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- Jah Rastafari!

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(vocalizing)

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Exodus

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(vocalizing)

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Movement of Jah people yeah

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Jah come to break the oppression

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Rule equality
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

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Wipe away transgression

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Set your captives free

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Jah

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Rastafari

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Jah

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Rastafari

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(fades)

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(woman): He used to love singing.

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I used to teach him little jingles,

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and he used to love them.

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And the chief one that he used
to know was...

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I had a little donkey that's grey

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I feed him in a barn every day

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And when he hears me whistle
he knows I have a thistle

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He'd rather eat a thistle than hay

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Hee-haw hee-haw

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Hee-haw hee-haw

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And that is all my donkey can say

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And then you would see him,
you know, keeping time.

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And you would see
that he was enjoying it.

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(man): How did it all start?

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Had music always been a part of your life
from when you were a little boy?

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(man chuckles):
What part of Jamaica?

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- Yeah?

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(man): Well, you see,
Bob Marley is my cousin, you know?

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- Bob liked to ride the donkey
and, you know,

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go to the field with his grandfather
and things like that.

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Because he's a country boy, you know.

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(man): Nine Mile was a place that...

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there wasn't a lot of civilized activity.

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Electricity was not available
in those areas,

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so you see a lot of "peeny wallies"...
you know, those little fireflies.

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And that's the only light at night...

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other than the moon
and the stars, you know.

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So, as a youth
coming out of Kingston...

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that was accustomed
to jukebox and sound system,

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it was really something
to get accustomed to.

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(man): And do you remember
when you first met Robert?

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- Yes. First time I saw him,
I saw this little youth...

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cutting up this big chunk of wood

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and putting it on his head bit by bit
and taking it away...

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I say, that's...
You know, and then...

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He was the only little,
what you call it,

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red "pickney" in the place,

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because everybody else
was black people.

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(man): Who was Bob's dad?

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(Sledgo speaking)

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(Cedella): He liked
when you call him "Captain."

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Yes, but his...
his name is Norval.

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I met him right there in Nine Mile,

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and then as a white man in the district,

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you know, always ride
his horse and things like that.

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He and my father
becomes good friends.

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Then at that time he see this little girl
and I guess he liked her, and, um,

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we finally get together
and that's how it...

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that's how it happened.

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(man): How old was your sister
when she met the Captain?

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- She was, what, 16.

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Captain was...
He was about in his 60s.

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- So he was an old man?
- Yes.

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- My name is Peter Marley.
Bob Marley is my second cousin.

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(man): What did you know about
Bob Marley's father?

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(Peter): He rode a horse most of the time.

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He was in the British army.

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I think he was stationed somewhere
in India in World War II...

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when he got shell shock.

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I understand he drank
and that he lived a...

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What should I say?

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A full life.

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(man): Did he get teased
for being mixed?

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Yeah, sure.
Worse than teased.

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Teased is not the word
You call it rejected.

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He did everything that
his bigger uncles should be doing...

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because it was
their duty to move horses...

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and to make sure
that the pigs were fed,

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and they left
all of that work for Robert.

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He had to earn his every meal.

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(Bob speaking)

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(Bunny):
We went to the same school.

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And he had me teaching me the stuff...

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of what takes place in the country...
how to ride a donkey, how to ride a horse.

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How to do all of this kind of stuff.

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And I taught him about music,
'cause...

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that was what I was exposed
to prior coming to Saint Ann.

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(mento)

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(Bunny): I was accustomed to
building bamboo guitars...

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and sardine tin guitars.

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Cutting the wire...
the electric wire...

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opening it up, taking out those little
fine wires and making our strings.

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(Sledgo speaking)

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(woman):
In a little district on a little island

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Where men and pretty gal run wild

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Well there's one old crazy
who went much wider

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So they call her rider
Rough rider

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- Outta that, Robert Marley saw...

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a way out.

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His guitar.

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(Bob Marley):
In high seas or in low seas

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I'm gonna be your friend

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I'm gonna be your friend

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I heard her praying praying praying

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I said I heard my mother

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She was praying in the night

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And the words that she said
The words that she said

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They still lingers in my head
Lingers in my head

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She said a child is born in this world

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He needs protection

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Whoa mmm

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God guide and protect us

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("Trenchtown Rock")

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(Bob Marley):
One good thing about music

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When it hits
You feel no pain

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I say one good thing about music

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When it hits
You feel no pain

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Hit me with music

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Hit me with music now

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This is
Trenchtown rock

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Don't what's that

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(man): We grew up in Trench Town.
We were exposed to everything.

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'Cause you have the bad guys there

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who eventually turn out
to be the con men.

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You have the musicians.
And you have the sportsmen.

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Everybody lived just like a block away
from each other.

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It's like a melting pot.

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- Well, living in Trench Town,
you know, um,

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as a young man, surviving was easy.

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The only thing that you have to really
look out for was the police, you know,

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'cause the police can just get ya,
frame ya.

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You go to prison and...

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"Look, I come from Trench Town."
Trench Town's that...

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Find them say, "Where you from?"

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You say, "Trench Town."
You're gone.

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You know what I mean?

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- No, it was tough.
All of Kingston is like that, you know?

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Everybody.
A lot of people don't know, but Bob, me,

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all of we, went to bed hungry a lot.

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I mean real hungry.

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I don't mean like, "Oh, he had some,
a little piece of this."

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Nothing.
One of the famous lines was,

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"Drink some water and go to bed."
You know?

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In those days you never have...
You might have one pair of shoes.

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One suit of clothes.
So you walk bare feet all the time.

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Bob too, you know?
A lot of people don't know that.

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That kind of sufferation and struggle...

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can make you either go bad or good.

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And I guess
that's what he did, you know?

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He figured the music would get him out,

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so he stuck to it and focused,
you know?

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(McDonald): You know, as an individual
they're forced to be creative.

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Because that's where
your reggae music born, Trench Town.

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("Natty Dread")

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Dread natty dread now

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Natty dread

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Dreadlock Congo bongo I

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Natty dread

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Natty dreadlock

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(McDonald): In Trench Town
we have First Street.

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All the way up to 13th Street.

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First, Second, Third,
Fourth, Fifth, Sixth,

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and so on and so forth.

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Him sing about it in "Natty Dread."

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Then I walk up the First Street

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Natty dread

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And then I walk up
the Second Street to see

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Natty dread

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(Bob speaking)

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- He was different, mon.
He was different.

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He just loved music.

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Music and cricket and football.

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Natty Congo I

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Natty dread

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Oh

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- One day he just come home
and give me the books and say,

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"I'm not going back to school."

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And, um, him say have a friend
that he can give these books to.

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And he did that,
and then he turned to his music.

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(Bob Marley):
I'm a rebel

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Soul rebel

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I'm a capturer

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That's right

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Soul adventurer

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Yeah mon

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I'm a rebel

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Soul rebel

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(Bunny): Robert keep pounding,
keep pounding, keep pounding.

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Telling me that
this is what it should be and, uh...

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And I'm saying, "No,
I'm gonna get ready to go to college.

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I can't be no music."
He say, "No, it's music."

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(man): When did you begin
to get involved in music?

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- Well, I was always interested
in music,

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but at that time I was learning
a trade, you know,

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and meet up
some guys who can sing.

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One named Desmond Dekker.

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- Desmond Dekker and Bob
used to work as welders...

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at the same place.

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Desmond Dekker came down,
and I auditioned him.

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And we recorded his song.

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(Bunny): And after he did that song,
Robert wanted now to record.

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So Desmond take him Beverley's.

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And he went away
and recorded a song...

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to prove to me that if he
could record a song, I could.

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(Bob Marley): Don't you look at me
so smug now

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And say I'm going bad

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Who are you to judge me

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And the life that I live

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- I noticed his use of words
in the songs.

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"Judge Not"...
it was a revolutionary song...

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defending his rights as an individual.

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It occurred to me,
"Wow, this guy's really a good poet."

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Judge not

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Before you judge yourself

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- After the recording,

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Leslie Kong wanted
to change Bob's name,

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because Robert Marley
didn't sound so catchy and easy.

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So he wanted to call Bob "Adam."

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Adam Marley.
(chuckles)

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Bob wouldn't have it.

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(Bunny): He realizes that a group
would be maybe the appropriate thing,

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other than being individual,
solo artists.

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We used to listen to groups
like Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers,

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The Drifters, The Platters.

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So there was a recruitment
process taking place.

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Myself and Robert started
to put the group together.

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And then here comes this tall, dark,

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as they would say,
handsome dude named Peter,

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and he has
this guitar knowledge.

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And from Robert, you hear Robert say,
"Play guitar? You serious?"

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So he goes give him
the guitar right away.

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So it's four-string steel,
but Peter tune the four-string,

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and he's just like that.

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(McDonald): On First Street
is a music street.

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We had three or four places
on First Street that we rehearse,

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and they were rehearsing
like every day.

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At the time,
it was Bob, Peter, Bunny.

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(Bunny): We used to call ourselves
"Juveniles." "Brothers in the Ghetto."

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Where we used to go to rehearse,
they'd say,

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"You come from a wailing environment
where people always bawling.

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And, well,
you should be named the Wailers."

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This train it is bound to glory

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This train

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This train is bound to glory

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This train

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This train is bound to glory

251
00:19:07,521 --> 00:19:09,481
This train don't carry

252
00:19:09,649 --> 00:19:15,028
- As far as the Wailers' harmony,
and the building of the Wailers musically,

253
00:19:15,196 --> 00:19:18,948
Joe Higgs is the responsible person.

254
00:19:19,283 --> 00:19:21,534
Having his own career,

255
00:19:21,702 --> 00:19:24,829
he decided to take the group up
as a project.

256
00:19:55,152 --> 00:19:59,280
His policy was that great stars
sometimes get messed up...

257
00:19:59,448 --> 00:20:02,867
when they get afraid, you know,
when they get nervous on stage.

258
00:20:03,035 --> 00:20:04,786
So he said that...

259
00:20:04,954 --> 00:20:08,915
if we went to the cemetery
at, say, 2:00 in the morning...

260
00:20:09,083 --> 00:20:11,292
and sang for those people,

261
00:20:11,460 --> 00:20:14,671
then we can't be afraid
when we hit the stage.

262
00:20:14,839 --> 00:20:18,800
And we went with Joe,
sat on the graves, played.

263
00:20:18,968 --> 00:20:23,179
Several times we do it until he thought
we were brave enough now.

264
00:20:23,347 --> 00:20:25,348
(chuckling)

265
00:20:29,895 --> 00:20:33,440
Gather together
Be brothers and sisters

266
00:20:33,607 --> 00:20:36,651
We're independent
We're independent

267
00:20:36,819 --> 00:20:39,446
(man): Just about the time
of the independence,

268
00:20:39,613 --> 00:20:42,282
the Jamaican musicians
wanted to have a music...

269
00:20:42,450 --> 00:20:44,576
that they can call Jamaican music.

270
00:20:44,744 --> 00:20:46,995
- Well, Jamaica came up
with a unique rhythm.

271
00:20:47,163 --> 00:20:48,955
I didn't think it was deliberately done.

272
00:20:49,123 --> 00:20:53,168
I think it was an attempt to play
something, and it came out that way.

273
00:20:53,335 --> 00:20:56,171
It became known as reggae,
but it started off as ska,

274
00:20:56,338 --> 00:20:58,798
which was putting all the accent...

275
00:20:58,966 --> 00:21:01,885
on a different beat than what is normally
where the accent is.

276
00:21:02,052 --> 00:21:04,804
It would be on the off beat
instead of the on beat.

277
00:21:04,972 --> 00:21:08,308
(ska)

278
00:21:08,476 --> 00:21:12,479
(Cliff): Ska developed out of American
music that we were exposed to...

279
00:21:12,646 --> 00:21:15,565
on top of our Jamaican
indigenous music,

280
00:21:15,733 --> 00:21:20,403
such as mento, calypso, Kumina.

281
00:21:20,571 --> 00:21:22,405
Simmer down

282
00:21:22,573 --> 00:21:24,365
You lickin' too hot

283
00:21:24,533 --> 00:21:27,786
So simmer down
Soon you'll get dropped

284
00:21:27,953 --> 00:21:31,539
- We were at a bar one evening.

285
00:21:31,707 --> 00:21:34,292
And one of the guys, them says to us,
"Listen to this group."

286
00:21:34,460 --> 00:21:37,086
And they punched the jukebox.

287
00:21:37,254 --> 00:21:41,007
And the song was called "Simmer Down."

288
00:21:41,175 --> 00:21:44,010
And no more other tune
play on that box...

289
00:21:44,178 --> 00:21:47,514
the whole time we were there
but "Simmer Down," I tell you.

290
00:21:47,681 --> 00:21:51,601
Oh simmer down
Oh control your temper

291
00:21:51,769 --> 00:21:54,938
Simmer down
For the battle will be hotter

292
00:21:55,105 --> 00:21:58,316
- "Simmer Down" went straight
into the number-one position,

293
00:21:58,484 --> 00:22:01,444
and the Wailers were launched.

294
00:22:01,612 --> 00:22:04,739
...that I'm leaving you today
Simmer down

295
00:22:07,409 --> 00:22:10,370
- What was it like working at Studio 1,
where you started, in those days?

296
00:22:10,538 --> 00:22:13,498
(Bob): Yeah, it was good,
you know, 'cause, you know,

297
00:22:13,666 --> 00:22:14,916
first experience within music.

298
00:22:15,084 --> 00:22:16,459
Working with some good musician

299
00:22:16,627 --> 00:22:19,754
and trying to get the harmonies
and everything. It was great.

300
00:22:19,922 --> 00:22:22,715
(man): I heard you actually...
you personally lived in the studio.

301
00:22:22,883 --> 00:22:24,092
(Bob): Sometime.

302
00:22:24,260 --> 00:22:26,553
(man): You had Coxsone made you
a room out the back.

303
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:27,929
(Bob chuckling): Yes.

304
00:22:28,097 --> 00:22:31,891
(McDonald): Well, Coxsone was,
um, a smart guy,

305
00:22:32,059 --> 00:22:34,394
in that he has an ear
for music, good music.

306
00:22:34,562 --> 00:22:36,354
- He might not have been
an instrument player.

307
00:22:36,522 --> 00:22:38,773
He might not even know
if the guitar is tuned,

308
00:22:38,941 --> 00:22:42,110
but he knows when the sound is right.

309
00:22:42,278 --> 00:22:44,487
- He has his own program on the radio.

310
00:22:44,655 --> 00:22:46,114
Has his own record shop.

311
00:22:46,282 --> 00:22:48,992
Has his own sound system.
Has his own studio.

312
00:22:49,159 --> 00:22:50,535
So he's obviously a leader.

313
00:22:50,703 --> 00:22:54,122
- Coxsone was like a father to us,
you know, to be honest with you.

314
00:22:54,290 --> 00:22:55,582
Coxsone was like a father to us.

315
00:22:55,749 --> 00:22:57,750
He cared for us.

316
00:23:01,755 --> 00:23:05,967
Coxsone gave Robbie a little room
round the back of the premises.

317
00:23:06,135 --> 00:23:08,011
I didn't have anywhere
to live neither.

318
00:23:08,178 --> 00:23:10,889
So Robbie and me lived there.
Both of us lived there.

319
00:23:11,056 --> 00:23:12,599
So we became intimate good friends.

320
00:23:13,934 --> 00:23:18,396
He gave Robbie a record player
and a lot of foreign records.

321
00:23:19,732 --> 00:23:22,525
Robbie was a fanatic
in listening to these people...

322
00:23:22,693 --> 00:23:24,944
because he was a serious,
focused man.

323
00:23:25,112 --> 00:23:26,988
Even as a youth.

324
00:23:27,156 --> 00:23:33,077
- Jamaican music developed from
what we call "do overs,"

325
00:23:33,245 --> 00:23:35,914
a version of somebody's song
in America.

326
00:23:36,874 --> 00:23:42,921
Each night
I ask the stars up above

327
00:23:43,088 --> 00:23:49,010
Why must I be a teenager in love

328
00:23:49,178 --> 00:23:52,055
Put me in your milling machine

329
00:23:52,222 --> 00:23:56,809
I never thought you could act so mean

330
00:23:57,019 --> 00:24:00,897
Now I'm wondering what to do

331
00:24:01,065 --> 00:24:04,901
To see if you could love me too

332
00:24:05,069 --> 00:24:08,112
(McDonald): Bob had a good sound
'cause he's singing lead.

333
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:09,739
And the harmony was tight.

334
00:24:09,907 --> 00:24:13,409
- The harmony Bunny carried,
and Peter was fantastic.

335
00:24:14,954 --> 00:24:21,084
Why must I be a teenager in love

336
00:24:22,711 --> 00:24:26,839
(Rita): Peter and Bunny was
the most vocal one to say hi,

337
00:24:27,007 --> 00:24:31,135
but Bob was very reserved
and just look.

338
00:24:31,303 --> 00:24:33,346
As he would say, just "cotch and look."

339
00:24:35,099 --> 00:24:38,851
- As much as there was this obvious
love and admiration...

340
00:24:39,019 --> 00:24:40,979
for each other and of each other,

341
00:24:41,146 --> 00:24:43,940
there was always
a deep underlying tension...

342
00:24:44,108 --> 00:24:47,360
that none would be
a "yes man" to the other.

343
00:24:48,696 --> 00:24:52,865
I think the music was the glue
that held them together.

344
00:24:53,033 --> 00:24:55,618
Feel them spirit

345
00:24:56,745 --> 00:24:59,205
Feel them spirit

346
00:25:00,416 --> 00:25:03,418
Feel them spirit

347
00:25:04,878 --> 00:25:06,963
Lord, I thank you

348
00:25:08,007 --> 00:25:10,758
Lord, I thank you

349
00:25:12,094 --> 00:25:14,512
I'm gonna put it on

350
00:25:15,931 --> 00:25:17,724
I'm gonna put it on

351
00:25:26,066 --> 00:25:28,776
- By then he was admiring me.

352
00:25:32,364 --> 00:25:34,615
I got a letter from Bunny,
bringing a letter.

353
00:25:34,783 --> 00:25:38,369
It was him sending his letter
through his friend. Not by himself.

354
00:25:38,537 --> 00:25:42,165
And to say yes, he likes me
and want to talk to me.

355
00:25:42,332 --> 00:25:44,375
I say, "Come over and talk."

356
00:25:44,543 --> 00:25:47,336
And he would stay
on the other side of the road and...

357
00:25:47,504 --> 00:25:51,090
He was very shy. He was very shy.
He was a shy guy.

358
00:25:51,717 --> 00:25:56,846
I'll play your favorite song darling

359
00:25:57,014 --> 00:25:59,348
He had a seriousness,
and he was one

360
00:25:59,516 --> 00:26:02,060
that you could say
was reaching out for love.

361
00:26:10,110 --> 00:26:12,987
- I didn't think,
I liked brown-skin men.

362
00:26:13,155 --> 00:26:17,909
I always dream of a guy...
tall, black, handsome.

363
00:26:18,077 --> 00:26:21,412
Every young girl's dream in Jamaica
is to have a tall, black boyfriend.

364
00:26:23,415 --> 00:26:25,333
They would call Bob an outcast...

365
00:26:25,501 --> 00:26:28,044
because he really don't belong to no...
you're in-between.

366
00:26:28,212 --> 00:26:30,922
You're black and white, so they're...
"You're not even black."

367
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,218
(man): I think he always felt
like an outsider...

368
00:26:35,385 --> 00:26:37,512
because he was a half breed.

369
00:26:37,679 --> 00:26:40,431
And when Mortimer Planno took him in,

370
00:26:40,599 --> 00:26:43,810
well, that automatically
gave him acceptance.

371
00:26:45,354 --> 00:26:49,857
(Sibley): Mortimer Planno was
a Rasta spiritual leader who taught Bob.

372
00:26:50,859 --> 00:26:54,570
- He was like a preacher.
He preached Rastafarianism,

373
00:26:54,738 --> 00:26:56,280
and he had a following.

374
00:26:56,448 --> 00:26:58,783
(singing)

375
00:27:01,411 --> 00:27:04,664
(Sims): He hooked up
with Bob as a young boy.

376
00:27:04,832 --> 00:27:07,125
I think that they gelled together.

377
00:27:07,292 --> 00:27:09,836
(man): Bob looked up to him?
- Oh, yes.

378
00:27:11,255 --> 00:27:13,422
(Sibley speaking)

379
00:27:38,407 --> 00:27:44,036
(man): Rastafarian were
the only true Afrocentric black people.

380
00:27:44,204 --> 00:27:47,623
Who preached self-reliance,
who preached self-confidence.

381
00:27:48,876 --> 00:27:51,586
(McDonald): But we interpret
the Bible a different way.

382
00:27:51,753 --> 00:27:55,298
Most of these places that they're telling
you about in the Bible is in Africa.

383
00:27:55,465 --> 00:27:58,050
The Garden of Eden is in Africa.

384
00:27:58,218 --> 00:28:01,262
The teaching that we get
from the elders then...

385
00:28:01,430 --> 00:28:04,849
is that we always have to look upon
a black man as God.

386
00:28:05,017 --> 00:28:08,728
For we, somebody
that we can identify with.

387
00:28:09,938 --> 00:28:14,317
(Bob speaking)

388
00:28:29,124 --> 00:28:34,462
(McDonald): Emperor Haile Selassie I
is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.

389
00:28:34,630 --> 00:28:36,923
He's our God. Rasta God.

390
00:28:38,133 --> 00:28:42,053
Rasta said the purpose of life
is to be happy.

391
00:28:42,221 --> 00:28:44,847
Everybody's supposed to be happy...

392
00:28:45,015 --> 00:28:47,642
and live in peace, love and unity.

393
00:28:47,809 --> 00:28:49,185
Yeah, mon.

394
00:28:51,230 --> 00:28:54,607
I think when him start take it serious
now as a Rastaman...

395
00:28:54,775 --> 00:28:57,360
was when him start growing dreadlocks.

396
00:28:57,527 --> 00:29:01,864
- Locks meant that you were a Rastafarian
and you've taken a vow...

397
00:29:02,032 --> 00:29:05,409
Nazarite vow not to cut or comb
your hair for a certain length of time,

398
00:29:05,577 --> 00:29:08,871
and it has a significance
and is not to be taken lightly.

399
00:29:09,039 --> 00:29:11,123
- How important are the dreadlocks?

400
00:29:11,291 --> 00:29:14,835
- This? This is my identity, mon.
- Is that part of being a Rasta?

401
00:29:15,003 --> 00:29:16,420
- Yeah, this is my identity.

402
00:29:16,588 --> 00:29:20,883
- Then you go through
all the various rules...

403
00:29:21,051 --> 00:29:23,052
for living as set out by the Bible.

404
00:29:23,220 --> 00:29:26,931
How you eat, how you live,
how you treat other people.

405
00:29:27,099 --> 00:29:28,474
And he believed that, um,

406
00:29:28,642 --> 00:29:31,018
if you practice these things,
well, life will be better.

407
00:29:31,186 --> 00:29:33,896
Not only for you,
but for everyone else.

