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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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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 Μarley 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 Μile 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 Μile,

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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, 1 6.

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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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- Μy name is Peter Μarley.
Bob Μarley is my second cousin.

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(man): What did you know about
Bob Μarley'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 Μarley saw...

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a way out.

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His guitar.

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

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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 Μarley):
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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(ΜcDonald): 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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(ΜcDonald): In Trench Town
we have First Street.

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All the way up to 1 3th 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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Μusic 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 Μarley):
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 Μarley): 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 Μarley
didn't sound so catchy and easy.

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So he wanted to call Bob "Adam."

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Adam Μarley.
(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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Μyself 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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(ΜcDonald): 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

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This train don't carry

250
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- As far as the Wailers' harmony,
and the building of the Wailers musically,

251
00:19:15,195 --> 00:19:18,948
Joe Higgs is the responsible person.

252
00:19:19,283 --> 00:19:21,534
Having his own career,

253
00:19:21,702 --> 00:19:24,829
he decided to take the group up
as a project.

254
00:19:55,152 --> 00:19:59,280
His policy was that great stars
sometimes get messed up...

255
00:19:59,448 --> 00:20:02,867
when they get afraid, you know,
when they get nervous on stage.

256
00:20:03,035 --> 00:20:04,785
So he said that...

257
00:20:04,953 --> 00:20:08,915
if we went to the cemetery
at, say, 2:00 in the morning...

258
00:20:09,082 --> 00:20:11,292
and sang for those people,

259
00:20:11,460 --> 00:20:14,670
then we can't be afraid
when we hit the stage.

260
00:20:14,838 --> 00:20:18,799
And we went with Joe,
sat on the graves, played.

261
00:20:18,967 --> 00:20:23,179
Several times we do it until he thought
we were brave enough now.

262
00:20:23,347 --> 00:20:25,348
(chuckling)

263
00:20:29,895 --> 00:20:33,439
Gather together
Be brothers and sisters

264
00:20:33,607 --> 00:20:36,651
We're independent
We're independent

265
00:20:36,818 --> 00:20:39,445
(man): Just about the time
of the independence,

266
00:20:39,613 --> 00:20:42,281
the Jamaican musicians
wanted to have a music...

267
00:20:42,449 --> 00:20:44,575
that they can call Jamaican music.

268
00:20:44,743 --> 00:20:46,994
- Well, Jamaica came up
with a unique rhythm.

269
00:20:47,162 --> 00:20:48,955
I didn't think it was deliberately done.

270
00:20:49,122 --> 00:20:53,167
I think it was an attempt to play something,
and it came out that way.

271
00:20:53,335 --> 00:20:56,170
It became known as reggae,
but it started off as ska,

272
00:20:56,338 --> 00:20:58,798
which was putting all the accent...

273
00:20:58,966 --> 00:21:01,884
on a different beat than what is normally
where the accent is.

274
00:21:02,052 --> 00:21:04,804
It would be on the off beat
instead of the on beat.

275
00:21:04,972 --> 00:21:08,307
(ska)

276
00:21:08,475 --> 00:21:12,478
(Cliff): Ska developed out of American
music that we were exposed to...

277
00:21:12,646 --> 00:21:15,564
on top of our Jamaican
indigenous music,

278
00:21:15,732 --> 00:21:20,403
such as mento, calypso, Kumina.

279
00:21:20,570 --> 00:21:22,405
Simmer down

280
00:21:22,572 --> 00:21:24,365
You lickin' too hot

281
00:21:24,533 --> 00:21:27,785
So simmer down
Soon you'll get dropped

282
00:21:27,953 --> 00:21:31,539
- We were at a bar one evening.

283
00:21:31,707 --> 00:21:34,292
And one of the guys, them says to us,
"Listen to this group."

284
00:21:34,459 --> 00:21:37,086
And they punched the jukebox.

285
00:21:37,254 --> 00:21:41,007
And the song was called "Simmer Down."

286
00:21:41,174 --> 00:21:44,010
And no more other tune
play on that box...

287
00:21:44,177 --> 00:21:47,513
the whole time we were there
but "Simmer Down," I tell you.

288
00:21:47,681 --> 00:21:51,600
Oh simmer down
Oh control your temper

289
00:21:51,768 --> 00:21:54,937
Simmer down
For the battle will be hotter

290
00:21:55,105 --> 00:21:58,316
- "Simmer Down" went straight
into the number-one position,

291
00:21:58,483 --> 00:22:01,444
and the Wailers were launched.

292
00:22:01,611 --> 00:22:04,739
...that I'm leaving you today
Simmer down

293
00:22:07,409 --> 00:22:10,369
- What was it like working at Studio 1 ,
where you started, in those days?

294
00:22:10,537 --> 00:22:13,497
(Bob): Yeah, it was good,
you know, 'cause, you know,

295
00:22:13,665 --> 00:22:14,915
first experience within music.

296
00:22:15,083 --> 00:22:16,459
Working with some good musician

297
00:22:16,626 --> 00:22:19,754
and trying to get the harmonies
and everything. It was great.

298
00:22:19,921 --> 00:22:22,715
(man): I heard you actually--
you personally lived in the studio.

299
00:22:22,883 --> 00:22:24,091
(Bob): Sometime.

300
00:22:24,259 --> 00:22:26,552
(man): You had Coxsone made you
a room out the back.

301
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:27,928
(Bob chuckling): Yes.

302
00:22:28,096 --> 00:22:31,891
(ΜcDonald): Well, Coxsone was,
um, a smart guy,

303
00:22:32,059 --> 00:22:34,393
in that he has an ear
for music, good music.

304
00:22:34,561 --> 00:22:36,354
- He might not have been
an instrument player.

305
00:22:36,521 --> 00:22:38,773
He might not even know
if the guitar is tuned,

306
00:22:38,940 --> 00:22:42,109
but he knows when the sound is right.

307
00:22:42,277 --> 00:22:44,487
- He has his own program on the radio.

308
00:22:44,654 --> 00:22:46,113
Has his own record shop.

309
00:22:46,281 --> 00:22:48,991
Has his own sound system.
Has his own studio.

310
00:22:49,159 --> 00:22:50,534
So he's obviously a leader.

311
00:22:50,702 --> 00:22:54,121
- Coxsone was like a father to us,
you know, to be honest with you.

312
00:22:54,289 --> 00:22:55,581
Coxsone was like a father to us.

313
00:22:55,749 --> 00:22:57,750
He cared for us.

314
00:23:01,755 --> 00:23:05,966
Coxsone gave Robbie a little room
round the back of the premises.

315
00:23:06,134 --> 00:23:08,010
I didn't have anywhere
to live neither.

316
00:23:08,178 --> 00:23:10,888
So Robbie and me lived there.
Both of us lived there.

317
00:23:11,056 --> 00:23:12,598
So we became intimate good friends.

318
00:23:13,934 --> 00:23:18,396
He gave Robbie a record player
and a lot of foreign records.

319
00:23:19,731 --> 00:23:22,525
Robbie was a fanatic
in listening to these people...

320
00:23:22,692 --> 00:23:24,944
because he was a serious,
focused man.

321
00:23:25,112 --> 00:23:26,987
Even as a youth.

322
00:23:27,155 --> 00:23:33,077
- Jamaican music developed from
what we call "do overs,"

323
00:23:33,245 --> 00:23:35,913
a version of somebody's song
in America.

324
00:23:36,873 --> 00:23:42,920
Each night
I ask the stars up above

325
00:23:43,088 --> 00:23:49,009
Why must I be a teenager in love

326
00:23:49,177 --> 00:23:52,054
Put me in your milling machine

327
00:23:52,222 --> 00:23:56,809
I never thought you could act so mean

328
00:23:57,018 --> 00:24:00,896
Now I'm wondering what to do

329
00:24:01,064 --> 00:24:04,900
To see if you could love me too

330
00:24:05,068 --> 00:24:08,112
(ΜcDonald): Bob had a good sound
'cause he's singing lead.

331
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:09,738
And the harmony was tight.

332
00:24:09,906 --> 00:24:13,409
- The harmony Bunny carried,
and Peter was fantastic.

333
00:24:14,953 --> 00:24:21,083
Why must I be a teenager in love

334
00:24:22,711 --> 00:24:26,839
(Rita): Peter and Bunny was
the most vocal one to say hi,

335
00:24:27,007 --> 00:24:31,135
but Bob was very reserved
and just look.

336
00:24:31,303 --> 00:24:33,345
As he would say, just "cotch and look."

337
00:24:35,098 --> 00:24:38,851
- As much as there was this obvious
love and admiration...

338
00:24:39,019 --> 00:24:40,978
for each other and of each other,

339
00:24:41,146 --> 00:24:43,939
there was always
a deep underlying tension...

340
00:24:44,107 --> 00:24:47,359
that none would be
a "yes man" to the other.

341
00:24:48,695 --> 00:24:52,865
I think the music was the glue
that held them together.

342
00:24:53,033 --> 00:25:03,417
Feel them spirit

343
00:25:04,878 --> 00:25:10,758
Lord, I thank you

344
00:25:12,093 --> 00:25:17,723
I'm gonna put it on

345
00:25:26,066 --> 00:25:28,776
- By then he was admiring me.

346
00:25:32,364 --> 00:25:34,615
I got a letter from Bunny,
bringing a letter.

347
00:25:34,783 --> 00:25:38,369
It was him sending his letter
through his friend. Not by himself.

348
00:25:38,537 --> 00:25:42,164
And to say yes, he likes me
and want to talk to me.

349
00:25:42,332 --> 00:25:44,375
I say, "Come over and talk."

350
00:25:44,543 --> 00:25:47,336
And he would stay
on the other side of the road and--

351
00:25:47,504 --> 00:25:51,090
He was very shy. He was very shy.
He was a shy guy.

352
00:25:51,716 --> 00:25:56,845
I'll play your favorite song darling

353
00:25:57,013 --> 00:25:59,348
He had a seriousness,
and he was one

354
00:25:59,516 --> 00:26:02,059
that you could say
was reaching out for love.

355
00:26:10,110 --> 00:26:12,987
- I didn't think,
I liked brown-skin men.

356
00:26:13,154 --> 00:26:17,908
I always dream of a guy--
tall, black, handsome.

357
00:26:18,076 --> 00:26:21,412
Every young girl's dream in Jamaica
is to have a tall, black boyfriend.

358
00:26:23,415 --> 00:26:25,332
They would call Bob an outcast...

359
00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:28,043
because he really don't belong to no--
you're in-between.

360
00:26:28,211 --> 00:26:30,921
You're black and white, so they're--
"You're not even black."

361
00:26:32,799 --> 00:26:35,217
(man): I think he always felt
like an outsider...

362
00:26:35,385 --> 00:26:37,511
because he was a half breed.

363
00:26:37,679 --> 00:26:40,431
And when Μortimer Planno took him in,

364
00:26:40,599 --> 00:26:43,809
well, that automatically
gave him acceptance.

365
00:26:45,353 --> 00:26:49,857
(Sibley): Μortimer Planno was
a Rasta spiritual leader who taught Bob.

366
00:26:50,859 --> 00:26:54,570
- He was like a preacher.
He preached Rastafarianism,

367
00:26:54,738 --> 00:26:56,280
and he had a following.

368
00:26:56,448 --> 00:26:58,782
(singing)

369
00:27:01,411 --> 00:27:04,663
(Sims): He hooked up
with Bob as a young boy.

370
00:27:04,831 --> 00:27:07,124
I think that they gelled together.

371
00:27:07,292 --> 00:27:09,835
(man): Bob looked up to him?
- Oh, yes.

372
00:27:11,254 --> 00:27:13,422
(Sibley speaking)

373
00:27:38,406 --> 00:27:44,036
(man): Rastafarian were
the only true Afrocentric black people.

374
00:27:44,204 --> 00:27:47,623
Who preached self-reliance,
who preached self-confidence.

375
00:27:48,875 --> 00:27:51,585
(ΜcDonald): But we interpret
the Bible a different way.

376
00:27:51,753 --> 00:27:55,297
Μost of these places that they're
telling you about in the Bible is in Africa.

377
00:27:55,465 --> 00:27:58,050
The Garden of Eden is in Africa.

378
00:27:58,218 --> 00:28:01,261
The teaching that we get
from the elders then...

379
00:28:01,429 --> 00:28:04,848
is that we always have to look upon
a black man as God.

380
00:28:05,016 --> 00:28:08,727
For we, somebody
that we can identify with.

381
00:28:09,938 --> 00:28:14,316
(Bob speaking)

382
00:28:29,124 --> 00:28:34,461
(ΜcDonald): Emperor Haile Selassie I
is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.

383
00:28:34,629 --> 00:28:36,922
He's our God. Rasta God.

384
00:28:38,133 --> 00:28:42,052
Rasta said the purpose of life
is to be happy.

385
00:28:42,220 --> 00:28:44,847
Everybody's supposed to be happy...

386
00:28:45,014 --> 00:28:47,641
and live in peace, love and unity.

387
00:28:47,809 --> 00:28:49,184
Yeah, mon.

388
00:28:51,229 --> 00:28:54,606
I think when him start take it serious
now as a Rastaman...

389
00:28:54,774 --> 00:28:57,359
was when him start growing dreadlocks.

390
00:28:57,527 --> 00:29:01,864
- Locks meant that you were a Rastafarian
and you've taken a vow--

391
00:29:02,031 --> 00:29:05,409
Nazarite vow not to cut or comb
your hair for a certain length of time,

392
00:29:05,577 --> 00:29:08,871
and it has a significance
and is not to be taken lightly.

393
00:29:09,038 --> 00:29:11,123
- How important are the dreadlocks?

394
00:29:11,291 --> 00:29:14,835
- This? This is my identity, mon.
- Is that part of being a Rasta?

395
00:29:15,003 --> 00:29:16,420
- Yeah, this is my identity.

396
00:29:16,588 --> 00:29:20,883
- Then you go through
all the various rules...

397
00:29:21,050 --> 00:29:23,051
for living as set out by the Bible.

398
00:29:23,219 --> 00:29:26,930
How you eat, how you live,
how you treat other people.

399
00:29:27,098 --> 00:29:28,474
And he believed that, um,

400
00:29:28,641 --> 00:29:31,018
if you practice these things,
well, life will be better.

401
00:29:31,186 --> 00:29:33,896
Not only for you,
but for everyone else.

402
00:29:34,230 --> 00:29:47,493
Got to have kaya now

403
00:29:47,660 --> 00:29:50,537
For the rain is falling

404
00:29:50,705 --> 00:29:52,998
(man): Marijuana's illegal in jamaica,

405
00:29:53,166 --> 00:29:57,294
but the Rastas say they smoke it
because the Bible tells them to.

406
00:29:57,462 --> 00:30:01,840
The Book of Revelations
says to "partake of the herb."

407
00:30:02,008 --> 00:30:04,885
- The herb was like
a sacramental food to us.

408
00:30:05,053 --> 00:30:08,806
We take it for reasons,
not just to get high.

409
00:30:09,599 --> 00:30:12,100
It put us in a holy, peaceful,

410
00:30:12,268 --> 00:30:14,436
happy, inspirational mood.

411
00:30:15,563 --> 00:30:18,190
(man): Were you born as a Rasta?

412
00:30:18,358 --> 00:30:20,984
When I was born, you know,
and growing,

413
00:30:21,152 --> 00:30:25,280
there was a certain amount
of consciousness...

414
00:30:25,448 --> 00:30:27,241
in the higher self...

415
00:30:27,408 --> 00:30:30,035
that, you know,

416
00:30:30,203 --> 00:30:31,703
it was always a lonely world,

417
00:30:31,871 --> 00:30:36,917
not finding people who might
think like me, you know?

418
00:30:37,085 --> 00:30:38,794
So off I'm going on, and going on

419
00:30:38,962 --> 00:30:42,047
and I come to Kingston,
meet some more people.

420
00:30:42,215 --> 00:30:43,757
Them people is Rasta.

421
00:30:43,925 --> 00:30:47,845
It's after that I find out
it's the same thing I have inside.

422
00:30:48,012 --> 00:30:49,263
It's the same thing.

423
00:30:49,430 --> 00:30:51,139
- How old were you
when this started to happen?

424
00:30:51,307 --> 00:30:54,560
- This is about 1 7, 1 8, you know?
- Ah.

425
00:30:54,727 --> 00:30:58,939
- I think in the belief or knowledge...

426
00:30:59,107 --> 00:31:05,070
of Haile Selassie,
Bob found his real father,

427
00:31:06,030 --> 00:31:08,240
which he'd never really knew.

428
00:31:08,408 --> 00:31:10,450
- I think he saw himself now.

429
00:31:10,618 --> 00:31:12,536
This is where he found himself, yes.

430
00:31:12,704 --> 00:31:15,330
No more about being
half white or half black.

431
00:31:15,498 --> 00:31:18,125
It's just one-- one love.

432
00:31:18,293 --> 00:31:21,712
One love
One heart

433
00:31:22,171 --> 00:31:25,591
Let's join together
and I'll feel all right

434
00:31:26,551 --> 00:31:30,554
One love
One heart

435
00:31:30,722 --> 00:31:33,974
Let's join together
and I will feel all right

436
00:31:34,142 --> 00:31:37,394
(man): Undaunted by the driving rain,
a sea of faces awaited...

437
00:31:37,562 --> 00:31:40,522
at the Palisadoes Airport
the arrival of a living legend.

438
00:31:40,815 --> 00:31:43,150
For some,
he was the King of Kings.

439
00:31:43,318 --> 00:31:45,068
The Lion of judah--

440
00:31:45,236 --> 00:31:46,153
even a god.

441
00:31:46,321 --> 00:31:49,239
Members of a local cult,
the Rastafarians,

442
00:31:49,407 --> 00:31:53,035
who worship this figure as a deity,
were present in full force.

443
00:31:56,873 --> 00:31:59,625
His Imperial Majesty,
Haile Selassie I,

444
00:31:59,792 --> 00:32:02,044
Emperor of Ethiopia, arrived.

445
00:32:02,211 --> 00:32:06,924
(man): When the plane landed,
thousands ran out and surrounded the plane.

446
00:32:07,592 --> 00:32:10,761
Some of them smoking.
Our police were powerless.

447
00:32:10,929 --> 00:32:14,806
And Selassie came to the door
of the plane, I remember,

448
00:32:14,974 --> 00:32:19,102
and after about 20 minutes
and he just looked and went back in.

449
00:32:19,354 --> 00:32:21,813
It took a long time
to get him off the plane.

450
00:32:23,358 --> 00:32:26,777
(Rita): So he came off the plane
and he greet, and I say--

451
00:32:26,945 --> 00:32:28,737
I say, "Wait, but this is a little man.

452
00:32:28,905 --> 00:32:31,156
There is this little man they say is God.
Them crazy."

453
00:32:32,951 --> 00:32:36,536
- I sit there on my bicycle, waiting on him.

454
00:32:36,704 --> 00:32:39,247
And when him come up,
he look right in my face.

455
00:32:39,499 --> 00:32:43,460
It was like him look
into everybody face.

456
00:32:43,628 --> 00:32:45,128
But he look upon everyone.

457
00:32:46,255 --> 00:32:47,756
I remember, I see that.

458
00:32:48,174 --> 00:32:50,634
(Rita): And he just
turn his head around...

459
00:32:50,802 --> 00:32:52,552
and he was looking straight at me.

460
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,262
And he did like this.

461
00:32:55,974 --> 00:32:57,057
And I look and I look,

462
00:32:57,225 --> 00:33:01,144
and I saw his hand,
and I saw a mark in his hand.

463
00:33:01,771 --> 00:33:05,899
And believe you, my brother,
when I saw that I went crazy.

464
00:33:06,067 --> 00:33:08,819
I run all the way back
to Trench Town.

465
00:33:09,153 --> 00:33:18,453
Take your troubles to Selassie

466
00:33:26,546 --> 00:33:32,801
He is the only King of Kings

467
00:33:34,387 --> 00:33:37,514
King of Kings

468
00:33:37,682 --> 00:33:41,727
King of Kings Selassie

469
00:33:44,689 --> 00:33:48,358
(Chin): The deeper Bob got
into the faith-- the Rastafarian faith--

470
00:33:48,526 --> 00:33:52,821
the more his music
became entwined.

471
00:33:54,323 --> 00:33:58,493
- He was very into the social
commentary side of the music.

472
00:33:58,661 --> 00:34:01,705
Μr. Dodd didn't like that because
it wasn't commercial enough.

473
00:34:02,081 --> 00:34:05,083
So he was a little frustrated
because he couldn't do the music...

474
00:34:05,251 --> 00:34:07,377
the way he really wanted it to be done.

475
00:34:08,296 --> 00:34:12,758
(Bunny): And also at that time,
money was a problem.

476
00:34:12,925 --> 00:34:17,429
Coxsone wasn't the kind of person
at the time to argue money with,

477
00:34:17,597 --> 00:34:19,556
unless you were willing
to go to war.

478
00:34:20,058 --> 00:34:22,517
(ΜcDonald): When you go
and ask him for your money,

479
00:34:22,685 --> 00:34:25,604
he usually like to bring off
some bad boy style.

480
00:34:25,772 --> 00:34:28,148
'Cause he has his thugs around him.

481
00:34:28,316 --> 00:34:31,068
You know what I mean?
Enforcer type of guys.

482
00:34:31,235 --> 00:34:34,279
- It was traditional in those days...

483
00:34:34,447 --> 00:34:38,200
that artists who recorded
never made money...

484
00:34:38,367 --> 00:34:41,036
because the record company
who collected the money...

485
00:34:41,204 --> 00:34:42,746
never gave the artist any money.

486
00:34:42,914 --> 00:34:45,207
- Yeah, we got paid
like minimum wage.

487
00:34:45,374 --> 00:34:48,418
Three pounds a week, that's it.
Each.

488
00:34:48,586 --> 00:34:50,420
- You couldn't live off it.

