Within the newest episode of the web video sequence Bob Marley & I, British photographer Adrian Boot recollects an encounter with the reggae icon. Within the early 1970, Boot moved to Jamaica to show physics. When he returned to London, he labored with music publications just like the NME, Melody Maker, and The Instances. Island Data assigned him to {photograph} Marley at a shabby condominium. Boot recollects how he helped raise the musician’s spirits by offering a bag of weed.
Earlier episodes of Bob Marley & I featured radio DJ David Rodigan telling the story of his first assembly with Marley, on the London places of work of Island Data. Rodigan invited Marley on his reggae radio present on Capital FM. Marley then performed a cassette tape for Rodigan, which ended up being one in all his classics, “Could You Be Loved.”
One other episode featured Chris Salewicz, London journalist and creator of Bob Marley: The Untold Story. Salewicz recalled assembly the reggae icon for the primary time in 1979 and following Marley to Jamaica’s Gun Courtroom to protest the incarceration of an harmless man. “It wasn’t easy being Bob Marley. It’s not just writing music,” he mentioned. “There’s a whole other cultural thing going on.”
Bob Marley & I is a part of a year-long celebration commemorating 80 years since Marley’s start. Billed as Bob Marley’s eightieth Earthstrong Celebrations, the festivities kicked off again in February with an ‘Uprising’ Tribute Live performance livestream from the Marley household’s Tuff Gong Studios in Kingston, Jamaica.
The celebration additionally continues with an unique merch capsule in celebration of Rebellion’s forty fifth anniversary. Along with distinctive shirts, hoodies, and jackets, the 1980 album is being reissued as a particular, limited-edition “liquid sunshine”-filled vinyl housed in a die-cut sleeve.
Ziggy Marley’s Tuff Gong Worldwide not too long ago introduced the re-release of 2012’s Marley through streaming platforms. The documentary can even obtain a particular eightieth Collector’s Version DVD, which incorporates two hours of never-before-seen interview footage with the reggae icon’s family and friends. This summer time, Regal Cinemas will carry the critically acclaimed 2012 documentary again to theaters throughout the nation.
Purchase the liquid sunshine version of Bob Marley’s Rebellion now.