408
00:29:34,231 --> 00:29:37,108
Got to have kaya now

409
00:29:38,944 --> 00:29:42,363
Got to have kaya now

410
00:29:43,448 --> 00:29:47,493
Got to have kaya now

411
00:29:47,661 --> 00:29:50,538
For the rain is falling

412
00:29:50,706 --> 00:29:52,999
(man): Marijuana's illegal in Jamaica,

413
00:29:53,166 --> 00:29:57,295
but the Rastas say they smoke it
because the Bible tells them to.

414
00:29:57,462 --> 00:30:01,841
The Book of Revelations
says to "partake of the herb."

415
00:30:02,009 --> 00:30:04,885
- The herb was like
a sacramental food to us.

416
00:30:05,053 --> 00:30:08,806
We take it for reasons,
not just to get high.

417
00:30:09,599 --> 00:30:12,101
It put us in a holy, peaceful,

418
00:30:12,269 --> 00:30:14,437
happy, inspirational mood.

419
00:30:15,564 --> 00:30:18,190
(man): Were you born as a Rasta?

420
00:30:18,358 --> 00:30:20,985
When I was born, you know,
and growing,

421
00:30:21,153 --> 00:30:25,281
there was a certain amount
of consciousness...

422
00:30:25,449 --> 00:30:27,241
in the higher self...

423
00:30:27,409 --> 00:30:30,036
that, you know,

424
00:30:30,203 --> 00:30:31,704
it was always a lonely world,

425
00:30:31,872 --> 00:30:36,917
not finding people who might
think like me, you know?

426
00:30:37,085 --> 00:30:38,794
So off I'm going on, and going on

427
00:30:38,962 --> 00:30:42,048
and I come to Kingston,
meet some more people.

428
00:30:42,215 --> 00:30:43,758
Them people is Rasta.

429
00:30:43,925 --> 00:30:47,845
It's after that I find out
it's the same thing I have inside.

430
00:30:48,013 --> 00:30:49,263
It's the same thing.

431
00:30:49,431 --> 00:30:51,140
- How old were you
when this started to happen?

432
00:30:51,308 --> 00:30:54,560
- This is about 17, 18, you know?
- Ah.

433
00:30:54,728 --> 00:30:58,939
- I think in the belief or knowledge...

434
00:30:59,107 --> 00:31:05,071
of Haile Selassie,
Bob found his real father,

435
00:31:06,031 --> 00:31:08,240
which he'd never really knew.

436
00:31:08,408 --> 00:31:10,451
- I think he saw himself now.

437
00:31:10,619 --> 00:31:12,536
This is where he found himself, yes.

438
00:31:12,704 --> 00:31:15,331
No more about being
half white or half black.

439
00:31:15,499 --> 00:31:18,125
It's just one... one love.

440
00:31:18,293 --> 00:31:21,712
One love
One heart

441
00:31:22,172 --> 00:31:25,591
Let's join together
and I'll feel all right

442
00:31:26,551 --> 00:31:30,554
One love
One heart

443
00:31:30,722 --> 00:31:33,974
Let's join together
and I will feel all right

444
00:31:34,142 --> 00:31:37,395
(man): Undaunted by the driving rain,
a sea of faces awaited...

445
00:31:37,562 --> 00:31:40,523
at the Palisadoes Airport
the arrival of a living legend.

446
00:31:40,816 --> 00:31:43,150
For some,
he was the King of Kings.

447
00:31:43,318 --> 00:31:45,069
The Lion of Judah...

448
00:31:45,237 --> 00:31:46,153
even a god.

449
00:31:46,321 --> 00:31:49,240
Members of a local cult,
the Rastafarians,

450
00:31:49,408 --> 00:31:53,035
who worship this figure as a deity,
were present in full force.

451
00:31:56,873 --> 00:31:59,625
His Imperial Majesty,
Haile Selassie I,

452
00:31:59,793 --> 00:32:02,044
Emperor of Ethiopia, arrived.

453
00:32:02,212 --> 00:32:06,924
(man): When the plane landed,
thousands ran out and surrounded the plane.

454
00:32:07,592 --> 00:32:10,761
Some of them smoking.
Our police were powerless.

455
00:32:10,929 --> 00:32:14,807
And Selassie came to the door
of the plane, I remember,

456
00:32:14,975 --> 00:32:19,103
and after about 20 minutes
and he just looked and went back in.

457
00:32:19,354 --> 00:32:21,814
It took a long time
to get him off the plane.

458
00:32:23,358 --> 00:32:26,777
(Rita): So he came off the plane
and he greet, and I say...

459
00:32:26,945 --> 00:32:28,737
I say, "Wait, but this is a little man.

460
00:32:28,905 --> 00:32:31,157
There is this little man they say is God.
Them crazy."

461
00:32:32,951 --> 00:32:36,537
- I sit there on my bicycle,
waiting on him.

462
00:32:36,705 --> 00:32:39,248
And when him come up,
he look right in my face.

463
00:32:39,499 --> 00:32:43,461
It was like him look
into everybody face.

464
00:32:43,628 --> 00:32:45,129
But he look upon everyone.

465
00:32:46,256 --> 00:32:47,756
I remember, I see that.

466
00:32:48,175 --> 00:32:50,634
(Rita): And he just
turn his head around...

467
00:32:50,802 --> 00:32:52,553
and he was looking straight at me.

468
00:32:52,721 --> 00:32:54,263
And he did like this.

469
00:32:55,974 --> 00:32:57,057
And I look and I look,

470
00:32:57,225 --> 00:33:01,145
and I saw his hand,
and I saw a mark in his hand.

471
00:33:01,771 --> 00:33:05,900
And believe you, my brother,
when I saw that I went crazy.

472
00:33:06,067 --> 00:33:08,819
I run all the way back
to Trench Town.

473
00:33:09,154 --> 00:33:18,454
Take your troubles to Selassie

474
00:33:26,546 --> 00:33:32,801
He is the only King of Kings

475
00:33:34,387 --> 00:33:37,515
King of Kings

476
00:33:37,682 --> 00:33:41,727
King of Kings Selassie

477
00:33:44,689 --> 00:33:48,359
(Chin): The deeper Bob got
into the faith... the Rastafarian faith...

478
00:33:48,527 --> 00:33:52,821
the more his music
became entwined.

479
00:33:54,324 --> 00:33:58,494
- He was very into the social
commentary side of the music.

480
00:33:58,662 --> 00:34:01,705
Mr. Dodd didn't like that because
it wasn't commercial enough.

481
00:34:02,082 --> 00:34:05,084
So he was a little frustrated
because he couldn't do the music...

482
00:34:05,252 --> 00:34:07,378
the way he really wanted it to be done.

483
00:34:08,296 --> 00:34:12,758
(Bunny): And also at that time,
money was a problem.

484
00:34:12,926 --> 00:34:17,429
Coxsone wasn't the kind of person
at the time to argue money with,

485
00:34:17,597 --> 00:34:19,557
unless you were willing
to go to war.

486
00:34:20,058 --> 00:34:22,518
(McDonald): When you go
and ask him for your money,

487
00:34:22,686 --> 00:34:25,604
he usually like to bring off
some bad boy style.

488
00:34:25,772 --> 00:34:28,148
'Cause he has his thugs around him.

489
00:34:28,316 --> 00:34:31,068
You know what I mean?
Enforcer type of guys.

490
00:34:31,236 --> 00:34:34,280
- It was traditional in those days...

491
00:34:34,447 --> 00:34:38,200
that artists who recorded
never made money...

492
00:34:38,368 --> 00:34:41,036
because the record company
who collected the money...

493
00:34:41,204 --> 00:34:42,746
never gave the artist any money.

494
00:34:42,914 --> 00:34:45,207
- Yeah, we got paid
like minimum wage.

495
00:34:45,375 --> 00:34:48,419
Three pounds a week, that's it.
Each.

496
00:34:48,587 --> 00:34:50,421
- You couldn't live off it.

497
00:34:50,589 --> 00:34:52,590
(man): Could Bob live off it?
- Nah, mon.

498
00:34:52,757 --> 00:34:56,135
That's why Bob had to leave
and start doing his own thing.

499
00:34:56,928 --> 00:35:00,180
(Bunny): So Robert left the group
to go to Delaware,

500
00:35:00,348 --> 00:35:01,348
to the United States.

501
00:35:01,516 --> 00:35:02,850
To migrate.

502
00:35:05,770 --> 00:35:07,688
(man speaking)

503
00:35:13,528 --> 00:35:16,196
Gotta hold on to
this feeling we got

504
00:35:16,364 --> 00:35:18,324
We gonna blow blow blow

505
00:35:18,491 --> 00:35:21,327
'Cause we love love love you now

506
00:35:21,870 --> 00:35:25,789
- Yeah, well that was a marriage
that I wasn't invited to, nor Peter.

507
00:35:26,499 --> 00:35:29,668
But because he's our brother
we lived with it.

508
00:35:32,005 --> 00:35:34,006
(Rita): We got married, like,
on the 11th.

509
00:35:34,174 --> 00:35:37,259
And he left on the 12th of February.

510
00:35:38,386 --> 00:35:40,804
(vocalizing)

511
00:35:43,892 --> 00:35:46,393
Run for cover

512
00:35:46,561 --> 00:35:48,395
Run for cover

513
00:35:48,563 --> 00:35:49,980
Rain is taking over

514
00:35:50,148 --> 00:35:51,649
(barking)

515
00:35:51,816 --> 00:35:53,651
Taking over

516
00:35:54,694 --> 00:35:56,362
(woman): He came here...
his mother wants him here.

517
00:35:56,529 --> 00:35:58,489
Bob loved his mother.

518
00:36:00,033 --> 00:36:03,869
(Rita): He got a job at the du Pont Hotel
vacuuming the floor.

519
00:36:04,037 --> 00:36:06,664
Then he got a job at Chrysler.

520
00:36:06,831 --> 00:36:09,583
- When he was working there,
he used to...

521
00:36:09,751 --> 00:36:12,836
I think he used to drive
one of the forklift.

522
00:36:13,004 --> 00:36:17,716
I think he have a song out
of that driving the forklift all night.

523
00:36:17,884 --> 00:36:20,636
I'm working all night

524
00:36:20,804 --> 00:36:23,013
Got to be all right

525
00:36:23,181 --> 00:36:26,225
See I work for my bread

526
00:36:26,393 --> 00:36:27,935
All right

527
00:36:28,103 --> 00:36:29,895
Night and day
All night

528
00:36:30,063 --> 00:36:31,522
Work for my pay

529
00:36:31,690 --> 00:36:33,941
All right
Night and day

530
00:36:35,110 --> 00:36:37,820
No no no no no no

531
00:36:40,073 --> 00:36:41,699
No no no no no no

532
00:36:44,119 --> 00:36:47,246
Can you feel it
No no no no no no

533
00:36:47,414 --> 00:36:49,873
- Well, he was just very humble,
very loving,

534
00:36:50,041 --> 00:36:52,209
and he was very quiet, really.

535
00:36:53,128 --> 00:36:54,878
(man): Was he smoking
a lot of ganja then?

536
00:36:55,046 --> 00:36:58,716
- Yeah, he was growing it too,
man, in his backyard,

537
00:36:58,883 --> 00:37:01,969
and he had a row of herb plants,

538
00:37:02,137 --> 00:37:04,972
I mean towering in the air,
and I couldn't believe it.

539
00:37:05,140 --> 00:37:07,141
'Cause at that time
in Wilmington, Delaware,

540
00:37:07,308 --> 00:37:10,102
man, they were kicking
people's doors in for a little joint.

541
00:37:11,604 --> 00:37:13,355
- I used to go up to his house
and we'd go in the basement.

542
00:37:13,523 --> 00:37:16,316
He'd play his guitar, and I would play
my congas. I played congas.

543
00:37:16,484 --> 00:37:17,568
And we would just jam.

544
00:37:17,736 --> 00:37:20,070
And I didn't really realize
he was such a great musician.

545
00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:24,366
(Rita): But he never gave up music,

546
00:37:24,534 --> 00:37:27,077
'cause his mummy,
she would write me to say,

547
00:37:27,245 --> 00:37:30,664
"All Nesta does
is stay in the basement...

548
00:37:30,832 --> 00:37:32,541
and play his guitar."

549
00:37:32,792 --> 00:37:37,629
(Bob): Well, I couldn't stand it.
I wasn't doing what I wanted to do.

550
00:37:37,797 --> 00:37:41,091
So I went back to Jamaica,
where I must get more freedom.

551
00:37:41,259 --> 00:37:44,094
Bend down low

552
00:37:45,388 --> 00:37:48,849
Let me tell you what I know yeah

553
00:37:50,643 --> 00:37:53,187
Bend down low

554
00:37:55,982 --> 00:37:57,983
(Bunny): When Robbie came back
from the U.S.,

555
00:37:58,151 --> 00:38:03,614
we decided to start our own independent
label, "Wail'n Soul'm."

556
00:38:03,782 --> 00:38:07,326
So we went in and did
"Bend Down Low."

557
00:38:07,660 --> 00:38:10,496
"Bend Down Low" was a number one.

558
00:38:10,663 --> 00:38:13,290
We started to build our own economy.

559
00:38:13,458 --> 00:38:17,127
We used to ride with our bicycles
and distribute the records to jukeboxes,

560
00:38:17,295 --> 00:38:21,006
sound systems, record stores,
with our bicycles.

561
00:38:21,174 --> 00:38:23,675
- The Wailers' music
dominated the dance halls.

562
00:38:23,843 --> 00:38:28,555
But it was hardly played
on our Jamaican radio stations.

563
00:38:30,016 --> 00:38:32,684
(man): In the music business,
they were just prejudiced.

564
00:38:32,852 --> 00:38:35,020
The first problem is being a Rasta.

565
00:38:35,188 --> 00:38:38,565
And the next problem is that
you're not with the big companies.

566
00:38:38,733 --> 00:38:40,609
So that's a...
that's a heavy load to carry.

567
00:38:40,985 --> 00:38:43,987
(Cole): These disc jockeys,
when they went on air,

568
00:38:44,155 --> 00:38:45,322
they had their own program sometime.

569
00:38:45,490 --> 00:38:48,158
They had their own
sorts of records from these...

570
00:38:48,326 --> 00:38:50,994
these different companies
that they would have to play.

571
00:38:51,162 --> 00:38:54,873
Sometimes we were not included.
So to be included in that,

572
00:38:55,041 --> 00:38:57,167
we had to get real tough sometimes.

573
00:38:57,418 --> 00:39:00,170
- I used to drive Bob with "Skill" Cole...

574
00:39:00,338 --> 00:39:01,463
- Yeah.

575
00:39:01,631 --> 00:39:03,215
- And Frowser and Tek-Life.

576
00:39:03,383 --> 00:39:05,717
Do you remember them,
these two little gangsters?

577
00:39:05,885 --> 00:39:07,094
- Yeah. Right.

578
00:39:07,262 --> 00:39:09,054
(chuckling)
Yeah.

579
00:39:09,222 --> 00:39:12,015
- I used to drive to the radio
station, right? - Right.

580
00:39:12,183 --> 00:39:14,935
- And they'd leave me in the car.
Right?

581
00:39:15,103 --> 00:39:17,104
And they'd go in.
Skill Cole had a baseball bat.

582
00:39:17,272 --> 00:39:18,897
You know they don't play baseball
in Jamaica.

583
00:39:19,065 --> 00:39:20,858
I don't know where
he got a baseball bat.

584
00:39:21,025 --> 00:39:23,068
And Skill Cole was big... A big guy.
- Yeah.

585
00:39:23,236 --> 00:39:25,529
- Right?
They'd go in the radio station.

586
00:39:25,697 --> 00:39:29,616
They'd have me listen
to the radio...

587
00:39:29,784 --> 00:39:31,910
to make sure that they're really

588
00:39:32,078 --> 00:39:33,620
playing the record.
- Right.

589
00:39:36,291 --> 00:39:39,585
(Bunny):
And then Coxsone, Studio 1,

590
00:39:39,752 --> 00:39:43,755
Dualcreed, Trojan
and Prince Buster...

591
00:39:43,923 --> 00:39:47,217
decide to form an organization
called "The Big Tree."

592
00:39:48,094 --> 00:39:50,137
Then the Wailers pulled the ax.

593
00:39:51,556 --> 00:39:54,600
If you are a big tree

594
00:39:55,518 --> 00:39:59,021
We are the small ax

595
00:39:59,188 --> 00:40:02,316
Sharpened to cut you down

596
00:40:02,483 --> 00:40:03,942
Well sharp

597
00:40:04,110 --> 00:40:05,569
To cut you down

598
00:40:37,268 --> 00:40:39,937
(Bunny): Lee Perry used to work
with Coxsone.

599
00:40:41,689 --> 00:40:45,108
So when he started doing
his independent business,

600
00:40:45,276 --> 00:40:49,363
we admired him, because he follow
our footstep out of Coxsone.

601
00:40:54,452 --> 00:40:56,286
(man): My experience of "Scratch" is that,

602
00:40:56,454 --> 00:40:59,665
number one,
he's a very innovative producer.

603
00:40:59,832 --> 00:41:01,625
Very creative.

604
00:41:01,793 --> 00:41:04,503
I mean, to the point
that it became an excitement...

605
00:41:04,671 --> 00:41:08,423
to see him come into the studio
with a half flask of white rum...

606
00:41:08,591 --> 00:41:11,593
and sprinkle the four corners
of the studio with it.

607
00:41:11,761 --> 00:41:12,970
Flash.

608
00:41:13,137 --> 00:41:15,430
And then he would go into his little...

609
00:41:15,848 --> 00:41:18,183
You know, he would, like, dance.

610
00:41:18,351 --> 00:41:20,852
He didn't write music scores.
He would say, you know,

611
00:41:21,020 --> 00:41:22,396
"Snap, I want you to play this,"
you know?

612
00:41:22,563 --> 00:41:24,898
And he would just hop
through the music, you know?

613
00:41:25,066 --> 00:41:26,650
And they...
they would follow him.

614
00:41:28,277 --> 00:41:30,862
I would believe that his early
recordings with the Wailers

615
00:41:31,030 --> 00:41:33,240
were the best to my knowledge.

616
00:41:33,491 --> 00:41:36,702
Perry had a lot of influence
on Bob's, uh, career.

617
00:41:45,211 --> 00:41:49,798
These are the words of my master

618
00:41:52,343 --> 00:41:54,428
(Perry speaking)

619
00:42:03,062 --> 00:42:05,731
(man): Why do people like his music
so much though?

620
00:42:05,898 --> 00:42:08,316
(Perry speaking)

621
00:42:50,151 --> 00:42:51,651
- It is mentioned often in the Bible...

622
00:42:51,819 --> 00:42:56,031
that there shall be a music
that all people of all global concerns...

623
00:42:56,199 --> 00:42:58,533
shall play and dance
and sing this music.

624
00:42:58,701 --> 00:43:00,368
It's in the Revelation.

625
00:43:00,536 --> 00:43:02,245
What other music could that be?

626
00:43:03,664 --> 00:43:05,290
Reggae.

627
00:43:06,542 --> 00:43:10,003
- What really changed it to reggae...

628
00:43:10,171 --> 00:43:12,547
was the riff actually with the guitar.

629
00:43:13,091 --> 00:43:15,217
It just basically a rhythm change...

630
00:43:15,384 --> 00:43:17,594
in terms of what the guitar...

631
00:43:17,762 --> 00:43:20,138
the guitar used to play
like cha, cha, cha.

632
00:43:20,306 --> 00:43:22,891
And then it start playing
chaka, chaka, chaka, chaka.

633
00:43:33,736 --> 00:43:36,988
Yes my friend

634
00:43:38,991 --> 00:43:42,953
We're in the streets again

635
00:43:43,121 --> 00:43:46,623
Sometimes some of these things happen
out of just maybe an accident.

636
00:43:46,791 --> 00:43:50,001
Somebody was doing something
and the producer went, "Hey, I like that."

637
00:43:50,503 --> 00:43:53,171
Can set me free again

638
00:43:53,339 --> 00:43:58,051
(man): Coxsone had bought a piece
of equipment from the United States.

639
00:43:58,219 --> 00:44:00,637
And it was in the studio for a long time
and no one knew what to do with it.

640
00:44:01,347 --> 00:44:03,223
They decided to hook it up.

641
00:44:03,391 --> 00:44:06,643
And when it was hooked up,
they realized it was a tape delay.

642
00:44:06,811 --> 00:44:08,311
So when you make one strum,

643
00:44:08,479 --> 00:44:10,856
it comes back at you
at the same time. "Chicka."

644
00:44:11,566 --> 00:44:15,235
And the other studios heard "Chicka"...

645
00:44:15,403 --> 00:44:17,279
and thought it was a guitar
making more sounds.

646
00:44:17,446 --> 00:44:20,991
So reggae, to my mind, actually
developed out of an illusion.

647
00:44:23,369 --> 00:44:25,871
So if you a bullbucka

648
00:44:26,038 --> 00:44:28,039
Let me tell you this

649
00:44:28,583 --> 00:44:32,878
I'm a duppy conqueror

650
00:44:33,963 --> 00:44:34,921
Conqueror

651
00:44:35,089 --> 00:44:37,257
(Bunny): The beats are
bam, bam, bam, bam.

652
00:44:37,425 --> 00:44:40,260
With reggae you got three beats
out of four beats,

653
00:44:40,428 --> 00:44:41,970
and you imagine the next beat.

654
00:44:42,138 --> 00:44:44,431
Feel the next beat.
That's reggae.

655
00:44:44,599 --> 00:44:46,766
Feel. Heartbeat. Feel.

656
00:44:46,934 --> 00:44:49,519
(rhythmic vocalizing)

657
00:44:50,521 --> 00:44:52,898
(rhythmic vocalizing)

658
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:57,611
Yeah.

659
00:44:58,863 --> 00:45:00,363
Heartbeats.

660
00:45:01,616 --> 00:45:02,949
Real deal.

661
00:45:03,117 --> 00:45:07,370
- The basic parts of the music
were the drum and the bass.

662
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:13,168
Because, you know, drums are
the first instruments in music.

663
00:45:18,132 --> 00:45:20,550
So the drum is the heartbeat,

664
00:45:20,718 --> 00:45:23,178
and the bass, it is the backbone.

665
00:45:23,304 --> 00:45:26,139
(man): Well, I think
the drum and bass...

666
00:45:26,307 --> 00:45:28,391
play a very important part
in Bob's music.

667
00:45:28,559 --> 00:45:31,394
It was, you know, "Family Man"
and Carlton... two brothers.

668
00:45:31,562 --> 00:45:33,730
They have their own style.

669
00:45:33,898 --> 00:45:35,732
Stir it up

670
00:45:37,860 --> 00:45:39,903
Little darlin'

671
00:45:40,071 --> 00:45:41,363
Stir it up

672
00:45:42,782 --> 00:45:44,824
Come on baby

673
00:45:44,992 --> 00:45:49,412
(Barrett): Reggae is a concept
of all different type of music.

674
00:45:49,580 --> 00:45:53,291
You got funk.
You got rhythm and blues.

675
00:45:53,459 --> 00:45:55,794
You got soul.

676
00:45:55,962 --> 00:45:59,130
And then very jazzy when it's ready.