489
00:34:50,588 --> 00:34:52,589
(man): Could Bob live off it?
- Nah, mon.

490
00:34:52,757 --> 00:34:56,134
That's why Bob had to leave
and start doing his own thing.

491
00:34:56,928 --> 00:35:00,180
(Bunny): So Robert left the group
to go to Delaware,

492
00:35:00,348 --> 00:35:01,348
to the United States.

493
00:35:01,516 --> 00:35:02,849
To migrate.

494
00:35:05,770 --> 00:35:07,687
(man speaking)

495
00:35:13,528 --> 00:35:16,196
Gotta hold on to
this feeling we got

496
00:35:16,364 --> 00:35:18,323
We gonna blow blow blow

497
00:35:18,491 --> 00:35:21,326
'Cause we love love love you now

498
00:35:21,869 --> 00:35:25,789
- Yeah, well that was a marriage
that I wasn't invited to, nor Peter.

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

500
00:35:32,004 --> 00:35:34,005
(Rita): We got married, like,
on the 1 1th.

501
00:35:34,173 --> 00:35:37,259
And he left on the 1 2th of February.

502
00:35:38,386 --> 00:35:40,804
(vocalizing)

503
00:35:43,891 --> 00:35:48,395
Run for cover

504
00:35:48,563 --> 00:35:49,980
Rain is taking over

505
00:35:50,148 --> 00:35:51,648
(barking)

506
00:35:51,816 --> 00:35:53,650
Taking over

507
00:35:54,694 --> 00:35:56,361
(woman): He came here--
his mother wants him here.

508
00:35:56,529 --> 00:35:58,488
Bob loved his mother.

509
00:36:00,032 --> 00:36:03,869
(Rita): He got a job at the du Pont Hotel
vacuuming the floor.

510
00:36:04,036 --> 00:36:06,663
Then he got a job at Chrysler.

511
00:36:06,831 --> 00:36:09,583
- When he was working there,
he used to--

512
00:36:09,750 --> 00:36:12,836
I think he used to drive
one of the forklift.

513
00:36:13,004 --> 00:36:17,716
I think he have a song out
of that driving the forklift all night.

514
00:36:17,884 --> 00:36:20,635
I'm working all night

515
00:36:20,803 --> 00:36:23,013
Got to be all right

516
00:36:23,181 --> 00:36:26,224
See I work for my bread

517
00:36:26,392 --> 00:36:27,934
All right

518
00:36:28,102 --> 00:36:29,895
Night and day
All night

519
00:36:30,062 --> 00:36:31,521
Work for my pay

520
00:36:31,689 --> 00:36:33,940
All right
Night and day

521
00:36:35,109 --> 00:36:41,698
No no no no no no

522
00:36:44,118 --> 00:36:47,245
Can you feel it
No no no no no no

523
00:36:47,413 --> 00:36:49,873
- Well, he was just very humble, very loving,

524
00:36:50,041 --> 00:36:52,209
and he was very quiet, really.

525
00:36:53,127 --> 00:36:54,878
(man):Was he smoking
a lot of ganja then?

526
00:36:55,046 --> 00:36:58,715
- Yeah, he was growing it too,
man, in his backyard,

527
00:36:58,883 --> 00:37:01,968
and he had a row of herb plants,

528
00:37:02,136 --> 00:37:04,971
I mean towering in the air,
and I couldn't believe it.

529
00:37:05,139 --> 00:37:07,140
'Cause at that time
in Wilmington, Delaware,

530
00:37:07,308 --> 00:37:10,101
man, they were kicking
people's doors in for a little joint.

531
00:37:11,604 --> 00:37:13,355
- I used to go up to his house
and we'd go in the basement.

532
00:37:13,522 --> 00:37:16,316
He'd play his guitar, and I would play
my congas. I played congas.

533
00:37:16,484 --> 00:37:17,567
And we would just jam.

534
00:37:17,735 --> 00:37:20,070
And I didn't really realize
he was such a great musician.

535
00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:24,366
(Rita): But he never gave up music,

536
00:37:24,533 --> 00:37:27,077
'cause his mummy,
she would write me to say,

537
00:37:27,245 --> 00:37:30,664
"All Nesta does
is stay in the basement...

538
00:37:30,831 --> 00:37:32,540
and play his guitar."

539
00:37:32,792 --> 00:37:37,629
(Bob): Well, I couldn't stand it.
I wasn't doing what I wanted to do.

540
00:37:37,797 --> 00:37:41,091
So I went back to Jamaica,
where I must get more freedom.

541
00:37:41,259 --> 00:37:44,094
Bend down low

542
00:37:45,388 --> 00:37:48,848
Let me tell you what I know yeah

543
00:37:50,643 --> 00:37:53,186
Bend down low

544
00:37:55,982 --> 00:37:57,983
(Bunny): When Robbie came back
from the U.S.,

545
00:37:58,150 --> 00:38:03,613
we decided to start our own independent
label, "Wail'n Soul'm."

546
00:38:03,781 --> 00:38:07,325
So we went in and did
"Bend Down Low."

547
00:38:07,660 --> 00:38:10,495
"Bend Down Low" was a number one.

548
00:38:10,663 --> 00:38:13,290
We started to build our own economy.

549
00:38:13,457 --> 00:38:17,127
We used to ride with our bicycles
and distribute the records to jukeboxes,

550
00:38:17,295 --> 00:38:21,006
sound systems, record stores,
with our bicycles.

551
00:38:21,173 --> 00:38:23,675
- The Wailers' music
dominated the dance halls.

552
00:38:23,843 --> 00:38:28,555
But it was hardly played
on our Jamaican radio stations.

553
00:38:30,016 --> 00:38:32,684
(man): In the music business,
they were just prejudiced.

554
00:38:32,852 --> 00:38:35,020
The first problem is being a Rasta.

555
00:38:35,187 --> 00:38:38,565
And the next problem is that
you're not with the big companies.

556
00:38:38,733 --> 00:38:40,608
So that's a--
that's a heavy load to carry.

557
00:38:40,985 --> 00:38:43,987
(Cole): These disc jockeys,
when they went on air,

558
00:38:44,155 --> 00:38:45,322
they had their own program sometime.

559
00:38:45,489 --> 00:38:48,158
They had their own
sorts of records from these--

560
00:38:48,326 --> 00:38:50,994
these different companies
that they would have to play.

561
00:38:51,162 --> 00:38:54,873
Sometimes we were not included.
So to be included in that,

562
00:38:55,041 --> 00:38:57,167
we had to get real tough sometimes.

563
00:38:57,418 --> 00:39:00,170
- I used to drive Bob with "Skill" Cole--

564
00:39:00,338 --> 00:39:01,463
- Yeah.

565
00:39:01,630 --> 00:39:03,214
- And Frowser and Tek-Life.

566
00:39:03,382 --> 00:39:05,717
Do you remember them,
these two little gangsters?

567
00:39:05,885 --> 00:39:07,093
- Yeah. Right.

568
00:39:07,261 --> 00:39:09,054
(chuckling)
Yeah.

569
00:39:09,221 --> 00:39:12,015
- I used to drive to the radio station, right?
- Right.

570
00:39:12,183 --> 00:39:14,934
- And they'd leave me in the car.
Right?

571
00:39:15,102 --> 00:39:17,103
And they'd go in.
Skill Cole had a baseball bat.

572
00:39:17,271 --> 00:39:18,897
You know they don't play baseball
in Jamaica.

573
00:39:19,065 --> 00:39:20,857
I don't know where
he got a baseball bat.

574
00:39:21,025 --> 00:39:23,068
And Skill Cole was big-- A big guy.
- Yeah.

575
00:39:23,235 --> 00:39:25,528
- Right?
They'd go in the radio station.

576
00:39:25,696 --> 00:39:29,616
They'd have me listen
to the radio...

577
00:39:29,784 --> 00:39:31,910
to make sure that they're really

578
00:39:32,078 --> 00:39:33,620
playing the record.
- Right.

579
00:39:36,290 --> 00:39:39,584
(Bunny):
And then Coxsone, Studio 1 ,

580
00:39:39,752 --> 00:39:43,755
Dualcreed, Trojan
and Prince Buster...

581
00:39:43,923 --> 00:39:47,217
decide to form an organization
called "The Big Tree."

582
00:39:48,094 --> 00:39:50,136
Then the Wailers pulled the ax.

583
00:39:51,555 --> 00:39:54,599
If you are a big tree

584
00:39:55,518 --> 00:39:59,020
We are the small ax

585
00:39:59,188 --> 00:40:02,315
Sharpened to cut you down

586
00:40:02,483 --> 00:40:03,942
Well sharp

587
00:40:04,110 --> 00:40:05,568
To cut you down

588
00:40:37,268 --> 00:40:39,936
(Bunny): Lee Perry used to work
with Coxsone.

589
00:40:41,689 --> 00:40:45,108
So when he started doing
his independent business,

590
00:40:45,276 --> 00:40:49,362
we admired him, because he follow
our footstep out of Coxsone.

591
00:40:54,452 --> 00:40:56,286
(man): Μy experience of "Scratch" is that,

592
00:40:56,454 --> 00:40:59,664
number one,
he's a very innovative producer.

593
00:40:59,832 --> 00:41:01,624
Very creative.

594
00:41:01,792 --> 00:41:04,502
I mean, to the point
that it became an excitement...

595
00:41:04,670 --> 00:41:08,423
to see him come into the studio
with a half flask of white rum...

596
00:41:08,591 --> 00:41:11,593
and sprinkle the four corners
of the studio with it.

597
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:12,969
Flash.

598
00:41:13,137 --> 00:41:15,430
And then he would go into his little--

599
00:41:15,848 --> 00:41:18,183
You know, he would, like, dance.

600
00:41:18,350 --> 00:41:20,852
He didn't write music scores.
He would say, you know,

601
00:41:21,020 --> 00:41:22,395
"Snap, I want you to play this,"
you know?

602
00:41:22,563 --> 00:41:24,898
And he would just hop
through the music, you know?

603
00:41:25,065 --> 00:41:26,649
And they--
they would follow him.

604
00:41:28,277 --> 00:41:30,862
I would believe that his early
recordings with the Wailers

605
00:41:31,030 --> 00:41:33,239
were the best to my knowledge.

606
00:41:33,491 --> 00:41:36,701
Perry had a lot of influence
on Bob's, uh, career.

607
00:41:45,211 --> 00:41:49,797
These are the words of my master

608
00:41:52,343 --> 00:41:54,427
(Perry speaking)

609
00:42:03,062 --> 00:42:05,730
(man): Why do people like his music
so much though?

610
00:42:05,898 --> 00:42:08,316
(Perry speaking)

611
00:42:50,150 --> 00:42:51,651
- It is mentioned often in the Bible...

612
00:42:51,819 --> 00:42:56,030
that there shall be a music
that all people of all global concerns...

613
00:42:56,198 --> 00:42:58,533
shall play and dance
and sing this music.

614
00:42:58,701 --> 00:43:00,368
It's in the Revelation.

615
00:43:00,536 --> 00:43:02,245
What other music could that be?

616
00:43:03,664 --> 00:43:05,290
Reggae.

617
00:43:06,542 --> 00:43:10,003
- What really changed it to reggae...

618
00:43:10,170 --> 00:43:12,547
was the riff actually with the guitar.

619
00:43:13,090 --> 00:43:15,216
It just basically a rhythm change...

620
00:43:15,384 --> 00:43:17,594
in terms of what the guitar--

621
00:43:17,761 --> 00:43:20,138
the guitar used to play
like cha, cha, cha.

622
00:43:20,306 --> 00:43:22,890
And then it start playing
chaka, chaka, chaka, chaka.

623
00:43:33,736 --> 00:43:36,988
Yes my friend

624
00:43:38,991 --> 00:43:42,952
We're in the streets again

625
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:46,623
Sometimes some of these things happen
out ofjust maybe an accident.

626
00:43:46,790 --> 00:43:50,001
Somebody was doing something
and the producer went, "Hey, I like that."

627
00:43:50,502 --> 00:43:53,171
Can set me free again

628
00:43:53,339 --> 00:43:58,051
(man): Coxsone had bought a piece
of equipment from the United States.

629
00:43:58,218 --> 00:44:00,637
And it was in the studio for a long time
and no one knew what to do with it.

630
00:44:01,347 --> 00:44:03,222
They decided to hook it up.

631
00:44:03,390 --> 00:44:06,643
And when it was hooked up,
they realized it was a tape delay.

632
00:44:06,810 --> 00:44:08,311
So when you make one strum,

633
00:44:08,479 --> 00:44:10,855
it comes back at you
at the same time. "Chicka."

634
00:44:11,565 --> 00:44:15,234
And the other studios heard "Chicka"...

635
00:44:15,402 --> 00:44:17,278
and thought it was a guitar
making more sounds.

636
00:44:17,446 --> 00:44:20,990
So reggae, to my mind, actually
developed out of an illusion.

637
00:44:23,369 --> 00:44:25,870
So if you a bullbucka

638
00:44:26,038 --> 00:44:28,039
Let me tell you this

639
00:44:28,582 --> 00:44:32,877
I'm a duppy conqueror

640
00:44:33,962 --> 00:44:34,921
Conqueror

641
00:44:35,089 --> 00:44:37,256
(Bunny): The beats are
bam, bam, bam, bam.

642
00:44:37,424 --> 00:44:40,259
With reggae you got three beats
out of four beats,

643
00:44:40,427 --> 00:44:41,969
and you imagine the next beat.

644
00:44:42,137 --> 00:44:44,430
Feel the next beat.
That's reggae.

645
00:44:44,598 --> 00:44:46,766
Feel. Heartbeat. Feel.

646
00:44:46,934 --> 00:44:52,897
(rhythmic vocalizing)

647
00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:57,610
Yeah.

648
00:44:58,862 --> 00:45:00,363
Heartbeats.

649
00:45:01,615 --> 00:45:02,949
Real deal.

650
00:45:03,117 --> 00:45:07,370
- The basic parts of the music
were the drum and the bass.

651
00:45:09,039 --> 00:45:13,167
Because, you know, drums are
the first instruments in music.

652
00:45:18,132 --> 00:45:20,550
So the drum is the heartbeat,

653
00:45:20,718 --> 00:45:23,177
and the bass, it is the backbone.

654
00:45:23,303 --> 00:45:26,139
(man): Well, I think
the drum and bass...

655
00:45:26,306 --> 00:45:28,391
play a very important part
in Bob's music.

656
00:45:28,559 --> 00:45:31,394
It was, you know, "Family Μan"
and Carlton-- two brothers.

657
00:45:31,562 --> 00:45:33,730
They have their own style.

658
00:45:33,897 --> 00:45:35,732
Stir it up

659
00:45:37,860 --> 00:45:39,902
Little darlin'

660
00:45:40,070 --> 00:45:41,362
Stir it up

661
00:45:42,781 --> 00:45:44,824
Come on baby

662
00:45:44,992 --> 00:45:49,412
(Barrett): Reggae is a concept
of all different type of music.

663
00:45:49,580 --> 00:45:53,291
You got funk.
You got rhythm and blues.

664
00:45:53,459 --> 00:45:55,793
You got soul.

665
00:45:55,961 --> 00:45:59,130
And then very jazzy when it's ready.

666
00:45:59,298 --> 00:46:01,674
It's been a long long time

667
00:46:03,218 --> 00:46:06,804
Since I've got you on my mind

668
00:46:08,724 --> 00:46:11,142
Whoa whoa whoo yeah

669
00:46:11,310 --> 00:46:14,187
And now you are here

670
00:46:14,354 --> 00:46:18,065
I say it's so clear

671
00:46:18,233 --> 00:46:21,652
To see what we could do baby

672
00:46:22,029 --> 00:46:23,821
just me and you

673
00:46:23,989 --> 00:46:26,157
Come on and stir it up

674
00:46:28,535 --> 00:46:32,497
Little darlin'
Stir it up

675
00:46:33,707 --> 00:46:35,458
Come on baby

676
00:46:37,002 --> 00:46:39,670
Come on and stir it up

677
00:46:41,882 --> 00:46:45,927
Little darlin'
Stir it up

678
00:46:50,307 --> 00:46:53,643
- I was working with a company
called National Dry Cleaners.

679
00:46:53,811 --> 00:46:56,229
And I was in charge of a branch.

680
00:46:56,396 --> 00:46:59,190
And Rita came in one day
with some clothes to,

681
00:46:59,358 --> 00:47:01,067
you know, to be dry-cleaned.

682
00:47:01,235 --> 00:47:04,779
She gave out the clothes
and she said, "Rita Μarley."

683
00:47:04,947 --> 00:47:06,948
So I was quite surprised,

684
00:47:07,115 --> 00:47:10,076
because, I mean, the only Μarley I know
was the white Μarleys.

685
00:47:10,244 --> 00:47:12,161
I call them the white Μarleys.

686
00:47:12,329 --> 00:47:15,414
And, uh, so I said, "Who is Μarley?"

687
00:47:15,582 --> 00:47:17,834
She said, "Well, that's my husband."

688
00:47:18,001 --> 00:47:19,794
And I said, "Who is his father?"

689
00:47:19,962 --> 00:47:23,631
She said she don't know much about him,
but she know they call him Captain Μarley.

690
00:47:23,799 --> 00:47:25,591
And then I said, "That's my father."

691
00:47:28,220 --> 00:47:30,888
Μy mother used to work
in a boardinghouse,

692
00:47:31,056 --> 00:47:33,808
and my dad would stay there
when he comes from--

693
00:47:33,976 --> 00:47:38,062
from sea or wherever he goes,
and that's how she met him.

694
00:47:38,230 --> 00:47:41,023
(man): And did they have a long relationship
or was it very brief?

695
00:47:41,191 --> 00:47:43,025
- I think it was very brief.

696
00:47:44,236 --> 00:47:47,321
Μy mother didn't really know
what happened to him.

697
00:47:50,409 --> 00:47:53,119
(ΜcDonald): In Jamaica,
used to have a big company.

698
00:47:53,287 --> 00:47:55,872
Established company
named Μarley and Plant.

699
00:47:56,039 --> 00:47:58,207
They did construction,
Μarley and Plant.

700
00:47:58,375 --> 00:48:02,044
Μost of the construction jobs
in and around the country.

701
00:48:02,212 --> 00:48:05,047
That was the company who did it.

702
00:48:05,215 --> 00:48:07,633
And he always said
those were his family.

703
00:48:07,801 --> 00:48:09,844
- Yeah, I remember one time, I think,

704
00:48:10,012 --> 00:48:13,222
him go to them to try borrow
some money to buy a car,

705
00:48:13,390 --> 00:48:17,560
you know, so they can
deliver the records.

706
00:48:17,728 --> 00:48:19,937
And the story goes,
when he walked in the office,

707
00:48:20,105 --> 00:48:23,774
like the whole staff turned around
'cause he looked so much like them.

708
00:48:23,942 --> 00:48:25,693
(laughs)

709
00:48:26,153 --> 00:48:28,195
- They told us to go away.

710
00:48:28,363 --> 00:48:31,908
They know nothing
about Norval having a baby.

711
00:48:32,075 --> 00:48:35,703
- Knowing my father, as I do, um,

712
00:48:35,871 --> 00:48:38,372
I don't know how strong
the word rejected is.

713
00:48:38,540 --> 00:48:42,376
But he might have
been rejected, for sure,

714
00:48:42,544 --> 00:48:47,757
because, um, a different era
and my father was a disciplinarian,

715
00:48:47,925 --> 00:48:50,468
and he was quite
a stern man in his own way.

716
00:48:50,886 --> 00:48:55,681
In those days Rastafarians weren't
as socially accepted as they are now.

717
00:48:57,601 --> 00:49:01,103
- He said to me, "When all this happened,
it gave me more strength...

718
00:49:01,271 --> 00:49:03,230
because I went to write a song."

719
00:49:03,398 --> 00:49:05,650
You know, write a song.
I said "What song?"

720
00:49:05,817 --> 00:49:08,235
He said, "Try to pick it up."
He said, "The stone the builder refuse.

721
00:49:08,403 --> 00:49:10,237
I'm the stone. I'm the one."

722
00:49:10,530 --> 00:49:14,909
(man): I just wanted to play you a song...
which we were told, Bob,

723
00:49:15,077 --> 00:49:18,579
after he went to see your father
and he felt rejected,

724
00:49:18,747 --> 00:49:20,915
he wrote this song
about that experience.

725
00:49:21,083 --> 00:49:23,167
I'm just very curious to know
what you think of it.

726
00:49:23,335 --> 00:49:27,254
- Oh, really? I'd be interested.
I'd be interested to hear it.

727
00:49:27,631 --> 00:49:31,384
(reggae)

728
00:49:39,434 --> 00:49:43,187
The stone that the builder refused

729
00:49:43,355 --> 00:49:46,816
Will always be the head cornerstone

730
00:49:46,984 --> 00:49:49,026
Sing it brother

731
00:49:57,411 --> 00:49:58,869
- Nice song.

732
00:49:59,871 --> 00:50:02,498
You're a builder baby

733
00:50:03,291 --> 00:50:05,793
Here I am a stone

734
00:50:08,213 --> 00:50:11,924
Don't you pick and refuse me

735
00:50:12,551 --> 00:50:14,802
'Cause the things people refuse

736
00:50:14,970 --> 00:50:17,346
Are the things they should use

737
00:50:17,514 --> 00:50:19,682
Do you hear me

738
00:50:19,850 --> 00:50:22,476
Hear what I say

739
00:50:22,644 --> 00:50:26,981
- I've heard this song before,
but I never placed any significance in it.

740
00:50:27,149 --> 00:50:31,444
But I can see where
what you're saying could be so.

741
00:50:31,611 --> 00:50:32,862
Μm-hmm.

742
00:50:34,364 --> 00:50:36,866
- Am I allowed to talk?
- Μm-hmm.

743
00:50:37,034 --> 00:50:40,202
- Yeah, how true that is.

