Bob Marley performed at the Smile Jamaica Concert two days after being shot, showing his commitment to peace and making one of the most powerful statements of his career. Marley’s 1977 album “Exodus” ...
When Bob Marley and The Wailers found international fame in the 1970s, the band had already been making records for a decade. The journey began with a lot of scrapping on the Jamaican scene. Given the ...
Costello was a Bob Marley fan in his own right, even sharing with Vanity Fair what he calls the two greatest Marley songs.
J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...
“Bob Marley: One Love” is based on the real life of reggae singer and songwriter Bob Marley, from his rise to fame in the mid-1970s up until his death in 1981 at age 36. I didn’t know much about ...
Throughout the 1960s, Warner Bros. Records, despite having a roster that included such iconic musicians as Jimi Hendrix, The Kinks and Neil Young, did not employee an in-house staff photographer. All ...
Tracy Chapman, Björk, Public Enemy and more songs for rabble-rousing and celebrating revolution. By Jon Pareles “One Love” landed in what has become a box office sweet spot — stories that feel both ...
The sounds of live reggae echoed around the Wilmington Riverfront as the Peoples Festival returned to the city on Saturday. People from all over the Northeast came out to celebrate the life and music ...
Bob Marley, a musical icon, elevated reggae music from a Jamaican sound to a global phenomenon. Many years after his death, Marley continues to be one of the most admired musicians around the globe.