677
00:45:59,298 --> 00:46:01,675
It's been a long long time

678
00:46:03,219 --> 00:46:06,805
Since I've got you on my mind

679
00:46:08,724 --> 00:46:11,142
Whoa whoa whoo yeah

680
00:46:11,310 --> 00:46:14,187
And now you are here

681
00:46:14,355 --> 00:46:18,066
I say it's so clear

682
00:46:18,234 --> 00:46:21,653
To see what we could do baby

683
00:46:22,029 --> 00:46:23,822
Just me and you

684
00:46:23,990 --> 00:46:26,157
Come on and stir it up

685
00:46:28,536 --> 00:46:32,497
Little darlin'
Stir it up

686
00:46:33,708 --> 00:46:35,458
Come on baby

687
00:46:37,003 --> 00:46:39,671
Come on and stir it up

688
00:46:41,882 --> 00:46:45,927
Little darlin'
Stir it up

689
00:46:50,308 --> 00:46:53,643
- I was working with a company
called National Dry Cleaners.

690
00:46:53,811 --> 00:46:56,229
And I was in charge of a branch.

691
00:46:56,397 --> 00:46:59,190
And Rita came in one day
with some clothes to,

692
00:46:59,358 --> 00:47:01,067
you know, to be dry-cleaned.

693
00:47:01,235 --> 00:47:04,779
She gave out the clothes
and she said, "Rita Marley."

694
00:47:04,947 --> 00:47:06,948
So I was quite surprised,

695
00:47:07,116 --> 00:47:10,076
because, I mean, the only Marley I know
was the white Marleys.

696
00:47:10,244 --> 00:47:12,162
I call them the white Marleys.

697
00:47:12,330 --> 00:47:15,415
And, uh, so I said, "Who is Marley?"

698
00:47:15,583 --> 00:47:17,834
She said, "Well, that's my husband."

699
00:47:18,002 --> 00:47:19,794
And I said, "Who is his father?"

700
00:47:19,962 --> 00:47:23,631
She said she don't know much about him,
but she know they call him Captain Marley.

701
00:47:23,799 --> 00:47:25,592
And then I said, "That's my father."

702
00:47:28,220 --> 00:47:30,889
My mother used to work
in a boardinghouse,

703
00:47:31,057 --> 00:47:33,808
and my dad would stay there
when he comes from...

704
00:47:33,976 --> 00:47:38,063
from sea or wherever he goes,
and that's how she met him.

705
00:47:38,230 --> 00:47:41,024
(man): And did they have a long
relationship or was it very brief?

706
00:47:41,192 --> 00:47:43,026
- I think it was very brief.

707
00:47:44,236 --> 00:47:47,322
My mother didn't really know
what happened to him.

708
00:47:50,409 --> 00:47:53,119
(McDonald): In Jamaica,
used to have a big company.

709
00:47:53,287 --> 00:47:55,872
Established company
named Marley and Plant.

710
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:58,208
They did construction,
Marley and Plant.

711
00:47:58,376 --> 00:48:02,045
Most of the construction jobs
in and around the country.

712
00:48:02,213 --> 00:48:05,048
That was the company who did it.

713
00:48:05,216 --> 00:48:07,634
And he always said
those were his family.

714
00:48:07,802 --> 00:48:09,844
- Yeah, I remember one time, I think,

715
00:48:10,012 --> 00:48:13,223
him go to them to try borrow
some money to buy a car,

716
00:48:13,391 --> 00:48:17,560
you know, so they can
deliver the records.

717
00:48:17,728 --> 00:48:19,938
And the story goes,
when he walked in the office,

718
00:48:20,106 --> 00:48:23,775
like the whole staff turned around
'cause he looked so much like them.

719
00:48:23,943 --> 00:48:25,693
(laughs)

720
00:48:26,153 --> 00:48:28,196
- They told us to go away.

721
00:48:28,364 --> 00:48:31,908
They know nothing
about Norval having a baby.

722
00:48:32,076 --> 00:48:35,703
- Knowing my father, as I do, um,

723
00:48:35,871 --> 00:48:38,373
I don't know how strong
the word rejected is.

724
00:48:38,541 --> 00:48:42,377
But he might have
been rejected, for sure,

725
00:48:42,545 --> 00:48:47,757
because, um, a different era
and my father was a disciplinarian,

726
00:48:47,925 --> 00:48:50,468
and he was quite
a stern man in his own way.

727
00:48:50,886 --> 00:48:55,682
In those days Rastafarians weren't
as socially accepted as they are now.

728
00:48:57,601 --> 00:49:01,104
- He said to me, "When all this happened,
it gave me more strength...

729
00:49:01,272 --> 00:49:03,231
because I went to write a song."

730
00:49:03,399 --> 00:49:05,650
You know, write a song.
I said "What song?"

731
00:49:05,818 --> 00:49:08,236
He said, "Try to pick it up."
He said, "The stone the builder refuse.

732
00:49:08,404 --> 00:49:10,238
I'm the stone. I'm the one."

733
00:49:10,531 --> 00:49:14,909
(man): I just wanted to play you a song...
which we were told, Bob,

734
00:49:15,077 --> 00:49:18,580
after he went to see your father
and he felt rejected,

735
00:49:18,747 --> 00:49:20,915
he wrote this song
about that experience.

736
00:49:21,083 --> 00:49:23,168
I'm just very curious to know
what you think of it.

737
00:49:23,335 --> 00:49:27,255
- Oh, really? I'd be interested.
I'd be interested to hear it.

738
00:49:27,631 --> 00:49:31,384
(reggae)

739
00:49:39,435 --> 00:49:43,188
The stone that the builder refused

740
00:49:43,355 --> 00:49:46,816
Will always be the head cornerstone

741
00:49:46,984 --> 00:49:49,027
Sing it brother

742
00:49:57,411 --> 00:49:58,870
- Nice song.

743
00:49:59,872 --> 00:50:02,499
You're a builder baby

744
00:50:03,292 --> 00:50:05,793
Here I am a stone

745
00:50:08,214 --> 00:50:11,925
Don't you pick and refuse me

746
00:50:12,551 --> 00:50:14,802
'Cause the things people refuse

747
00:50:14,970 --> 00:50:17,347
Are the things they should use

748
00:50:17,515 --> 00:50:19,682
Do you hear me

749
00:50:19,850 --> 00:50:22,477
Hear what I say

750
00:50:22,645 --> 00:50:26,981
- I've heard this song before,
but I never placed any significance in it.

751
00:50:27,149 --> 00:50:31,444
But I can see where
what you're saying could be so.

752
00:50:31,612 --> 00:50:32,862
Mm-hmm.

753
00:50:34,365 --> 00:50:36,866
- Am I allowed to talk?
- Mm-hmm.

754
00:50:37,034 --> 00:50:40,203
- Yeah, how true that is.

755
00:50:40,371 --> 00:50:45,792
'Cause Bob put the Marley name
in the world, you know?

756
00:50:45,960 --> 00:50:50,838
He filled the world with the Marleys
by all his music and his children's.

757
00:50:51,966 --> 00:50:55,510
And he now becomes the Marley.

758
00:50:55,678 --> 00:50:58,054
You know what I mean?
He now becomes the Marley,

759
00:50:58,222 --> 00:51:01,975
and nobody knows what happened
to the rest that used to be so...

760
00:51:04,103 --> 00:51:06,104
adored and wonderful.

761
00:51:06,272 --> 00:51:08,898
They're in the background now,
and he's in the forefront.

762
00:51:09,066 --> 00:51:13,570
Isn't that amazing?
Yes. Yes. Truly.

763
00:51:15,489 --> 00:51:19,367
The stone that the builder refused

764
00:51:19,535 --> 00:51:23,788
Will always be the head cornerstone

765
00:51:25,124 --> 00:51:27,709
- I think what happened to him...
that rejection...

766
00:51:27,876 --> 00:51:31,087
that is why he was able
to reach the world.

767
00:51:31,255 --> 00:51:34,507
And I think there are so many people
out there that are hurting.

768
00:51:34,675 --> 00:51:37,760
So many people out there that have felt
what I have been through,

769
00:51:37,928 --> 00:51:43,600
and I have a message that can bring change
and transformation.

770
00:51:54,236 --> 00:51:57,363
No woman no cry

771
00:51:58,782 --> 00:52:02,160
No woman no cry

772
00:52:03,912 --> 00:52:07,123
No woman no cry

773
00:52:08,792 --> 00:52:12,045
No woman no cry

774
00:52:12,671 --> 00:52:13,921
'Cause 'cause

775
00:52:14,089 --> 00:52:17,717
'Cause I remember
when we used to sit

776
00:52:18,927 --> 00:52:21,804
In the government yard
in Trench Town

777
00:52:23,849 --> 00:52:28,353
Oba observing
the hypocrites yeah

778
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:33,066
Mingle with the good people
we meet yeah

779
00:52:33,233 --> 00:52:38,321
Good friends we have
Oh good friends we've lost

780
00:52:38,489 --> 00:52:42,700
Along the way yeah

781
00:52:42,868 --> 00:52:47,664
In this great future
you can't forget your past

782
00:52:47,831 --> 00:52:51,334
So dry your tears I say

783
00:52:51,502 --> 00:52:52,669
Yeah

784
00:52:52,836 --> 00:52:55,505
Everything's gonna be all right

785
00:52:55,673 --> 00:52:57,548
Everything's gonna be all right

786
00:52:57,716 --> 00:52:59,884
Everything's gonna be all right

787
00:53:00,052 --> 00:53:02,345
Everything's gonna be all right

788
00:53:02,513 --> 00:53:04,806
Everything's gonna be all right

789
00:53:04,973 --> 00:53:06,933
Everything's gonna be all right

790
00:53:07,101 --> 00:53:09,894
Everything's gonna be all right

791
00:53:10,062 --> 00:53:12,605
Everything's gonna be all right

792
00:53:12,773 --> 00:53:14,732
Everything's gonna be all right

793
00:53:14,900 --> 00:53:16,984
Everything's gonna be all right

794
00:53:17,152 --> 00:53:19,612
Everything's gonna be all right

795
00:53:19,780 --> 00:53:21,989
Everything's gonna be all right

796
00:53:22,157 --> 00:53:25,159
Everything's gonna be all right

797
00:53:28,622 --> 00:53:30,832
(audience cheering)

798
00:53:30,999 --> 00:53:34,001
(intro)

799
00:53:34,169 --> 00:53:36,421
(Blackwell): Somebody rang me and said,
"Oh, by the way,

800
00:53:36,588 --> 00:53:40,091
Bob Marley and the Wailers are in London.
Would you like to meet them?"

801
00:53:40,259 --> 00:53:42,552
I was intrigued to meet them
because, you know,

802
00:53:42,720 --> 00:53:44,846
you'd heard a lot about them by now.

803
00:53:48,934 --> 00:53:52,311
When they came in the office,
they were just really impressive.

804
00:53:52,479 --> 00:53:54,397
Very charismatic.

805
00:53:55,607 --> 00:53:59,152
I just said to go make an album
and asked them how much they thought.

806
00:53:59,319 --> 00:54:01,863
They told me, and I gave them
the money to do that.

807
00:54:04,908 --> 00:54:07,577
We took 4,000 pounds and
did the Catch a Fire album.

808
00:54:09,663 --> 00:54:11,873
(Blackwell): I was trying to get across
that this is a black rock act.

809
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:14,250
That's how I wanted it
to be perceived.

810
00:54:14,418 --> 00:54:16,627
Get up stand up

811
00:54:16,795 --> 00:54:19,630
Stand up for your rights

812
00:54:19,798 --> 00:54:22,759
Get up stand up

813
00:54:22,926 --> 00:54:25,470
Stand up for your rights

814
00:54:25,637 --> 00:54:27,805
Get up stand up

815
00:54:27,973 --> 00:54:30,850
And don't give up the fight

816
00:54:35,022 --> 00:54:38,941
My sense is that Bob
was ready to give it a try,

817
00:54:39,109 --> 00:54:40,401
and that the others weren't that keen.

818
00:54:44,198 --> 00:54:47,700
(Cole): The frame of mind that Bob was in,
he didn't mind it.

819
00:54:47,868 --> 00:54:50,161
He said, "I had to start somewhere."

820
00:54:50,329 --> 00:54:51,454
He always said it.

821
00:54:51,622 --> 00:54:53,664
"If you don't start somewhere,
you're not gonna get nowhere."

822
00:54:53,832 --> 00:54:56,209
Get up stand up

823
00:54:56,877 --> 00:54:58,503
Stand up for your rights

824
00:54:59,838 --> 00:55:01,422
Get up stand up

825
00:55:03,050 --> 00:55:05,676
(Chin): Bob wanted it to reach
not just the Jamaicans...

826
00:55:05,844 --> 00:55:08,554
Bob wanted it to reach
the American market.

827
00:55:08,722 --> 00:55:10,973
He wanted it to reach
the European market.

828
00:55:11,141 --> 00:55:13,810
And in order to do that,
you had to flavor it that way.

829
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:15,812
Stand up for your rights

830
00:55:17,231 --> 00:55:19,899
Get up stand up

831
00:55:20,067 --> 00:55:21,692
And don't give up the fight

832
00:55:28,534 --> 00:55:30,326
Ital.

833
00:55:30,494 --> 00:55:31,953
Irie.

834
00:55:34,331 --> 00:55:36,791
(Blackwell): The first record
is easily the most,

835
00:55:36,959 --> 00:55:39,502
for want of a better word, pasteurized.

836
00:55:39,670 --> 00:55:41,963
I added sort of different things into it.

837
00:55:42,130 --> 00:55:45,675
- All those guitars and the keyboards
are all overdubs.

838
00:55:55,978 --> 00:56:00,982
No sun will shine in my day today

839
00:56:02,150 --> 00:56:04,443
No sun will shine

840
00:56:05,904 --> 00:56:10,825
The high yellow moon
won't come out to play

841
00:56:10,993 --> 00:56:14,245
Won't come out to play

842
00:56:14,413 --> 00:56:19,166
I said darkness
has covered my light

843
00:56:21,003 --> 00:56:25,006
And has changed my day
into night yeah

844
00:56:26,300 --> 00:56:30,845
Where is the love to be found

845
00:56:32,055 --> 00:56:34,640
Won't someone tell me

846
00:56:34,808 --> 00:56:36,934
(Blackwell): I had no doubt
that it would succeed.

847
00:56:37,102 --> 00:56:38,978
I had no doubt.

848
00:56:39,146 --> 00:56:41,314
The only thing that
could stop it succeeding...

849
00:56:41,481 --> 00:56:43,357
is if I couldn't get them to tour.

850
00:56:43,525 --> 00:56:44,942
That was my only fear.

851
00:56:45,110 --> 00:56:46,861
Concrete jungle

852
00:56:47,029 --> 00:56:50,948
I say where the living is hardest

853
00:56:51,116 --> 00:56:52,408
(Cole): They went on this famous tour,

854
00:56:52,576 --> 00:56:54,493
and things went wrong.

855
00:56:54,661 --> 00:56:56,245
Things went sour.

856
00:56:56,413 --> 00:57:00,249
- We did a tour of England
of the Catch a Fire album,

857
00:57:00,417 --> 00:57:03,836
but no one told us that
it was a promotional tour,

858
00:57:04,004 --> 00:57:06,923
so we wouldn't be getting any money.

859
00:57:07,090 --> 00:57:09,050
(Cole): You're top group in Jamaica now,

860
00:57:09,217 --> 00:57:13,596
and you probably think that going
to England is going to be the same.

861
00:57:13,764 --> 00:57:15,264
Bob was more real.

862
00:57:15,432 --> 00:57:18,351
'Cause he said to me,
"Eh, nobody know the Wailers."

863
00:57:18,518 --> 00:57:21,687
- I think Bob recognized he needed
to get out there and do it,

864
00:57:21,855 --> 00:57:23,773
and I think the others were not sure.

865
00:57:23,941 --> 00:57:26,067
It's like grassroots, you know?

866
00:57:26,234 --> 00:57:29,779
You're on a bus all night,
schlepping up and down the motorway,

867
00:57:29,947 --> 00:57:31,822
eating terrible food.

868
00:57:31,990 --> 00:57:32,990
You know, it's rough.

869
00:57:33,909 --> 00:57:38,079
In the case of Bunny, I think he just
didn't want to be in the cold and the snow.

870
00:57:38,246 --> 00:57:40,665
He just... it just wasn't worth it to him.

871
00:57:44,378 --> 00:57:47,046
(Sims): Bob wanted success.

872
00:57:47,214 --> 00:57:49,465
Bunny and Peter were more militant.

873
00:57:49,633 --> 00:57:52,093
People wanted to separate them...

874
00:57:52,260 --> 00:57:56,472
because they didn't want
to deal with Bunny and Peter.

875
00:57:56,640 --> 00:57:58,891
- When you say people,
do you mean Island Records?

876
00:57:59,059 --> 00:58:00,393
- Of course.

877
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:03,062
- The American leg was next.

878
00:58:03,230 --> 00:58:06,607
So I said, "Are we going to get
some money out of this leg?"

879
00:58:06,817 --> 00:58:11,821
Chris Blackwell said, no, because
you're gonna be doing freak clubs.

880
00:58:11,989 --> 00:58:16,367
You know, a place where
all kinds of immoral, mix-up things.

881
00:58:16,535 --> 00:58:19,870
I say, "Chris
you know that we are Rastas.

882
00:58:20,038 --> 00:58:23,290
Why are you exposing us
to them kind of situations there?"

883
00:58:23,458 --> 00:58:26,836
"Well, if the Wailers don't do those clubs,
they're nobody."

884
00:58:27,212 --> 00:58:31,298
So I said, "Yeah?
So I'm not going on this tour.

885
00:58:31,466 --> 00:58:34,385
This leg, I'm coming off."

886
00:58:34,553 --> 00:58:36,595
And my brothers, I thought,
would have done the same...

887
00:58:36,763 --> 00:58:38,889
as the conversation affected them both.

888
00:58:39,683 --> 00:58:44,770
But I was left to look as if
I was the only cold front.

889
00:58:44,938 --> 00:58:49,066
So I hold my position anyway,
and still holds my position.

890
00:58:51,319 --> 00:58:53,112
(Bunny speaking)

891
00:59:02,998 --> 00:59:07,334
Stop that train I'm leaving

892
00:59:08,962 --> 00:59:13,632
Stop that train I'm leaving

893
00:59:15,177 --> 00:59:17,511
(McDonald): Peter was
a militant type of guy.

894
00:59:17,679 --> 00:59:20,723
And I think he didn't like
Chris Blackwell too much.

895
00:59:20,891 --> 00:59:24,060
He figured Chris Blackwell
was ripping them off.

896
00:59:25,479 --> 00:59:27,897
- Well, the time came about '74...

897
00:59:28,065 --> 00:59:30,900
when we did two L.P.'s
with Chris "Whitewell."

898
00:59:31,068 --> 00:59:34,028
And the way he intend to handle us...

899
00:59:34,196 --> 00:59:37,907
was like we were unprofessional,
or we were just beginners,

900
00:59:38,075 --> 00:59:40,242
which I did not appreciate.

901
00:59:40,410 --> 00:59:44,580
But after 12 years of being
a background vocalist with the Wailers,

902
00:59:44,748 --> 00:59:47,083
I didn't get much access of saying,

903
00:59:47,250 --> 00:59:49,794
or materializing what was in me.

904
00:59:49,961 --> 00:59:52,254
And that was totally
depreciating my ability.

905
00:59:52,422 --> 00:59:55,758
So I left because I need recognition

906
00:59:55,926 --> 00:59:57,843
and respect.

907
01:00:15,153 --> 01:00:19,073
(Ziggy): For us as his children
he wasn't like a lovey-dovey daddy.

908
01:00:19,241 --> 01:00:21,992
Uh, you know,
a daddy who would, you know...

909
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:24,245
"Oh, be careful, Son."

910
01:00:26,873 --> 01:00:28,249
Him was a rough man.

911
01:00:28,416 --> 01:00:30,751
Him was rough, you know?
Rough, rough, rough.

912
01:00:32,712 --> 01:00:34,380
(Bob speaking)

913
01:00:41,012 --> 01:00:43,639
(woman): We were always active.
You know, like, we're on the beach.

914
01:00:43,807 --> 01:00:46,642
We're running.
We're racing each other.

915
01:00:46,810 --> 01:00:49,270
It was always about racing
to see who could beat him.

916
01:00:50,230 --> 01:00:51,939
(Ziggy): I mean, there was
no let-up in him.

917
01:00:52,107 --> 01:00:55,151
There was no, like, "It's children.
Let me run slow."

918
01:00:55,318 --> 01:00:58,404
(whistles, laughs)

919
01:00:58,572 --> 01:01:01,782
The fastest he could run
against us he would.

920
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:05,786
- And then he would find it hilarious,
and we didn't find it so funny.

921
01:01:07,747 --> 01:01:10,166
Yeah, nobody wanted
their children around...

922
01:01:10,333 --> 01:01:11,750
...us.

923
01:01:14,379 --> 01:01:17,214
"Nasty. Drug heads.

924
01:01:17,382 --> 01:01:21,760
All your parents do
is smoke weed and play music.

925
01:01:21,928 --> 01:01:24,054
And therefore
my kid cannot play with you."

926
01:01:25,599 --> 01:01:27,141
So it wasn't a positive thing.

927
01:01:28,393 --> 01:01:30,895
I would have friends who, like,
basically if they want to sleep over,

928
01:01:31,062 --> 01:01:33,355
they would have to tell their parents
they were sleeping somewhere else.

929
01:01:34,691 --> 01:01:37,026
He said, "You don't need friends.

930
01:01:37,194 --> 01:01:39,236
You have your brothers and your sisters.

931
01:01:39,404 --> 01:01:41,447
And that's all you need.

932
01:01:42,866 --> 01:01:44,992
Don't ever think
you'd need friends."

933
01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:50,497
- I feel Bob worked through
so many different experiences in life...

934
01:01:50,665 --> 01:01:53,792
that I don't think him
trust people so easy.

935
01:01:54,794 --> 01:01:58,839
So it's like, "Who really love me?"

936
01:02:00,634 --> 01:02:03,761
Play I some music

937
01:02:03,929 --> 01:02:06,055
Reggae music

938
01:02:07,182 --> 01:02:12,228
Play I some music
Dis a reggae music

939
01:02:14,272 --> 01:02:16,815
Roots rock reggae

940
01:02:16,983 --> 01:02:19,318
Dis a reggae music

941
01:02:20,946 --> 01:02:23,197
Roots rock reggae

942
01:02:24,282 --> 01:02:26,033
Dis a reggae music

943
01:02:26,409 --> 01:02:31,038
- Well, the harmony didn't change because
then Bob took hold of The I-Threes.

944
01:02:31,414 --> 01:02:33,916
Because he still wanted
to maintain that sound.

945
01:02:35,252 --> 01:02:38,420
I can't refuse it

946
01:02:38,588 --> 01:02:42,800
- And Bob invited us
to do the Natty Dread tour.

947
01:02:42,968 --> 01:02:44,885
Feel like dancing

948
01:02:45,053 --> 01:02:47,137
- From the very first show
it was just...

949
01:02:47,305 --> 01:02:49,515
(sucks teeth)

950
01:02:49,683 --> 01:02:50,891
dynamite.

951
01:02:51,476 --> 01:02:55,896
I

952
01:02:57,065 --> 01:02:58,816
Rebel music

953
01:02:58,984 --> 01:03:01,610
- We sold out everything.
We're just doing clubs.

954
01:03:02,279 --> 01:03:04,863
But like the Paul's Mall in Boston...