744
00:50:40,370 --> 00:50:45,791
'Cause Bob put the Μarley name
in the world, you know?

745
00:50:45,959 --> 00:50:50,838
He filled the world with the Μarleys
by all his music and his children's.

746
00:50:51,965 --> 00:50:55,509
And he now becomes the Μarley.

747
00:50:55,677 --> 00:50:58,054
You know what I mean?
He now becomes the Μarley,

748
00:50:58,221 --> 00:51:01,974
and nobody knows what happened
to the rest that used to be so...

749
00:51:04,102 --> 00:51:06,103
adored and wonderful.

750
00:51:06,271 --> 00:51:08,898
They're in the background now,
and he's in the forefront.

751
00:51:09,066 --> 00:51:13,569
Isn't that amazing?
Yes. Yes. Truly.

752
00:51:15,489 --> 00:51:19,366
The stone that the builder refused

753
00:51:19,534 --> 00:51:23,788
Will always be the head cornerstone

754
00:51:25,123 --> 00:51:27,708
- I think what happened to him--
that rejection--

755
00:51:27,876 --> 00:51:31,087
that is why he was able
to reach the world.

756
00:51:31,254 --> 00:51:34,507
And I think there are so many people
out there that are hurting.

757
00:51:34,674 --> 00:51:37,760
So many people out there that have felt
what I have been through,

758
00:51:37,928 --> 00:51:43,599
and I have a message that can bring change
and transformation.

759
00:51:54,236 --> 00:52:12,044
No woman no cry

760
00:52:12,671 --> 00:52:13,921
'Cause 'cause

761
00:52:14,089 --> 00:52:17,716
'Cause I remember
when we used to sit

762
00:52:18,927 --> 00:52:21,804
In the government yard
in Trench Town

763
00:52:23,849 --> 00:52:28,352
Oba observing
the hypocrites yeah

764
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:33,065
Mingle with the good people
we meet yeah

765
00:52:33,233 --> 00:52:38,320
Good friends we have
Oh good friends we've lost

766
00:52:38,488 --> 00:52:42,700
Along the way yeah

767
00:52:42,868 --> 00:52:47,663
In this great future
you can't forget your past

768
00:52:47,831 --> 00:52:51,333
So dry your tears I say

769
00:52:51,501 --> 00:52:52,668
Yeah

770
00:52:52,836 --> 00:53:25,159
Everything's gonna be all right

771
00:53:28,622 --> 00:53:30,831
(audience cheering)

772
00:53:30,999 --> 00:53:34,001
(intro)

773
00:53:34,169 --> 00:53:36,420
(Blackwell): Somebody rang me and said,
"Oh, by the way,

774
00:53:36,588 --> 00:53:40,090
Bob Μarley and the Wailers are in London.
Would you like to meet them?"

775
00:53:40,258 --> 00:53:42,551
I was intrigued to meet them
because, you know,

776
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:44,845
you'd heard a lot about them by now.

777
00:53:48,934 --> 00:53:52,311
When they came in the office,
they were just really impressive.

778
00:53:52,479 --> 00:53:54,396
Very charismatic.

779
00:53:55,607 --> 00:53:59,151
I just said to go make an album
and asked them how much they thought.

780
00:53:59,319 --> 00:54:01,862
They told me, and I gave them
the money to do that.

781
00:54:04,908 --> 00:54:07,576
We took 4,000 pounds and
did the Catch a Fire album.

782
00:54:09,663 --> 00:54:11,872
(Blackwell): I was trying to get across
that this is a black rock act.

783
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:14,250
That's how I wanted it
to be perceived.

784
00:54:14,417 --> 00:54:16,627
Get up stand up

785
00:54:16,795 --> 00:54:19,630
Stand up for your rights

786
00:54:19,798 --> 00:54:22,758
Get up stand up

787
00:54:22,926 --> 00:54:25,469
Stand up for your rights

788
00:54:25,637 --> 00:54:27,805
Get up stand up

789
00:54:27,973 --> 00:54:30,849
And don't give up the fight

790
00:54:35,021 --> 00:54:38,941
Μy sense is that Bob
was ready to give it a try,

791
00:54:39,109 --> 00:54:40,401
and that the others weren't that keen.

792
00:54:44,197 --> 00:54:47,700
(Cole): The frame of mind that Bob was in,
he didn't mind it.

793
00:54:47,867 --> 00:54:50,160
He said, "I had to start somewhere."

794
00:54:50,328 --> 00:54:51,453
He always said it.

795
00:54:51,621 --> 00:54:53,664
"If you don't start somewhere,
you're not gonna get nowhere."

796
00:54:53,832 --> 00:54:56,208
Get up stand up

797
00:54:56,876 --> 00:54:58,502
Stand up for your rights

798
00:54:59,838 --> 00:55:01,422
Get up stand up

799
00:55:03,049 --> 00:55:05,676
(Chin): Bob wanted it to reach
not just the Jamaicans--

800
00:55:05,844 --> 00:55:08,554
Bob wanted it to reach
the American market.

801
00:55:08,722 --> 00:55:10,973
He wanted it to reach
the European market.

802
00:55:11,141 --> 00:55:13,809
And in order to do that,
you had to flavor it that way.

803
00:55:14,519 --> 00:55:15,811
Stand up for your rights

804
00:55:17,230 --> 00:55:19,898
Get up stand up

805
00:55:20,066 --> 00:55:21,692
And don't give up the fight

806
00:55:28,533 --> 00:55:30,326
Ital.

807
00:55:30,493 --> 00:55:31,952
Irie.

808
00:55:34,331 --> 00:55:36,790
(Blackwell): The first record
is easily the most,

809
00:55:36,958 --> 00:55:39,501
for want of a better word, pasteurized.

810
00:55:39,669 --> 00:55:41,962
I added sort of different things into it.

811
00:55:42,130 --> 00:55:45,674
- All those guitars and the keyboards
are all overdubs.

812
00:55:55,977 --> 00:56:00,981
No sun will shine in my day today

813
00:56:02,150 --> 00:56:04,443
No sun will shine

814
00:56:05,904 --> 00:56:10,824
The high yellow moon
won't come out to play

815
00:56:10,992 --> 00:56:14,244
Won't come out to play

816
00:56:14,412 --> 00:56:19,166
I said darkness
has covered my light

817
00:56:21,002 --> 00:56:25,005
And has changed my day
into night yeah

818
00:56:26,299 --> 00:56:30,844
Where is the love to be found

819
00:56:32,055 --> 00:56:34,640
Won't someone tell me

820
00:56:34,808 --> 00:56:36,934
(Blackwell): I had no doubt
that it would succeed.

821
00:56:37,102 --> 00:56:38,977
I had no doubt.

822
00:56:39,145 --> 00:56:41,313
The only thing that
could stop it succeeding...

823
00:56:41,481 --> 00:56:43,357
is if I couldn't get them to tour.

824
00:56:43,525 --> 00:56:44,942
That was my only fear.

825
00:56:45,110 --> 00:56:46,860
Concrete jungle

826
00:56:47,028 --> 00:56:50,948
I say where the living is hardest

827
00:56:51,116 --> 00:56:52,408
(Cole): They went on this famous tour,

828
00:56:52,575 --> 00:56:54,493
and things went wrong.

829
00:56:54,661 --> 00:56:56,245
Things went sour.

830
00:56:56,413 --> 00:57:00,249
- We did a tour of England
of the Catch a Fire album,

831
00:57:00,417 --> 00:57:03,836
but no one told us that
it was a promotional tour,

832
00:57:04,003 --> 00:57:06,922
so we wouldn't be getting any money.

833
00:57:07,090 --> 00:57:09,049
(Cole): You're top group in Jamaica now,

834
00:57:09,217 --> 00:57:13,595
and you probably think that going to England
is going to be the same.

835
00:57:13,763 --> 00:57:15,264
Bob was more real.

836
00:57:15,432 --> 00:57:18,350
'Cause he said to me,
"Eh, nobody know the Wailers."

837
00:57:18,518 --> 00:57:21,687
- I think Bob recognized he needed
to get out there and do it,

838
00:57:21,855 --> 00:57:23,772
and I think the others were not sure.

839
00:57:23,940 --> 00:57:26,066
It's like grassroots, you know?

840
00:57:26,234 --> 00:57:29,778
You're on a bus all night,
schlepping up and down the motorway,

841
00:57:29,946 --> 00:57:31,822
eating terrible food.

842
00:57:31,990 --> 00:57:32,990
You know, it's rough.

843
00:57:33,908 --> 00:57:38,078
In the case of Bunny, I think he just
didn't want to be in the cold and the snow.

844
00:57:38,246 --> 00:57:40,664
He just-- it just wasn't worth it to him.

845
00:57:44,377 --> 00:57:47,045
(Sims): Bob wanted success.

846
00:57:47,213 --> 00:57:49,465
Bunny and Peter were more militant.

847
00:57:49,632 --> 00:57:52,092
People wanted to separate them...

848
00:57:52,260 --> 00:57:56,472
because they didn't want
to deal with Bunny and Peter.

849
00:57:56,639 --> 00:57:58,891
- When you say people,
do you mean Island Records?

850
00:57:59,058 --> 00:58:00,392
- Of course.

851
00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:03,061
- The American leg was next.

852
00:58:03,229 --> 00:58:06,607
So I said, "Are we going to get
some money out of this leg?"

853
00:58:06,816 --> 00:58:11,820
Chris Blackwell said, no, because
you're gonna be doing freak clubs.

854
00:58:11,988 --> 00:58:16,366
You know, a place where
all kinds of immoral, mix-up things.

855
00:58:16,534 --> 00:58:19,870
I say, "Chris
you know that we are Rastas.

856
00:58:20,038 --> 00:58:23,290
Why are you exposing us
to them kind of situations there?"

857
00:58:23,458 --> 00:58:26,835
"Well, if the Wailers don't do those clubs,
they're nobody."

858
00:58:27,212 --> 00:58:31,298
So I said, "Yeah?
So I'm not going on this tour.

859
00:58:31,466 --> 00:58:34,384
This leg, I'm coming off."

860
00:58:34,552 --> 00:58:36,595
And my brothers, I thought,
would have done the same...

861
00:58:36,763 --> 00:58:38,889
as the conversation affected them both.

862
00:58:39,682 --> 00:58:44,770
But I was left to look as if
I was the only cold front.

863
00:58:44,938 --> 00:58:49,066
So I hold my position anyway,
and still holds my position.

864
00:58:51,319 --> 00:58:53,111
(Bunny speaking)

865
00:59:02,997 --> 00:59:13,632
Stop that train I'm leaving

866
00:59:15,176 --> 00:59:17,511
(ΜcDonald): Peter was
a militant type of guy.

867
00:59:17,679 --> 00:59:20,722
And I think he didn't like
Chris Blackwell too much.

868
00:59:20,890 --> 00:59:24,059
He figured Chris Blackwell
was ripping them off.

869
00:59:25,478 --> 00:59:27,896
- Well, the time came about '74...

870
00:59:28,064 --> 00:59:30,899
when we did two L.P.'s
with Chris "Whitewell."

871
00:59:31,067 --> 00:59:34,027
And the way he intend to handle us...

872
00:59:34,195 --> 00:59:37,906
was like we were unprofessional,
or we were just beginners,

873
00:59:38,074 --> 00:59:40,242
which I did not appreciate.

874
00:59:40,410 --> 00:59:44,580
But after 1 2 years of being
a background vocalist with the Wailers,

875
00:59:44,747 --> 00:59:47,082
I didn't get much access of saying,

876
00:59:47,250 --> 00:59:49,793
or materializing what was in me.

877
00:59:49,961 --> 00:59:52,254
And that was totally
depreciating my ability.

878
00:59:52,422 --> 00:59:55,757
So I left because I need recognition

879
00:59:55,925 --> 00:59:57,843
and respect.

880
01:00:15,153 --> 01:00:19,072
(Ziggy): For us as his children
he wasn't like a lovey-dovey daddy.

881
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:21,992
Uh, you know,
a daddy who would, you know--

882
01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:24,244
"Oh, be careful, Son."

883
01:00:26,873 --> 01:00:28,248
Him was a rough man.

884
01:00:28,416 --> 01:00:30,751
Him was rough, you know?
Rough, rough, rough.

885
01:00:32,712 --> 01:00:34,379
(Bob speaking)

886
01:00:41,012 --> 01:00:43,639
(woman): We were always active.
You know, like, we're on the beach.

887
01:00:43,806 --> 01:00:46,642
We're running.
We're racing each other.

888
01:00:46,809 --> 01:00:49,269
It was always about racing
to see who could beat him.

889
01:00:50,229 --> 01:00:51,938
(Ziggy): I mean, there was
no let-up in him.

890
01:00:52,106 --> 01:00:55,150
There was no, like, "It's children.
Let me run slow."

891
01:00:55,318 --> 01:00:58,403
(whistles, laughs)

892
01:00:58,571 --> 01:01:01,782
The fastest he could run
against us he would.

893
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:05,786
- And then he would find it hilarious,
and we didn't find it so funny.

894
01:01:07,747 --> 01:01:10,165
Yeah, nobody wanted
their children around...

895
01:01:10,333 --> 01:01:11,750
...us.

896
01:01:14,379 --> 01:01:17,214
"Nasty. Drug heads.

897
01:01:17,382 --> 01:01:21,760
All your parents do
is smoke weed and play music.

898
01:01:21,928 --> 01:01:24,054
And therefore
my kid cannot play with you."

899
01:01:25,598 --> 01:01:27,140
So it wasn't a positive thing.

900
01:01:28,393 --> 01:01:30,894
I would have friends who, like,
basically if they want to sleep over,

901
01:01:31,062 --> 01:01:33,355
they would have to tell their parents
they were sleeping somewhere else.

902
01:01:34,691 --> 01:01:37,025
He said, "You don't need friends.

903
01:01:37,193 --> 01:01:39,236
You have your brothers and your sisters.

904
01:01:39,404 --> 01:01:41,446
And that's all you need.

905
01:01:42,865 --> 01:01:44,991
Don't ever think
you'd need friends."

906
01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:50,497
- I feel Bob worked through
so many different experiences in life...

907
01:01:50,665 --> 01:01:53,792
that I don't think him
trust people so easy.

908
01:01:54,794 --> 01:01:58,839
So it's like, "Who really love me?"

909
01:02:00,633 --> 01:02:03,760
Play I some music

910
01:02:03,928 --> 01:02:06,054
Reggae music

911
01:02:07,181 --> 01:02:12,227
Play I some music
Dis a reggae music

912
01:02:14,272 --> 01:02:16,815
Roots rock reggae

913
01:02:16,983 --> 01:02:19,317
Dis a reggae music

914
01:02:20,945 --> 01:02:23,196
Roots rock reggae

915
01:02:24,282 --> 01:02:26,032
Dis a reggae music

916
01:02:26,409 --> 01:02:31,037
- Well, the harmony didn't change because
then Bob took hold of The I-Threes.

917
01:02:31,414 --> 01:02:33,915
Because he still wanted
to maintain that sound.

918
01:02:35,251 --> 01:02:38,420
I can't refuse it

919
01:02:38,588 --> 01:02:42,799
- And Bob invited us
to do the Natty Dread tour.

920
01:02:42,967 --> 01:02:44,885
Feel like dancing

921
01:02:45,052 --> 01:02:47,137
- From the very first show
it was just--

922
01:02:47,305 --> 01:02:49,514
(sucks teeth)

923
01:02:49,682 --> 01:02:50,891
dynamite.

924
01:02:51,476 --> 01:02:55,896
I

925
01:02:57,064 --> 01:02:58,815
Rebel music

926
01:02:58,983 --> 01:03:01,610
- We sold out everything.
We're just doing clubs.

927
01:03:02,278 --> 01:03:04,863
But like the Paul's Μall in Boston--

928
01:03:05,031 --> 01:03:06,948
we did like something
like six nights straight.

929
01:03:08,826 --> 01:03:10,577
Rebel music

930
01:03:15,291 --> 01:03:20,796
It's that experience in a 400-seater,
500-seater at the Roxy.

931
01:03:20,963 --> 01:03:23,965
The Quiet Knight in Chicago,
another 500.

932
01:03:24,133 --> 01:03:26,134
That was the time to see Bob Μarley,

933
01:03:26,302 --> 01:03:30,514
'cause you were as close to him
as I am to you now.

934
01:03:31,766 --> 01:03:33,683
(man): All the way from
Trench Town, jamaica,

935
01:03:33,851 --> 01:03:35,143
Bob Marley and the Wailers.

936
01:03:35,311 --> 01:03:37,521
Come on!
(audience cheering)

937
01:03:42,819 --> 01:03:46,488
(Blackwell): This concert they did
in London in 1 975-- the Lyceum--

938
01:03:46,656 --> 01:03:48,406
that was the tipping point.

939
01:03:48,574 --> 01:03:51,409
After that, everybody knew his name.

940
01:03:51,702 --> 01:03:55,872
There was that sense
that he's about to be massive.

941
01:04:01,546 --> 01:04:04,548
Firstly, it was packed.
Over packed.

942
01:04:07,093 --> 01:04:09,886
When you're at a concert
and you've managed to get in,

943
01:04:10,054 --> 01:04:12,681
and there are X hundred people
outside who can't get in,

944
01:04:12,849 --> 01:04:14,015
you already feel great.

945
01:04:14,183 --> 01:04:16,017
And that energy you have

946
01:04:16,185 --> 01:04:18,186
spreads to the band
when they come on stage.

947
01:04:18,354 --> 01:04:20,856
And so they feel something.
And it was one of those things.

948
01:04:21,023 --> 01:04:24,025
It was just-- just explosive.

949
01:04:24,193 --> 01:04:28,071
- When he walked on stage and he felt
the crowd moving the theater,

950
01:04:28,239 --> 01:04:30,740
it was like, "Yes."
You know, finally.

951
01:04:31,701 --> 01:04:52,721
No woman no cry

952
01:04:54,390 --> 01:04:56,558
Said said

953
01:04:56,726 --> 01:05:00,687
Said I remember
when we used to sit

954
01:05:02,148 --> 01:05:06,234
In the government yard
in Trench Town

955
01:05:08,738 --> 01:05:13,074
Oba observing the hypocrites

956
01:05:13,242 --> 01:05:16,077
- This was owned by Chris Blackwell.

957
01:05:16,245 --> 01:05:17,746
It was called Island House.

958
01:05:17,914 --> 01:05:21,791
And he had several of his friends
and associates who really lived here.

959
01:05:21,959 --> 01:05:24,794
Not like an apartment building,
but people who knew each other.

960
01:05:24,962 --> 01:05:28,214
You know, they're occupied
downstairs and upstairs.

961
01:05:28,382 --> 01:05:31,968
Chris made this available
for Bob to rehearse.

962
01:05:32,136 --> 01:05:34,346
And eventually, over time,

963
01:05:34,513 --> 01:05:36,640
Bob bought it from Chris.

964
01:05:36,807 --> 01:05:39,643
- Well, Rastas weren't allowed uptown,

965
01:05:39,810 --> 01:05:44,314
and, until Bob moved in,
there were no dreadlocks there.

966
01:05:44,482 --> 01:05:46,107
- A woman said to Bob,

967
01:05:46,275 --> 01:05:48,777
"How come you live at 56 Hope Road,

968
01:05:48,945 --> 01:05:53,365
which is two doors up from King's House
where the governor lives,

969
01:05:53,532 --> 01:05:57,661
and three doors up from Jamaica House
where the prime minister lives?"

970
01:05:57,828 --> 01:06:02,290
And Bob just said,
"Sister, I bring the ghetto uptown."

971
01:06:07,630 --> 01:06:12,801
One of the people who live here
prior to Bob was Cindy Breakspeare.

972
01:06:12,969 --> 01:06:16,388
And she lived there
with her brother Reds.

973
01:06:16,555 --> 01:06:20,642
- I loved the accommodation because
I loved the old house with the wooden floors,

974
01:06:20,810 --> 01:06:22,602
and, you know, it was just lovely.

975
01:06:23,270 --> 01:06:25,855
Cool and breezy, and it was great.

976
01:06:31,278 --> 01:06:33,905
There's always a stream
of people up and down,

977
01:06:34,073 --> 01:06:38,535
and shouting and laughter
and just general carrying on.

978
01:06:39,620 --> 01:06:41,705
You were right in the mix.

979
01:06:41,872 --> 01:06:45,500
The most important thing culturally
that was happening in Jamaica at that time...

980
01:06:45,668 --> 01:06:47,168
was happening right there.

981
01:06:48,462 --> 01:06:51,589
That was the headquarters.
That was the center of it all.

982
01:06:51,757 --> 01:06:54,384
Bob never left 56 Hope Road.

983
01:06:54,552 --> 01:06:58,555
People come from
all over the world to see him.

984
01:06:58,723 --> 01:07:01,391
(man): Did you live at Hope Road
with your dad?

985
01:07:01,559 --> 01:07:03,727
No, we lived probably a couple
of miles from Hope Road.

986
01:07:03,894 --> 01:07:06,312
- Right.
- 'Cause Hope Road was really--

987
01:07:08,107 --> 01:07:10,025
I don't know. It was a spot.

988
01:07:11,777 --> 01:07:13,820
(Garrick): Rasta is an open-door thing.

989
01:07:13,988 --> 01:07:16,364
Nobody not checking your credentials.

990
01:07:16,532 --> 01:07:18,616
So all kinds of people
come in to Hope Road.

991
01:07:18,784 --> 01:07:20,827
Good, bad and indifferent.

992
01:07:21,620 --> 01:07:24,539
(Μowatt): Every time you go to
56 Hope Road,

993
01:07:24,707 --> 01:07:27,375
you would see a lot of people
gather with Bob-- reasoning,

994
01:07:27,543 --> 01:07:29,377
talking about politics,

995
01:07:29,545 --> 01:07:31,046
talking about God,

996
01:07:31,213 --> 01:07:33,631
talking about history.

