his father took Bob away to Kingston, Jamaicas capital. ... Bob and his mother lived in one of the most dangerous slums of Kingston. Later, these living conditions would inspire Marley to write a song, called Concrete Jungle, which likened the living conditions and poverty in the slum to the shackles of slavery. ... While Bob lived in the shanty part of Kingston, he met a boy his age, Bunny Livingstone. ... With their adolescent voices, Bob and Bunny began in 1960 to build, what one day became the Wailers music.
In Kingston, musicians were developing a new sound, consisting of a unique mixture of mento and rhythm and blues, which would later be called Jamaican Ska Bob and Bunny were fascinated with Americas rhythm and blues singers such as Fats Domino, and Louis Jordan. Like many other Jamaican teenagers, Bob found music a relief from the realities of ghetto life. ... The people Bob grew up with in the Kingston slums were drawn towards Joe Higgs, a popular musician. ... This cult would later influence Bunny and then Bob and their music. Soon Bob would realize that he could not make any progress with his music without the help of someone else. ... So Bob and Bunny decided to attend his classes, and went just about every day. Bob had managed to escape the violent Kingston world and began developing his first musical pieces. As his musical abilities developed, Marley was desperate to make his first album at the young age of 16. ...
In December 1971 Bob went to Chris Blackwell of Island Records and he asked Chris if the band could get a record deal. ... uk)
In 1972 Bob Marley recorded Catch a Fire and Burnin which was Bob Marley’s first two albums he has ever done. ... com)
Bob Marley and The Wailers finally broke through with 1975s album, Natty Dread. ... Successful tours of United States and the United Kingdom in 1975 raised Marley to the status of cult figure as the rock press declared reggae the up-and-coming music of the 1970s. ... Rolling Stone Magazine named Bob Marley and the Wailers band of the year. ... According to Richard Abowitz, who is from Rolling Stone Magazine, says “Despite the good cheer of the title track and the upbeat “roots, rock, reggae,” Rastaman Vibration contains some of Marley’s most intense images of oppression, paranoia and despair. ... com)
December 3, 1976 was a very scary day for Bob Marley. Six armed men attempted to assassinate Bob Marley. They shot at Bob, his wife and the Wailer’s managers. ... Two Days later Bob flew to the United Kingdom to hide. Over there Marley recorded some of his best work ever. ... This album made Bob Marley an international superstar. ... com)
In May of the same year Bob found out that he had cancer. A toe had to be amputated, but Bob refused because that would have been against his belief of the Rastafari.
Approximate Word count = 3409
Approximate Pages = 13.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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