955
01:03:05,031 --> 01:03:06,949
we did like something
like six nights straight.

956
01:03:08,827 --> 01:03:10,577
Rebel music

957
01:03:15,292 --> 01:03:20,796
It's that experience in a 400-seater,
500-seater at the Roxy.

958
01:03:20,964 --> 01:03:23,966
The Quiet Knight in Chicago,
another 500.

959
01:03:24,134 --> 01:03:26,135
That was the time to see Bob Marley,

960
01:03:26,303 --> 01:03:30,514
'cause you were as close to him
as I am to you now.

961
01:03:31,766 --> 01:03:33,684
(man): All the way from
Trench Town, Jamaica,

962
01:03:33,852 --> 01:03:35,144
Bob Marley and the Wailers.

963
01:03:35,312 --> 01:03:37,521
Come on!
(audience cheering)

964
01:03:42,819 --> 01:03:46,488
(Blackwell): This concert they did
in London in 1975... the Lyceum...

965
01:03:46,656 --> 01:03:48,407
that was the tipping point.

966
01:03:48,575 --> 01:03:51,410
After that, everybody knew his name.

967
01:03:51,703 --> 01:03:55,873
There was that sense
that he's about to be massive.

968
01:04:01,546 --> 01:04:04,548
Firstly, it was packed.
Over packed.

969
01:04:07,093 --> 01:04:09,887
When you're at a concert
and you've managed to get in,

970
01:04:10,055 --> 01:04:12,681
and there are X hundred people
outside who can't get in,

971
01:04:12,849 --> 01:04:14,016
you already feel great.

972
01:04:14,184 --> 01:04:16,018
And that energy you have

973
01:04:16,186 --> 01:04:18,187
spreads to the band
when they come on stage.

974
01:04:18,355 --> 01:04:20,856
And so they feel something.
And it was one of those things.

975
01:04:21,024 --> 01:04:24,026
It was just... just explosive.

976
01:04:24,194 --> 01:04:28,072
- When he walked on stage and he felt
the crowd moving the theater,

977
01:04:28,239 --> 01:04:30,741
it was like, "Yes."
You know, finally.

978
01:04:31,701 --> 01:04:34,620
No woman no cry

979
01:04:37,707 --> 01:04:40,417
No woman no cry

980
01:04:44,464 --> 01:04:47,049
No woman no cry

981
01:04:50,095 --> 01:04:52,721
No woman no cry

982
01:04:54,391 --> 01:04:56,558
Said said

983
01:04:56,726 --> 01:05:00,687
Said I remember
when we used to sit

984
01:05:02,148 --> 01:05:06,235
In the government yard
in Trench Town

985
01:05:08,738 --> 01:05:13,075
Oba observing the hypocrites

986
01:05:13,243 --> 01:05:16,078
- This was owned by Chris Blackwell.

987
01:05:16,246 --> 01:05:17,746
It was called Island House.

988
01:05:17,914 --> 01:05:21,792
And he had several of his friends
and associates who really lived here.

989
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:24,795
Not like an apartment building,
but people who knew each other.

990
01:05:24,963 --> 01:05:28,215
You know, they're occupied
downstairs and upstairs.

991
01:05:28,383 --> 01:05:31,969
Chris made this available
for Bob to rehearse.

992
01:05:32,137 --> 01:05:34,346
And eventually, over time,

993
01:05:34,514 --> 01:05:36,640
Bob bought it from Chris.

994
01:05:36,808 --> 01:05:39,643
- Well, Rastas weren't allowed uptown,

995
01:05:39,811 --> 01:05:44,314
and, until Bob moved in,
there were no dreadlocks there.

996
01:05:44,482 --> 01:05:46,108
- A woman said to Bob,

997
01:05:46,276 --> 01:05:48,777
"How come you live at 56 Hope Road,

998
01:05:48,945 --> 01:05:53,365
which is two doors up from King's House
where the governor lives,

999
01:05:53,533 --> 01:05:57,661
and three doors up from Jamaica House
where the prime minister lives?"

1000
01:05:57,829 --> 01:06:02,291
And Bob just said,
"Sister, I bring the ghetto uptown."

1001
01:06:07,630 --> 01:06:12,801
One of the people who live here
prior to Bob was Cindy Breakspeare.

1002
01:06:12,969 --> 01:06:16,388
And she lived there
with her brother Reds.

1003
01:06:16,556 --> 01:06:20,642
- I loved the accommodation because I loved
the old house with the wooden floors,

1004
01:06:20,810 --> 01:06:22,603
and, you know, it was just lovely.

1005
01:06:23,271 --> 01:06:25,856
Cool and breezy, and it was great.

1006
01:06:31,279 --> 01:06:33,906
There's always a stream
of people up and down,

1007
01:06:34,073 --> 01:06:38,535
and shouting and laughter
and just general carrying on.

1008
01:06:39,621 --> 01:06:41,705
You were right in the mix.

1009
01:06:41,873 --> 01:06:45,501
The most important thing culturally that
was happening in Jamaica at that time...

1010
01:06:45,668 --> 01:06:47,169
was happening right there.

1011
01:06:48,463 --> 01:06:51,590
That was the headquarters.
That was the center of it all.

1012
01:06:51,758 --> 01:06:54,384
Bob never left 56 Hope Road.

1013
01:06:54,552 --> 01:06:58,555
People come from
all over the world to see him.

1014
01:06:58,723 --> 01:07:01,391
(man): Did you live at Hope Road
with your dad?

1015
01:07:01,559 --> 01:07:03,727
No, we lived probably a couple
of miles from Hope Road.

1016
01:07:03,895 --> 01:07:06,313
- Right.
- 'Cause Hope Road was really...

1017
01:07:08,107 --> 01:07:10,025
I don't know. It was a spot.

1018
01:07:11,778 --> 01:07:13,820
(Garrick): Rasta is an open-door thing.

1019
01:07:13,988 --> 01:07:16,365
Nobody not checking your credentials.

1020
01:07:16,533 --> 01:07:18,617
So all kinds of people
come in to Hope Road.

1021
01:07:18,785 --> 01:07:20,827
Good, bad and indifferent.

1022
01:07:21,621 --> 01:07:24,540
(Mowatt): Every time you go to
56 Hope Road,

1023
01:07:24,707 --> 01:07:27,376
you would see a lot of people
gather with Bob... reasoning,

1024
01:07:27,544 --> 01:07:29,378
talking about politics,

1025
01:07:29,546 --> 01:07:31,046
talking about God,

1026
01:07:31,214 --> 01:07:33,632
talking about history.

1027
01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:35,342
You know, talking about everything.

1028
01:07:36,261 --> 01:07:40,055
- Bob was very strict.
Him run this thing like an army.

1029
01:07:40,223 --> 01:07:42,224
We call him "Skipper."

1030
01:07:42,392 --> 01:07:46,478
You see, the thing is, we had
certain strict rules at that time.

1031
01:07:46,646 --> 01:07:50,232
Woman supposed to wear dress,
not pants.

1032
01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:51,567
So you had those kind...

1033
01:07:51,734 --> 01:07:53,902
Don't come in with
what we call war paint.

1034
01:07:54,070 --> 01:07:57,948
Lipstick and eye shadow.
And this is a roots saying kinda,

1035
01:07:58,116 --> 01:07:59,575
if you wanna come round Rasta,

1036
01:07:59,742 --> 01:08:02,536
then you have to throw away
those Babylonian things.

1037
01:08:03,162 --> 01:08:06,623
(Breakspeare): It was a camp
with rules and doctrines...

1038
01:08:06,791 --> 01:08:10,836
and tenets to live by,
and it was serious.

1039
01:08:11,546 --> 01:08:15,007
(Garrick): Bob was very, like,
health conscious with him foods.

1040
01:08:15,174 --> 01:08:19,595
(Mowatt): The blender would always be
going with excellent juices.

1041
01:08:19,762 --> 01:08:22,347
Irish moss on the fire.
Fish tea going.

1042
01:08:22,515 --> 01:08:24,975
You know, everything
to make you strong.

1043
01:08:30,023 --> 01:08:32,774
- When I met him,
we started a routine.

1044
01:08:32,942 --> 01:08:36,028
My routine was getting up
in the mornings, training,

1045
01:08:36,195 --> 01:08:38,280
do a lot of running,
exercise, go to the beach.

1046
01:08:38,448 --> 01:08:41,033
So it became an integral part
of our lifestyle.

1047
01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:44,786
- The whole Rasta thing
is based on eternal life

1048
01:08:44,954 --> 01:08:46,622
and taking care of your body.

1049
01:08:46,789 --> 01:08:48,290
It's the temple of the Lord.

1050
01:08:49,125 --> 01:08:51,376
And we'd run on the beach
and then up this mountain

1051
01:08:51,544 --> 01:08:54,796
to a place called Cane River Falls.
Incredible waterfalls.

1052
01:08:54,964 --> 01:08:56,548
I shot some video up there.

1053
01:08:56,716 --> 01:09:01,136
'Cause every day we pay the price
with a little sacrifice

1054
01:09:01,304 --> 01:09:03,513
Jammin' till the jam is through

1055
01:09:05,141 --> 01:09:06,725
We're jammin'

1056
01:09:08,227 --> 01:09:10,979
(Garrick): Cane River,
we went up there, really,

1057
01:09:11,147 --> 01:09:14,650
to get the waterfall
beat on your back.

1058
01:09:14,817 --> 01:09:17,402
It was like the best massage
you can get.

1059
01:09:20,531 --> 01:09:24,242
This spot we're standing on now
was a stadium.

1060
01:09:24,410 --> 01:09:25,827
This was a football field.

1061
01:09:31,167 --> 01:09:33,210
So we had like two goal posts.

1062
01:09:33,378 --> 01:09:35,379
You know, like small scrimmage.

1063
01:09:35,546 --> 01:09:37,923
The most we ever played
was five-a-side scrimmage.

1064
01:09:38,091 --> 01:09:39,383
So you had one there.

1065
01:09:39,550 --> 01:09:41,677
Then we had one down the back here.

1066
01:09:41,844 --> 01:09:43,011
So, I'd say maybe...

1067
01:09:43,179 --> 01:09:45,931
"Wow, that's a small field
when you look at it."

1068
01:09:46,099 --> 01:09:47,849
Probably was what, 40 yards?

1069
01:09:50,978 --> 01:09:54,898
In everything that Bob does,
very competitive.

1070
01:09:55,066 --> 01:09:58,985
So, you know, everything
he really gave it 110%.

1071
01:10:06,119 --> 01:10:07,786
- He had a passion.

1072
01:10:07,954 --> 01:10:10,580
Everything I did with a ball,
he would try to do it.

1073
01:10:13,876 --> 01:10:15,627
(Smith): He just didn't play
for the fun of it.

1074
01:10:15,795 --> 01:10:17,796
This was always part
of the process, you know?

1075
01:10:17,964 --> 01:10:20,257
Before he writes a song
he'd burn a spliff.

1076
01:10:20,425 --> 01:10:23,927
Then you go run,
so you can lively up yourself.

1077
01:10:24,095 --> 01:10:27,055
And then you get more inspired
so the lyrics can come out.

1078
01:10:31,144 --> 01:10:34,438
(Bob): I play everywhere.

1079
01:10:34,605 --> 01:10:36,440
Anywhere it is possible, you know?

1080
01:10:36,607 --> 01:10:38,400
(chuckling)

1081
01:10:48,703 --> 01:10:51,163
(Breakspeare): He began to come and visit.

1082
01:10:51,330 --> 01:10:54,166
You just hear these footsteps come
running up the steps in the evening,

1083
01:10:54,333 --> 01:10:58,003
always when the football was over
and place kind of quiet down, you know?

1084
01:10:58,171 --> 01:11:00,922
And there's nobody to really see
the little moves that you're making.

1085
01:11:01,090 --> 01:11:03,091
'Cause in the day the place
is teeming with people,

1086
01:11:03,259 --> 01:11:06,803
so you can't be too overt
because you'd be outed instantly.

1087
01:11:09,182 --> 01:11:11,057
(man speaking)

1088
01:11:11,225 --> 01:11:13,435
(Bob speaking)

1089
01:11:28,367 --> 01:11:31,077
(reggae intro)

1090
01:11:32,538 --> 01:11:35,749
I went downtown
I went downtown

1091
01:11:35,917 --> 01:11:39,002
I saw Miss Brown
Said I saw Miss Brown

1092
01:11:39,170 --> 01:11:42,506
She had brown sugar
Had brown sugar

1093
01:11:42,673 --> 01:11:45,967
All over her booga-wooga
Over her booga-wooga

1094
01:11:46,135 --> 01:11:49,429
Think I might join the fun
Think I might join the fun

1095
01:11:49,597 --> 01:11:52,474
But I had to hit and run
But I had to hit and run

1096
01:11:52,642 --> 01:11:55,852
See I just can't settle down

1097
01:11:56,020 --> 01:11:58,522
In a kinky part of town

1098
01:11:58,689 --> 01:11:59,856
Ride on

1099
01:12:00,024 --> 01:12:01,316
(man): When did you first meet Bob?

1100
01:12:01,484 --> 01:12:02,776
- I see Bob every day.

1101
01:12:02,944 --> 01:12:05,612
Bob live on Second Street.
I live on First Street.

1102
01:12:05,780 --> 01:12:08,657
Ride on
See I just won't settle down

1103
01:12:08,825 --> 01:12:10,534
Ride on
Everybody

1104
01:12:10,701 --> 01:12:13,161
(Williams):
I would take no notice of him...

1105
01:12:13,329 --> 01:12:16,915
because he would bother me,
and I would go and tell my mother.

1106
01:12:17,083 --> 01:12:19,417
(man): How old were you?
- Sixteen.

1107
01:12:19,585 --> 01:12:21,419
Take me away

1108
01:12:21,587 --> 01:12:23,713
Kinky reggae now

1109
01:12:23,881 --> 01:12:25,882
(man): What did he do
when he paid you attention?

1110
01:12:26,050 --> 01:12:30,095
(Williams): Like stuff like,
"Don't give it away. I'm growing you."

1111
01:12:30,263 --> 01:12:31,555
"Remember, don't have
any boyfriend before me."

1112
01:12:31,722 --> 01:12:34,140
Stuff like that.

1113
01:12:34,308 --> 01:12:36,685
(man): Was he charming?
- Oh, yes.

1114
01:12:40,147 --> 01:12:43,149
(vocalizing)

1115
01:12:43,317 --> 01:12:45,068
- Why were so many girls attracted to him?

1116
01:12:45,236 --> 01:12:48,154
- Oh, my God.
(laughs)

1117
01:12:48,322 --> 01:12:49,656
You don't know Bob.

1118
01:12:51,284 --> 01:12:52,534
That's a handsome guy.

1119
01:12:52,702 --> 01:12:56,580
I went down to Piccadilly Circus

1120
01:12:56,747 --> 01:13:01,001
- People have visions of women
beating down the door to get at Bob Marley.

1121
01:13:01,168 --> 01:13:03,920
- Je... (laughing)
- Grabbing clothes.

1122
01:13:04,088 --> 01:13:06,965
- Is it like that?
- No.

1123
01:13:07,133 --> 01:13:09,968
(interviewer): Why was he so successful
with women?

1124
01:13:10,136 --> 01:13:12,137
- Because he was shy.

1125
01:13:13,431 --> 01:13:15,599
Bob is not the womanizer...

1126
01:13:15,766 --> 01:13:18,602
that people make him out to be.

1127
01:13:18,978 --> 01:13:21,187
I think more, the women came at him.

1128
01:13:21,397 --> 01:13:23,940
That why they say
Nice one

1129
01:13:24,108 --> 01:13:25,942
Was he faithful?
(woman): To whom? God?

1130
01:13:26,110 --> 01:13:28,445
To Jah? Yes, he was faithful to Jah.

1131
01:13:28,613 --> 01:13:31,573
Faithful to any one woman?
No.

1132
01:13:31,741 --> 01:13:34,034
Why? Somebody own him?

1133
01:13:35,578 --> 01:13:38,163
What is fidelity?
Western ideology, you know.

1134
01:13:38,331 --> 01:13:40,457
A ring on your finger,
a ring through your nose?

1135
01:13:40,625 --> 01:13:43,209
That's for Western men, man.

1136
01:13:43,377 --> 01:13:45,128
They can only handle
one woman at a time.

1137
01:13:45,296 --> 01:13:46,796
Bob could handle more.

1138
01:13:51,427 --> 01:13:54,596
(Williams): One day a lady
came to me and she said,

1139
01:13:54,764 --> 01:13:56,890
"Didn't anyone tell you
that Bob was married?"

1140
01:13:57,058 --> 01:13:59,100
And I didn't know.

1141
01:13:59,268 --> 01:14:01,728
- For a time there I never knew
that he was legally married.

1142
01:14:02,813 --> 01:14:05,941
I did come to know.
Eventually, his mom told me.

1143
01:14:06,108 --> 01:14:08,109
(interviewer): Did he see Rita
at all at that time?

1144
01:14:08,277 --> 01:14:10,570
- Sure. I mean,
they worked together, you know.

1145
01:14:10,738 --> 01:14:12,405
Toured the world together.

1146
01:14:13,699 --> 01:14:16,993
- When we were on tour,
Rita had her own room.

1147
01:14:17,161 --> 01:14:19,287
She was not with Bob.

1148
01:14:20,206 --> 01:14:21,790
She would see everything that goes on.

1149
01:14:21,958 --> 01:14:26,211
But she had maximum respect
for the work.

1150
01:14:29,131 --> 01:14:30,799
- How did you cope
through all the years

1151
01:14:30,967 --> 01:14:32,425
that you were married together,

1152
01:14:32,593 --> 01:14:35,637
and Bob was having these relationships
with other women?

1153
01:14:35,805 --> 01:14:38,765
(chuckles)
- I became his... his guardian angel.

1154
01:14:38,933 --> 01:14:40,976
(laughing)
And then by that time,

1155
01:14:41,143 --> 01:14:44,104
I was past the surface
of being just a wife.

1156
01:14:45,022 --> 01:14:49,067
Because of the importance
of who I knew Bob is.

1157
01:14:50,403 --> 01:14:52,904
I didn't see it as a fun trip.
We were on a mission.

1158
01:14:53,072 --> 01:14:56,366
It was like an evangelist campaign...

1159
01:14:56,534 --> 01:14:58,618
to bring people closer to Jah.

1160
01:15:00,663 --> 01:15:03,957
(Cedella): They had this...
this bond, you know?

1161
01:15:04,125 --> 01:15:07,669
I wouldn't...
I mean, you know,

1162
01:15:07,837 --> 01:15:09,546
if that was my husband,
I wouldn't.

1163
01:15:12,049 --> 01:15:15,510
(Rita): We never fought about women.
We would never get into that.

1164
01:15:16,387 --> 01:15:18,054
He would come and say to me,

1165
01:15:18,222 --> 01:15:20,932
"Rita, I did this,"
or "This is what happened."

1166
01:15:21,809 --> 01:15:25,270
I was the one that he would call
to get women out of his dressing room...

1167
01:15:25,438 --> 01:15:27,105
when it get to that stage.

1168
01:15:27,273 --> 01:15:30,692
"Come up for my room.
Come and get these people out for me."

1169
01:15:30,860 --> 01:15:32,861
And I would do that gracefully.

1170
01:15:33,029 --> 01:15:34,738
"Come on, ladies. It's bedtime.

1171
01:15:34,905 --> 01:15:36,823
We have a show tomorrow, so..."

1172
01:15:37,533 --> 01:15:40,368
- She wouldn't get upset, you know,

1173
01:15:40,536 --> 01:15:41,578
but...

1174
01:15:43,330 --> 01:15:45,457
there were times when, you know,

1175
01:15:45,624 --> 01:15:47,250
you knew she was hurting.

1176
01:15:48,252 --> 01:15:49,669
Hurt all of us.

1177
01:15:51,172 --> 01:15:53,131
And that's what he didn't like.

1178
01:15:53,758 --> 01:15:56,593
He didn't like it when, like,
we knew that she was hurt,

1179
01:15:56,761 --> 01:15:59,012
and it showed on us.

1180
01:15:59,180 --> 01:16:01,056
That's when, "Okay,
we're going for ice cream.

1181
01:16:01,223 --> 01:16:03,558
We're going for burgers.
What do you want?"

1182
01:16:03,976 --> 01:16:06,394
(interviewer): Do you think
that he was being selfish?

1183
01:16:06,562 --> 01:16:09,773
- Yes. It's not fair to no woman.

1184
01:16:10,900 --> 01:16:12,650
That is not fair at all,

1185
01:16:12,818 --> 01:16:16,196
but we still couldn't hate him for it.

1186
01:16:16,363 --> 01:16:17,363
(laughs)

1187
01:16:21,452 --> 01:16:24,245
(audience applauding)

1188
01:16:33,714 --> 01:16:37,300
(man reporting): In the capital of Kingston
there are rival shantytown ghettos...

1189
01:16:37,468 --> 01:16:40,970
where whole communities
are divided along sectarian lines.

1190
01:16:41,138 --> 01:16:42,555
These zones are controlled

1191
01:16:42,723 --> 01:16:45,308
by the prime minister's
People's National Party,

1192
01:16:45,476 --> 01:16:47,727
who are accused
of being communists,

1193
01:16:47,895 --> 01:16:49,813
or by the opposition
Jamaica Labour Party,

1194
01:16:49,980 --> 01:16:52,023
who are accused of being fascists.

1195
01:16:53,317 --> 01:16:56,027
- Politics in Jamaica at that time...

1196
01:16:56,195 --> 01:17:00,824
was like an East-West confrontation,
which was scary.

1197
01:17:00,991 --> 01:17:05,954
You have one side which is kind
of more ultra-conservative, right wing,

1198
01:17:06,122 --> 01:17:07,914
which is Seaga,

1199
01:17:08,082 --> 01:17:10,500
who was like Reagan's man
in the Caribbean.

1200
01:17:10,668 --> 01:17:13,962
And then Manley
was trying to work a system...

1201
01:17:14,130 --> 01:17:16,881
called democratic socialism,

1202
01:17:17,049 --> 01:17:18,675
which other parties say,

1203
01:17:18,843 --> 01:17:21,678
"That's just a disguise for
saying you are a communist."

1204
01:17:22,012 --> 01:17:25,014
(reporter): Sometimes it's only insults
or stones and bottles...

1205
01:17:25,182 --> 01:17:26,683
thrown from one side to the other.

1206
01:17:26,851 --> 01:17:28,935
But often it's bombs and bullets,

1207
01:17:29,103 --> 01:17:32,063
and almost every day the newspapers
carry fresh reports...

1208
01:17:32,231 --> 01:17:34,732
of the previous day's killings in Kingston.

1209
01:17:34,900 --> 01:17:38,820
(Rita): The whole thing became
like a gangster thing.

1210
01:17:38,988 --> 01:17:40,864
Political gangster.

1211
01:17:41,031 --> 01:17:43,700
- These were the guys
who kept things in line

1212
01:17:43,868 --> 01:17:45,994
for the M.P.s, you know.

1213
01:17:46,162 --> 01:17:51,833
So you find that in some areas,
the real power is enforcers.

1214
01:17:52,001 --> 01:17:54,669
- You like this girl...
that's both of us.