997
01:07:33,799 --> 01:07:35,341
You know, talking about everything.

998
01:07:36,260 --> 01:07:40,055
- Bob was very strict.
Him run this thing like an army.

999
01:07:40,222 --> 01:07:42,223
We call him "Skipper."

1000
01:07:42,391 --> 01:07:46,478
You see, the thing is, we had
certain strict rules at that time.

1001
01:07:46,645 --> 01:07:50,231
Woman supposed to wear dress,
not pants.

1002
01:07:50,399 --> 01:07:51,566
So you had those kind--

1003
01:07:51,734 --> 01:07:53,902
Don't come in with
what we call war paint.

1004
01:07:54,070 --> 01:07:57,947
Lipstick and eye shadow.
And this is a roots saying kinda,

1005
01:07:58,115 --> 01:07:59,574
if you wanna come round Rasta,

1006
01:07:59,742 --> 01:08:02,535
then you have to throw away
those Babylonian things.

1007
01:08:03,162 --> 01:08:06,623
(Breakspeare): It was a camp
with rules and doctrines...

1008
01:08:06,791 --> 01:08:10,835
and tenets to live by,
and it was serious.

1009
01:08:11,545 --> 01:08:15,006
(Garrick): Bob was very, like,
health conscious with him foods.

1010
01:08:15,174 --> 01:08:19,594
(Μowatt): The blender would always be
going with excellent juices.

1011
01:08:19,762 --> 01:08:22,347
Irish moss on the fire.
Fish tea going.

1012
01:08:22,515 --> 01:08:24,974
You know, everything
to make you strong.

1013
01:08:30,022 --> 01:08:32,774
- When I met him,
we started a routine.

1014
01:08:32,942 --> 01:08:36,027
Μy routine was getting up
in the mornings, training,

1015
01:08:36,195 --> 01:08:38,279
do a lot of running,
exercise, go to the beach.

1016
01:08:38,447 --> 01:08:41,032
So it became an integral part
of our lifestyle.

1017
01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:44,786
- The whole Rasta thing
is based on eternal life

1018
01:08:44,954 --> 01:08:46,621
and taking care of your body.

1019
01:08:46,789 --> 01:08:48,289
It's the temple of the Lord.

1020
01:08:49,125 --> 01:08:51,376
And we'd run on the beach
and then up this mountain

1021
01:08:51,544 --> 01:08:54,796
to a place called Cane River Falls.
Incredible waterfalls.

1022
01:08:54,964 --> 01:08:56,548
I shot some video up there.

1023
01:08:56,715 --> 01:09:01,136
'Cause every day we pay the price
with a little sacrifice

1024
01:09:01,303 --> 01:09:03,513
jammin' till the jam is through

1025
01:09:05,141 --> 01:09:06,724
We're jammin'

1026
01:09:08,227 --> 01:09:10,979
(Garrick): Cane River,
we went up there, really,

1027
01:09:11,147 --> 01:09:14,649
to get the waterfall
beat on your back.

1028
01:09:14,817 --> 01:09:17,402
It was like the best massage
you can get.

1029
01:09:20,531 --> 01:09:24,242
This spot we're standing on now
was a stadium.

1030
01:09:24,410 --> 01:09:25,827
This was a football field.

1031
01:09:31,167 --> 01:09:33,209
So we had like two goal posts.

1032
01:09:33,377 --> 01:09:35,378
You know, like small scrimmage.

1033
01:09:35,546 --> 01:09:37,922
The most we ever played
was five-a-side scrimmage.

1034
01:09:38,090 --> 01:09:39,382
So you had one there.

1035
01:09:39,550 --> 01:09:41,676
Then we had one down the back here.

1036
01:09:41,844 --> 01:09:43,011
So, I'd say maybe--

1037
01:09:43,179 --> 01:09:45,930
"Wow, that's a small field
when you look at it."

1038
01:09:46,098 --> 01:09:47,849
Probably was what, 40 yards?

1039
01:09:50,978 --> 01:09:54,898
In everything that Bob does,
very competitive.

1040
01:09:55,065 --> 01:09:58,985
So, you know, everything
he really gave it 1 1 0% .

1041
01:10:06,118 --> 01:10:07,785
- He had a passion.

1042
01:10:07,953 --> 01:10:10,580
Everything I did with a ball,
he would try to do it.

1043
01:10:13,876 --> 01:10:15,627
(Smith): He just didn't play
for the fun of it.

1044
01:10:15,794 --> 01:10:17,795
This was always part
of the process, you know?

1045
01:10:17,963 --> 01:10:20,256
Before he writes a song
he'd burn a spliff.

1046
01:10:20,424 --> 01:10:23,927
Then you go run,
so you can lively up yourself.

1047
01:10:24,094 --> 01:10:27,055
And then you get more inspired
so the lyrics can come out.

1048
01:10:31,143 --> 01:10:34,437
(Bob): I play everywhere.

1049
01:10:34,605 --> 01:10:36,439
Anywhere it is possible, you know?

1050
01:10:36,607 --> 01:10:38,399
(chuckling)

1051
01:10:48,702 --> 01:10:51,162
(Breakspeare): He began to come and visit.

1052
01:10:51,330 --> 01:10:54,165
You just hear these footsteps come
running up the steps in the evening,

1053
01:10:54,333 --> 01:10:58,002
always when the football was over
and place kind of quiet down, you know?

1054
01:10:58,170 --> 01:11:00,922
And there's nobody to really see
the little moves that you're making.

1055
01:11:01,090 --> 01:11:03,091
'Cause in the day the place
is teeming with people,

1056
01:11:03,259 --> 01:11:06,803
so you can't be too overt
because you'd be outed instantly.

1057
01:11:09,181 --> 01:11:11,057
(man speaking)

1058
01:11:11,225 --> 01:11:13,434
(Bob speaking)

1059
01:11:28,367 --> 01:11:31,077
(reggae intro)

1060
01:11:32,538 --> 01:11:35,748
I went downtown
I went downtown

1061
01:11:35,916 --> 01:11:39,002
I saw Miss Brown
Said I saw Miss Brown

1062
01:11:39,169 --> 01:11:42,505
She had brown sugar
Had brown sugar

1063
01:11:42,673 --> 01:11:45,967
All over her booga-wooga
Over her booga-wooga

1064
01:11:46,135 --> 01:11:49,429
Think I might join the fun
Think I might join the fun

1065
01:11:49,596 --> 01:11:52,473
But I had to hit and run
But I had to hit and run

1066
01:11:52,641 --> 01:11:55,852
See I just can't settle down

1067
01:11:56,020 --> 01:11:58,521
In a kinky part of town

1068
01:11:58,689 --> 01:11:59,856
Ride on

1069
01:12:00,024 --> 01:12:01,316
(man): When did you first meet Bob?

1070
01:12:01,483 --> 01:12:02,775
- I see Bob every day.

1071
01:12:02,943 --> 01:12:05,611
Bob live on Second Street.
I live on First Street.

1072
01:12:05,779 --> 01:12:08,656
Ride on
See I just won't settle down

1073
01:12:08,824 --> 01:12:10,533
Ride on
Everybody

1074
01:12:10,701 --> 01:12:13,161
(Williams): I would take no notice of him...

1075
01:12:13,329 --> 01:12:16,914
because he would bother me,
and I would go and tell my mother.

1076
01:12:17,082 --> 01:12:19,417
(man): How old were you?
- Sixteen.

1077
01:12:19,585 --> 01:12:21,419
Take me away

1078
01:12:21,587 --> 01:12:23,713
Kinky reggae now

1079
01:12:23,881 --> 01:12:25,882
(man): What did he do
when he paid you attention?

1080
01:12:26,050 --> 01:12:30,094
(Williams): Like stuff like,
"Don't give it away. I'm growing you."

1081
01:12:30,262 --> 01:12:31,554
"Remember, don't have
any boyfriend before me."

1082
01:12:31,722 --> 01:12:34,140
Stuff like that.

1083
01:12:34,308 --> 01:12:36,684
(man): Was he charming?
- Oh, yes.

1084
01:12:40,147 --> 01:12:43,149
(vocalizing)

1085
01:12:43,317 --> 01:12:45,068
- Why were so many girls attracted to him?

1086
01:12:45,235 --> 01:12:48,154
- Oh, my God.
(laughs)

1087
01:12:48,322 --> 01:12:49,655
You don't know Bob.

1088
01:12:51,283 --> 01:12:52,533
That's a handsome guy.

1089
01:12:52,701 --> 01:12:56,579
I went down to Piccadilly Circus

1090
01:12:56,747 --> 01:13:01,000
- People have visions of women
beating down the door to get at Bob Μarley.

1091
01:13:01,168 --> 01:13:03,920
- Je-- (laughing)
- Grabbing clothes.

1092
01:13:04,088 --> 01:13:06,964
- Is it like that?
- No.

1093
01:13:07,132 --> 01:13:09,967
(interviewer): Why was he so successful
with women?

1094
01:13:10,135 --> 01:13:12,136
- Because he was shy.

1095
01:13:13,430 --> 01:13:15,598
Bob is not the womanizer...

1096
01:13:15,766 --> 01:13:18,601
that people make him out to be.

1097
01:13:18,977 --> 01:13:21,187
I think more, the women came at him.

1098
01:13:21,397 --> 01:13:23,940
That why they say
Nice one

1099
01:13:24,108 --> 01:13:25,942
Was he faithful?
(woman): To whom? God?

1100
01:13:26,110 --> 01:13:28,444
To Jah? Yes, he was faithful to Jah.

1101
01:13:28,612 --> 01:13:31,572
Faithful to any one woman?
No.

1102
01:13:31,740 --> 01:13:34,033
Why? Somebody own him?

1103
01:13:35,577 --> 01:13:38,162
What is fidelity?
Western ideology, you know.

1104
01:13:38,330 --> 01:13:40,456
A ring on your finger,
a ring through your nose?

1105
01:13:40,624 --> 01:13:43,209
That's for Western men, man.

1106
01:13:43,377 --> 01:13:45,128
They can only handle
one woman at a time.

1107
01:13:45,295 --> 01:13:46,796
Bob could handle more.

1108
01:13:51,427 --> 01:13:54,595
(Williams): One day a lady
came to me and she said,

1109
01:13:54,763 --> 01:13:56,889
"Didn't anyone tell you
that Bob was married?"

1110
01:13:57,057 --> 01:13:59,100
And I didn't know.

1111
01:13:59,268 --> 01:14:01,727
- For a time there I never knew
that he was legally married.

1112
01:14:02,813 --> 01:14:05,940
I did come to know.
Eventually, his mom told me.

1113
01:14:06,108 --> 01:14:08,109
(interviewer): Did he see Rita
at all at that time?

1114
01:14:08,277 --> 01:14:10,570
- Sure. I mean,
they worked together, you know.

1115
01:14:10,737 --> 01:14:12,405
Toured the world together.

1116
01:14:13,699 --> 01:14:16,993
- When we were on tour,
Rita had her own room.

1117
01:14:17,161 --> 01:14:19,287
She was not with Bob.

1118
01:14:20,205 --> 01:14:21,789
She would see everything that goes on.

1119
01:14:21,957 --> 01:14:26,210
But she had maximum respect
for the work.

1120
01:14:29,131 --> 01:14:30,798
- How did you cope
through all the years

1121
01:14:30,966 --> 01:14:32,425
that you were married together,

1122
01:14:32,593 --> 01:14:35,636
and Bob was having these relationships
with other women?

1123
01:14:35,804 --> 01:14:38,764
(chuckles)
- I became his-- his guardian angel.

1124
01:14:38,932 --> 01:14:40,975
(laughing)
And then by that time,

1125
01:14:41,143 --> 01:14:44,103
I was past the surface
of being just a wife.

1126
01:14:45,022 --> 01:14:49,066
Because of the importance
of who I knew Bob is.

1127
01:14:50,402 --> 01:14:52,904
I didn't see it as a fun trip.
We were on a mission.

1128
01:14:53,071 --> 01:14:56,365
It was like an evangelist campaign...

1129
01:14:56,533 --> 01:14:58,618
to bring people closer to Jah.

1130
01:15:00,662 --> 01:15:03,956
(Cedella): They had this--
this bond, you know?

1131
01:15:04,124 --> 01:15:07,668
I wouldn't--
I mean, you know,

1132
01:15:07,836 --> 01:15:09,545
if that was my husband,
I wouldn't.

1133
01:15:12,049 --> 01:15:15,510
(Rita):We never fought about women.
We would never get into that.

1134
01:15:16,386 --> 01:15:18,054
He would come and say to me,

1135
01:15:18,222 --> 01:15:20,932
"Rita, I did this,"
or "This is what happened."

1136
01:15:21,808 --> 01:15:25,269
I was the one that he would call
to get women out of his dressing room...

1137
01:15:25,437 --> 01:15:27,104
when it get to that stage.

1138
01:15:27,272 --> 01:15:30,691
"Come up for my room.
Come and get these people out for me."

1139
01:15:30,859 --> 01:15:32,860
And I would do that gracefully.

1140
01:15:33,028 --> 01:15:34,737
"Come on, ladies. It's bedtime.

1141
01:15:34,905 --> 01:15:36,822
We have a show tomorrow, so--"

1142
01:15:37,533 --> 01:15:40,368
- She wouldn't get upset, you know,

1143
01:15:40,536 --> 01:15:41,577
but...

1144
01:15:43,330 --> 01:15:45,456
there were times when, you know,

1145
01:15:45,624 --> 01:15:47,250
you knew she was hurting.

1146
01:15:48,252 --> 01:15:49,669
Hurt all of us.

1147
01:15:51,171 --> 01:15:53,130
And that's what he didn't like.

1148
01:15:53,757 --> 01:15:56,592
He didn't like it when, like,
we knew that she was hurt,

1149
01:15:56,760 --> 01:15:59,011
and it showed on us.

1150
01:15:59,179 --> 01:16:01,055
That's when, "Okay,
we're going for ice cream.

1151
01:16:01,223 --> 01:16:03,558
We're going for burgers.
What do you want?"

1152
01:16:03,976 --> 01:16:06,394
(interviewer): Do you think
that he was being selfish?

1153
01:16:06,562 --> 01:16:09,772
- Yes. It's not fair to no woman.

1154
01:16:10,899 --> 01:16:12,650
That is not fair at all,

1155
01:16:12,818 --> 01:16:16,195
but we still couldn't hate him for it.

1156
01:16:16,363 --> 01:16:17,363
(laughs)

1157
01:16:21,451 --> 01:16:24,245
(audience applauding)

1158
01:16:33,714 --> 01:16:37,300
(man reporting): In the capital ofKingston
there are rival shantytown ghettos...

1159
01:16:37,467 --> 01:16:40,970
where whole communities
are divided along sectarian lines.

1160
01:16:41,138 --> 01:16:42,555
These zones are controlled

1161
01:16:42,723 --> 01:16:45,308
by the prime minister's
People's National Party,

1162
01:16:45,475 --> 01:16:47,727
who are accused
of being communists,

1163
01:16:47,894 --> 01:16:49,812
or by the opposition
jamaica Labour Party,

1164
01:16:49,980 --> 01:16:52,023
who are accused of being fascists.

1165
01:16:53,317 --> 01:16:56,027
- Politics in Jamaica at that time...

1166
01:16:56,194 --> 01:17:00,823
was like an East-West confrontation,
which was scary.

1167
01:17:00,991 --> 01:17:05,953
You have one side which is kind
of more ultra-conservative, right wing,

1168
01:17:06,121 --> 01:17:07,913
which is Seaga,

1169
01:17:08,081 --> 01:17:10,499
who was like Reagan's man
in the Caribbean.

1170
01:17:10,667 --> 01:17:13,961
And then Μanley
was trying to work a system...

1171
01:17:14,129 --> 01:17:16,881
called democratic socialism,

1172
01:17:17,049 --> 01:17:18,674
which other parties say,

1173
01:17:18,842 --> 01:17:21,677
"That's just a disguise for
saying you are a communist."

1174
01:17:22,012 --> 01:17:25,014
(reporter): Sometimes it's only insults
or stones and bottles...

1175
01:17:25,182 --> 01:17:26,682
thrown from one side to the other.

1176
01:17:26,850 --> 01:17:28,934
But often it's bombs and bullets,

1177
01:17:29,102 --> 01:17:32,063
and almost every day the newspapers
carry fresh reports...

1178
01:17:32,230 --> 01:17:34,732
of the previous day's killings in Kingston.

1179
01:17:34,900 --> 01:17:38,819
(Rita): The whole thing became
like a gangster thing.

1180
01:17:38,987 --> 01:17:40,863
Political gangster.

1181
01:17:41,031 --> 01:17:43,699
- These were the guys
who kept things in line

1182
01:17:43,867 --> 01:17:45,993
for the Μ.P.s, you know.

1183
01:17:46,161 --> 01:17:51,832
So you find that in some areas,
the real power is enforcers.

1184
01:17:52,000 --> 01:17:54,669
- You like this girl--
that's both of us.

1185
01:17:54,836 --> 01:17:57,338
You like her, and I like her.
We start to fight over her.

1186
01:17:57,506 --> 01:18:02,093
It's like that.
He like P.N.P. You like J.L.P.

1187
01:18:02,260 --> 01:18:03,803
You wanna fight for your P.N.P.

1188
01:18:05,514 --> 01:18:07,973
- Bob was friends
with all of those guys.

1189
01:18:08,141 --> 01:18:12,019
All of the bad guys from
the Labour Party was Bob friend.

1190
01:18:12,187 --> 01:18:15,064
Likewise, all the bad guys
from the P.N.P.

1191
01:18:16,274 --> 01:18:17,942
(Smith): These are guys
that come from...

1192
01:18:18,110 --> 01:18:20,319
the same neighborhood
he grew up with.

1193
01:18:20,487 --> 01:18:23,030
These are really bad guys.
(laughing)

1194
01:18:23,198 --> 01:18:24,865
'Cause you might see some guys, yeah,

1195
01:18:25,033 --> 01:18:28,953
and then tomorrow you'd take up
the Jamaican paper,

1196
01:18:29,121 --> 01:18:30,705
you'd see the 1 0-most-wanted list--

1197
01:18:30,872 --> 01:18:33,457
four of the guys that were on it
are already dead.

1198
01:18:33,625 --> 01:18:34,959
There are now five.
(laughing)

1199
01:18:36,545 --> 01:18:38,838
Some of them actually
love the music, you know,

1200
01:18:39,005 --> 01:18:41,590
but their main thing is, you know--
(laughing)

1201
01:18:41,758 --> 01:18:44,343
warfare and badness, you know.

1202
01:18:45,387 --> 01:18:48,305
(Bob speaking)

1203
01:19:01,236 --> 01:19:07,074
- Bob did a concert
with Stevie Wonder in Jamaica,

1204
01:19:07,242 --> 01:19:11,203
and they actually performed
two songs together.

1205
01:19:11,371 --> 01:19:14,081
I think very "Superstitious,"
which Bob knew,

1206
01:19:14,249 --> 01:19:17,042
and "I Shot the Sheriff."

1207
01:19:18,128 --> 01:19:21,046
(Wonder):
I shot the sheriff

1208
01:19:22,257 --> 01:19:26,677
But I did not shoot the deputy

1209
01:19:28,305 --> 01:19:30,973
(Garrick): Stevie made a gesture
by giving, I think,

1210
01:19:31,141 --> 01:19:33,142
half of his pay for the show...

1211
01:19:33,310 --> 01:19:36,479
to the Salvation Army
blind school in Jamaica,

1212
01:19:36,646 --> 01:19:39,982
and I think Bob
was moved by that.

1213
01:19:40,150 --> 01:19:44,361
And Bob said,
"Well, we'll give a free concert."

1214
01:19:44,529 --> 01:19:47,031
They took that idea

1215
01:19:47,199 --> 01:19:48,365
to Μichael Μanley,

1216
01:19:48,533 --> 01:19:51,410
who was just down the road--
the prime minister--

1217
01:19:51,578 --> 01:19:53,954
and they were, like,
enthused about it.

1218
01:19:54,372 --> 01:19:58,417
(man reporting): Bob Marley, the world's
leading exponent of reggae music,

1219
01:19:58,585 --> 01:20:02,213
has agreed to appear in a major free concert
to be held for the benefit...

1220
01:20:02,380 --> 01:20:05,049
of the jamaican people in Kingston
on Sunday, December 5.

1221
01:20:05,217 --> 01:20:08,719
The announcement was made at
a press conference held at jamaica House...

1222
01:20:08,887 --> 01:20:10,971
by Marley, his manager Don Taylor...

1223
01:20:11,139 --> 01:20:13,307
and the parliamentary secretary
in charge of cultural information,

1224
01:20:13,475 --> 01:20:14,892
Arnold Bertram.

1225
01:20:15,310 --> 01:20:17,228
(Blackwell): Well, I think
he got tricked into it,

1226
01:20:17,395 --> 01:20:20,105
'cause he rang me and asked me
if I thought he should do the concert.

1227
01:20:20,273 --> 01:20:24,860
I said, "Well, if it's the prime minister,
then you're doing it for the country.

1228
01:20:25,028 --> 01:20:26,946
But if there's going to be
an election soon,

1229
01:20:27,113 --> 01:20:30,366
then you're doing it for him
rather than the country."

1230
01:20:30,826 --> 01:20:33,994
(man reporting): Two weeks following
that announcement on November 22,

1231
01:20:34,162 --> 01:20:36,038
jamaica's prime minister,
Michael Manley,

1232
01:20:36,206 --> 01:20:39,416
called new general elections
for December 1 5.

1233
01:20:39,709 --> 01:20:43,754
- If we knew that election was going
to happen in that space of time,

1234
01:20:43,922 --> 01:20:45,881
we'd have never done that concert.

1235
01:20:46,925 --> 01:20:48,926
(Bob speaking)

1236
01:20:52,597 --> 01:20:54,390
(man): So with the upcoming election,

1237
01:20:54,558 --> 01:20:57,810
you don't really want to think about
or care who wins?

1238
01:20:57,978 --> 01:20:59,562
(Bob)

1239
01:21:02,858 --> 01:21:05,651
- Remember, Bob is becoming
very popular,

1240
01:21:05,819 --> 01:21:08,070
and whoever side Bob seems to be on,

1241
01:21:08,238 --> 01:21:10,239
that's the side people gonna be on.

1242
01:21:10,448 --> 01:21:12,199
- Hell, Bob had a lot of control

1243
01:21:12,367 --> 01:21:14,159
down there in Jamaica, man,
you know?

1244
01:21:14,327 --> 01:21:16,453
And them politicians didn't like that.

1245
01:21:16,621 --> 01:21:21,292
- Bob, I think, had overexposed
himself on the political side,

1246
01:21:21,459 --> 01:21:24,879
and that was bound to draw
the anger of some others...

1247
01:21:25,046 --> 01:21:26,547
because he had friends
on both sides.

1248
01:21:26,715 --> 01:21:29,758
- The thing was, like,
you have to be on one side.

1249
01:21:29,926 --> 01:21:31,677
You have to be on some side.

1250
01:21:31,845 --> 01:21:34,930
You can't be in the middle,
or you can get hurt.

1251
01:21:39,519 --> 01:21:42,062
(Garrick): We'd feel a little kind
of tension,

1252
01:21:42,230 --> 01:21:44,273
but, you know,
the politics kind of getting hot.

1253
01:21:46,109 --> 01:21:48,944
(Μowatt): There were people saying
that they heard...

1254
01:21:49,112 --> 01:21:51,572
that they were gonna
shoot up the concert.

1255
01:21:52,073 --> 01:21:57,494
(Kinsey): People in the group, you know,
the musicians and The I-Threes--

1256
01:21:57,662 --> 01:22:01,749
every day, as it would get closer
to this day of the concert...

1257
01:22:02,208 --> 01:22:05,252
... people was feeling hesitant
about doing it.

1258
01:22:05,587 --> 01:22:07,880
They had a fear for it.

1259
01:22:11,468 --> 01:22:14,428
(Μowatt): Every night there would be
rehearsal at 56 Hope Road...

1260
01:22:14,596 --> 01:22:16,555
for the concert.

1261
01:22:18,725 --> 01:22:21,101
(Garrick): We usually had two guys...

1262
01:22:21,269 --> 01:22:23,604
from equivalent to the Secret Service.

1263
01:22:23,772 --> 01:22:25,481
They call them the Protective Service.

1264
01:22:25,649 --> 01:22:28,817
They, like, protect the prime minister
and stuff.

1265
01:22:28,985 --> 01:22:32,947
And they used to come every night,
but they never came that night.

1266
01:22:34,032 --> 01:22:37,284
- We had took a break, so everybody
was kind of floating around.

1267
01:22:38,078 --> 01:22:41,956
Don Taylor, Bob and myself...

1268
01:22:42,123 --> 01:22:43,582
was in the kitchen.

1269
01:22:45,835 --> 01:22:49,046
- I was in the car, you know,
getting ready to come out.

1270
01:22:49,214 --> 01:22:52,007
I see some men going up the steps.

1271
01:22:52,175 --> 01:22:56,929
- The gunman approached
from the side here...

1272
01:22:57,097 --> 01:23:00,349
and kind of pushed his gun
through here.

1273
01:23:00,517 --> 01:23:03,727
- Well, you see a black glove
with a gun in it pointing up,

1274
01:23:03,895 --> 01:23:06,855
you know-- there was nowhere else
to go in the kitchen...

1275
01:23:07,023 --> 01:23:09,191
'cause we just, like, at the wall.

1276
01:23:10,944 --> 01:23:13,612
- And then I heard the gunshots.

1277
01:23:15,115 --> 01:23:17,741
(gunshots)

1278
01:23:21,079 --> 01:23:24,665
- Then they turned the gun on the car.
(gunshots)

1279
01:23:24,833 --> 01:23:27,543
I felt the warmest of blood running down,

1280
01:23:27,711 --> 01:23:29,878
and then I realized I was shot.

1281
01:23:30,046 --> 01:23:33,757
- The cat just kept on shooting, man,
till he ran out of bullets.

1282
01:23:33,925 --> 01:23:35,509
- The one hold a gun to my head,

1283
01:23:35,677 --> 01:23:37,761
and one said to the other one,
"Everybody dead?"

1284
01:23:37,929 --> 01:23:40,472
And the other said, "Yeah, man,
everybody dead. Everybody dead."

1285
01:23:40,640 --> 01:23:43,017
- Next thing I see
Don Taylor come out, man,

1286
01:23:43,184 --> 01:23:45,686
and, like, blood pouring out of him
like ketchup, man.

1287
01:23:46,396 --> 01:23:48,480
And then he finally collapsed
right there on the floor.

1288
01:23:48,648 --> 01:23:50,190
I'm, like, "Μan!"

1289
01:23:50,358 --> 01:23:52,985
- And I'm shouting out for Bob,
and then I heard a voice...

1290
01:23:53,153 --> 01:23:56,280
who I recognized as Carly Barrett--
coming from.

1291
01:23:56,448 --> 01:23:58,073
He said, "Bob is all right.

1292
01:23:59,159 --> 01:24:00,701
Bob is all right."

1293
01:24:02,996 --> 01:24:05,122
He had a burn right--

1294
01:24:05,290 --> 01:24:07,875
the bullet traveled right here...

1295
01:24:08,043 --> 01:24:09,835
and actually lodged in his arm.

1296
01:24:12,005 --> 01:24:15,966
- It's just a miracle, man,
that nobody died from that, man.

1297
01:24:16,134 --> 01:24:18,427
(interviewer): So, it wasn't really
a professional hit?

1298
01:24:18,595 --> 01:24:20,804
- Well, as professional as Jamaica is.

1299
01:24:20,972 --> 01:24:23,307
They watch a lot of movies.
(chuckles)

1300
01:24:23,475 --> 01:24:26,018
(siren wailing)

1301
01:24:26,186 --> 01:24:27,561
(man reporting): Here now is
a special item of news.

1302
01:24:28,897 --> 01:24:31,732
Entertainer and reggae star,
Bob Marley,

1303
01:24:31,900 --> 01:24:34,902
Rita Marley and the manager
of The Wailers, Don Taylor,

1304
01:24:35,070 --> 01:24:37,071
are now patients
in the University Hospital

1305
01:24:37,238 --> 01:24:38,989
after receiving gunshot wounds...

1306
01:24:39,157 --> 01:24:41,575
during a shooting incident tonight.

1307
01:24:48,083 --> 01:24:50,709
(Bob speaking)

1308
01:25:02,180 --> 01:25:04,139
- That's one thing for sure--

1309
01:25:04,307 --> 01:25:07,434
that they was trying to stop
that concert from happening.

1310
01:25:07,602 --> 01:25:10,354
- The whole thing about whether
the concert was gonna happen or not,

1311
01:25:10,522 --> 01:25:12,856
there was so much pressure,
there was pressure from everywhere.

1312
01:25:13,650 --> 01:25:15,984
- I was just scared Bob
would get assassinated.

1313
01:25:20,281 --> 01:25:21,990
(man reporting): In the twilight
inside the arena,

1314
01:25:22,158 --> 01:25:23,951
the crowd is fenced off...

1315
01:25:24,119 --> 01:25:27,371
and armed police are positioned
all around the park.

1316
01:25:27,539 --> 01:25:29,373
Five hours after the concert
was due to begin,

1317
01:25:29,541 --> 01:25:33,585
the star, Bob Marley,
is still not there.

1318
01:25:33,753 --> 01:25:36,380
(Jobson): Some were trying to say,
"Bob, don't go.

1319
01:25:36,548 --> 01:25:39,633
They didn't get you.
They may try for you again."

1320
01:25:39,801 --> 01:25:42,970
- Everyone saying,
"You really wanna do it, boss?"

1321
01:25:43,138 --> 01:25:45,097
And he was saying-- he said, "Yes."

1322
01:25:45,265 --> 01:25:47,182
- I said, "Hey, you know,
I'm with you, man.

1323
01:25:47,350 --> 01:25:49,393
If you wanna do it, let's do it."

1324
01:25:49,561 --> 01:25:52,187
(Μowatt): The police came for him
and took him down,

1325
01:25:52,355 --> 01:25:55,482
and we were in the car
right behind the police vehicle.

1326
01:25:55,650 --> 01:25:57,484
(shouting)

1327
01:26:01,281 --> 01:26:06,493
- When I got there, I couldn't
believe the situation, man.

1328
01:26:06,661 --> 01:26:08,871
This is at night in Kingston.

1329
01:26:09,038 --> 01:26:12,332
You got, like, 80,000 people, man.
You know what I mean?

1330
01:26:12,500 --> 01:26:16,628
If somebody wanted to try to get you,
here's, like, a perfect situation.

1331
01:26:16,796 --> 01:26:18,672
(crowd cheering)

1332
01:26:24,846 --> 01:26:27,723
But it was a special night, man.
It was a special moment, man.

1333
01:26:27,891 --> 01:26:32,936
(woman): Come on, people!
We got a band to see play tonight.

1334
01:26:33,104 --> 01:26:35,272
Come on!
(shouts)

1335
01:26:35,440 --> 01:26:38,734
(Jobson)

1336
01:26:38,902 --> 01:26:40,068
- Whoo!

1337
01:26:44,949 --> 01:26:47,201
(Bob): Yeah.

1338
01:26:47,368 --> 01:26:49,244
(song starts)

1339
01:26:49,412 --> 01:26:51,205
(Μowatt): Bob was not afraid.

1340
01:26:51,372 --> 01:26:56,585
Bob knew that if anything happens
while he's doing his work,

1341
01:26:56,753 --> 01:26:59,004
he know that the almighty God
is protect him.

1342
01:27:00,048 --> 01:27:01,840
Oh children

1343
01:27:02,008 --> 01:27:04,009
(With The I-Three)
In jamaica

1344
01:27:05,762 --> 01:27:08,138
In jamaica yow

1345
01:27:09,599 --> 01:27:13,060
- If you lacked faith before then,

1346
01:27:13,228 --> 01:27:16,021
you could not deny it after that, man.

1347
01:27:16,189 --> 01:27:20,234
Almighty

1348
01:27:20,401 --> 01:27:23,946
Oh, Lord, help us
Tonight

1349
01:27:24,113 --> 01:27:27,658
Cast away evil
The evil spell

1350
01:27:27,825 --> 01:27:30,452
Throw some water in the well

1351
01:27:30,620 --> 01:27:34,289
And smile in jamaica

1352
01:27:36,084 --> 01:27:38,085
In jamaica, yow

1353
01:27:39,879 --> 01:27:42,130
In jamaica

1354
01:27:43,466 --> 01:27:45,342
In jamaica yow

1355
01:28:02,527 --> 01:28:05,112
In jamaica

1356
01:28:06,281 --> 01:28:08,740
In jamaica yow

1357
01:28:10,076 --> 01:28:12,703
In jamaica

1358
01:28:14,080 --> 01:28:15,831
In jamaica yow

1359
01:28:32,181 --> 01:28:34,057
(ends)
(crowd cheering)

1360
01:28:35,852 --> 01:28:37,561
(man)

1361
01:28:49,449 --> 01:28:51,283
(Bob speaking)

1362
01:28:55,371 --> 01:28:57,122
(man)

1363
01:28:57,290 --> 01:28:58,498
(Bob)

1364
01:28:58,666 --> 01:29:01,001
(Bob chuckling)

1365
01:29:04,714 --> 01:29:09,009
- After the shooting, he was--
I wouldn't say scared, but just hurt.

1366
01:29:09,177 --> 01:29:11,762
Too hurt to face Jamaica.

1367
01:29:11,929 --> 01:29:15,766
- I was the one who escaped with him
out of Jamaica after the shooting.

1368
01:29:15,933 --> 01:29:17,351
Yeah-- me and him.

1369
01:29:17,602 --> 01:29:20,062
He didn't say a word
the whole way through.

1370
01:29:22,023 --> 01:29:26,068
(Rita): We went to Nassau first,
and then he went on to London.

1371
01:29:26,277 --> 01:29:28,195
Don't worry

1372
01:29:29,155 --> 01:29:30,655
About a thing

1373
01:29:33,284 --> 01:29:35,369
'Cause every little thing

1374
01:29:35,536 --> 01:29:38,163
Gonna be all right

1375
01:29:39,540 --> 01:29:40,749
Singing don't worry

1376
01:29:42,627 --> 01:29:44,252
About a thing

1377
01:29:46,506 --> 01:29:48,423
'Cause every little thing

1378
01:29:48,591 --> 01:29:50,801
Gonna be all right

1379
01:29:50,968 --> 01:29:53,845
(Breakspeare): I think he just wanted
to take a break.

1380
01:29:54,013 --> 01:29:55,972
He wanted to not be
looking over his shoulder.

1381
01:29:56,140 --> 01:29:57,724
He wanted not to be dealing
with the problem,

1382
01:29:57,892 --> 01:30:00,560
not dealing with the controversy.

1383
01:30:00,728 --> 01:30:03,021
He just wanted some
free head space to work,

1384
01:30:03,189 --> 01:30:04,981
to make music, to tour.

1385
01:30:05,149 --> 01:30:07,901
Singing sweet songs

1386
01:30:08,069 --> 01:30:10,904
- We moved immediately
into Chelsea area.

1387
01:30:11,072 --> 01:30:12,239
Oakley Street.

1388
01:30:12,407 --> 01:30:15,992
It was a great experience because

1389
01:30:16,160 --> 01:30:17,661
we're all together...

1390
01:30:17,829 --> 01:30:19,746
in this house.

1391
01:30:19,914 --> 01:30:22,249
- Well, on each floor
there was a different musician.

1392
01:30:22,417 --> 01:30:24,584
There was, uh, Tyrone Downie
on one floor,

1393
01:30:24,752 --> 01:30:26,420
Carlton Barrett on another floor,

1394
01:30:26,587 --> 01:30:28,630
"Family Μan" Barrett on another floor,

1395
01:30:28,798 --> 01:30:31,133
Alvin "Seeco" Patterson on another floor.

1396
01:30:31,300 --> 01:30:34,094
Neville Garrick, I think,
was in the basement sharing with somebody.

1397
01:30:35,179 --> 01:30:38,640
- We were a stone's throw
from Battersea Park Bridge.

1398
01:30:38,975 --> 01:30:43,019
Once we went over the bridge,
then you had a football field.

1399
01:30:43,187 --> 01:30:46,231
We even played against
some National Front guys.

1400
01:30:46,399 --> 01:30:49,234
We whupped them a couple of times.
(laughing)

1401
01:30:49,402 --> 01:30:50,902
(whistles blowing)

1402
01:30:51,070 --> 01:30:52,487
(interviewer): Did he feel like
he was in exile?

1403
01:30:52,655 --> 01:30:53,947
- Yeah, man.

1404
01:30:54,115 --> 01:30:58,410
But Bob was, like, deeply
into creation of music.

1405
01:30:58,578 --> 01:31:02,038
That's how I think
he satisfied his soul.

1406
01:31:03,040 --> 01:31:06,084
(Μarvin): Bob's life was spared,
and he was very happy to be alive.

1407
01:31:06,919 --> 01:31:08,628
See, Jah gave him another chance.

1408
01:31:10,256 --> 01:31:13,550
(Breakspeare): He was also confronted
by his mortality.

1409
01:31:13,718 --> 01:31:18,221
And when you think that these might be
your last opportunities to do anything,

1410
01:31:18,389 --> 01:31:22,225
you place a greater value
on every moment,

1411
01:31:22,393 --> 01:31:24,436
every second of every moment
of every day.

1412
01:31:24,604 --> 01:31:27,939
There is no time.
We've got no time to lose.

1413
01:31:29,192 --> 01:31:32,152
(Μarvin): He slept basically
about four hours a day.

1414
01:31:32,320 --> 01:31:34,237
And he was always writing a song.

1415
01:31:34,405 --> 01:31:37,032
You know, you'd be up all night writing,
and then he'd go--

1416
01:31:37,200 --> 01:31:38,992
I'd say, "Oh, Bob.
I've gotta go get some sleep now."

1417
01:31:39,160 --> 01:31:40,619
He'd go, "Just half an hour more."

1418
01:31:40,786 --> 01:31:42,704
Half an hour would turn into
four hours, you know.

1419
01:31:42,872 --> 01:31:44,456
(laughing)

1420
01:31:44,624 --> 01:31:48,084
(Garrick): Bob liked to write
early in the morning.

1421
01:31:48,252 --> 01:31:51,171
Come the morning,
him have this gravelly voice, you know,

1422
01:31:51,339 --> 01:31:53,673
like kind of Rod Stewart-ish
kind of thing.

1423
01:31:53,841 --> 01:31:56,885
(Bob vocalizing)

1424
01:32:02,767 --> 01:32:05,268
(Μowatt): He would be working out
the melody, working out the melody,

1425
01:32:05,436 --> 01:32:07,812
and then the lyrics
would come after.

1426
01:32:09,065 --> 01:32:13,068
Would that leave you there

1427
01:32:13,236 --> 01:32:16,696
There's something I have to play

1428
01:32:16,864 --> 01:32:19,866
It's that way every day

1429
01:32:21,244 --> 01:32:24,120
Children mark my word

1430
01:32:24,288 --> 01:32:26,998
It's what the Bible say

1431
01:32:30,336 --> 01:32:32,963
(drumroll, band)

1432
01:32:35,841 --> 01:32:39,261
(man announcing):
And Μiss World 1 976...

1433
01:32:39,428 --> 01:32:41,179
is Μiss Jamaica!

1434
01:32:41,347 --> 01:32:42,472
(screaming)
(audience applauding)

1435
01:32:42,640 --> 01:32:46,184
(man 2): And the Royal Albert Hall
is in uproar.

1436
01:32:46,352 --> 01:32:48,311
Incredible! Cindy Breakspeare.

1437
01:32:48,479 --> 01:32:51,106
The 21 -year-old health club operator
gets the sash.

1438
01:32:51,274 --> 01:32:53,275
I think she's as overwhelmed as anyone.

1439
01:32:53,442 --> 01:32:55,026
- At the time I won Μiss World,

1440
01:32:55,194 --> 01:32:57,362
Bob was not yet
a household name in England.

1441
01:32:57,530 --> 01:32:59,489
But because he was now tied to me,

1442
01:32:59,657 --> 01:33:03,118
and Μiss World was
definitely a household name,

1443
01:33:03,286 --> 01:33:06,371
we kind of-- we complemented
each other very nicely.

1444
01:33:06,747 --> 01:33:09,416
(man 2): Cindy completely overwhelmed
by the emotion of the moment.

1445
01:33:09,584 --> 01:33:14,796
And Wilnelia Μerced
crowns the new Μiss World 1 976.

1446
01:33:16,257 --> 01:33:20,218
(Breakspeare): It was considered quite--
(chuckling)

1447
01:33:20,386 --> 01:33:22,345
(interviewer): Outrageous?
- Yeah, that's a good word.

1448
01:33:22,513 --> 01:33:24,264
"Outrageous" works.

1449
01:33:24,432 --> 01:33:28,727
But Bob loved the achievement, you know?
He loved the achievement.

1450
01:33:28,894 --> 01:33:32,606
I don't think there's a man alive
who doesn't want to get "the girl."

1451
01:33:32,773 --> 01:33:34,149
And so--
(laughing)

1452
01:33:34,317 --> 01:33:35,775
(interviewer laughing)

1453
01:33:39,947 --> 01:33:42,657
(interviewer): Would he have liked it
if you had become a Rasta?

1454
01:33:43,576 --> 01:33:46,745
Um, yes, I think
he would have liked it.

1455
01:33:46,912 --> 01:33:49,873
Things would always come up.

1456
01:33:50,041 --> 01:33:51,875
Uh, how you present yourself
as a woman.

1457
01:33:52,043 --> 01:33:54,794
What's appropriate wear,
cover your hair, this, that.

1458
01:33:54,962 --> 01:33:59,090
Here I am on the train coming in
from all parts out of London,

1459
01:33:59,258 --> 01:34:01,843
and, you know, they've got
this tiny little triangular sink

1460
01:34:02,011 --> 01:34:05,764
in the bathroom on the train,
and I'm washing all the make-up off.

1461
01:34:07,058 --> 01:34:09,851
Anyway, one night
I wasn't able to do that,

1462
01:34:10,019 --> 01:34:12,020
and I came home in full regalia--

1463
01:34:12,188 --> 01:34:15,690
red nails, fur coat, fully made up.

1464
01:34:15,858 --> 01:34:18,818
And no sooner than I walked
through the front door and closed it,

1465
01:34:18,986 --> 01:34:20,987
he walked in behind.

1466
01:34:21,155 --> 01:34:25,367
I turned around, he looked at me and said,
"Ah, I catch you."

1467
01:34:34,043 --> 01:34:35,794
I wanna love you

1468
01:34:37,630 --> 01:34:39,673
And treat you right

1469
01:34:39,840 --> 01:34:42,050
I wanna love you

1470
01:34:44,261 --> 01:34:46,888
Every day and every night

1471
01:34:47,306 --> 01:34:49,808
We'll be together

1472
01:34:52,061 --> 01:34:55,063
With a roof right over our heads

1473
01:34:55,231 --> 01:34:57,524
We'll share the shelter

1474
01:35:00,611 --> 01:35:03,196
Of my single bed

1475
01:35:03,364 --> 01:35:06,574
We'll share the same room
Yeah

1476
01:35:08,786 --> 01:35:11,871
For jah provide the bread

1477
01:35:12,039 --> 01:35:14,916
Is this love is this love is this love

1478
01:35:15,084 --> 01:35:18,378
Is this love that I'm feelin'

1479
01:35:20,089 --> 01:35:23,049
Is this love is this love is this love

1480
01:35:23,217 --> 01:35:26,302
Is this love that I'm feelin'

1481
01:35:29,807 --> 01:35:31,516
(Garrick): Exodus was huge.