1215
01:17:54,837 --> 01:17:57,338
You like her, and I like her.
We start to fight over her.

1216
01:17:57,506 --> 01:18:02,093
It's like that.
He like P.N.P. You like J.L.P.

1217
01:18:02,261 --> 01:18:03,803
You wanna fight for your P.N.P.

1218
01:18:05,514 --> 01:18:07,974
- Bob was friends
with all of those guys.

1219
01:18:08,142 --> 01:18:12,020
All of the bad guys from
the Labour Party was Bob friend.

1220
01:18:12,188 --> 01:18:15,064
Likewise, all the bad guys
from the P.N.P.

1221
01:18:16,275 --> 01:18:17,942
(Smith): These are guys
that come from...

1222
01:18:18,110 --> 01:18:20,320
the same neighborhood
he grew up with.

1223
01:18:20,487 --> 01:18:23,031
These are really bad guys.
(laughing)

1224
01:18:23,199 --> 01:18:24,866
'Cause you might see some guys, yeah,

1225
01:18:25,034 --> 01:18:28,953
and then tomorrow you'd take up
the Jamaican paper,

1226
01:18:29,121 --> 01:18:30,705
you'd see the 10-most-wanted list...

1227
01:18:30,873 --> 01:18:33,458
four of the guys that were on it
are already dead.

1228
01:18:33,626 --> 01:18:34,959
There are now five.
(laughing)

1229
01:18:36,545 --> 01:18:38,838
Some of them actually
love the music, you know,

1230
01:18:39,006 --> 01:18:41,591
but their main thing is, you know...
(laughing)

1231
01:18:41,759 --> 01:18:44,344
warfare and badness, you know.

1232
01:18:45,387 --> 01:18:48,306
(Bob speaking)

1233
01:19:01,237 --> 01:19:07,075
- Bob did a concert
with Stevie Wonder in Jamaica,

1234
01:19:07,243 --> 01:19:11,204
and they actually performed
two songs together.

1235
01:19:11,372 --> 01:19:14,082
I think very "Superstitious,"
which Bob knew,

1236
01:19:14,250 --> 01:19:17,043
and "I Shot the Sheriff."

1237
01:19:18,128 --> 01:19:21,047
(Wonder):
I shot the sheriff

1238
01:19:22,258 --> 01:19:26,678
But I did not shoot the deputy

1239
01:19:28,305 --> 01:19:30,974
(Garrick): Stevie made a gesture
by giving, I think,

1240
01:19:31,141 --> 01:19:33,142
half of his pay for the show...

1241
01:19:33,310 --> 01:19:36,479
to the Salvation Army
blind school in Jamaica,

1242
01:19:36,647 --> 01:19:39,983
and I think Bob
was moved by that.

1243
01:19:40,150 --> 01:19:44,362
And Bob said,
"Well, we'll give a free concert."

1244
01:19:44,530 --> 01:19:47,031
They took that idea

1245
01:19:47,199 --> 01:19:48,366
to Michael Manley,

1246
01:19:48,534 --> 01:19:51,411
who was just down the road...
the prime minister...

1247
01:19:51,578 --> 01:19:53,955
and they were, like,
enthused about it.

1248
01:19:54,373 --> 01:19:58,418
(man reporting): Bob Marley, the world's
leading exponent of reggae music,

1249
01:19:58,585 --> 01:20:02,213
has agreed to appear in a major
free concert to be held for the benefit...

1250
01:20:02,381 --> 01:20:05,049
of the Jamaican people in Kingston
on Sunday, December 5.

1251
01:20:05,217 --> 01:20:08,720
The announcement was made at
a press conference held at Jamaica House...

1252
01:20:08,887 --> 01:20:10,972
by Marley, his manager Don Taylor...

1253
01:20:11,140 --> 01:20:13,308
and the parliamentary secretary
in charge of cultural information,

1254
01:20:13,475 --> 01:20:14,892
Arnold Bertram.

1255
01:20:15,311 --> 01:20:17,228
(Blackwell): Well, I think
he got tricked into it,

1256
01:20:17,396 --> 01:20:20,106
'cause he rang me and asked me
if I thought he should do the concert.

1257
01:20:20,274 --> 01:20:24,861
I said, "Well, if it's the prime minister,
then you're doing it for the country.

1258
01:20:25,029 --> 01:20:26,946
But if there's going to be
an election soon,

1259
01:20:27,114 --> 01:20:30,366
then you're doing it for him
rather than the country."

1260
01:20:30,826 --> 01:20:33,995
(man reporting): Two weeks following
that announcement on November 22,

1261
01:20:34,163 --> 01:20:36,039
Jamaica's prime minister,
Michael Manley,

1262
01:20:36,206 --> 01:20:39,417
called new general elections
for December 15.

1263
01:20:39,710 --> 01:20:43,755
- If we knew that election was going
to happen in that space of time,

1264
01:20:43,922 --> 01:20:45,882
we'd have never done that concert.

1265
01:20:46,925 --> 01:20:48,926
(Bob speaking)

1266
01:20:52,598 --> 01:20:54,390
(man): So with the upcoming election,

1267
01:20:54,558 --> 01:20:57,810
you don't really want to think about
or care who wins?

1268
01:20:57,978 --> 01:20:59,562
(Bob)

1269
01:21:02,858 --> 01:21:05,651
- Remember, Bob is becoming
very popular,

1270
01:21:05,819 --> 01:21:08,071
and whoever side Bob seems to be on,

1271
01:21:08,238 --> 01:21:10,239
that's the side people gonna be on.

1272
01:21:10,449 --> 01:21:12,200
- Hell, Bob had a lot of control

1273
01:21:12,368 --> 01:21:14,160
down there in Jamaica, man,
you know?

1274
01:21:14,328 --> 01:21:16,454
And them politicians didn't like that.

1275
01:21:16,622 --> 01:21:21,292
- Bob, I think, had overexposed
himself on the political side,

1276
01:21:21,460 --> 01:21:24,879
and that was bound to draw
the anger of some others...

1277
01:21:25,047 --> 01:21:26,547
because he had friends
on both sides.

1278
01:21:26,715 --> 01:21:29,759
- The thing was, like,
you have to be on one side.

1279
01:21:29,927 --> 01:21:31,677
You have to be on some side.

1280
01:21:31,845 --> 01:21:34,931
You can't be in the middle,
or you can get hurt.

1281
01:21:39,520 --> 01:21:42,063
(Garrick): We'd feel a little kind
of tension,

1282
01:21:42,231 --> 01:21:44,273
but, you know,
the politics kind of getting hot.

1283
01:21:46,110 --> 01:21:48,945
(Mowatt): There were people saying
that they heard...

1284
01:21:49,113 --> 01:21:51,572
that they were gonna
shoot up the concert.

1285
01:21:52,074 --> 01:21:57,495
(Kinsey): People in the group, you know,
the musicians and The I-Threes...

1286
01:21:57,663 --> 01:22:01,749
every day, as it would get closer
to this day of the concert...

1287
01:22:02,209 --> 01:22:05,253
...people was feeling hesitant
about doing it.

1288
01:22:05,587 --> 01:22:07,880
They had a fear for it.

1289
01:22:11,468 --> 01:22:14,429
(Mowatt): Every night there would be
rehearsal at 56 Hope Road...

1290
01:22:14,596 --> 01:22:16,556
for the concert.

1291
01:22:18,725 --> 01:22:21,102
(Garrick): We usually had two guys...

1292
01:22:21,270 --> 01:22:23,604
from equivalent to the Secret Service.

1293
01:22:23,772 --> 01:22:25,481
They call them the Protective Service.

1294
01:22:25,649 --> 01:22:28,818
They, like, protect the prime minister
and stuff.

1295
01:22:28,986 --> 01:22:32,947
And they used to come every night,
but they never came that night.

1296
01:22:34,032 --> 01:22:37,285
- We had took a break, so everybody
was kind of floating around.

1297
01:22:38,078 --> 01:22:41,956
Don Taylor, Bob and myself...

1298
01:22:42,124 --> 01:22:43,583
was in the kitchen.

1299
01:22:45,836 --> 01:22:49,046
- I was in the car, you know,
getting ready to come out.

1300
01:22:49,214 --> 01:22:52,008
I see some men going up the steps.

1301
01:22:52,176 --> 01:22:56,929
- The gunman approached
from the side here...

1302
01:22:57,097 --> 01:23:00,349
and kind of pushed his gun
through here.

1303
01:23:00,517 --> 01:23:03,728
- Well, you see a black glove
with a gun in it pointing up,

1304
01:23:03,896 --> 01:23:06,856
you know... there was nowhere else
to go in the kitchen...

1305
01:23:07,024 --> 01:23:09,192
'cause we just, like, at the wall.

1306
01:23:10,944 --> 01:23:13,613
- And then I heard the gunshots.

1307
01:23:15,115 --> 01:23:17,742
(gunshots)

1308
01:23:21,079 --> 01:23:24,665
- Then they turned the gun on the car.
(gunshots)

1309
01:23:24,833 --> 01:23:27,543
I felt the warmest of blood running down,

1310
01:23:27,711 --> 01:23:29,879
and then I realized I was shot.

1311
01:23:30,047 --> 01:23:33,758
- The cat just kept on shooting, man,
till he ran out of bullets.

1312
01:23:33,926 --> 01:23:35,510
- The one hold a gun to my head,

1313
01:23:35,677 --> 01:23:37,762
and one said to the other one,
"Everybody dead?"

1314
01:23:37,930 --> 01:23:40,473
And the other said, "Yeah, man,
everybody dead. Everybody dead."

1315
01:23:40,641 --> 01:23:43,017
- Next thing I see
Don Taylor come out, man,

1316
01:23:43,185 --> 01:23:45,686
and, like, blood pouring out of him
like ketchup, man.

1317
01:23:46,396 --> 01:23:48,481
And then he finally collapsed
right there on the floor.

1318
01:23:48,649 --> 01:23:50,191
I'm, like, "Man!"

1319
01:23:50,359 --> 01:23:52,985
- And I'm shouting out for Bob,
and then I heard a voice...

1320
01:23:53,153 --> 01:23:56,280
who I recognized as Carly Barrett...
coming from.

1321
01:23:56,448 --> 01:23:58,074
He said, "Bob is all right.

1322
01:23:59,159 --> 01:24:00,701
Bob is all right."

1323
01:24:02,996 --> 01:24:05,122
He had a burn right...

1324
01:24:05,290 --> 01:24:07,875
the bullet traveled right here...

1325
01:24:08,043 --> 01:24:09,835
and actually lodged in his arm.

1326
01:24:12,005 --> 01:24:15,967
- It's just a miracle, man,
that nobody died from that, man.

1327
01:24:16,134 --> 01:24:18,427
(interviewer): So, it wasn't really
a professional hit?

1328
01:24:18,595 --> 01:24:20,805
- Well, as professional as Jamaica is.

1329
01:24:20,973 --> 01:24:23,307
They watch a lot of movies.
(chuckles)

1330
01:24:23,475 --> 01:24:26,018
(siren wailing)

1331
01:24:26,186 --> 01:24:27,562
(man reporting): Here now is
a special item of news.

1332
01:24:28,897 --> 01:24:31,732
Entertainer and reggae star,
Bob Marley,

1333
01:24:31,900 --> 01:24:34,902
Rita Marley and the manager
of The Wailers, Don Taylor,

1334
01:24:35,070 --> 01:24:37,071
are now patients
in the University Hospital

1335
01:24:37,239 --> 01:24:38,990
after receiving gunshot wounds...

1336
01:24:39,157 --> 01:24:41,576
during a shooting incident tonight.

1337
01:24:48,083 --> 01:24:50,710
(Bob speaking)

1338
01:25:02,180 --> 01:25:04,140
- That's one thing for sure...

1339
01:25:04,308 --> 01:25:07,435
that they was trying to stop
that concert from happening.

1340
01:25:07,603 --> 01:25:10,354
- The whole thing about whether
the concert was gonna happen or not,

1341
01:25:10,522 --> 01:25:12,857
there was so much pressure,
there was pressure from everywhere.

1342
01:25:13,650 --> 01:25:15,985
- I was just scared Bob
would get assassinated.

1343
01:25:20,282 --> 01:25:21,991
(man reporting): In the twilight
inside the arena,

1344
01:25:22,159 --> 01:25:23,951
the crowd is fenced off...

1345
01:25:24,119 --> 01:25:27,371
and armed police are positioned
all around the park.

1346
01:25:27,539 --> 01:25:29,373
Five hours after the concert
was due to begin,

1347
01:25:29,541 --> 01:25:33,586
the star, Bob Marley,
is still not there.

1348
01:25:33,754 --> 01:25:36,380
(Jobson): Some were trying to say,
"Bob, don't go.

1349
01:25:36,548 --> 01:25:39,634
They didn't get you.
They may try for you again."

1350
01:25:39,801 --> 01:25:42,970
- Everyone saying,
"You really wanna do it, boss?"

1351
01:25:43,138 --> 01:25:45,097
And he was saying... he said, "Yes."

1352
01:25:45,265 --> 01:25:47,183
- I said, "Hey, you know,
I'm with you, man.

1353
01:25:47,351 --> 01:25:49,393
If you wanna do it, let's do it."

1354
01:25:49,561 --> 01:25:52,188
(Mowatt): The police came for him
and took him down,

1355
01:25:52,356 --> 01:25:55,483
and we were in the car
right behind the police vehicle.

1356
01:25:55,651 --> 01:25:57,485
(shouting)

1357
01:26:01,281 --> 01:26:06,494
- When I got there, I couldn't
believe the situation, man.

1358
01:26:06,662 --> 01:26:08,871
This is at night in Kingston.

1359
01:26:09,039 --> 01:26:12,333
You got, like, 80,000 people, man.
You know what I mean?

1360
01:26:12,501 --> 01:26:16,629
If somebody wanted to try to get you,
here's, like, a perfect situation.

1361
01:26:16,797 --> 01:26:18,673
(crowd cheering)

1362
01:26:24,846 --> 01:26:27,723
But it was a special night, man.
It was a special moment, man.

1363
01:26:27,891 --> 01:26:32,937
(woman): Come on, people!
We got a band to see play tonight.

1364
01:26:33,105 --> 01:26:35,272
Come on!
(shouts)

1365
01:26:35,440 --> 01:26:38,734
(Jobson)

1366
01:26:38,902 --> 01:26:40,069
- Whoo!

1367
01:26:44,950 --> 01:26:47,201
(Bob): Yeah.

1368
01:26:47,369 --> 01:26:49,245
(song starts)

1369
01:26:49,413 --> 01:26:51,205
(Mowatt): Bob was not afraid.

1370
01:26:51,373 --> 01:26:56,585
Bob knew that if anything happens
while he's doing his work,

1371
01:26:56,753 --> 01:26:59,004
he know that the almighty God
is protect him.

1372
01:27:00,048 --> 01:27:01,841
Oh children

1373
01:27:02,008 --> 01:27:04,009
(With The I-Three)
In Jamaica

1374
01:27:05,762 --> 01:27:08,139
In Jamaica yow

1375
01:27:09,599 --> 01:27:13,060
- If you lacked faith before then,

1376
01:27:13,228 --> 01:27:16,021
you could not deny it after that, man.

1377
01:27:16,189 --> 01:27:18,274
Almighty

1378
01:27:18,442 --> 01:27:20,234
Almighty

1379
01:27:20,402 --> 01:27:23,946
Oh, Lord, help us
Tonight

1380
01:27:24,114 --> 01:27:27,658
Cast away evil
The evil spell

1381
01:27:27,826 --> 01:27:30,453
Throw some water in the well

1382
01:27:30,620 --> 01:27:34,290
And smile in Jamaica

1383
01:27:36,084 --> 01:27:38,085
In Jamaica, yow

1384
01:27:39,880 --> 01:27:42,131
In Jamaica

1385
01:27:43,467 --> 01:27:45,342
In Jamaica yow

1386
01:28:02,527 --> 01:28:05,112
In Jamaica

1387
01:28:06,281 --> 01:28:08,741
In Jamaica yow

1388
01:28:10,076 --> 01:28:12,703
In Jamaica

1389
01:28:14,080 --> 01:28:15,831
In Jamaica yow

1390
01:28:32,182 --> 01:28:34,058
(ends)
(crowd cheering)

1391
01:28:35,852 --> 01:28:37,561
(man)

1392
01:28:49,449 --> 01:28:51,283
(Bob speaking)

1393
01:28:55,372 --> 01:28:57,122
(man)

1394
01:28:57,290 --> 01:28:58,499
(Bob)

1395
01:28:58,667 --> 01:29:01,001
(Bob chuckling)

1396
01:29:04,714 --> 01:29:09,009
- After the shooting, he was...
I wouldn't say scared, but just hurt.

1397
01:29:09,177 --> 01:29:11,762
Too hurt to face Jamaica.

1398
01:29:11,930 --> 01:29:15,766
- I was the one who escaped with him
out of Jamaica after the shooting.

1399
01:29:15,934 --> 01:29:17,351
Yeah... me and him.

1400
01:29:17,602 --> 01:29:20,062
He didn't say a word
the whole way through.

1401
01:29:22,023 --> 01:29:26,068
(Rita): We went to Nassau first,
and then he went on to London.

1402
01:29:26,278 --> 01:29:28,195
Don't worry

1403
01:29:29,155 --> 01:29:30,656
About a thing

1404
01:29:33,285 --> 01:29:35,369
'Cause every little thing

1405
01:29:35,537 --> 01:29:38,163
Gonna be all right

1406
01:29:39,541 --> 01:29:40,749
Singing don't worry

1407
01:29:42,627 --> 01:29:44,253
About a thing

1408
01:29:46,506 --> 01:29:48,424
'Cause every little thing

1409
01:29:48,592 --> 01:29:50,801
Gonna be all right

1410
01:29:50,969 --> 01:29:53,846
(Breakspeare): I think he just wanted
to take a break.

1411
01:29:54,014 --> 01:29:55,973
He wanted to not be
looking over his shoulder.

1412
01:29:56,141 --> 01:29:57,725
He wanted not to be dealing
with the problem,

1413
01:29:57,893 --> 01:30:00,561
not dealing with the controversy.

1414
01:30:00,729 --> 01:30:03,022
He just wanted some
free head space to work,

1415
01:30:03,189 --> 01:30:04,982
to make music, to tour.

1416
01:30:05,150 --> 01:30:07,902
Singing sweet songs

1417
01:30:08,069 --> 01:30:10,905
- We moved immediately
into Chelsea area.

1418
01:30:11,072 --> 01:30:12,239
Oakley Street.

1419
01:30:12,407 --> 01:30:15,993
It was a great experience because

1420
01:30:16,161 --> 01:30:17,661
we're all together...

1421
01:30:17,829 --> 01:30:19,747
in this house.

1422
01:30:19,915 --> 01:30:22,249
- Well, on each floor
there was a different musician.

1423
01:30:22,417 --> 01:30:24,585
There was, uh, Tyrone Downie
on one floor,

1424
01:30:24,753 --> 01:30:26,420
Carlton Barrett on another floor,

1425
01:30:26,588 --> 01:30:28,631
"Family Man" Barrett on another floor,

1426
01:30:28,798 --> 01:30:31,133
Alvin "Seeco" Patterson on another floor.

1427
01:30:31,301 --> 01:30:34,094
Neville Garrick, I think,
was in the basement sharing with somebody.

1428
01:30:35,180 --> 01:30:38,641
- We were a stone's throw
from Battersea Park Bridge.

1429
01:30:38,975 --> 01:30:43,020
Once we went over the bridge,
then you had a football field.

1430
01:30:43,188 --> 01:30:46,231
We even played against
some National Front guys.

1431
01:30:46,399 --> 01:30:49,234
We whupped them a couple of times.
(laughing)

1432
01:30:49,402 --> 01:30:50,903
(whistles blowing)

1433
01:30:51,071 --> 01:30:52,488
(interviewer): Did he feel like
he was in exile?

1434
01:30:52,656 --> 01:30:53,948
- Yeah, man.

1435
01:30:54,115 --> 01:30:58,410
But Bob was, like, deeply
into creation of music.

1436
01:30:58,578 --> 01:31:02,039
That's how I think
he satisfied his soul.

1437
01:31:03,041 --> 01:31:06,085
(Marvin): Bob's life was spared,
and he was very happy to be alive.

1438
01:31:06,920 --> 01:31:08,629
See, Jah gave him another chance.

1439
01:31:10,256 --> 01:31:13,550
(Breakspeare): He was also confronted
by his mortality.

1440
01:31:13,718 --> 01:31:18,222
And when you think that these might be
your last opportunities to do anything,

1441
01:31:18,390 --> 01:31:22,226
you place a greater value
on every moment,

1442
01:31:22,394 --> 01:31:24,436
every second of every moment
of every day.

1443
01:31:24,604 --> 01:31:27,940
There is no time.
We've got no time to lose.

1444
01:31:29,192 --> 01:31:32,152
(Marvin): He slept basically
about four hours a day.

1445
01:31:32,320 --> 01:31:34,238
And he was always writing a song.

1446
01:31:34,406 --> 01:31:37,032
You know, you'd be up all night writing,
and then he'd go...

1447
01:31:37,200 --> 01:31:38,993
I'd say, "Oh, Bob.
I've gotta go get some sleep now."

1448
01:31:39,160 --> 01:31:40,619
He'd go, "Just half an hour more."

1449
01:31:40,787 --> 01:31:42,705
Half an hour would turn into
four hours, you know.

1450
01:31:42,872 --> 01:31:44,456
(laughing)

1451
01:31:44,624 --> 01:31:48,085
(Garrick): Bob liked to write
early in the morning.

1452
01:31:48,253 --> 01:31:51,171
Come the morning,
him have this gravelly voice, you know,

1453
01:31:51,339 --> 01:31:53,674
like kind of Rod Stewart-ish
kind of thing.

1454
01:31:53,842 --> 01:31:56,885
(Bob vocalizing)

1455
01:32:02,767 --> 01:32:05,269
(Mowatt): He would be working out
the melody, working out the melody,

1456
01:32:05,437 --> 01:32:07,813
and then the lyrics
would come after.

1457
01:32:09,065 --> 01:32:13,068
Would that leave you there

1458
01:32:13,236 --> 01:32:16,697
There's something I have to play

1459
01:32:16,865 --> 01:32:19,867
It's that way every day

1460
01:32:21,244 --> 01:32:24,121
Children mark my word

1461
01:32:24,289 --> 01:32:26,999
It's what the Bible say

1462
01:32:30,336 --> 01:32:32,963
(drumroll, band)

1463
01:32:35,842 --> 01:32:39,261
(man announcing):
And Miss World 1976...

1464
01:32:39,429 --> 01:32:41,180
is Miss Jamaica!

1465
01:32:41,347 --> 01:32:42,473
(screaming)
(audience applauding)

1466
01:32:42,640 --> 01:32:46,185
(man 2): And the Royal Albert Hall
is in uproar.

1467
01:32:46,352 --> 01:32:48,312
Incredible! Cindy Breakspeare.

1468
01:32:48,480 --> 01:32:51,106
The 21 -year-old health club operator
gets the sash.

1469
01:32:51,274 --> 01:32:53,275
I think she's as overwhelmed as anyone.

1470
01:32:53,443 --> 01:32:55,027
- At the time I won Miss World,

1471
01:32:55,195 --> 01:32:57,362
Bob was not yet
a household name in England.