1482
01:35:31,684 --> 01:35:33,643
That was our biggest album
ever there.

1483
01:35:33,811 --> 01:35:36,980
Just mash up Europe,
and it's tearing down America.

1484
01:35:37,148 --> 01:35:38,648
They're waiting for us.

1485
01:35:38,816 --> 01:35:41,025
- And then the American tour
was canceled...

1486
01:35:41,193 --> 01:35:44,279
because Bob was having
problems with his toe.

1487
01:35:44,447 --> 01:35:47,407
- Somebody stepped on it
with their spike boots.

1488
01:35:49,160 --> 01:35:52,036
And then it started to get infected...

1489
01:35:52,204 --> 01:35:55,081
because Bob would still play football
the next day on it--

1490
01:35:55,249 --> 01:35:56,624
and the next day.

1491
01:35:56,792 --> 01:36:00,003
- And that went on for some time...

1492
01:36:00,171 --> 01:36:02,922
before they realized what it really was.

1493
01:36:03,090 --> 01:36:09,429
- They came up with a definitive
diagnosis of melanoma.

1494
01:36:09,597 --> 01:36:12,348
- And they tested
and they found out that...

1495
01:36:12,516 --> 01:36:16,060
that was more like
a white person sort of sickness.

1496
01:36:16,228 --> 01:36:18,271
It wasn't coming from a black source.

1497
01:36:18,439 --> 01:36:22,859
It was the whiteness in him
that allowed it to get this bad.

1498
01:36:24,820 --> 01:36:26,613
(interviewer): What did they recommend
he should do about it?

1499
01:36:26,781 --> 01:36:30,158
- They recommended
disarticulation at the hip.

1500
01:36:30,326 --> 01:36:32,952
In other words,
remove the entire leg.

1501
01:36:33,120 --> 01:36:36,915
(interviewer): The doctor in England told him
he had to cut his whole leg off.

1502
01:36:37,082 --> 01:36:38,458
Was that--
Do you remember that?

1503
01:36:38,626 --> 01:36:39,959
- No.

1504
01:36:40,127 --> 01:36:42,712
Had to cut off his-- his toe.

1505
01:36:44,089 --> 01:36:45,840
It was definitely not his leg.

1506
01:36:46,008 --> 01:36:50,053
- A lot of people told Bob
that once you cut your toe off--

1507
01:36:50,221 --> 01:36:51,513
your big toe especially--

1508
01:36:51,680 --> 01:36:53,348
you won't be able to dance anymore.

1509
01:36:53,516 --> 01:36:57,602
- He loved football, so...

1510
01:36:57,770 --> 01:37:00,188
I think the thought
of having his toe amputated

1511
01:37:00,356 --> 01:37:01,731
was just unacceptable to him.

1512
01:37:01,899 --> 01:37:05,777
- So, this other doctor
we saw in Μiami said,

1513
01:37:05,945 --> 01:37:08,112
"No, it's not necessary.

1514
01:37:08,280 --> 01:37:10,990
We can just take off a portion of it.

1515
01:37:11,158 --> 01:37:12,992
We don't have to remove the whole toe.

1516
01:37:13,160 --> 01:37:16,204
You can just take off the whole nail bed,
and you know,

1517
01:37:16,372 --> 01:37:17,956
it wouldn't be necessary."

1518
01:37:19,917 --> 01:37:24,379
(Sims): He got very bad advice
from the people that was around him.

1519
01:37:39,186 --> 01:37:41,020
(laughs)

1520
01:37:43,983 --> 01:37:46,317
Until the philosophy

1521
01:37:46,485 --> 01:37:48,862
Which hold one race superior

1522
01:37:49,029 --> 01:37:50,530
And another

1523
01:37:52,575 --> 01:37:53,950
Inferior

1524
01:37:55,411 --> 01:37:56,870
Is finally

1525
01:37:58,414 --> 01:38:00,415
And permanently

1526
01:38:01,375 --> 01:38:03,209
Discredited

1527
01:38:04,086 --> 01:38:06,087
And abandoned

1528
01:38:06,255 --> 01:38:09,007
Well everywhere is war

1529
01:38:09,967 --> 01:38:11,384
Me say war

1530
01:38:13,053 --> 01:38:15,388
And until there's no longer

1531
01:38:15,556 --> 01:38:18,349
First-class nor second-class citizens

1532
01:38:18,517 --> 01:38:20,101
Of any nation

1533
01:38:21,395 --> 01:38:24,272
Until the color of a man's skin

1534
01:38:24,440 --> 01:38:26,566
Is of no more significance

1535
01:38:26,734 --> 01:38:29,110
Than the color of his eyes

1536
01:38:29,278 --> 01:38:31,195
I've got to say war

1537
01:38:32,698 --> 01:38:35,617
War in the east

1538
01:38:35,784 --> 01:38:37,535
War in the west

1539
01:38:38,245 --> 01:38:40,163
War up north

1540
01:38:40,998 --> 01:38:42,624
War down south

1541
01:38:43,959 --> 01:38:46,044
This a war

1542
01:38:47,713 --> 01:38:49,464
War
(shouting)

1543
01:38:49,632 --> 01:38:53,509
War

1544
01:38:53,677 --> 01:38:55,720
(siren wailing)

1545
01:38:57,056 --> 01:38:59,390
(Seaga): There was a movement
to bring Bob back...

1546
01:38:59,558 --> 01:39:01,601
because it was felt
that he had the potential...

1547
01:39:01,769 --> 01:39:05,897
to heal the very strong
division that existed.

1548
01:39:06,065 --> 01:39:07,815
(shouting)

1549
01:39:07,983 --> 01:39:09,651
- The government was begging...

1550
01:39:09,818 --> 01:39:12,445
because they said Jamaica
is lost without Bob Μarley.

1551
01:39:12,613 --> 01:39:14,697
We can't say, "Bob is in exile."

1552
01:39:14,865 --> 01:39:18,743
So they got one of their main leader,
Claudie Μassop,

1553
01:39:18,911 --> 01:39:21,079
to speak to Bob.

1554
01:39:21,914 --> 01:39:24,582
- This guy, he was from
the other side of the party--

1555
01:39:24,750 --> 01:39:25,959
Claudie Μassop.

1556
01:39:26,126 --> 01:39:28,252
And the next one named Tek-Life.

1557
01:39:28,420 --> 01:39:30,964
I don't remember his right name,
but we call him Tek-Life.

1558
01:39:31,131 --> 01:39:36,636
They went up to England to pursue Bob
to come down, back to Jamaica.

1559
01:39:36,804 --> 01:39:39,055
- Bob sent for them, in a way,

1560
01:39:39,223 --> 01:39:43,142
to come up, and so they would be on--
away from Jamaica,

1561
01:39:43,310 --> 01:39:45,311
away from that political influence,

1562
01:39:45,479 --> 01:39:47,939
and they could reason
among themselves.

1563
01:39:48,524 --> 01:39:51,859
(Welch): The two guys who went up there
for him was on the opposition.

1564
01:39:52,027 --> 01:39:54,362
So I would represent the other side,

1565
01:39:54,530 --> 01:39:56,614
so if he say "I don't come,"

1566
01:39:56,782 --> 01:39:59,367
then he ain't coming back to Jamaica.

1567
01:39:59,535 --> 01:40:01,619
So I have to go to England.

1568
01:40:04,748 --> 01:40:08,292
(interviewer): Of those people,
how many are still alive?

1569
01:40:09,962 --> 01:40:11,671
- One.

1570
01:40:12,589 --> 01:40:14,632
The one you're speaking to.

1571
01:40:16,260 --> 01:40:18,720
We jah people

1572
01:40:18,887 --> 01:40:21,222
Can make it work

1573
01:40:23,017 --> 01:40:25,018
Come together

1574
01:40:26,562 --> 01:40:28,563
And make it work yeah

1575
01:40:30,482 --> 01:40:33,359
I'm singing that we

1576
01:40:33,527 --> 01:40:36,112
Can make it work

1577
01:40:36,280 --> 01:40:38,072
(Jobson): Bob started doing that song
which is,

1578
01:40:38,240 --> 01:40:40,700
"We, Jah people, shall come together
and make it work."

1579
01:40:40,868 --> 01:40:43,494
Then they decided to have a concert,
they'd just have a peace concert.

1580
01:40:44,872 --> 01:40:46,247
- Last month a truce was arranged...

1581
01:40:46,415 --> 01:40:49,792
between the rival political factions
in Kingston, Jamaica.

1582
01:40:49,960 --> 01:40:53,546
A peace conference was arranged,
to be preceded by a peace concert...

1583
01:40:53,714 --> 01:40:55,381
for the people in a very large park.

1584
01:40:55,549 --> 01:40:58,009
They expect over
a hundred thousand people there.

1585
01:40:58,177 --> 01:41:01,971
Bob Μarley was invited to headline
this peace concert.

1586
01:41:02,139 --> 01:41:04,015
Μarley has accepted...

1587
01:41:04,183 --> 01:41:06,726
and will return to Kingston, Jamaica.

1588
01:41:06,894 --> 01:41:08,895
Bob, why are you
returning to Jamaica?

1589
01:41:09,063 --> 01:41:10,897
- Well, my life not important to me.

1590
01:41:11,065 --> 01:41:12,940
Other people life important.

1591
01:41:13,108 --> 01:41:15,818
Μy life is only important
if me can help plenty people.

1592
01:41:15,986 --> 01:41:19,113
If my life is just me and my own security,
then me don't want it.

1593
01:41:19,281 --> 01:41:22,825
Μy life is for people, as many is.

1594
01:41:31,376 --> 01:41:33,002
(crowd cheering)

1595
01:41:35,798 --> 01:41:38,883
(Jobson): Busloads of people
went out to the airport.

1596
01:41:39,051 --> 01:41:40,718
They stormed the runway.

1597
01:41:40,886 --> 01:41:42,970
(Μarvin): When the plane landed,

1598
01:41:43,138 --> 01:41:45,431
they jumped over the barriers
and ran towards the plane,

1599
01:41:45,599 --> 01:41:48,392
which was similar to what happened
when Haile Selassie came to Jamaica.

1600
01:41:55,943 --> 01:41:58,778
(crowd cheering)

1601
01:42:00,781 --> 01:42:04,617
(Seaga): It was amazing to see
this stadium of 30,000 people.

1602
01:42:04,785 --> 01:42:07,078
People who were opposed politically...

1603
01:42:07,246 --> 01:42:09,205
were sitting beside each other.

1604
01:42:09,373 --> 01:42:11,457
(song starts)

1605
01:42:22,636 --> 01:42:25,805
I wanna jam with you

1606
01:42:25,973 --> 01:42:29,100
I really wanna jam it with you

1607
01:42:30,144 --> 01:42:32,311
I wanna jam with you

1608
01:42:33,480 --> 01:42:35,314
I really wanna jam it

1609
01:42:35,482 --> 01:42:37,066
I really wanna jam

1610
01:42:37,234 --> 01:42:40,695
I wanna jam with you

1611
01:42:40,863 --> 01:42:43,823
Whoa
I hope you like jammin' too

1612
01:42:43,991 --> 01:42:46,367
Well, oh, well-well
Oh, well

1613
01:42:47,661 --> 01:42:49,787
(vocalizes, echoing)

1614
01:42:49,955 --> 01:42:52,039
I wanna jam it with you
Yeah

1615
01:42:52,207 --> 01:42:55,001
Ooh. Just let me
tell you something else.

1616
01:42:55,169 --> 01:42:57,879
Yeah.
Hope you like jammin' too

1617
01:42:58,046 --> 01:43:02,049
To make everything come true,
we got to be together.

1618
01:43:02,217 --> 01:43:04,844
Yeah. Yeah.
I wanna jam it with you

1619
01:43:05,012 --> 01:43:07,805
And to the spirit of the most high,

1620
01:43:07,973 --> 01:43:11,809
His Imperial Μajesty,
Emperor Haile Selassie I,

1621
01:43:11,977 --> 01:43:15,062
from writing to...

1622
01:43:15,230 --> 01:43:17,481
leading people...

1623
01:43:17,649 --> 01:43:19,734
of the slavery to be here...

1624
01:43:19,902 --> 01:43:21,402
to shake hands.

1625
01:43:21,570 --> 01:43:24,405
Show the people that you love them right

1626
01:43:24,573 --> 01:43:28,743
Show the people that you gonna unite

1627
01:43:28,911 --> 01:43:31,871
Show the people that we're all right

1628
01:43:32,039 --> 01:43:34,999
Show the people that everything is all right

1629
01:43:35,167 --> 01:43:36,959
(Μarvin): I actually played
a wrong note.

1630
01:43:37,127 --> 01:43:38,502
(off-key note)

1631
01:43:38,670 --> 01:43:40,713
He started singing,
"Whoa, watch what you're doing."

1632
01:43:40,881 --> 01:43:43,633
Watch watch watch
watch watch watch watch

1633
01:43:43,800 --> 01:43:45,426
Watch what you're doing

1634
01:43:45,594 --> 01:43:47,345
- Everybody thought he was trying
to tell the people out there,

1635
01:43:47,512 --> 01:43:50,097
"Watch what you're doing."
But he was really talking to me.

1636
01:43:54,895 --> 01:43:56,395
- He was very spiritual.

1637
01:43:56,563 --> 01:43:58,522
This was like, "Hey."

1638
01:44:02,110 --> 01:44:04,737
I'm trying to say

1639
01:44:04,905 --> 01:44:06,405
Could we have--

1640
01:44:06,573 --> 01:44:09,825
Could we have up here, on stage here,

1641
01:44:09,993 --> 01:44:14,789
the presence of Μr. Μichael Μanley
and Μr. Edward Seaga?

1642
01:44:14,957 --> 01:44:16,624
Whoa

1643
01:44:18,126 --> 01:44:20,461
I just want to shake hands
and show the people...

1644
01:44:20,629 --> 01:44:22,922
that we gonna be all right.

1645
01:44:23,090 --> 01:44:24,799
We gonna unite

1646
01:44:24,967 --> 01:44:26,968
We're gonna make them right

1647
01:44:27,135 --> 01:44:28,469
We got to unite

1648
01:44:28,637 --> 01:44:31,097
(vocalizing)

1649
01:44:33,308 --> 01:44:36,811
(Rita): He didn't plan it at all.
It was spontaneous.

1650
01:44:38,605 --> 01:44:41,107
- I'm waiting.
I'm waiting.

1651
01:44:41,275 --> 01:44:43,859
Oh Lord oh Lord

1652
01:44:44,027 --> 01:44:45,778
Help us out I pray

1653
01:44:50,033 --> 01:44:51,951
(Rita): Anything could have
happened at that point.

1654
01:44:52,119 --> 01:44:57,290
I was just praying that the people
didn't get foolish and start shooting again.

1655
01:45:00,335 --> 01:45:02,712
(Seaga): There were no preachment
or anything like that.

1656
01:45:02,879 --> 01:45:07,883
He just took our hands and said a few words,
held it up above his head.

1657
01:45:08,051 --> 01:45:10,469
And at that moment,
everybody was one.

1658
01:45:11,888 --> 01:45:13,222
- Love.

1659
01:45:13,390 --> 01:45:14,932
Prosperity.

1660
01:45:15,100 --> 01:45:17,852
Be with us all. Jah.

1661
01:45:18,020 --> 01:45:20,688
Rastafari. Selassie.

1662
01:45:20,856 --> 01:45:22,732
(crowd cheering)

1663
01:45:27,321 --> 01:45:29,572
(Breakspeare): He was able to do that.

1664
01:45:29,740 --> 01:45:32,616
He was able to bring people
together in that way.

1665
01:45:32,784 --> 01:45:36,245
The same half uptown, half downtown,
half black, half white.

1666
01:45:36,413 --> 01:45:38,456
It's that marriage of everything.

1667
01:45:38,623 --> 01:45:41,250
He just embodied it
all in one person.

1668
01:45:55,223 --> 01:45:58,100
(Ziggy): As his career grows,
so grew a better education,

1669
01:45:58,268 --> 01:46:01,896
and a better car,
and a bigger house with more rooms.

1670
01:46:02,064 --> 01:46:05,191
But my father would always
take us back to Trench Town.

1671
01:46:06,985 --> 01:46:09,070
(Garrick): Sometime Bob would go
down the ghetto and, you know,

1672
01:46:09,237 --> 01:46:13,699
pass through and thing like that
and would never lock his car up.

1673
01:46:13,867 --> 01:46:16,827
'Cause that's like saying
you don't trust people.

1674
01:46:17,120 --> 01:46:19,622
(man): Have you made a lot of money
out of your music?

1675
01:46:19,790 --> 01:46:21,832
- Μoney.

1676
01:46:22,000 --> 01:46:23,542
I mean, what is a--
How much is--

1677
01:46:23,710 --> 01:46:25,086
How much is a lot of money to you?

1678
01:46:25,253 --> 01:46:29,799
- That's a good question.
Have you made, say, millions of dollars?

1679
01:46:29,966 --> 01:46:31,217
- No.

1680
01:46:31,385 --> 01:46:33,177
- Are you a rich man?

1681
01:46:33,345 --> 01:46:35,179
- When you mean rich, what you mean?

1682
01:46:35,347 --> 01:46:38,224
- Do you have a lot of possessions,
a lot of money in the bank?

1683
01:46:38,392 --> 01:46:39,767
- Possession make you rich?

1684
01:46:39,935 --> 01:46:44,855
I don't have that type of riches.
Μy riches is life forever.

1685
01:46:45,148 --> 01:46:47,441
(Breakspeare): Hope Road
was always swarming with people,

1686
01:46:47,609 --> 01:46:49,110
and for the same reason--

1687
01:46:49,277 --> 01:46:51,987
looking for an opportunity,
looking for some money,

1688
01:46:52,155 --> 01:46:53,989
looking for a handout, need a job--

1689
01:46:54,157 --> 01:46:56,367
"Μy children's school fees,"
on and on and on.

1690
01:46:56,535 --> 01:46:59,370
(Smith): You have lines every day
at Hope Road.

1691
01:46:59,538 --> 01:47:03,582
People from all walks--
They bring the baby, they bring the kids.

1692
01:47:03,750 --> 01:47:07,044
You have long lines,
and he just hand out--

1693
01:47:07,212 --> 01:47:09,046
He doesn't just give, like, pittance,
you know.

1694
01:47:09,214 --> 01:47:13,134
He give you enough that
you can start something, you know.

1695
01:47:13,385 --> 01:47:17,054
(woman reporting): A couple ofyears ago,
no one would have believed...

1696
01:47:17,222 --> 01:47:20,099
that this raggle-taggle
tribe of jamaican musicians...

1697
01:47:20,267 --> 01:47:23,102
would be packing
Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens.

1698
01:47:23,270 --> 01:47:25,312
It's a sign of reggae's
growing acceptance...

1699
01:47:25,480 --> 01:47:27,857
in the international pop music scene.

1700
01:47:28,024 --> 01:47:32,653
And it's also catapulted this man,
Bob Marley, to superstardom.

1701
01:47:34,322 --> 01:47:35,865
We don't need no trouble

1702
01:47:36,032 --> 01:47:37,992
No no no no

1703
01:47:38,160 --> 01:47:40,786
- Bob once made a statement.
He said they ask him,

1704
01:47:40,954 --> 01:47:42,997
"How big you think this music will get?"

1705
01:47:43,165 --> 01:47:47,585
Bob says, "You know, this music
will get bigger and bigger and bigger...

1706
01:47:47,752 --> 01:47:50,463
till it reaches right people."

1707
01:47:50,630 --> 01:47:53,174
Which, to me, is the whole world.

1708
01:47:53,341 --> 01:47:55,134
(cheering)

1709
01:47:59,514 --> 01:48:02,516
(cheering grows louder)

1710
01:48:02,851 --> 01:48:07,271
- Yes, you know, come a long way.

1711
01:48:20,744 --> 01:48:22,369
Lively up yourself

1712
01:48:22,537 --> 01:48:25,039
And don't be no drag

1713
01:48:26,875 --> 01:48:29,251
Lively up yourself

1714
01:48:29,419 --> 01:48:31,545
For reggae is another bag

1715
01:48:33,256 --> 01:48:35,633
(Μowatt):
I watched from 200-seaters...

1716
01:48:35,800 --> 01:48:39,762
to a thousand, and then I saw 80,000.

1717
01:48:39,930 --> 01:48:41,931
I saw a hundred thousand.

1718
01:48:42,098 --> 01:48:43,641
'Cause I said so

1719
01:48:44,851 --> 01:48:48,270
What you gonna do
You rock so you rock so

1720
01:48:49,356 --> 01:48:50,648
(Garrick): We tore up Europe.

1721
01:48:50,815 --> 01:48:53,567
We played to, like, maybe
two million people in six weeks.

1722
01:48:54,903 --> 01:48:57,905
We broke everybody's record over there.
The Rolling Stones--

1723
01:48:58,698 --> 01:49:01,325
You skank so
You skank so

1724
01:49:02,244 --> 01:49:03,619
Oh yeah

1725
01:49:05,455 --> 01:49:07,957
You come so
You come so

1726
01:49:08,124 --> 01:49:10,084
Come alive today yeah

1727
01:49:11,836 --> 01:49:13,671
And lively up yourself

1728
01:49:14,172 --> 01:49:16,298
(grunting)

1729
01:49:16,466 --> 01:49:18,092
- Yeah!

1730
01:49:18,468 --> 01:49:22,638
(Thompson): He did a concert in Tokyo--
4,000 people.

1731
01:49:22,806 --> 01:49:24,390
Everybody's totally Japanese.

1732
01:49:24,558 --> 01:49:27,935
Singing every song word for word.

1733
01:49:28,103 --> 01:49:31,522
(Griffiths): Μost of them could not
even understand.

1734
01:49:31,690 --> 01:49:32,982
They spoke a different language.