1472
01:32:57,530 --> 01:32:59,490
But because he was now tied to me,

1473
01:32:59,657 --> 01:33:03,118
and Miss World was
definitely a household name,

1474
01:33:03,286 --> 01:33:06,371
we kind of... we complemented
each other very nicely.

1475
01:33:06,748 --> 01:33:09,416
(man 2): Cindy completely overwhelmed
by the emotion of the moment.

1476
01:33:09,584 --> 01:33:14,797
And Wilnelia Merced
crowns the new Miss World 1976.

1477
01:33:16,257 --> 01:33:20,219
(Breakspeare): It was considered quite...
(chuckling)

1478
01:33:20,386 --> 01:33:22,346
(interviewer): Outrageous?
- Yeah, that's a good word.

1479
01:33:22,514 --> 01:33:24,264
"Outrageous" works.

1480
01:33:24,432 --> 01:33:28,727
But Bob loved the achievement, you know?
He loved the achievement.

1481
01:33:28,895 --> 01:33:32,606
I don't think there's a man alive
who doesn't want to get "the girl."

1482
01:33:32,774 --> 01:33:34,149
And so...
(laughing)

1483
01:33:34,317 --> 01:33:35,776
(interviewer laughing)

1484
01:33:39,948 --> 01:33:42,658
(interviewer): Would he have liked it
if you had become a Rasta?

1485
01:33:43,576 --> 01:33:46,745
Um, yes, I think
he would have liked it.

1486
01:33:46,913 --> 01:33:49,873
Things would always come up.

1487
01:33:50,041 --> 01:33:51,875
Uh, how you present yourself
as a woman.

1488
01:33:52,043 --> 01:33:54,795
What's appropriate wear,
cover your hair, this, that.

1489
01:33:54,963 --> 01:33:59,091
Here I am on the train coming in
from all parts out of London,

1490
01:33:59,259 --> 01:34:01,844
and, you know, they've got
this tiny little triangular sink

1491
01:34:02,011 --> 01:34:05,764
in the bathroom on the train,
and I'm washing all the make-up off.

1492
01:34:07,058 --> 01:34:09,852
Anyway, one night
I wasn't able to do that,

1493
01:34:10,019 --> 01:34:12,020
and I came home in full regalia...

1494
01:34:12,188 --> 01:34:15,691
red nails, fur coat, fully made up.

1495
01:34:15,859 --> 01:34:18,819
And no sooner than I walked
through the front door and closed it,

1496
01:34:18,987 --> 01:34:20,988
he walked in behind.

1497
01:34:21,156 --> 01:34:25,367
I turned around, he looked at me and said,
"Ah, I catch you."

1498
01:34:34,043 --> 01:34:35,794
I wanna love you

1499
01:34:37,630 --> 01:34:39,673
And treat you right

1500
01:34:39,841 --> 01:34:42,050
I wanna love you

1501
01:34:44,262 --> 01:34:46,889
Every day and every night

1502
01:34:47,307 --> 01:34:49,808
We'll be together

1503
01:34:52,061 --> 01:34:55,063
With a roof right over our heads

1504
01:34:55,231 --> 01:34:57,524
We'll share the shelter

1505
01:35:00,612 --> 01:35:03,197
Of my single bed

1506
01:35:03,364 --> 01:35:06,575
We'll share the same room
Yeah

1507
01:35:08,786 --> 01:35:11,872
For Jah provide the bread

1508
01:35:12,040 --> 01:35:14,917
Is this love is this love is this love

1509
01:35:15,084 --> 01:35:18,378
Is this love that I'm feelin'

1510
01:35:20,089 --> 01:35:23,050
Is this love is this love is this love

1511
01:35:23,218 --> 01:35:26,303
Is this love that I'm feelin'

1512
01:35:29,807 --> 01:35:31,516
(Garrick): Exodus was huge.

1513
01:35:31,684 --> 01:35:33,644
That was our biggest album
ever there.

1514
01:35:33,811 --> 01:35:36,980
Just mash up Europe,
and it's tearing down America.

1515
01:35:37,148 --> 01:35:38,649
They're waiting for us.

1516
01:35:38,816 --> 01:35:41,026
- And then the American tour
was canceled...

1517
01:35:41,194 --> 01:35:44,279
because Bob was having
problems with his toe.

1518
01:35:44,447 --> 01:35:47,407
- Somebody stepped on it
with their spike boots.

1519
01:35:49,160 --> 01:35:52,037
And then it started to get infected...

1520
01:35:52,205 --> 01:35:55,082
because Bob would still play football
the next day on it...

1521
01:35:55,250 --> 01:35:56,625
and the next day.

1522
01:35:56,793 --> 01:36:00,003
- And that went on for some time...

1523
01:36:00,171 --> 01:36:02,923
before they realized what it really was.

1524
01:36:03,091 --> 01:36:09,429
- They came up with a definitive
diagnosis of melanoma.

1525
01:36:09,597 --> 01:36:12,349
- And they tested
and they found out that...

1526
01:36:12,517 --> 01:36:16,061
that was more like
a white person sort of sickness.

1527
01:36:16,229 --> 01:36:18,272
It wasn't coming from a black source.

1528
01:36:18,439 --> 01:36:22,859
It was the whiteness in him
that allowed it to get this bad.

1529
01:36:24,821 --> 01:36:26,613
(interviewer): What did they recommend
he should do about it?

1530
01:36:26,781 --> 01:36:30,158
- They recommended
disarticulation at the hip.

1531
01:36:30,326 --> 01:36:32,953
In other words,
remove the entire leg.

1532
01:36:33,121 --> 01:36:36,915
(interviewer): The doctor in England
told him he had to cut his whole leg off.

1533
01:36:37,083 --> 01:36:38,458
Was that...
Do you remember that?

1534
01:36:38,626 --> 01:36:39,960
- No.

1535
01:36:40,128 --> 01:36:42,713
Had to cut off his... his toe.

1536
01:36:44,090 --> 01:36:45,841
It was definitely not his leg.

1537
01:36:46,009 --> 01:36:50,053
- A lot of people told Bob
that once you cut your toe off...

1538
01:36:50,221 --> 01:36:51,513
your big toe especially...

1539
01:36:51,681 --> 01:36:53,348
you won't be able to dance anymore.

1540
01:36:53,516 --> 01:36:57,602
- He loved football, so...

1541
01:36:57,770 --> 01:37:00,188
I think the thought
of having his toe amputated

1542
01:37:00,356 --> 01:37:01,732
was just unacceptable to him.

1543
01:37:01,899 --> 01:37:05,777
- So, this other doctor
we saw in Miami said,

1544
01:37:05,945 --> 01:37:08,113
"No, it's not necessary.

1545
01:37:08,281 --> 01:37:10,991
We can just take off a portion of it.

1546
01:37:11,159 --> 01:37:12,993
We don't have to remove the whole toe.

1547
01:37:13,161 --> 01:37:16,204
You can just take off the whole nail bed,
and you know,

1548
01:37:16,372 --> 01:37:17,956
it wouldn't be necessary."

1549
01:37:19,917 --> 01:37:24,379
(Sims): He got very bad advice
from the people that was around him.

1550
01:37:39,187 --> 01:37:41,021
(laughs)

1551
01:37:43,983 --> 01:37:46,318
Until the philosophy

1552
01:37:46,486 --> 01:37:48,862
Which hold one race superior

1553
01:37:49,030 --> 01:37:50,530
And another

1554
01:37:52,575 --> 01:37:53,950
Inferior

1555
01:37:55,411 --> 01:37:56,870
Is finally

1556
01:37:58,414 --> 01:38:00,415
And permanently

1557
01:38:01,376 --> 01:38:03,210
Discredited

1558
01:38:04,087 --> 01:38:06,088
And abandoned

1559
01:38:06,255 --> 01:38:09,007
Well everywhere is war

1560
01:38:09,967 --> 01:38:11,385
Me say war

1561
01:38:13,054 --> 01:38:15,389
And until there's no longer

1562
01:38:15,556 --> 01:38:18,350
First-class nor second-class citizens

1563
01:38:18,518 --> 01:38:20,102
Of any nation

1564
01:38:21,396 --> 01:38:24,272
Until the color of a man's skin

1565
01:38:24,440 --> 01:38:26,566
Is of no more significance

1566
01:38:26,734 --> 01:38:29,111
Than the color of his eyes

1567
01:38:29,278 --> 01:38:31,196
I've got to say war

1568
01:38:32,698 --> 01:38:35,617
War in the east

1569
01:38:35,785 --> 01:38:37,536
War in the west

1570
01:38:38,246 --> 01:38:40,163
War up north

1571
01:38:40,998 --> 01:38:42,624
War down south

1572
01:38:43,960 --> 01:38:46,044
This a war

1573
01:38:47,713 --> 01:38:49,464
War
(shouting)

1574
01:38:49,632 --> 01:38:51,466
War

1575
01:38:52,343 --> 01:38:53,510
War

1576
01:38:53,678 --> 01:38:55,720
(siren wailing)

1577
01:38:57,056 --> 01:38:59,391
(Seaga): There was a movement
to bring Bob back...

1578
01:38:59,559 --> 01:39:01,601
because it was felt
that he had the potential...

1579
01:39:01,769 --> 01:39:05,897
to heal the very strong
division that existed.

1580
01:39:06,065 --> 01:39:07,816
(shouting)

1581
01:39:07,984 --> 01:39:09,651
- The government was begging...

1582
01:39:09,819 --> 01:39:12,446
because they said Jamaica
is lost without Bob Marley.

1583
01:39:12,613 --> 01:39:14,698
We can't say, "Bob is in exile."

1584
01:39:14,866 --> 01:39:18,743
So they got one of their main leader,
Claudie Massop,

1585
01:39:18,911 --> 01:39:21,079
to speak to Bob.

1586
01:39:21,914 --> 01:39:24,583
- This guy, he was from
the other side of the party...

1587
01:39:24,750 --> 01:39:25,959
Claudie Massop.

1588
01:39:26,127 --> 01:39:28,253
And the next one named Tek-Life.

1589
01:39:28,421 --> 01:39:30,964
I don't remember his right name,
but we call him Tek-Life.

1590
01:39:31,132 --> 01:39:36,636
They went up to England to pursue Bob
to come down, back to Jamaica.

1591
01:39:36,804 --> 01:39:39,055
- Bob sent for them, in a way,

1592
01:39:39,223 --> 01:39:43,143
to come up, and so they would be on...
away from Jamaica,

1593
01:39:43,311 --> 01:39:45,312
away from that political influence,

1594
01:39:45,480 --> 01:39:47,939
and they could reason
among themselves.

1595
01:39:48,524 --> 01:39:51,860
(Welch): The two guys who went up there
for him was on the opposition.

1596
01:39:52,028 --> 01:39:54,362
So I would represent the other side,

1597
01:39:54,530 --> 01:39:56,615
so if he say "I don't come,"

1598
01:39:56,782 --> 01:39:59,367
then he ain't coming back to Jamaica.

1599
01:39:59,535 --> 01:40:01,620
So I have to go to England.

1600
01:40:04,749 --> 01:40:08,293
(interviewer): Of those people,
how many are still alive?

1601
01:40:09,962 --> 01:40:11,671
- One.

1602
01:40:12,590 --> 01:40:14,633
The one you're speaking to.

1603
01:40:16,260 --> 01:40:18,720
We Jah people

1604
01:40:18,888 --> 01:40:21,223
Can make it work

1605
01:40:23,017 --> 01:40:25,018
Come together

1606
01:40:26,562 --> 01:40:28,563
And make it work yeah

1607
01:40:30,483 --> 01:40:33,360
I'm singing that we

1608
01:40:33,528 --> 01:40:36,112
Can make it work

1609
01:40:36,280 --> 01:40:38,073
(Jobson): Bob started doing that song
which is,

1610
01:40:38,241 --> 01:40:40,700
"We, Jah people, shall come together
and make it work."

1611
01:40:40,868 --> 01:40:43,495
Then they decided to have a concert,
they'd just have a peace concert.

1612
01:40:44,872 --> 01:40:46,248
- Last month a truce was arranged...

1613
01:40:46,415 --> 01:40:49,793
between the rival political factions
in Kingston, Jamaica.

1614
01:40:49,961 --> 01:40:53,547
A peace conference was arranged,
to be preceded by a peace concert...

1615
01:40:53,714 --> 01:40:55,382
for the people in a very large park.

1616
01:40:55,550 --> 01:40:58,009
They expect over
a hundred thousand people there.

1617
01:40:58,177 --> 01:41:01,972
Bob Marley was invited to headline
this peace concert.

1618
01:41:02,139 --> 01:41:04,015
Marley has accepted...

1619
01:41:04,183 --> 01:41:06,726
and will return to Kingston, Jamaica.

1620
01:41:06,894 --> 01:41:08,895
Bob, why are you
returning to Jamaica?

1621
01:41:09,063 --> 01:41:10,897
- Well, my life not important to me.

1622
01:41:11,065 --> 01:41:12,941
Other people life important.

1623
01:41:13,109 --> 01:41:15,819
My life is only important
if me can help plenty people.

1624
01:41:15,987 --> 01:41:19,114
If my life is just me and my own security,
then me don't want it.

1625
01:41:19,282 --> 01:41:22,826
My life is for people, as many is.

1626
01:41:31,377 --> 01:41:33,003
(crowd cheering)

1627
01:41:35,798 --> 01:41:38,883
(Jobson): Busloads of people
went out to the airport.

1628
01:41:39,051 --> 01:41:40,719
They stormed the runway.

1629
01:41:40,886 --> 01:41:42,971
(Marvin): When the plane landed,

1630
01:41:43,139 --> 01:41:45,432
they jumped over the barriers
and ran towards the plane,

1631
01:41:45,600 --> 01:41:48,393
which was similar to what happened
when Haile Selassie came to Jamaica.

1632
01:41:55,943 --> 01:41:58,778
(crowd cheering)

1633
01:42:00,781 --> 01:42:04,618
(Seaga): It was amazing to see
this stadium of 30,000 people.

1634
01:42:04,785 --> 01:42:07,078
People who were opposed politically...

1635
01:42:07,246 --> 01:42:09,205
were sitting beside each other.

1636
01:42:09,373 --> 01:42:11,458
(song starts)

1637
01:42:22,637 --> 01:42:25,805
I wanna jam with you

1638
01:42:25,973 --> 01:42:29,100
I really wanna jam it with you

1639
01:42:30,144 --> 01:42:32,312
I wanna jam with you

1640
01:42:33,481 --> 01:42:35,315
I really wanna jam it

1641
01:42:35,483 --> 01:42:37,067
I really wanna jam

1642
01:42:37,234 --> 01:42:40,695
I wanna jam with you

1643
01:42:40,863 --> 01:42:43,823
Whoa
I hope you like jammin' too

1644
01:42:43,991 --> 01:42:46,368
Well, oh, well-well
Oh, well

1645
01:42:47,662 --> 01:42:49,788
(vocalizes, echoing)

1646
01:42:49,955 --> 01:42:52,040
I wanna jam it with you
Yeah

1647
01:42:52,208 --> 01:42:55,001
Ooh. Just let me
tell you something else.

1648
01:42:55,169 --> 01:42:57,879
Yeah.
Hope you like jammin' too

1649
01:42:58,047 --> 01:43:02,050
To make everything come true,
we got to be together.

1650
01:43:02,218 --> 01:43:04,844
Yeah. Yeah.
I wanna jam it with you

1651
01:43:05,012 --> 01:43:07,806
And to the spirit of the most high,

1652
01:43:07,973 --> 01:43:11,810
His Imperial Majesty,
Emperor Haile Selassie I,

1653
01:43:11,977 --> 01:43:15,063
from writing to...

1654
01:43:15,231 --> 01:43:17,482
leading people...

1655
01:43:17,650 --> 01:43:19,734
of the slavery to be here...

1656
01:43:19,902 --> 01:43:21,403
to shake hands.

1657
01:43:21,570 --> 01:43:24,406
Show the people that you love them right

1658
01:43:24,573 --> 01:43:28,743
Show the people that you gonna unite

1659
01:43:28,911 --> 01:43:31,871
Show the people that we're all right

1660
01:43:32,039 --> 01:43:34,999
Show the people
that everything is all right

1661
01:43:35,167 --> 01:43:36,960
(Marvin): I actually played
a wrong note.

1662
01:43:37,128 --> 01:43:38,503
(off-key note)

1663
01:43:38,671 --> 01:43:40,714
He started singing,
"Whoa, watch what you're doing."

1664
01:43:40,881 --> 01:43:43,633
Watch watch watch
watch watch watch watch

1665
01:43:43,801 --> 01:43:45,427
Watch what you're doing

1666
01:43:45,594 --> 01:43:47,345
- Everybody thought he was trying
to tell the people out there,

1667
01:43:47,513 --> 01:43:50,098
"Watch what you're doing."
But he was really talking to me.

1668
01:43:54,895 --> 01:43:56,396
- He was very spiritual.

1669
01:43:56,564 --> 01:43:58,523
This was like, "Hey."

1670
01:44:02,111 --> 01:44:04,738
I'm trying to say

1671
01:44:04,905 --> 01:44:06,406
Could we have...

1672
01:44:06,574 --> 01:44:09,826
Could we have up here, on stage here,

1673
01:44:09,994 --> 01:44:14,789
the presence of Mr. Michael Manley
and Mr. Edward Seaga?

1674
01:44:14,957 --> 01:44:16,624
Whoa

1675
01:44:18,127 --> 01:44:20,462
I just want to shake hands
and show the people...

1676
01:44:20,629 --> 01:44:22,922
that we gonna be all right.

1677
01:44:23,090 --> 01:44:24,799
We gonna unite

1678
01:44:24,967 --> 01:44:26,968
We're gonna make them right

1679
01:44:27,136 --> 01:44:28,470
We got to unite

1680
01:44:28,637 --> 01:44:31,097
(vocalizing)

1681
01:44:33,309 --> 01:44:36,811
(Rita): He didn't plan it at all.
It was spontaneous.

1682
01:44:38,606 --> 01:44:41,107
- I'm waiting.
I'm waiting.

1683
01:44:41,275 --> 01:44:43,860
Oh Lord oh Lord

1684
01:44:44,028 --> 01:44:45,779
Help us out I pray

1685
01:44:50,034 --> 01:44:51,951
(Rita): Anything could have
happened at that point.

1686
01:44:52,119 --> 01:44:57,290
I was just praying that the people didn't
get foolish and start shooting again.

1687
01:45:00,336 --> 01:45:02,712
(Seaga): There were no preachment
or anything like that.

1688
01:45:02,880 --> 01:45:07,884
He just took our hands and said
a few words, held it up above his head.

1689
01:45:08,052 --> 01:45:10,470
And at that moment,
everybody was one.

1690
01:45:11,889 --> 01:45:13,223
- Love.

1691
01:45:13,390 --> 01:45:14,933
Prosperity.

1692
01:45:15,100 --> 01:45:17,852
Be with us all. Jah.

1693
01:45:18,020 --> 01:45:20,688
Rastafari. Selassie.

1694
01:45:20,856 --> 01:45:22,732
(crowd cheering)

1695
01:45:27,321 --> 01:45:29,572
(Breakspeare): He was able to do that.

1696
01:45:29,740 --> 01:45:32,617
He was able to bring people
together in that way.

1697
01:45:32,785 --> 01:45:36,246
The same half uptown, half downtown,
half black, half white.

1698
01:45:36,413 --> 01:45:38,456
It's that marriage of everything.

1699
01:45:38,624 --> 01:45:41,251
He just embodied it
all in one person.

1700
01:45:55,224 --> 01:45:58,101
(Ziggy): As his career grows,
so grew a better education,

1701
01:45:58,269 --> 01:46:01,896
and a better car,
and a bigger house with more rooms.

1702
01:46:02,064 --> 01:46:05,191
But my father would always
take us back to Trench Town.

1703
01:46:06,986 --> 01:46:09,070
(Garrick): Sometime Bob would go
down the ghetto and, you know,

1704
01:46:09,238 --> 01:46:13,700
pass through and thing like that
and would never lock his car up.

1705
01:46:13,868 --> 01:46:16,828
'Cause that's like saying
you don't trust people.

1706
01:46:17,121 --> 01:46:19,622
(man): Have you made a lot of money
out of your music?

1707
01:46:19,790 --> 01:46:21,833
- Money.

1708
01:46:22,001 --> 01:46:23,543
I mean, what is a...
How much is...

1709
01:46:23,711 --> 01:46:25,086
How much is a lot of money to you?

1710
01:46:25,254 --> 01:46:29,799
- That's a good question.
Have you made, say, millions of dollars?

1711
01:46:29,967 --> 01:46:31,217
- No.

1712
01:46:31,385 --> 01:46:33,177
- Are you a rich man?

1713
01:46:33,345 --> 01:46:35,179
- When you mean rich, what you mean?

1714
01:46:35,347 --> 01:46:38,224
- Do you have a lot of possessions,
a lot of money in the bank?

1715
01:46:38,392 --> 01:46:39,767
- Possession make you rich?

1716
01:46:39,935 --> 01:46:44,856
I don't have that type of riches.
My riches is life forever.

1717
01:46:45,149 --> 01:46:47,442
(Breakspeare): Hope Road
was always swarming with people,

1718
01:46:47,610 --> 01:46:49,110
and for the same reason...

1719
01:46:49,278 --> 01:46:51,988
looking for an opportunity,
looking for some money,

1720
01:46:52,156 --> 01:46:53,990
looking for a handout, need a job...

1721
01:46:54,158 --> 01:46:56,367
"My children's school fees,"
on and on and on.

1722
01:46:56,535 --> 01:46:59,370
(Smith): You have lines every day
at Hope Road.

1723
01:46:59,538 --> 01:47:03,583
People from all walks...
They bring the baby, they bring the kids.

1724
01:47:03,751 --> 01:47:07,045
You have long lines,
and he just hand out...

1725
01:47:07,212 --> 01:47:09,047
He doesn't just give, like, pittance,
you know.

1726
01:47:09,214 --> 01:47:13,134
He give you enough that
you can start something, you know.

1727
01:47:13,385 --> 01:47:17,055
(woman reporting): A couple of years ago,
no one would have believed...

1728
01:47:17,222 --> 01:47:20,099
that this raggle-taggle
tribe of Jamaican musicians...

1729
01:47:20,267 --> 01:47:23,102
would be packing
Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens.

1730
01:47:23,270 --> 01:47:25,313
It's a sign of reggae's
growing acceptance...

1731
01:47:25,481 --> 01:47:27,857
in the international pop music scene.

1732
01:47:28,025 --> 01:47:32,654
And it's also catapulted this man,
Bob Marley, to superstardom.

1733
01:47:34,323 --> 01:47:35,865
We don't need no trouble

1734
01:47:36,033 --> 01:47:37,992
No no no no

1735
01:47:38,160 --> 01:47:40,787
- Bob once made a statement.
He said they ask him,

1736
01:47:40,955 --> 01:47:42,997
"How big you think this music will get?"

1737
01:47:43,165 --> 01:47:47,585
Bob says, "You know, this music
will get bigger and bigger and bigger...

1738
01:47:47,753 --> 01:47:50,463
till it reaches right people."