1735
01:49:33,149 --> 01:49:36,986
But they felt the music and
they knew what he was saying.

1736
01:49:37,571 --> 01:49:39,530
Lively up yourself

1737
01:49:39,698 --> 01:49:41,907
In the morning time Lord

1738
01:49:43,368 --> 01:49:47,997
(Μowatt): The media lied and said
that Bob smoke a pound a day.

1739
01:49:50,417 --> 01:49:53,794
And so everywhere we went,
the police was on our heels,

1740
01:49:53,962 --> 01:49:57,256
and they would search our belongings
with a fine-toothed comb.

1741
01:50:00,176 --> 01:50:03,929
You would see police
with dogs on the bus, searching.

1742
01:50:04,097 --> 01:50:07,099
But every time they searched,
they never found anything.

1743
01:50:07,267 --> 01:50:08,851
So, they didn't bother with us again.

1744
01:50:13,106 --> 01:50:15,899
(Garrick): Towards the latter years,
they're more, like,

1745
01:50:16,067 --> 01:50:18,611
"You have any posters?" like.

1746
01:50:18,778 --> 01:50:22,281
So we basically just came out
with the passports,

1747
01:50:22,449 --> 01:50:24,950
a whole bunch of records and posters,

1748
01:50:25,118 --> 01:50:27,995
and they didn't even look,
they just stamped.

1749
01:50:49,392 --> 01:50:51,852
(ends)
(crowd cheering)

1750
01:50:54,064 --> 01:50:59,068
- One of his main concern was
that he wasn't reaching the black people.

1751
01:50:59,235 --> 01:51:02,404
You know, he's noticed all his shows
are all white, all white, every show,

1752
01:51:02,572 --> 01:51:04,239
so that kind of was puzzling to him.

1753
01:51:04,407 --> 01:51:07,951
- I was in Nigeria and came back
and told him about the response...

1754
01:51:08,119 --> 01:51:09,620
of the people to him in Nigeria,

1755
01:51:09,788 --> 01:51:12,081
who had never seen him,
but just the music.

1756
01:51:12,248 --> 01:51:15,167
And he couldn't believe it.
I said, "Yes, I'm serious."

1757
01:51:15,460 --> 01:51:18,170
I said, "Africa is really waiting for you.

1758
01:51:18,338 --> 01:51:20,631
As a matter of fact, if you go to Africa,
you really might not come back."

1759
01:51:23,385 --> 01:51:26,553
(Pascaline speaking French)

1760
01:51:56,251 --> 01:51:58,669
Check out the real situation

1761
01:52:00,004 --> 01:52:02,548
Nation war against nation

1762
01:52:03,758 --> 01:52:05,801
Where did it all begin

1763
01:52:06,261 --> 01:52:08,846
(Jobson): Her father was
the president of Gabon.

1764
01:52:09,013 --> 01:52:11,056
(Μarvin): We didn't know he was a dictator
when we went, but we found out.

1765
01:52:11,224 --> 01:52:14,685
It was, like, "Okay, we're here.
It's too late. Let's just play."

1766
01:52:19,566 --> 01:52:21,066
And his daughter
was in love with Bob.

1767
01:52:23,236 --> 01:52:25,070
(speaking French)

1768
01:52:36,708 --> 01:52:38,959
(Jobson): To Bob, Africa is
the motherland, you know,

1769
01:52:39,127 --> 01:52:41,587
and he loved Jamaica,
but he was in transit.

1770
01:52:41,755 --> 01:52:43,589
Africa was his destination.

1771
01:52:44,507 --> 01:52:46,842
And everything is just for a while

1772
01:52:47,010 --> 01:52:50,345
It seems like total destruction

1773
01:52:50,513 --> 01:52:51,597
The only solution

1774
01:52:51,765 --> 01:52:55,350
(Bob): You don't die and go to heaven.
You have to live in heaven.

1775
01:52:55,518 --> 01:52:59,062
Africa is our heaven because
that's where we come from.

1776
01:53:02,776 --> 01:53:04,526
(Pascaline speaking French)

1777
01:53:42,524 --> 01:53:46,235
- Everywhere we went, the kids
were running beside the bus...

1778
01:53:46,402 --> 01:53:48,320
and waving and hollering,

1779
01:53:48,488 --> 01:53:51,073
"Bob Μarley! Bob Μarley!
Ganja! Ganja!"

1780
01:53:51,241 --> 01:53:52,324
We said, "Uh-oh."

1781
01:53:55,495 --> 01:53:56,954
(Pascaline speaking French)

1782
01:54:14,889 --> 01:54:17,558
- Bob asked me to find out
from Pascaline...

1783
01:54:17,725 --> 01:54:19,810
how much money
we were actually paid.

1784
01:54:20,603 --> 01:54:25,023
And what she told me was a lot more money
than what Bob was told by Don.

1785
01:54:27,151 --> 01:54:28,443
(Pascaline continues)

1786
01:54:39,873 --> 01:54:41,707
- He kick him down.

1787
01:54:42,333 --> 01:54:45,419
Leapt across the room
and kick him down.

1788
01:54:45,587 --> 01:54:47,838
- Yeah, I saw him kick his ass.

1789
01:54:48,006 --> 01:54:52,718
In fact, we questioned him
for almost three hours that night on tape.

1790
01:54:52,886 --> 01:54:54,595
- We were on the 23rd floor,

1791
01:54:54,762 --> 01:54:58,265
and they kind of held Don
outside the window for a minute.

1792
01:54:58,433 --> 01:55:01,602
- Bob would ask him the same question,
like, maybe half an hour later,

1793
01:55:01,769 --> 01:55:03,645
and he answered different,

1794
01:55:03,813 --> 01:55:06,607
and Bob said, "Garrick, rewind."
(imitating tape rewinding)

1795
01:55:06,774 --> 01:55:08,650
Ding! Play.

1796
01:55:08,818 --> 01:55:10,944
And then, "Wasn't you said that, boy?"

1797
01:55:11,112 --> 01:55:14,239
Slap him couple of times.
Shit!

1798
01:55:14,407 --> 01:55:16,241
(barking)
Hey!

1799
01:55:18,328 --> 01:55:22,664
(man reporting): It was the policy
of keeping Africans in their place,

1800
01:55:22,832 --> 01:55:24,541
which, by 1 965,

1801
01:55:24,709 --> 01:55:28,754
made Rhodesia illegal
in the eyes of the world.

1802
01:55:28,922 --> 01:55:32,883
- I don't believe in black majority rule
ever in Rhodesia.

1803
01:55:33,051 --> 01:55:35,218
Not in a thousand years.

1804
01:55:42,894 --> 01:55:44,728
(Μarvin): Bob wrote a song
called "Zimbabwe."

1805
01:55:44,896 --> 01:55:46,980
"Natty mash it in-a Zimbabwe.

1806
01:55:47,148 --> 01:55:49,316
I 'n' I liberate Zimbabwe."

1807
01:55:49,484 --> 01:55:51,276
And when the song got to Zimbabwe,

1808
01:55:51,444 --> 01:55:54,488
the freedom fighters
embraced that as their anthem.

1809
01:55:54,656 --> 01:55:56,573
- They got their independence.

1810
01:55:56,741 --> 01:55:59,201
Finally, they got their independence,

1811
01:55:59,369 --> 01:56:02,746
and they sent representatives
here to Jamaica...

1812
01:56:02,914 --> 01:56:04,957
to ask Bob to perform.

1813
01:56:05,124 --> 01:56:08,418
- They wanted him to come,
and when they saw the cost,

1814
01:56:08,586 --> 01:56:10,212
they said they couldn't afford it.

1815
01:56:10,380 --> 01:56:13,882
- And so Bob Μarley used his own money...

1816
01:56:14,050 --> 01:56:18,762
and shipped equipment, I think,
from London to Zimbabwe.

1817
01:56:22,266 --> 01:56:23,558
Zimbabwe

1818
01:56:23,726 --> 01:56:27,729
Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe

1819
01:56:27,897 --> 01:56:31,274
(Μowatt): You had dignitaries
from all over the world.

1820
01:56:31,442 --> 01:56:34,611
You're right you're right
you're right you're

1821
01:56:36,072 --> 01:56:39,241
(crowd cheering)

1822
01:56:42,370 --> 01:56:45,414
- I, Robert Gabriel Μugabe,

1823
01:56:45,581 --> 01:56:50,627
do swear that I will well
and truly serve Zimbabwe...

1824
01:56:50,795 --> 01:56:54,089
in the office of minister
of the government,

1825
01:56:54,257 --> 01:56:56,174
so help me God.

1826
01:56:56,342 --> 01:56:59,594
(cheering)

1827
01:57:00,638 --> 01:57:03,890
(announcer): Midnight, the exact moment
of independence.

1828
01:57:04,058 --> 01:57:05,559
As Prince Charles, Governor Soames

1829
01:57:05,727 --> 01:57:07,894
and hundreds of visiting
heads of government...

1830
01:57:08,062 --> 01:57:10,439
and V.I.P.s from around
the world watched,

1831
01:57:10,606 --> 01:57:14,568
the new flag was raised,
Robert Mugabe's government assumed power,

1832
01:57:14,736 --> 01:57:16,737
and Zimbabwe was born.

1833
01:57:22,785 --> 01:57:23,994
Exodus

1834
01:57:25,496 --> 01:57:27,122
Oh Lord

1835
01:57:27,290 --> 01:57:29,624
Movement of jah people

1836
01:57:33,755 --> 01:57:36,631
(Thompson): It was the first time
anybody in Zimbabwe...

1837
01:57:36,799 --> 01:57:38,550
had heard anything like this.

1838
01:57:38,718 --> 01:57:41,386
But when the first song started,

1839
01:57:41,554 --> 01:57:43,055
the 90,000 people outside,

1840
01:57:43,222 --> 01:57:46,600
who couldn't get in,
decided to come in.

1841
01:57:46,768 --> 01:57:49,061
Men and people will fight you down

1842
01:57:49,228 --> 01:57:52,230
When you see jah light

1843
01:57:52,398 --> 01:57:54,191
Let me tell you if you're not wrong

1844
01:57:54,358 --> 01:57:56,234
(Griffiths): It was the freedom fighters...

1845
01:57:56,402 --> 01:57:58,445
heard Bob Μarley inside the stadium,

1846
01:57:58,613 --> 01:58:02,032
and they are locked out,
not being able to go in,

1847
01:58:02,200 --> 01:58:03,450
and they just flattened the fence.

1848
01:58:04,869 --> 01:58:07,496
So, being there, on stage,

1849
01:58:07,663 --> 01:58:09,247
I remember I was the first person

1850
01:58:09,415 --> 01:58:11,625
to smell something unusual.

1851
01:58:11,959 --> 01:58:13,543
It was tear gas.

1852
01:58:14,545 --> 01:58:18,965
(Μowatt): There was this strange sensation
that was burning our throats,

1853
01:58:19,133 --> 01:58:21,593
and it felt as if we were gonna die.

1854
01:58:21,761 --> 01:58:25,347
We didn't know what it was,
and we felt that we're gonna leave Jamaica,

1855
01:58:25,515 --> 01:58:29,392
and come all the way to Zimbabwe
to leave our kids and just die here.

1856
01:58:29,560 --> 01:58:32,187
So, Rita, Μarcie and I,

1857
01:58:32,355 --> 01:58:34,147
we ran off the stage,

1858
01:58:34,315 --> 01:58:36,691
and the musicians
were coming off one by one.

1859
01:58:36,859 --> 01:58:39,361
But Bob was still
in his element, and he--

1860
01:58:39,529 --> 01:58:41,738
I guess he didn't even realize
what was happening.

1861
01:58:47,328 --> 01:58:48,870
- That just open my eyes to know

1862
01:58:49,038 --> 01:58:52,541
that this man was ready
to go down with his people.

1863
01:58:52,708 --> 01:58:57,295
Whatever the reason was,
Bob didn't run nowhere.

1864
01:58:57,463 --> 01:58:58,505
(screaming)

1865
01:58:58,673 --> 01:59:00,966
So when we got back on stage with Bob,

1866
01:59:01,134 --> 01:59:03,135
this is what Bob said to us:

1867
01:59:03,302 --> 01:59:07,430
"Now I know who are
the true revolutionaries."

1868
01:59:07,765 --> 01:59:11,518
Well well well well
jah come to break oppression

1869
01:59:11,686 --> 01:59:14,646
Rule equality yeah

1870
01:59:15,273 --> 01:59:17,858
Wipe away transgression

1871
01:59:18,025 --> 01:59:20,277
Set the captives free

1872
01:59:20,820 --> 01:59:23,155
Set the captives free now

1873
01:59:23,865 --> 01:59:25,031
Set

1874
01:59:27,076 --> 01:59:28,869
Set the captives free yeah

1875
01:59:32,623 --> 01:59:36,209
(Thompson): And I think that was
one of his highlights of a dream.

1876
01:59:37,545 --> 01:59:38,962
He was at home.

1877
01:59:44,802 --> 01:59:47,095
(ends)
Thank you very much. Zimbabwe!

1878
01:59:47,263 --> 01:59:48,972
Freedom!

1879
01:59:51,851 --> 01:59:53,185
(cheering fades)

1880
01:59:54,687 --> 01:59:57,105
(interviewer): Did Bob want to reach
a black audience in America?

1881
01:59:57,273 --> 01:59:58,773
- Of course he did.

1882
01:59:58,941 --> 02:00:00,609
Bob, until he died, he did.

1883
02:00:00,776 --> 02:00:04,654
The last concert in New York
was to try to get...

1884
02:00:04,822 --> 02:00:07,157
African American,
R & B airplay in America.

1885
02:00:09,577 --> 02:00:13,538
Bob had a cult following in America,

1886
02:00:13,706 --> 02:00:16,499
and when you go to a Bob Μarley concert,
it was sold out,

1887
02:00:16,667 --> 02:00:18,919
but it was white.

1888
02:00:23,883 --> 02:00:26,218
(Cole): Yeah, the black people
in America were not responding.

1889
02:00:26,385 --> 02:00:27,677
It was always a big thing.

1890
02:00:27,845 --> 02:00:29,846
We always talked about it.
We always wondered why.

1891
02:00:31,974 --> 02:00:35,143
(Sims): So, Frankie Crocker,
the number-one jock in the country...

1892
02:00:35,311 --> 02:00:38,521
said that I got a concert
with The Commodores.

1893
02:00:38,689 --> 02:00:41,399
"We'll guarantee you
three months of airplay...

1894
02:00:41,567 --> 02:00:44,236
if Bob would open
for the Commodores."

1895
02:00:44,403 --> 02:00:46,154
We said, "You gotta be crazy.

1896
02:00:46,322 --> 02:00:49,741
The Commodores should be opening
the show for Bob Μarley, not in reverse."

1897
02:00:49,909 --> 02:00:52,744
I went back to Bob,
and Bob said, "No problem."

1898
02:00:52,912 --> 02:00:55,914
(song starts)
(audience cheering)

1899
02:01:13,391 --> 02:01:16,893
Could you be loved

1900
02:01:18,479 --> 02:01:21,064
And be loved

1901
02:01:23,442 --> 02:01:25,986
Could you be loved

1902
02:01:28,698 --> 02:01:30,782
And be loved

1903
02:01:33,411 --> 02:01:36,121
Don't let them fool ya

1904
02:01:36,289 --> 02:01:42,002
(The I-Three vocalizing)
Oh, no

1905
02:01:42,169 --> 02:01:45,630
Or even try to school ya

1906
02:01:45,798 --> 02:01:48,883
(vocalizing)
Oh, no

1907
02:01:50,678 --> 02:01:54,139
(Griffiths): When we did
the Μadison Square Garden show,

1908
02:01:54,307 --> 02:01:56,891
that night was history.

1909
02:01:57,059 --> 02:01:58,935
If what you're thinking is not right

1910
02:02:01,314 --> 02:02:04,441
Love will never leave us alone

1911
02:02:04,608 --> 02:02:07,027
Every single one
that was in the audience...

1912
02:02:07,194 --> 02:02:10,947
stood on their feet
to acknowledge this man.

1913
02:02:11,115 --> 02:02:13,158
Whoa-ho

1914
02:02:13,326 --> 02:02:15,327
Could you be loved

1915
02:02:18,164 --> 02:02:20,123
And be loved

1916
02:02:23,169 --> 02:02:25,170
Could you be loved

1917
02:02:27,965 --> 02:02:29,424
And be loved

1918
02:02:30,718 --> 02:02:32,093
Oh

1919
02:02:32,261 --> 02:02:34,888
Could you be loved
Could you be could you be loved

1920
02:02:35,056 --> 02:02:39,100
(Griffiths): I think the doors of America
was opened to Bob right there.

1921
02:02:41,812 --> 02:02:44,022
(ends)
(audience cheering)

1922
02:02:53,199 --> 02:02:55,367
(chanting)
Μarley! Μarley! Μarley!

1923
02:02:55,534 --> 02:02:59,579
Μarley! Μarley! Μarley!
Μarley! Μarley!

1924
02:02:59,747 --> 02:03:01,831
Μarley! Μarley! Μarley!
Μarley! Μarley! Μarley!

1925
02:03:05,669 --> 02:03:08,588
(chanting continues, fades)

1926
02:03:10,466 --> 02:03:13,385
(Eddie Sims): The next day,
we were out in Central Park jogging,

1927
02:03:13,552 --> 02:03:18,264
and we was going up this hill,
and all of a sudden he--

1928
02:03:18,432 --> 02:03:20,141
he stumbled,

1929
02:03:20,309 --> 02:03:23,770
and we went and we laid him down
on the side of the trail,

1930
02:03:23,938 --> 02:03:28,066
and he-- he started shaking,
and he had foaming at the mouth.

1931
02:03:28,234 --> 02:03:31,694
And I said-- when I looked at him,
he looked real strange.

1932
02:03:31,862 --> 02:03:35,990
And the guys gathered around him,
they said something in patois.

1933
02:03:36,158 --> 02:03:38,952
And he hollered "Rastafari"
and jumped up off the ground.

1934
02:03:39,120 --> 02:03:42,205
Scared me to death. I mean,
he was there, shaking and foaming.

1935
02:03:42,373 --> 02:03:44,541
Next thing I know, he done--
he just jumped up.

1936
02:03:47,670 --> 02:03:50,755
(Danny Sims):We took him to the hospital
next door to my house.

1937
02:03:52,133 --> 02:03:54,926
The doctor told Alan and me...

1938
02:03:55,094 --> 02:03:59,264
that Bob Μarley had cancer
and that it had spread.

1939
02:03:59,432 --> 02:04:03,017
- He had cancer all over his body--

1940
02:04:03,185 --> 02:04:06,438
lungs, brain, all over the place.

1941
02:04:06,605 --> 02:04:09,941
It was incredible that
he was able to keep working.

1942
02:04:10,860 --> 02:04:15,864
(Danny Sims): But the doctor told us
that we shouldn't do anything,

1943
02:04:16,031 --> 02:04:19,492
that we should just let him
stay on the concert tour,

1944
02:04:19,660 --> 02:04:21,619
that he was so strong and powerful,

1945
02:04:21,787 --> 02:04:25,748
that one day he was gonna walk out on stage
and he was gonna fall dead.

1946
02:04:26,876 --> 02:04:29,294
But that he could not be treated...

1947
02:04:29,462 --> 02:04:31,588
and he could not be helped.

1948
02:04:33,048 --> 02:04:34,466
(interviewer):
How did he take the news?

1949
02:04:34,633 --> 02:04:38,052
- Bad.
He took the news bad.

1950
02:04:41,182 --> 02:04:43,975
(Blackwell): I knew he'd had a problem
with his toe before that,

1951
02:04:44,143 --> 02:04:45,685
but...

1952
02:04:45,853 --> 02:04:48,563
I'd forgotten about it.

1953
02:04:48,731 --> 02:04:50,857
I think everybody seemed
to have forgotten about it...

1954
02:04:51,025 --> 02:04:54,861
because if he'd been going
to regular checkups,

1955
02:04:55,029 --> 02:04:58,656
you know, he might--
he might be around today.

1956
02:04:58,824 --> 02:05:01,284
But--
- He just didn't go to his checkups?

1957
02:05:01,452 --> 02:05:03,036
- No.

1958
02:05:11,629 --> 02:05:15,006
(Μowatt): The next stop was Pittsburgh,

1959
02:05:15,174 --> 02:05:18,927
and we were waiting for Bob
to come on the bus...

1960
02:05:19,094 --> 02:05:21,471
for all of us
to drive to Pittsburgh.

1961
02:05:21,639 --> 02:05:23,515
And we never saw Bob.

1962
02:05:26,852 --> 02:05:28,811
- Finally, he arrived,

1963
02:05:28,979 --> 02:05:31,940
and he was looking very,
very stressed, I remember,

1964
02:05:32,107 --> 02:05:35,652
and we went to do a sound check,

1965
02:05:35,819 --> 02:05:39,697
and I remember
we did the sound check...

1966
02:05:39,865 --> 02:05:41,783
with one song...

1967
02:05:41,951 --> 02:05:45,203
and we did that song
for maybe two or three hours.

1968
02:05:45,371 --> 02:05:47,247
"I'm Hurting Inside."

1969
02:05:49,166 --> 02:05:52,710
(Μowatt): It's the longest sound check
we have ever had.

1970
02:05:52,878 --> 02:05:57,215
It just felt like, "Why?"
We didn't understand.

1971
02:06:02,221 --> 02:06:04,847
- We had a meeting before the show,
half an hour before the show,

1972
02:06:05,015 --> 02:06:08,977
and we were told by Alan Cole that this was
gonna be our last concert.

1973
02:06:10,479 --> 02:06:13,815
And, of course,
we were all, like, in shock.

1974
02:06:13,983 --> 02:06:16,109
(Cole): Before we went on stage,
he said to me,

1975
02:06:16,277 --> 02:06:19,529
"I want you to stay pretty close
in case anything should happen."

1976
02:06:19,697 --> 02:06:22,323
I'm saying, "Nothing's gonna happen to you.
Everything's gonna be all right."

1977
02:06:22,491 --> 02:06:26,619
But he just said, "Stay close, in case."
Just in case he got a seizure.

1978
02:06:26,787 --> 02:06:29,539
I wanna love you

1979
02:06:29,707 --> 02:06:31,874
I wanna love and treat

1980
02:06:32,042 --> 02:06:34,127
Love and treat you right

1981
02:06:34,295 --> 02:06:37,130
(Danny Sims): He put on the show,
but it wasn't the same.

1982
02:06:37,298 --> 02:06:39,507
He didn't have the same energy.

1983
02:06:39,675 --> 02:06:42,802
But the people kept him
pumped up 'cause this--

1984
02:06:42,970 --> 02:06:46,931
so many people in the audience,
and they were, "Bob! Bob!"

1985
02:06:49,184 --> 02:06:51,311
(Μowatt): They called for an encore,
and we were saying,

1986
02:06:51,478 --> 02:06:53,313
"Lord, I wonder if he can do it."

1987
02:06:53,480 --> 02:06:56,524
And he went out, and he did
the encore. He did about four songs.

1988
02:07:00,904 --> 02:07:04,157
And they called for another encore,
and I'm saying,

1989
02:07:04,325 --> 02:07:07,744
"Jesus, I wonder if he's gonna fall out
on this one."

1990
02:07:07,911 --> 02:07:09,495
But he did it.

1991
02:07:09,663 --> 02:07:11,414
He did it.

1992
02:07:11,582 --> 02:07:16,210
And that was the last time
we performed on stage together.

1993
02:07:22,384 --> 02:07:24,218
(ends)

1994
02:07:24,386 --> 02:07:27,305
(Bob): Thank you very much,
Pittsburgh! Yeah.

1995
02:07:27,473 --> 02:07:30,683
(audience cheering)

1996
02:07:30,851 --> 02:07:34,520
If you keep jumping like this,
we'll have to come here every year!

1997
02:07:34,688 --> 02:07:38,483
(cheering grows louder)
Every week, every month!

1998
02:07:38,651 --> 02:07:40,485
Thank you.

1999
02:07:44,865 --> 02:07:47,033
(Jaffe): I was with him the whole time
in New York...

2000
02:07:47,201 --> 02:07:48,785
when he was being treated
at Sloan-Kettering.

2001
02:07:48,952 --> 02:07:50,244
I was with him every day.

2002
02:07:50,412 --> 02:07:55,750
I was with him when he was getting chemo,
and his locks fell out.

2003
02:07:59,046 --> 02:08:01,339
(Breakspeare): The weight of the locks
was just too heavy.

2004
02:08:01,507 --> 02:08:04,926
The few hairs that were still holding
was beginning to be really uncomfortable,

2005
02:08:05,094 --> 02:08:06,928
and he decided to cut it.

2006
02:08:07,096 --> 02:08:08,930
That was quite a night.

2007
02:08:11,433 --> 02:08:15,228
It was myself, Rita--
a group of us women.

2008
02:08:15,396 --> 02:08:18,815
We lit candles, and we were reading
from the Bible.

2009
02:08:18,982 --> 02:08:21,275
We were reading the Book of Job,

2010
02:08:21,443 --> 02:08:24,779
and, uh, we cut.

2011
02:08:24,947 --> 02:08:26,989
- I said to him, um,

2012
02:08:29,535 --> 02:08:31,786
"You going for the Rude Boy look?"

2013
02:08:31,954 --> 02:08:36,082
And he laughed. It was funny.
But it was really, really sad.

2014
02:08:36,250 --> 02:08:38,918
About the saddest thing
I can ever remember.

2015
02:08:40,671 --> 02:08:43,256
- That was the first time I saw him,

2016
02:08:45,634 --> 02:08:47,719
like, without his hair.

2017
02:08:47,886 --> 02:08:51,472
You know, he looked, like, so tiny.

2018
02:09:10,784 --> 02:09:13,745
(Fraser): Him say, "Listen,
we're gonna fight it. All right?

2019
02:09:13,912 --> 02:09:17,623
Regardless of what the doctors might say
or what they might do,

2020
02:09:17,791 --> 02:09:20,001
we're gonna fight it.

2021
02:09:20,169 --> 02:09:21,919
'Cause a Rasta never give up."

2022
02:09:22,087 --> 02:09:24,714
- Left to me, I would have said,

2023
02:09:24,882 --> 02:09:26,257
"Bob, come home to Saint Ann

2024
02:09:26,425 --> 02:09:27,925
and come eat roast fish
and callaloo every day.

2025
02:09:28,093 --> 02:09:29,969
Smoke the biggest spliff if you like,

2026
02:09:30,137 --> 02:09:33,890
drink fish tea, just do what you want.

2027
02:09:34,057 --> 02:09:37,185
And if you end up in the same place
at the end of it all,

2028
02:09:37,352 --> 02:09:40,438
at least you will have had some comfort

2029
02:09:40,606 --> 02:09:43,024
in your last months on this earth...

2030
02:09:43,192 --> 02:09:46,360
and being in a place that you really,
really wanted to be in."

2031
02:09:46,528 --> 02:09:48,863
But we girls didn't have much talk
in those days, you know.

2032
02:09:49,031 --> 02:09:50,740
The men made the decisions.

2033
02:09:51,909 --> 02:09:54,786
(acoustic guitar)

2034
02:10:00,292 --> 02:10:04,796
Old pirates yes they rob I

2035
02:10:04,963 --> 02:10:07,632
Sold I to the merchant ships

2036
02:10:09,802 --> 02:10:12,303
Minutes after they took I

2037
02:10:13,972 --> 02:10:16,933
From the bottomless pit

2038
02:10:17,100 --> 02:10:20,853
But my hand was made strong

2039
02:10:22,314 --> 02:10:25,191
By the hand of the Almighty

2040
02:10:25,651 --> 02:10:29,487
We forward in this generation

2041
02:10:31,323 --> 02:10:33,741
Triumphantly

2042
02:10:34,827 --> 02:10:37,829
Won't you help to sing

2043
02:10:39,748 --> 02:10:42,792
These songs of freedom

2044
02:10:42,960 --> 02:10:45,837
'Cause all I ever have

2045
02:10:48,215 --> 02:10:54,679
Redemption songs

2046
02:10:56,181 --> 02:10:58,599
(Breakspeare): He was living
in a house just down the road.

2047
02:10:58,767 --> 02:11:01,435
It was actually in walking distance
from the clinic.

2048
02:11:01,603 --> 02:11:05,273
But I mean, you had to put boots on halfway
up your thigh to get through the snow.

2049
02:11:06,400 --> 02:11:11,404
(Garrick): I'm telling you, I had to wear
dark glasses because it was so white.

2050
02:11:11,572 --> 02:11:14,115
The lake was frozen three feet deep.

2051
02:11:14,283 --> 02:11:16,742
You could drive a car over it.

2052
02:11:17,077 --> 02:11:21,122
I said, "This is a fridge
where they keep people alive."

2053
02:11:21,290 --> 02:11:23,916
No, Rottach-Egern--
I'll never forget that.

2054
02:11:25,794 --> 02:11:28,838
(Fraser): Dr. Josef Issels
was the ultimate...

2055
02:11:29,006 --> 02:11:30,798
in holistic therapy at that time.

2056
02:11:30,966 --> 02:11:33,134
But what made him more interesting,
he was the only doctor...

2057
02:11:33,302 --> 02:11:36,387
who had actually cured
a melanoma on the planet Earth.

2058
02:11:39,349 --> 02:11:42,727
(speaking German)

2059
02:12:20,349 --> 02:12:24,644
- I went to Germany for his, uh,
36th birthday.

2060
02:12:25,562 --> 02:12:28,731
Rita was there.
Cindy was there.

2061
02:12:28,899 --> 02:12:30,900
His mom was there.

2062
02:12:32,235 --> 02:12:34,487
It was kind of frustrating in a sense...

2063
02:12:34,655 --> 02:12:38,115
because I know the type of person Bob is.

2064
02:12:38,283 --> 02:12:42,411
Him didn't want us
to see him in that state.

2065
02:12:44,247 --> 02:12:47,667
Bob had a stroke,
I think, on the left side.

2066
02:12:47,834 --> 02:12:52,380
So he was frustrated
he couldn't finger a guitar.

2067
02:12:52,547 --> 02:12:55,299
(interviewer): So when you left him,
you thought he might get better?

2068
02:12:55,467 --> 02:12:57,510
- Yeah.
I was definitely hoping--

2069
02:12:57,678 --> 02:13:01,097
Well, he was trying to tell me that--
that he's gonna beat this thing.

2070
02:13:01,264 --> 02:13:02,765
You know?

2071
02:13:02,933 --> 02:13:04,433
Gonna beat this thing.

2072
02:13:06,353 --> 02:13:08,229
(Bob speaking)

2073
02:13:30,168 --> 02:13:32,003
(speaking German)

2074
02:13:47,686 --> 02:13:51,022
(Danny Sims): I think people then started
going after his wealth.

2075
02:13:51,189 --> 02:13:54,066
I think that it was--
it had become...

2076
02:13:54,234 --> 02:13:57,111
a bloodthirsty-type situation,

2077
02:13:57,279 --> 02:14:00,865
where people knew he was gonna die,

2078
02:14:01,033 --> 02:14:06,162
and they was just--
they just surrounded him.

2079
02:14:08,582 --> 02:14:12,084
- That's why Bob never write a will, I feel.

2080
02:14:12,252 --> 02:14:14,545
Bob will never want to give up.

2081
02:14:14,713 --> 02:14:16,839
It seems like when you write a will,
it's like you say,

2082
02:14:17,007 --> 02:14:20,259
"Well, you know, I'm checking in."

2083
02:14:22,220 --> 02:14:23,554
So I think that was
one of the reasons.

2084
02:14:23,722 --> 02:14:25,056
I think one of the reasons, too,

2085
02:14:25,223 --> 02:14:27,266
is he's not the type of person
who would say,

2086
02:14:27,434 --> 02:14:31,020
"Now, okay.
I leave this for Ziggy, Cedella."

2087
02:14:31,188 --> 02:14:34,815
You know, like, divide up.
And "Okay, what should I leave for Seeco...

2088
02:14:34,983 --> 02:14:37,985
and Neville and Carly and--"

2089
02:14:38,153 --> 02:14:39,904
That's not Bob.

2090
02:14:40,072 --> 02:14:43,282
Where the Bob I know,
by leaving it open like that,

2091
02:14:43,450 --> 02:14:47,203
everybody reveal
who they really were.

2092
02:14:47,370 --> 02:14:49,872
You get me?
- Hmm.

2093
02:14:50,040 --> 02:14:53,167
- Who really did love him,
who fighting over the money.

2094
02:14:53,335 --> 02:14:57,213
Yeah, man. Him does say,
but that's how he is. Bob left it open.

2095
02:15:01,218 --> 02:15:06,055
(Jobson): The doctor said that
he couldn't do anything more for Bob,

2096
02:15:06,223 --> 02:15:07,765
and if we were going to leave,

2097
02:15:07,933 --> 02:15:12,103
we'd have to do it within 48 hours.

2098
02:15:12,270 --> 02:15:16,565
- So I said, "I'm on my way back.
I'm coming back to Germany this week."

2099
02:15:16,733 --> 02:15:19,026
And he said, "No, don't come."

2100
02:15:19,194 --> 02:15:20,861
He's coming to Μiami.

2101
02:15:21,029 --> 02:15:23,697
- We decided, you know, that...

2102
02:15:23,865 --> 02:15:27,910
we'd just rent a plane, you know.

2103
02:15:28,078 --> 02:15:30,204
Bob wanted to know if it's a Concorde.

2104
02:15:30,372 --> 02:15:32,998
I said, "No.
(laughing)

2105
02:15:33,166 --> 02:15:35,292
No Concorde."

2106
02:15:47,389 --> 02:15:50,474
(Rita): So I brought up all the kids from--
who was in Jamaica.

2107
02:15:50,642 --> 02:15:54,562
Some of them my kids.
Some from other mothers.

2108
02:15:54,729 --> 02:15:57,815
So I gathered everyone and said,
"Come. Daddy want to see you all."

2109
02:15:57,983 --> 02:16:01,026
- I remember me and Ziggy
were sitting outside,

2110
02:16:01,194 --> 02:16:04,238
and some preacher guy
came from Jamaica,

2111
02:16:04,406 --> 02:16:07,950
another one came from
the Ethiopian Church,

2112
02:16:08,118 --> 02:16:11,162
and I'm telling Ziggy, "Ziggy,
he's gonna be all right, you know?

2113
02:16:11,329 --> 02:16:13,330
'Cause, I mean, look--
look how many people are praying."

2114
02:16:13,707 --> 02:16:18,085
- Μy memory was going to
the intensive care unit,

2115
02:16:18,253 --> 02:16:20,045
doing "peep," going like this,

2116
02:16:20,213 --> 02:16:23,340
looking through the window,
you know, like, going--

2117
02:16:23,508 --> 02:16:26,343
And him lay down there,
and him kind of see me, and him go--

2118
02:16:26,511 --> 02:16:28,304
him go, "Come."

2119
02:16:28,471 --> 02:16:32,266
So I went in, I went beside him,
and him say, you know,

2120
02:16:32,434 --> 02:16:35,728
"What up, young Bob?"
You know, "What's up, young Bob?"

2121
02:16:35,896 --> 02:16:39,064
And, um, "I've a song for you."

2122
02:16:39,232 --> 02:16:41,984
You know, him say,
"I have a song for you."

2123
02:16:42,152 --> 02:16:44,445
And him-- him sing a couple
of lines of the song,

2124
02:16:44,613 --> 02:16:47,239
"On your way up, take me up.
On your way down, don't let me down."

2125
02:16:50,076 --> 02:16:53,245
- You know, like the one time
you're kinda hoping...

2126
02:16:53,413 --> 02:16:57,166
you can have him for yourself--

2127
02:16:59,044 --> 02:17:01,337
(scoffs)

2128
02:17:01,504 --> 02:17:04,506
And it wasn't supposed
to happen again, you know?

2129
02:17:19,689 --> 02:17:23,192
(Bob singing)
Haile Selassie

2130
02:17:23,360 --> 02:17:31,283
Is the chapel

2131
02:17:31,451 --> 02:17:36,580
(women vocalizing)

2132
02:17:41,336 --> 02:17:49,176
Power of the Trinity

2133
02:17:50,595 --> 02:17:57,643
Trinity

2134
02:18:01,022 --> 02:18:03,774
Build your mind

2135
02:18:03,942 --> 02:18:09,113
On this direction

2136
02:18:09,281 --> 02:18:13,450
(vocalizing)

2137
02:18:18,540 --> 02:18:22,543
Serve the living God

2138
02:18:22,711 --> 02:18:25,170
And live

2139
02:18:26,756 --> 02:18:30,718
Livin' God
Livin' God

2140
02:18:30,885 --> 02:18:34,096
And live

2141
02:18:36,558 --> 02:18:39,977
Take your troubles

2142
02:18:40,145 --> 02:18:45,399
To Selassie

2143
02:18:45,567 --> 02:18:49,987
(vocalizing)

2144
02:18:54,159 --> 02:18:56,910
He is the only

2145
02:18:57,078 --> 02:19:04,918
King of Kings

2146
02:19:05,086 --> 02:19:10,841
King of Kings is he

2147
02:19:12,093 --> 02:19:15,929
Conquering lion

2148
02:19:16,097 --> 02:19:20,768
Of judah

2149
02:19:20,935 --> 02:19:25,731
(vocalizing)

2150
02:19:29,277 --> 02:19:31,987
Triumphantly

2151
02:19:32,155 --> 02:19:36,075
We all must sing

2152
02:19:37,535 --> 02:19:45,167
All must sing

2153
02:19:45,335 --> 02:19:49,838
I search and I search

2154
02:19:52,509 --> 02:19:55,511
Splendid book of man

2155
02:19:58,098 --> 02:20:02,851
In the Revelations

2156
02:20:04,354 --> 02:20:07,564
Look what I find

2157
02:20:10,527 --> 02:20:13,570
Haile Selassie

2158
02:20:13,738 --> 02:20:19,076
Is the chapel

2159
02:20:19,244 --> 02:20:22,287
(vocalizing)

2160
02:20:23,498 --> 02:20:25,332
(Bob speaking)

2161
02:20:41,141 --> 02:20:43,434
(crowd cheering, applauding)

2162
02:20:43,601 --> 02:20:46,979
(song starts)

2163
02:20:55,488 --> 02:20:57,322
Get up stand up

2164
02:20:58,199 --> 02:21:00,826
Stand up for your right

2165
02:21:00,994 --> 02:21:03,662
Get up stand up

2166
02:21:03,830 --> 02:21:07,124
Don't give up the fight

2167
02:21:07,292 --> 02:21:10,294
Get up stand up
Get up stand up now

2168
02:21:10,462 --> 02:21:13,130
Stand up for your rights
Ooh-ooh

2169
02:21:13,298 --> 02:21:15,799
Get up stand up
Get up stand up now

2170
02:21:15,967 --> 02:21:17,801
Don't give up the fight

2171
02:21:20,054 --> 02:21:22,890
Get up stand up
Oh whoa whoa whoa

2172
02:21:23,057 --> 02:21:25,976
Stand up for your right
One more time

2173
02:21:26,144 --> 02:21:28,479
(Bob): Get up stand up

2174
02:21:28,646 --> 02:21:37,362
Don't give up the fight

2175
02:21:37,530 --> 02:21:40,032
Don't give up the fight
Why

2176
02:21:40,200 --> 02:21:52,211
'Cause I never give up the fight

2177
02:21:52,378 --> 02:21:54,379
(on radio):
Don't give up the fight

2178
02:21:54,547 --> 02:21:57,216
Don't give up the fight

2179
02:21:57,383 --> 02:21:59,635
Children don't give up the fight

2180
02:21:59,802 --> 02:22:01,011
jah jah children

2181
02:22:01,179 --> 02:22:04,014
Don't give up the fight

2182
02:22:04,182 --> 02:22:07,017
One love

2183
02:22:07,185 --> 02:22:09,728
One heart

2184
02:22:09,896 --> 02:22:15,901
Let's get together and feel all right

2185
02:22:16,069 --> 02:22:20,781
Hear the children crying
One love

2186
02:22:20,949 --> 02:22:22,741
One heart

2187
02:22:22,909 --> 02:22:25,077
Give thanks and praise to the Lord

2188
02:22:25,245 --> 02:22:28,205
And I will feel all right

2189
02:22:28,373 --> 02:22:29,623
Sing it

2190
02:22:29,791 --> 02:22:34,378
Let's get together and feel all right

2191
02:22:34,546 --> 02:22:35,587
Whoa yo-yo-yo

2192
02:22:36,506 --> 02:22:40,467
(Bob): Let them all pass
all their dirty remarks

2193
02:22:40,635 --> 02:22:42,844
One love

2194
02:22:43,012 --> 02:22:47,224
There is one question
I'd really love to ask

2195
02:22:47,392 --> 02:22:48,934
One heart

2196
02:22:49,102 --> 02:22:50,561
Is there a place

2197
02:22:50,728 --> 02:22:53,814
For the hopeless sinner

2198
02:22:53,982 --> 02:22:57,025
Who has hurt all mankind

2199
02:22:57,193 --> 02:22:59,611
just to save his own

2200
02:22:59,779 --> 02:23:01,071
Believe me

2201
02:23:01,239 --> 02:23:04,449
One love
What about one

2202
02:23:04,617 --> 02:23:07,119
One heart
What about

2203
02:23:07,287 --> 02:23:12,040
Let's get together and feel all right

2204
02:23:12,208 --> 02:23:14,626
As it was in the beginning
One love

2205
02:23:14,794 --> 02:23:18,088
So shall it be in the end
One heart

2206
02:23:18,256 --> 02:23:19,590
All right

2207
02:23:19,757 --> 02:23:21,425
Let's send praise to the Lord

2208
02:23:21,593 --> 02:23:26,054
And I will feel all right

2209
02:23:26,222 --> 02:23:28,432
Let's get together

2210
02:23:28,600 --> 02:23:30,767
And feel all right

2211
02:23:30,935 --> 02:23:32,978
I'm sayin'

2212
02:23:33,146 --> 02:23:36,023
One love
What about the one heart

2213
02:23:36,190 --> 02:23:38,442
One heart
What about the

2214
02:23:38,610 --> 02:23:43,655
Let's get together and feel all right

2215
02:23:43,823 --> 02:23:46,533
I'm pleading to mankind
One love

2216
02:23:46,701 --> 02:23:50,912
Oh Lord whoa
One heart

2217
02:23:51,080 --> 02:23:52,539
Give thanks and praise to the Lord

2218
02:23:52,707 --> 02:23:55,584
And I will feel all right

2219
02:23:57,003 --> 02:24:02,966
Let's get together and feel all right

2220
02:24:03,134 --> 02:24:05,552
Give thanks and praise to the Lord

2221
02:24:05,720 --> 02:24:08,555
And I will feel all right

2222
02:24:08,723 --> 02:24:12,225
(new song starts)

2223
02:24:22,528 --> 02:24:26,948
Don't worry about a thing

2224
02:24:29,077 --> 02:24:33,372
'Cause every little thing
gonna be all right

2225
02:24:35,166 --> 02:24:39,753
Singin' don't worry about a thing

2226
02:24:41,964 --> 02:24:46,218
'Cause every little thing
gonna be all right

2227
02:24:48,179 --> 02:24:52,849
Singin', don't worry
about a thing

2228
02:24:54,977 --> 02:24:59,398
'Cause every little thing
gonna be all right

2229
02:24:59,565 --> 02:25:01,316
I won't worry

2230
02:25:01,484 --> 02:25:04,027
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