1739
01:47:50,631 --> 01:47:53,174
Which, to me, is the whole world.

1740
01:47:53,342 --> 01:47:55,134
(cheering)

1741
01:47:59,515 --> 01:48:02,517
(cheering grows louder)

1742
01:48:02,851 --> 01:48:07,271
- Yes, you know, come a long way.

1743
01:48:20,744 --> 01:48:22,370
Lively up yourself

1744
01:48:22,538 --> 01:48:25,039
And don't be no drag

1745
01:48:26,875 --> 01:48:29,252
Lively up yourself

1746
01:48:29,420 --> 01:48:31,546
For reggae is another bag

1747
01:48:33,257 --> 01:48:35,633
(Mowatt):
I watched from 200-seaters...

1748
01:48:35,801 --> 01:48:39,762
to a thousand, and then I saw 80,000.

1749
01:48:39,930 --> 01:48:41,931
I saw a hundred thousand.

1750
01:48:42,099 --> 01:48:43,641
'Cause I said so

1751
01:48:44,852 --> 01:48:48,271
What you gonna do
You rock so you rock so

1752
01:48:49,356 --> 01:48:50,648
(Garrick): We tore up Europe.

1753
01:48:50,816 --> 01:48:53,568
We played to, like, maybe
two million people in six weeks.

1754
01:48:54,903 --> 01:48:57,905
We broke everybody's record over there.
The Rolling Stones...

1755
01:48:58,699 --> 01:49:01,325
You skank so
You skank so

1756
01:49:02,244 --> 01:49:03,619
Oh yeah

1757
01:49:05,456 --> 01:49:07,957
You come so
You come so

1758
01:49:08,125 --> 01:49:10,084
Come alive today yeah

1759
01:49:11,837 --> 01:49:13,671
And lively up yourself

1760
01:49:14,173 --> 01:49:16,299
(grunting)

1761
01:49:16,467 --> 01:49:18,092
- Yeah!

1762
01:49:18,469 --> 01:49:22,638
(Thompson): He did a concert in Tokyo...
4,000 people.

1763
01:49:22,806 --> 01:49:24,390
Everybody's totally Japanese.

1764
01:49:24,558 --> 01:49:27,935
Singing every song word for word.

1765
01:49:28,103 --> 01:49:31,522
(Griffiths): Most of them could not
even understand.

1766
01:49:31,690 --> 01:49:32,982
They spoke a different language.

1767
01:49:33,150 --> 01:49:36,986
But they felt the music and
they knew what he was saying.

1768
01:49:37,571 --> 01:49:39,530
Lively up yourself

1769
01:49:39,698 --> 01:49:41,908
In the morning time Lord

1770
01:49:43,368 --> 01:49:47,997
(Mowatt): The media lied and said
that Bob smoke a pound a day.

1771
01:49:50,417 --> 01:49:53,795
And so everywhere we went,
the police was on our heels,

1772
01:49:53,962 --> 01:49:57,256
and they would search our belongings
with a fine-toothed comb.

1773
01:50:00,177 --> 01:50:03,930
You would see police
with dogs on the bus, searching.

1774
01:50:04,098 --> 01:50:07,100
But every time they searched,
they never found anything.

1775
01:50:07,267 --> 01:50:08,851
So, they didn't bother with us again.

1776
01:50:13,107 --> 01:50:15,900
(Garrick): Towards the latter years,
they're more, like,

1777
01:50:16,068 --> 01:50:18,611
"You have any posters?" like.

1778
01:50:18,779 --> 01:50:22,281
So we basically just came out
with the passports,

1779
01:50:22,449 --> 01:50:24,951
a whole bunch of records and posters,

1780
01:50:25,119 --> 01:50:27,995
and they didn't even look,
they just stamped.

1781
01:50:49,393 --> 01:50:51,853
(ends)
(crowd cheering)

1782
01:50:54,064 --> 01:50:59,068
- One of his main concern was
that he wasn't reaching the black people.

1783
01:50:59,236 --> 01:51:02,405
You know, he's noticed all his shows
are all white, all white, every show,

1784
01:51:02,573 --> 01:51:04,240
so that kind of was puzzling to him.

1785
01:51:04,408 --> 01:51:07,952
- I was in Nigeria and came back
and told him about the response...

1786
01:51:08,120 --> 01:51:09,620
of the people to him in Nigeria,

1787
01:51:09,788 --> 01:51:12,081
who had never seen him,
but just the music.

1788
01:51:12,249 --> 01:51:15,168
And he couldn't believe it.
I said, "Yes, I'm serious."

1789
01:51:15,460 --> 01:51:18,171
I said, "Africa is really waiting for you.

1790
01:51:18,338 --> 01:51:20,631
As a matter of fact, if you go to Africa,
you really might not come back."

1791
01:51:23,385 --> 01:51:26,554
(Pascaline speaking French)

1792
01:51:56,251 --> 01:51:58,669
Check out the real situation

1793
01:52:00,005 --> 01:52:02,548
Nation war against nation

1794
01:52:03,759 --> 01:52:05,801
Where did it all begin

1795
01:52:06,261 --> 01:52:08,846
(Jobson): Her father was
the president of Gabon.

1796
01:52:09,014 --> 01:52:11,057
(Marvin): We didn't know he was a dictator
when we went, but we found out.

1797
01:52:11,225 --> 01:52:14,685
It was, like, "Okay, we're here.
It's too late. Let's just play."

1798
01:52:19,566 --> 01:52:21,067
And his daughter
was in love with Bob.

1799
01:52:23,237 --> 01:52:25,071
(speaking French)

1800
01:52:36,708 --> 01:52:38,960
(Jobson): To Bob, Africa is
the motherland, you know,

1801
01:52:39,127 --> 01:52:41,587
and he loved Jamaica,
but he was in transit.

1802
01:52:41,755 --> 01:52:43,589
Africa was his destination.

1803
01:52:44,508 --> 01:52:46,842
And everything is just for a while

1804
01:52:47,010 --> 01:52:50,346
It seems like total destruction

1805
01:52:50,514 --> 01:52:51,597
The only solution

1806
01:52:51,765 --> 01:52:55,351
(Bob): You don't die and go to heaven.
You have to live in heaven.

1807
01:52:55,519 --> 01:52:59,063
Africa is our heaven because
that's where we come from.

1808
01:53:02,776 --> 01:53:04,527
(Pascaline speaking French)

1809
01:53:42,524 --> 01:53:46,235
- Everywhere we went, the kids
were running beside the bus...

1810
01:53:46,403 --> 01:53:48,321
and waving and hollering,

1811
01:53:48,488 --> 01:53:51,073
"Bob Marley! Bob Marley!
Ganja! Ganja!"

1812
01:53:51,241 --> 01:53:52,325
We said, "Uh-oh."

1813
01:53:55,495 --> 01:53:56,954
(Pascaline speaking French)

1814
01:54:14,890 --> 01:54:17,558
- Bob asked me to find out
from Pascaline...

1815
01:54:17,726 --> 01:54:19,810
how much money
we were actually paid.

1816
01:54:20,604 --> 01:54:25,024
And what she told me was a lot more money
than what Bob was told by Don.

1817
01:54:27,152 --> 01:54:28,444
(Pascaline continues)

1818
01:54:39,873 --> 01:54:41,707
- He kick him down.

1819
01:54:42,334 --> 01:54:45,419
Leapt across the room
and kick him down.

1820
01:54:45,587 --> 01:54:47,838
- Yeah, I saw him kick his ass.

1821
01:54:48,006 --> 01:54:52,718
In fact, we questioned him
for almost three hours that night on tape.

1822
01:54:52,886 --> 01:54:54,595
- We were on the 23rd floor,

1823
01:54:54,763 --> 01:54:58,265
and they kind of held Don
outside the window for a minute.

1824
01:54:58,433 --> 01:55:01,602
- Bob would ask him the same question,
like, maybe half an hour later,

1825
01:55:01,770 --> 01:55:03,646
and he answered different,

1826
01:55:03,814 --> 01:55:06,607
and Bob said, "Garrick, rewind."
(imitating tape rewinding)

1827
01:55:06,775 --> 01:55:08,651
Ding! Play.

1828
01:55:08,819 --> 01:55:10,945
And then, "Wasn't you said that, boy?"

1829
01:55:11,113 --> 01:55:14,240
Slap him couple of times.
Shit!

1830
01:55:14,408 --> 01:55:16,242
(barking)
Hey!

1831
01:55:18,328 --> 01:55:22,665
(man reporting): It was the policy
of keeping Africans in their place,

1832
01:55:22,833 --> 01:55:24,542
which, by 1965,

1833
01:55:24,709 --> 01:55:28,754
made Rhodesia illegal
in the eyes of the world.

1834
01:55:28,922 --> 01:55:32,883
- I don't believe in black majority rule
ever in Rhodesia.

1835
01:55:33,051 --> 01:55:35,219
Not in a thousand years.

1836
01:55:42,894 --> 01:55:44,728
(Marvin): Bob wrote a song
called "Zimbabwe."

1837
01:55:44,896 --> 01:55:46,981
"Natty mash it in-a Zimbabwe.

1838
01:55:47,149 --> 01:55:49,316
I 'n' I liberate Zimbabwe."

1839
01:55:49,484 --> 01:55:51,277
And when the song got to Zimbabwe,

1840
01:55:51,445 --> 01:55:54,488
the freedom fighters
embraced that as their anthem.

1841
01:55:54,656 --> 01:55:56,574
- They got their independence.

1842
01:55:56,741 --> 01:55:59,201
Finally, they got their independence,

1843
01:55:59,369 --> 01:56:02,746
and they sent representatives
here to Jamaica...

1844
01:56:02,914 --> 01:56:04,957
to ask Bob to perform.

1845
01:56:05,125 --> 01:56:08,419
- They wanted him to come,
and when they saw the cost,

1846
01:56:08,587 --> 01:56:10,212
they said they couldn't afford it.

1847
01:56:10,380 --> 01:56:13,883
- And so Bob Marley used his own money...

1848
01:56:14,050 --> 01:56:18,762
and shipped equipment, I think,
from London to Zimbabwe.

1849
01:56:22,267 --> 01:56:23,559
Zimbabwe

1850
01:56:23,727 --> 01:56:27,730
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe

1851
01:56:27,898 --> 01:56:31,275
(Mowatt): You had dignitaries
from all over the world.

1852
01:56:31,443 --> 01:56:34,612
You're right you're right
you're right you're

1853
01:56:36,072 --> 01:56:39,241
(crowd cheering)

1854
01:56:42,370 --> 01:56:45,414
- I, Robert Gabriel Mugabe,

1855
01:56:45,582 --> 01:56:50,628
do swear that I will well
and truly serve Zimbabwe...

1856
01:56:50,795 --> 01:56:54,089
in the office of minister
of the government,

1857
01:56:54,257 --> 01:56:56,175
so help me God.

1858
01:56:56,343 --> 01:56:59,595
(cheering)

1859
01:57:00,639 --> 01:57:03,891
(announcer): Midnight, the exact moment
of independence.

1860
01:57:04,059 --> 01:57:05,559
As Prince Charles, Governor Soames

1861
01:57:05,727 --> 01:57:07,895
and hundreds of visiting
heads of government...

1862
01:57:08,063 --> 01:57:10,439
and V.I.P.s from around
the world watched,

1863
01:57:10,607 --> 01:57:14,568
the new flag was raised,
Robert Mugabe's government assumed power,

1864
01:57:14,736 --> 01:57:16,737
and Zimbabwe was born.

1865
01:57:22,786 --> 01:57:23,994
Exodus

1866
01:57:25,497 --> 01:57:27,122
Oh Lord

1867
01:57:27,290 --> 01:57:29,625
Movement of Jah people

1868
01:57:33,755 --> 01:57:36,632
(Thompson): It was the first time
anybody in Zimbabwe...

1869
01:57:36,800 --> 01:57:38,551
had heard anything like this.

1870
01:57:38,718 --> 01:57:41,387
But when the first song started,

1871
01:57:41,555 --> 01:57:43,055
the 90,000 people outside,

1872
01:57:43,223 --> 01:57:46,600
who couldn't get in,
decided to come in.

1873
01:57:46,768 --> 01:57:49,061
Men and people will fight you down

1874
01:57:49,229 --> 01:57:52,231
When you see Jah light

1875
01:57:52,399 --> 01:57:54,191
Let me tell you if you're not wrong

1876
01:57:54,359 --> 01:57:56,235
(Griffiths): It was the freedom fighters...

1877
01:57:56,403 --> 01:57:58,445
heard Bob Marley inside the stadium,

1878
01:57:58,613 --> 01:58:02,032
and they are locked out,
not being able to go in,

1879
01:58:02,200 --> 01:58:03,450
and they just flattened the fence.

1880
01:58:04,869 --> 01:58:07,496
So, being there, on stage,

1881
01:58:07,664 --> 01:58:09,248
I remember I was the first person

1882
01:58:09,416 --> 01:58:11,625
to smell something unusual.

1883
01:58:11,960 --> 01:58:13,544
It was tear gas.

1884
01:58:14,546 --> 01:58:18,966
(Mowatt): There was this strange sensation
that was burning our throats,

1885
01:58:19,134 --> 01:58:21,594
and it felt as if we were gonna die.

1886
01:58:21,761 --> 01:58:25,347
We didn't know what it was,
and we felt that we're gonna leave Jamaica,

1887
01:58:25,515 --> 01:58:29,393
and come all the way to Zimbabwe
to leave our kids and just die here.

1888
01:58:29,561 --> 01:58:32,187
So, Rita, Marcie and I,

1889
01:58:32,355 --> 01:58:34,148
we ran off the stage,

1890
01:58:34,316 --> 01:58:36,692
and the musicians
were coming off one by one.

1891
01:58:36,860 --> 01:58:39,361
But Bob was still
in his element, and he...

1892
01:58:39,529 --> 01:58:41,739
I guess he didn't even realize
what was happening.

1893
01:58:47,329 --> 01:58:48,871
- That just open my eyes to know

1894
01:58:49,039 --> 01:58:52,541
that this man was ready
to go down with his people.

1895
01:58:52,709 --> 01:58:57,296
Whatever the reason was,
Bob didn't run nowhere.

1896
01:58:57,464 --> 01:58:58,505
(screaming)

1897
01:58:58,673 --> 01:59:00,966
So when we got back on stage with Bob,

1898
01:59:01,134 --> 01:59:03,135
this is what Bob said to us:

1899
01:59:03,303 --> 01:59:07,431
"Now I know who are
the true revolutionaries."

1900
01:59:07,766 --> 01:59:11,518
Well well well well
Jah come to break oppression

1901
01:59:11,686 --> 01:59:14,647
Rule equality yeah

1902
01:59:15,273 --> 01:59:17,858
Wipe away transgression

1903
01:59:18,026 --> 01:59:20,277
Set the captives free

1904
01:59:20,820 --> 01:59:23,155
Set the captives free now

1905
01:59:23,865 --> 01:59:25,032
Set

1906
01:59:27,077 --> 01:59:28,869
Set the captives free yeah

1907
01:59:32,624 --> 01:59:36,210
(Thompson): And I think that was
one of his highlights of a dream.

1908
01:59:37,545 --> 01:59:38,962
He was at home.

1909
01:59:44,803 --> 01:59:47,096
(ends)
Thank you very much. Zimbabwe!

1910
01:59:47,263 --> 01:59:48,972
Freedom!

1911
01:59:51,851 --> 01:59:53,185
(cheering fades)

1912
01:59:54,688 --> 01:59:57,106
(interviewer): Did Bob want to reach
a black audience in America?

1913
01:59:57,273 --> 01:59:58,774
- Of course he did.

1914
01:59:58,942 --> 02:00:00,609
Bob, until he died, he did.

1915
02:00:00,777 --> 02:00:04,655
The last concert in New York
was to try to get...

1916
02:00:04,823 --> 02:00:07,157
African American,
R & B airplay in America.

1917
02:00:09,577 --> 02:00:13,539
Bob had a cult following in America,

1918
02:00:13,707 --> 02:00:16,500
and when you go to a Bob Marley concert,
it was sold out,

1919
02:00:16,668 --> 02:00:18,919
but it was white.

1920
02:00:23,883 --> 02:00:26,218
(Cole): Yeah, the black people
in America were not responding.

1921
02:00:26,386 --> 02:00:27,678
It was always a big thing.

1922
02:00:27,846 --> 02:00:29,847
We always talked about it.
We always wondered why.

1923
02:00:31,975 --> 02:00:35,144
(Sims): So, Frankie Crocker,
the number-one jock in the country...

1924
02:00:35,311 --> 02:00:38,522
said that I got a concert
with The Commodores.

1925
02:00:38,690 --> 02:00:41,400
"We'll guarantee you
three months of airplay...

1926
02:00:41,568 --> 02:00:44,236
if Bob would open
for the Commodores."

1927
02:00:44,404 --> 02:00:46,155
We said, "You gotta be crazy.

1928
02:00:46,322 --> 02:00:49,742
The Commodores should be opening
the show for Bob Marley, not in reverse."

1929
02:00:49,909 --> 02:00:52,745
I went back to Bob,
and Bob said, "No problem."

1930
02:00:52,912 --> 02:00:55,914
(song starts)
(audience cheering)

1931
02:01:13,391 --> 02:01:16,894
Could you be loved

1932
02:01:18,480 --> 02:01:21,064
And be loved

1933
02:01:23,443 --> 02:01:25,986
Could you be loved

1934
02:01:28,698 --> 02:01:30,783
And be loved

1935
02:01:33,411 --> 02:01:36,121
Don't let them fool ya

1936
02:01:36,289 --> 02:01:42,002
(The I-Three vocalizing)
Oh, no

1937
02:01:42,170 --> 02:01:45,631
Or even try to school ya

1938
02:01:45,799 --> 02:01:48,884
(vocalizing)
Oh, no

1939
02:01:50,678 --> 02:01:54,139
(Griffiths): When we did
the Madison Square Garden show,

1940
02:01:54,307 --> 02:01:56,892
that night was history.

1941
02:01:57,060 --> 02:01:58,936
If what you're thinking is not right

1942
02:02:01,314 --> 02:02:04,441
Love will never leave us alone

1943
02:02:04,609 --> 02:02:07,027
Every single one
that was in the audience...

1944
02:02:07,195 --> 02:02:10,948
stood on their feet
to acknowledge this man.

1945
02:02:11,115 --> 02:02:13,158
Whoa-ho

1946
02:02:13,326 --> 02:02:15,327
Could you be loved

1947
02:02:18,164 --> 02:02:20,123
And be loved

1948
02:02:23,169 --> 02:02:25,170
Could you be loved

1949
02:02:27,966 --> 02:02:29,424
And be loved

1950
02:02:30,718 --> 02:02:32,094
Oh

1951
02:02:32,262 --> 02:02:34,888
Could you be loved
Could you be could you be loved

1952
02:02:35,056 --> 02:02:39,101
(Griffiths): I think the doors of America
was opened to Bob right there.

1953
02:02:41,813 --> 02:02:44,022
(ends)
(audience cheering)

1954
02:02:53,199 --> 02:02:55,367
(chanting)
Marley! Marley! Marley!

1955
02:02:55,535 --> 02:02:59,580
Marley! Marley! Marley!
Marley! Marley!

1956
02:02:59,747 --> 02:03:01,832
Marley! Marley! Marley!
Marley! Marley! Marley!

1957
02:03:05,670 --> 02:03:08,589
(chanting continues, fades)

1958
02:03:10,466 --> 02:03:13,385
(Eddie Sims): The next day,
we were out in Central Park jogging,

1959
02:03:13,553 --> 02:03:18,265
and we was going up this hill,
and all of a sudden he...

1960
02:03:18,433 --> 02:03:20,142
he stumbled,

1961
02:03:20,310 --> 02:03:23,770
and we went and we laid him down
on the side of the trail,

1962
02:03:23,938 --> 02:03:28,066
and he... he started shaking,
and he had foaming at the mouth.

1963
02:03:28,234 --> 02:03:31,695
And I said... when I looked at him,
he looked real strange.

1964
02:03:31,863 --> 02:03:35,991
And the guys gathered around him,
they said something in patois.

1965
02:03:36,159 --> 02:03:38,952
And he hollered "Rastafari"
and jumped up off the ground.

1966
02:03:39,120 --> 02:03:42,205
Scared me to death. I mean,
he was there, shaking and foaming.

1967
02:03:42,373 --> 02:03:44,541
Next thing I know, he done...
he just jumped up.

1968
02:03:47,670 --> 02:03:50,756
(Danny Sims): We took him to the hospital
next door to my house.

1969
02:03:52,133 --> 02:03:54,927
The doctor told Alan and me...

1970
02:03:55,094 --> 02:03:59,264
that Bob Marley had cancer
and that it had spread.

1971
02:03:59,432 --> 02:04:03,018
- He had cancer all over his body...

1972
02:04:03,186 --> 02:04:06,438
lungs, brain, all over the place.

1973
02:04:06,606 --> 02:04:09,942
It was incredible that
he was able to keep working.

1974
02:04:10,860 --> 02:04:15,864
(Danny Sims): But the doctor told us
that we shouldn't do anything,

1975
02:04:16,032 --> 02:04:19,493
that we should just let him
stay on the concert tour,

1976
02:04:19,661 --> 02:04:21,620
that he was so strong and powerful,

1977
02:04:21,788 --> 02:04:25,749
that one day he was gonna walk out on stage
and he was gonna fall dead.

1978
02:04:26,876 --> 02:04:29,294
But that he could not be treated...

1979
02:04:29,462 --> 02:04:31,588
and he could not be helped.

1980
02:04:33,049 --> 02:04:34,466
(interviewer):
How did he take the news?

1981
02:04:34,634 --> 02:04:38,053
- Bad.
He took the news bad.

1982
02:04:41,182 --> 02:04:43,976
(Blackwell): I knew he'd had a problem
with his toe before that,

1983
02:04:44,143 --> 02:04:45,686
but...

1984
02:04:45,853 --> 02:04:48,563
I'd forgotten about it.

1985
02:04:48,731 --> 02:04:50,857
I think everybody seemed
to have forgotten about it...

1986
02:04:51,025 --> 02:04:54,861
because if he'd been going
to regular checkups,

1987
02:04:55,029 --> 02:04:58,657
you know, he might...
he might be around today.

1988
02:04:58,825 --> 02:05:01,284
But...
- He just didn't go to his checkups?

1989
02:05:01,452 --> 02:05:03,036
- No.

1990
02:05:11,629 --> 02:05:15,007
(Mowatt): The next stop was Pittsburgh,

1991
02:05:15,174 --> 02:05:18,927
and we were waiting for Bob
to come on the bus...

1992
02:05:19,095 --> 02:05:21,471
for all of us
to drive to Pittsburgh.

1993
02:05:21,639 --> 02:05:23,515
And we never saw Bob.

1994
02:05:26,853 --> 02:05:28,812
- Finally, he arrived,

1995
02:05:28,980 --> 02:05:31,940
and he was looking very,
very stressed, I remember,

1996
02:05:32,108 --> 02:05:35,652
and we went to do a sound check,

1997
02:05:35,820 --> 02:05:39,698
and I remember
we did the sound check...

1998
02:05:39,866 --> 02:05:41,783
with one song...

1999
02:05:41,951 --> 02:05:45,203
and we did that song
for maybe two or three hours.

2000
02:05:45,371 --> 02:05:47,247
"I'm Hurting Inside."

2001
02:05:49,167 --> 02:05:52,711
(Mowatt): It's the longest sound check
we have ever had.

2002
02:05:52,879 --> 02:05:57,215
It just felt like, "Why?"
We didn't understand.

2003
02:06:02,221 --> 02:06:04,848
- We had a meeting before the show,
half an hour before the show,

2004
02:06:05,016 --> 02:06:08,977
and we were told by Alan Cole that this was
gonna be our last concert.

2005
02:06:10,480 --> 02:06:13,815
And, of course,
we were all, like, in shock.

2006
02:06:13,983 --> 02:06:16,109
(Cole): Before we went on stage,
he said to me,

2007
02:06:16,277 --> 02:06:19,529
"I want you to stay pretty close
in case anything should happen."

2008
02:06:19,697 --> 02:06:22,324
I'm saying, "Nothing's gonna happen to you.
Everything's gonna be all right."

2009
02:06:22,492 --> 02:06:26,620
But he just said, "Stay close, in case."
Just in case he got a seizure.

2010
02:06:26,788 --> 02:06:29,539
I wanna love you

2011
02:06:29,707 --> 02:06:31,875
I wanna love and treat

2012
02:06:32,043 --> 02:06:34,127
Love and treat you right

2013
02:06:34,295 --> 02:06:37,130
(Danny Sims): He put on the show,
but it wasn't the same.

2014
02:06:37,298 --> 02:06:39,508
He didn't have the same energy.

2015
02:06:39,675 --> 02:06:42,803
But the people kept him
pumped up 'cause this...

2016
02:06:42,970 --> 02:06:46,932
so many people in the audience,
and they were, "Bob! Bob!"

2017
02:06:49,185 --> 02:06:51,311
(Mowatt): They called for an encore,
and we were saying,

2018
02:06:51,479 --> 02:06:53,313
"Lord, I wonder if he can do it."

2019
02:06:53,481 --> 02:06:56,525
And he went out, and he did
the encore. He did about four songs.

2020
02:07:00,905 --> 02:07:04,157
And they called for another encore,
and I'm saying,

2021
02:07:04,325 --> 02:07:07,744
"Jesus, I wonder if he's gonna fall out
on this one."

2022
02:07:07,912 --> 02:07:09,496
But he did it.

2023
02:07:09,664 --> 02:07:11,414
He did it.

2024
02:07:11,582 --> 02:07:16,211
And that was the last time
we performed on stage together.

2025
02:07:22,385 --> 02:07:24,219
(ends)

2026
02:07:24,387 --> 02:07:27,305
(Bob): Thank you very much,
Pittsburgh! Yeah.

2027
02:07:27,473 --> 02:07:30,684
(audience cheering)

2028
02:07:30,852 --> 02:07:34,521
If you keep jumping like this,
we'll have to come here every year!

2029
02:07:34,689 --> 02:07:38,483
(cheering grows louder)
Every week, every month!

2030
02:07:38,651 --> 02:07:40,485
Thank you.

2031
02:07:44,866 --> 02:07:47,033
(Jaffe): I was with him the whole time
in New York...

2032
02:07:47,201 --> 02:07:48,785
when he was being treated
at Sloan-Kettering.

2033
02:07:48,953 --> 02:07:50,245
I was with him every day.

2034
02:07:50,413 --> 02:07:55,750
I was with him when he was getting chemo,
and his locks fell out.

2035
02:07:59,046 --> 02:08:01,339
(Breakspeare): The weight of the locks
was just too heavy.

2036
02:08:01,507 --> 02:08:04,926
The few hairs that were still holding
was beginning to be really uncomfortable,

2037
02:08:05,094 --> 02:08:06,928
and he decided to cut it.

2038
02:08:07,096 --> 02:08:08,930
That was quite a night.

2039
02:08:11,434 --> 02:08:15,228
It was myself, Rita...
a group of us women.

2040
02:08:15,396 --> 02:08:18,815
We lit candles, and we were reading
from the Bible.

2041
02:08:18,983 --> 02:08:21,276
We were reading the Book of Job,

2042
02:08:21,444 --> 02:08:24,779
and, uh, we cut.

2043
02:08:24,947 --> 02:08:26,990
- I said to him, um,

2044
02:08:29,535 --> 02:08:31,786
"You going for the Rude Boy look?"

2045
02:08:31,954 --> 02:08:36,082
And he laughed. It was funny.
But it was really, really sad.

2046
02:08:36,250 --> 02:08:38,919
About the saddest thing
I can ever remember.

2047
02:08:40,671 --> 02:08:43,256
- That was the first time I saw him,

2048
02:08:45,635 --> 02:08:47,719
like, without his hair.

2049
02:08:47,887 --> 02:08:51,473
You know, he looked, like, so tiny.

2050
02:09:10,785 --> 02:09:13,745
(Fraser): Him say, "Listen,
we're gonna fight it. All right?

2051
02:09:13,913 --> 02:09:17,624
Regardless of what the doctors might say
or what they might do,

2052
02:09:17,792 --> 02:09:20,001
we're gonna fight it.

2053
02:09:20,169 --> 02:09:21,920
'Cause a Rasta never give up."

2054
02:09:22,088 --> 02:09:24,714
- Left to me, I would have said,

2055
02:09:24,882 --> 02:09:26,258
"Bob, come home to Saint Ann

2056
02:09:26,425 --> 02:09:27,926
and come eat roast fish
and callaloo every day.

2057
02:09:28,094 --> 02:09:29,970
Smoke the biggest spliff if you like,

2058
02:09:30,137 --> 02:09:33,890
drink fish tea, just do what you want.

2059
02:09:34,058 --> 02:09:37,185
And if you end up in the same place
at the end of it all,

2060
02:09:37,353 --> 02:09:40,438
at least you will have had some comfort

2061
02:09:40,606 --> 02:09:43,024
in your last months on this earth...

2062
02:09:43,192 --> 02:09:46,361
and being in a place that you really,
really wanted to be in."

2063
02:09:46,529 --> 02:09:48,863
But we girls didn't have much talk
in those days, you know.

2064
02:09:49,031 --> 02:09:50,740
The men made the decisions.

2065
02:09:51,909 --> 02:09:54,786
(acoustic guitar)

2066
02:10:00,293 --> 02:10:04,796
Old pirates yes they rob I

2067
02:10:04,964 --> 02:10:07,632
Sold I to the merchant ships

2068
02:10:09,802 --> 02:10:12,304
Minutes after they took I

2069
02:10:13,973 --> 02:10:16,933
From the bottomless pit

2070
02:10:17,101 --> 02:10:20,854
But my hand was made strong

2071
02:10:22,315 --> 02:10:25,191
By the hand of the Almighty

2072
02:10:25,651 --> 02:10:29,487
We forward in this generation

2073
02:10:31,324 --> 02:10:33,742
Triumphantly

2074
02:10:34,827 --> 02:10:37,829
Won't you help to sing

2075
02:10:39,749 --> 02:10:42,792
These songs of freedom

2076
02:10:42,960 --> 02:10:45,837
'Cause all I ever have

2077
02:10:48,215 --> 02:10:51,134
Redemption songs

2078
02:10:52,219 --> 02:10:54,679
Redemption songs

2079
02:10:56,182 --> 02:10:58,600
(Breakspeare): He was living
in a house just down the road.

2080
02:10:58,768 --> 02:11:01,436
It was actually in walking distance
from the clinic.

2081
02:11:01,604 --> 02:11:05,273
But I mean, you had to put boots on halfway
up your thigh to get through the snow.

2082
02:11:06,400 --> 02:11:11,404
(Garrick): I'm telling you, I had to wear
dark glasses because it was so white.

2083
02:11:11,572 --> 02:11:14,115
The lake was frozen three feet deep.

2084
02:11:14,283 --> 02:11:16,743
You could drive a car over it.

2085
02:11:17,078 --> 02:11:21,122
I said, "This is a fridge
where they keep people alive."

2086
02:11:21,290 --> 02:11:23,917
No, Rottach-Egern...
I'll never forget that.

2087
02:11:25,795 --> 02:11:28,838
(Fraser): Dr. Josef Issels
was the ultimate...

2088
02:11:29,006 --> 02:11:30,799
in holistic therapy at that time.

2089
02:11:30,966 --> 02:11:33,134
But what made him more interesting,
he was the only doctor...

2090
02:11:33,302 --> 02:11:36,388
who had actually cured
a melanoma on the planet Earth.

2091
02:11:39,350 --> 02:11:42,727
(speaking German)

2092
02:12:20,349 --> 02:12:24,644
- I went to Germany for his, uh,
36th birthday.

2093
02:12:25,563 --> 02:12:28,731
Rita was there.
Cindy was there.

2094
02:12:28,899 --> 02:12:30,900
His mom was there.

2095
02:12:32,236 --> 02:12:34,487
It was kind of frustrating in a sense...

2096
02:12:34,655 --> 02:12:38,116
because I know the type of person Bob is.

2097
02:12:38,284 --> 02:12:42,412
Him didn't want us
to see him in that state.

2098
02:12:44,248 --> 02:12:47,667
Bob had a stroke,
I think, on the left side.

2099
02:12:47,835 --> 02:12:52,380
So he was frustrated
he couldn't finger a guitar.

2100
02:12:52,548 --> 02:12:55,300
(interviewer): So when you left him,
you thought he might get better?

2101
02:12:55,468 --> 02:12:57,510
- Yeah.
I was definitely hoping...

2102
02:12:57,678 --> 02:13:01,097
Well, he was trying to tell me that...
that he's gonna beat this thing.

2103
02:13:01,265 --> 02:13:02,765
You know?

2104
02:13:02,933 --> 02:13:04,434
Gonna beat this thing.

2105
02:13:06,353 --> 02:13:08,229
(Bob speaking)

2106
02:13:30,169 --> 02:13:32,003
(speaking German)

2107
02:13:47,686 --> 02:13:51,022
(Danny Sims): I think people then started
going after his wealth.

2108
02:13:51,190 --> 02:13:54,067
I think that it was...
it had become...

2109
02:13:54,235 --> 02:13:57,111
a bloodthirsty-type situation,

2110
02:13:57,279 --> 02:14:00,865
where people knew he was gonna die,

2111
02:14:01,033 --> 02:14:06,162
and they was just...
they just surrounded him.

2112
02:14:08,582 --> 02:14:12,085
- That's why Bob never write a will,
I feel.

2113
02:14:12,253 --> 02:14:14,546
Bob will never want to give up.

2114
02:14:14,713 --> 02:14:16,839
It seems like when you write a will,
it's like you say,

2115
02:14:17,007 --> 02:14:20,260
"Well, you know, I'm checking in."

2116
02:14:22,221 --> 02:14:23,555
So I think that was
one of the reasons.

2117
02:14:23,722 --> 02:14:25,056
I think one of the reasons, too,

2118
02:14:25,224 --> 02:14:27,267
is he's not the type of person
who would say,

2119
02:14:27,434 --> 02:14:31,020
"Now, okay.
I leave this for Ziggy, Cedella."

2120
02:14:31,188 --> 02:14:34,816
You know, like, divide up.
And "Okay, what should I leave for Seeco...

2121
02:14:34,984 --> 02:14:37,986
and Neville and Carly and..."

2122
02:14:38,153 --> 02:14:39,904
That's not Bob.

2123
02:14:40,072 --> 02:14:43,283
Where the Bob I know,
by leaving it open like that,

2124
02:14:43,450 --> 02:14:47,203
everybody reveal
who they really were.

2125
02:14:47,371 --> 02:14:49,872
You get me?
- Hmm.

2126
02:14:50,040 --> 02:14:53,167
- Who really did love him,
who fighting over the money.

2127
02:14:53,335 --> 02:14:57,213
Yeah, man. Him does say,
but that's how he is. Bob left it open.

2128
02:15:01,218 --> 02:15:06,055
(Jobson): The doctor said that
he couldn't do anything more for Bob,

2129
02:15:06,223 --> 02:15:07,765
and if we were going to leave,

2130
02:15:07,933 --> 02:15:12,103
we'd have to do it within 48 hours.

2131
02:15:12,271 --> 02:15:16,566
- So I said, "I'm on my way back.
I'm coming back to Germany this week."

2132
02:15:16,734 --> 02:15:19,027
And he said, "No, don't come."

2133
02:15:19,194 --> 02:15:20,862
He's coming to Miami.

2134
02:15:21,030 --> 02:15:23,698
- We decided, you know, that...

2135
02:15:23,866 --> 02:15:27,910
we'd just rent a plane, you know.

2136
02:15:28,078 --> 02:15:30,204
Bob wanted to know if it's a Concorde.

2137
02:15:30,372 --> 02:15:32,999
I said, "No.
(laughing)

2138
02:15:33,167 --> 02:15:35,293
No Concorde."

2139
02:15:47,389 --> 02:15:50,475
(Rita): So I brought up all the kids
from... who was in Jamaica.

2140
02:15:50,643 --> 02:15:54,562
Some of them my kids.
Some from other mothers.

2141
02:15:54,730 --> 02:15:57,815
So I gathered everyone and said,
"Come. Daddy want to see you all."

2142
02:15:57,983 --> 02:16:01,027
- I remember me and Ziggy
were sitting outside,

2143
02:16:01,195 --> 02:16:04,238
and some preacher guy
came from Jamaica,

2144
02:16:04,406 --> 02:16:07,950
another one came from
the Ethiopian Church,

2145
02:16:08,118 --> 02:16:11,162
and I'm telling Ziggy, "Ziggy,
he's gonna be all right, you know?

2146
02:16:11,330 --> 02:16:13,331
'Cause, I mean, look...
look how many people are praying."

2147
02:16:13,707 --> 02:16:18,086
- My memory was going to
the intensive care unit,

2148
02:16:18,253 --> 02:16:20,046
doing "peep," going like this,

2149
02:16:20,214 --> 02:16:23,341
looking through the window,
you know, like, going...

2150
02:16:23,509 --> 02:16:26,344
And him lay down there,
and him kind of see me, and him go...

2151
02:16:26,512 --> 02:16:28,304
him go, "Come."

2152
02:16:28,472 --> 02:16:32,266
So I went in, I went beside him,
and him say, you know,

2153
02:16:32,434 --> 02:16:35,728
"What up, young Bob?"
You know, "What's up, young Bob?"

2154
02:16:35,896 --> 02:16:39,065
And, um, "I've a song for you."

2155
02:16:39,233 --> 02:16:41,984
You know, him say,
"I have a song for you."

2156
02:16:42,152 --> 02:16:44,445
And him... him sing a couple
of lines of the song,

2157
02:16:44,613 --> 02:16:47,240
"On your way up, take me up.
On your way down, don't let me down."

2158
02:16:50,077 --> 02:16:53,246
- You know, like the one time
you're kinda hoping...

2159
02:16:53,414 --> 02:16:57,166
you can have him for yourself...

2160
02:16:59,044 --> 02:17:01,337
(scoffs)

2161
02:17:01,505 --> 02:17:04,507
And it wasn't supposed
to happen again, you know?

2162
02:17:19,690 --> 02:17:23,192
(Bob singing)
Haile Selassie

2163
02:17:23,360 --> 02:17:31,284
Is the chapel

2164
02:17:31,452 --> 02:17:36,581
(women vocalizing)

2165
02:17:41,336 --> 02:17:49,177
Power of the Trinity

2166
02:17:50,596 --> 02:17:52,054
Trinity

2167
02:17:53,474 --> 02:17:57,643
Trinity

2168
02:18:01,023 --> 02:18:03,775
Build your mind

2169
02:18:03,942 --> 02:18:09,113
On this direction

2170
02:18:09,281 --> 02:18:13,451
(vocalizing)

2171
02:18:18,540 --> 02:18:22,543
Serve the living God

2172
02:18:22,711 --> 02:18:25,171
And live

2173
02:18:26,757 --> 02:18:30,718
Livin' God
Livin' God

2174
02:18:30,886 --> 02:18:34,096
And live

2175
02:18:36,558 --> 02:18:39,977
Take your troubles

2176
02:18:40,145 --> 02:18:45,399
To Selassie

2177
02:18:45,567 --> 02:18:49,987
(vocalizing)

2178
02:18:54,159 --> 02:18:56,911
He is the only

2179
02:18:57,079 --> 02:18:59,872
King of Kings

2180
02:19:02,376 --> 02:19:04,919
King of Kings

2181
02:19:05,087 --> 02:19:10,842
King of Kings is he

2182
02:19:12,094 --> 02:19:15,930
Conquering lion

2183
02:19:16,098 --> 02:19:20,768
Of Judah

2184
02:19:20,936 --> 02:19:25,731
(vocalizing)

2185
02:19:29,278 --> 02:19:31,988
Triumphantly

2186
02:19:32,155 --> 02:19:36,075
We all must sing

2187
02:19:37,536 --> 02:19:39,412
All must sing

2188
02:19:40,539 --> 02:19:45,167
All must sing

2189
02:19:45,335 --> 02:19:49,839
I search and I search

2190
02:19:52,509 --> 02:19:55,511
Splendid book of man

2191
02:19:58,098 --> 02:20:02,852
In the Revelations

2192
02:20:04,354 --> 02:20:07,565
Look what I find

2193
02:20:10,527 --> 02:20:13,571
Haile Selassie

2194
02:20:13,739 --> 02:20:19,076
Is the chapel

2195
02:20:19,244 --> 02:20:22,288
(vocalizing)

2196
02:20:23,498 --> 02:20:25,333
(Bob speaking)

2197
02:20:41,141 --> 02:20:43,434
(crowd cheering, applauding)

2198
02:20:43,602 --> 02:20:46,979
(song starts)

2199
02:20:55,489 --> 02:20:57,323
Get up stand up

2200
02:20:58,200 --> 02:21:00,826
Stand up for your right

2201
02:21:00,994 --> 02:21:03,663
Get up stand up

2202
02:21:03,830 --> 02:21:07,124
Don't give up the fight

2203
02:21:07,292 --> 02:21:10,294
Get up stand up
Get up stand up now

2204
02:21:10,462 --> 02:21:13,130
Stand up for your rights
Ooh-ooh

2205
02:21:13,298 --> 02:21:15,800
Get up stand up
Get up stand up now

2206
02:21:15,968 --> 02:21:17,802
Don't give up the fight

2207
02:21:20,055 --> 02:21:22,890
Get up stand up
Oh whoa whoa whoa

2208
02:21:23,058 --> 02:21:25,977
Stand up for your right
One more time

2209
02:21:26,144 --> 02:21:28,479
(Bob): Get up stand up

2210
02:21:28,647 --> 02:21:31,399
Don't give up the fight

2211
02:21:31,566 --> 02:21:33,734
Don't give up the fight

2212
02:21:34,945 --> 02:21:37,363
Don't give up the fight

2213
02:21:37,531 --> 02:21:40,032
Don't give up the fight
Why

2214
02:21:40,200 --> 02:21:42,702
'Cause I never give up the fight

2215
02:21:42,869 --> 02:21:45,204
'Cause I never give up the fight

2216
02:21:45,372 --> 02:21:48,290
'Cause I never give up the fight

2217
02:21:50,127 --> 02:21:52,211
'Cause I never give up the fight

2218
02:21:52,379 --> 02:21:54,380
(on radio):
Don't give up the fight

2219
02:21:54,548 --> 02:21:57,216
Don't give up the fight

2220
02:21:57,384 --> 02:21:59,635
Children don't give up the fight

2221
02:21:59,803 --> 02:22:01,012
Jah Jah children

2222
02:22:01,179 --> 02:22:04,015
Don't give up the fight

2223
02:22:04,182 --> 02:22:07,018
One love

2224
02:22:07,185 --> 02:22:09,729
One heart

2225
02:22:09,896 --> 02:22:15,901
Let's get together and feel all right

2226
02:22:16,069 --> 02:22:20,781
Hear the children crying
One love

2227
02:22:20,949 --> 02:22:22,742
One heart

2228
02:22:22,909 --> 02:22:25,077
Give thanks and praise to the Lord

2229
02:22:25,245 --> 02:22:28,205
And I will feel all right

2230
02:22:28,373 --> 02:22:29,623
Sing it

2231
02:22:29,791 --> 02:22:34,378
Let's get together and feel all right

2232
02:22:34,546 --> 02:22:35,588
Whoa yo-yo-yo

2233
02:22:36,506 --> 02:22:40,468
(Bob): Let them all pass
all their dirty remarks

2234
02:22:40,635 --> 02:22:42,845
One love

2235
02:22:43,013 --> 02:22:47,224
There is one question
I'd really love to ask

2236
02:22:47,392 --> 02:22:48,934
One heart

2237
02:22:49,102 --> 02:22:50,561
Is there a place

2238
02:22:50,729 --> 02:22:53,814
For the hopeless sinner

2239
02:22:53,982 --> 02:22:57,026
Who has hurt all mankind

2240
02:22:57,194 --> 02:22:59,612
Just to save his own

2241
02:22:59,780 --> 02:23:01,072
Believe me

2242
02:23:01,239 --> 02:23:04,450
One love
What about one

2243
02:23:04,618 --> 02:23:07,119
One heart
What about

2244
02:23:07,287 --> 02:23:12,041
Let's get together and feel all right

2245
02:23:12,209 --> 02:23:14,627
As it was in the beginning
One love

2246
02:23:14,795 --> 02:23:18,089
So shall it be in the end
One heart

2247
02:23:18,256 --> 02:23:19,590
All right

2248
02:23:19,758 --> 02:23:21,425
Let's send praise to the Lord

2249
02:23:21,593 --> 02:23:26,055
And I will feel all right

2250
02:23:26,223 --> 02:23:28,432
Let's get together

2251
02:23:28,600 --> 02:23:30,768
And feel all right

2252
02:23:30,936 --> 02:23:32,978
I'm sayin'

2253
02:23:33,146 --> 02:23:36,023
One love
What about the one heart

2254
02:23:36,191 --> 02:23:38,442
One heart
What about the

2255
02:23:38,610 --> 02:23:43,656
Let's get together and feel all right

2256
02:23:43,824 --> 02:23:46,534
I'm pleading to mankind
One love

2257
02:23:46,701 --> 02:23:50,913
Oh Lord whoa
One heart

2258
02:23:51,081 --> 02:23:52,540
Give thanks and praise to the Lord

2259
02:23:52,707 --> 02:23:55,584
And I will feel all right

2260
02:23:57,003 --> 02:24:02,967
Let's get together and feel all right

2261
02:24:03,135 --> 02:24:05,553
Give thanks and praise to the Lord

2262
02:24:05,720 --> 02:24:08,556
And I will feel all right

2263
02:24:08,723 --> 02:24:12,226
(new song starts)

2264
02:24:22,529 --> 02:24:26,949
Don't worry about a thing

2265
02:24:29,077 --> 02:24:33,372
'Cause every little thing
gonna be all right

2266
02:24:35,167 --> 02:24:39,753
Singin' don't worry about a thing

2267
02:24:41,965 --> 02:24:46,218
'Cause every little thing
gonna be all right

2268
02:24:48,180 --> 02:24:52,850
Singin', don't worry
about a thing

2269
02:24:54,978 --> 02:24:59,398
'Cause every little thing
gonna be all right

2270
02:24:59,566 --> 02:25:01,317
I won't worry