Title So much things to say : the oral history of Bob Marley / text and photographs by Roger Steffens ; introduction by Linton Kwesi Johnson.

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New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2017]

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Edition	First edition.
Description	xxvii, 434 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note	Includes index.
Contents	Introduction: the people speak / by Linton Kwesi Johnson -- Where is my mother? -- Trench town rocks -- The Wailers at Studio One -- Good good rudies -- Love and affection -- Rasta shook them up -- Wailers a go wail -- Nine Mile exile -- The JAD years -- Leslie Kong meets the Tuff Gang -- Lee Perry and Jamaican politricks -- Cold cold winters in Sweden and London -- Island's kinky reggae -- Burnin' out in London -- The end of the beginning -- Natty Dread -- Hope Road runnings -- Cindy Breakspeare and the 1975 tour -- Rastaman vibration and fatal reissue -- Ambush in the night -- The CIA and the assassination attempt -- Smile, you're in Jamaica -- Who shot Bob Marley? -- Exodus to London -- Blackwell, Bob and business -- The bloody toe in the Paris match -- The One Love Peace concert -- Babylon by bus from the U.N. to Ethiopia -- Charity and survival -- From the Apollo to Gabon -- Natty mash it inna Zimbabwe -- Uprising -- Madison Square Garden then everything crash -- Dr. Issels and the final days -- Marley's legacy and the Wailers' favorite songs.
Summary	Draws on forty years of intimate interviews with band members, family, lovers, and confidants, many speaking publicly for the first time, to offer an oral history depicting the reggae icon's life.
Subject	Marley, Bob.
	Marley, Bob -- Friends and associates -- Interviews.
	Marley, Bob. (OCoLC)fst00068337
	Reggae musicians -- Jamaica -- Biography.
	Reggae musicians -- Jamaica -- Interviews.
	Friendship. (OCoLC)fst00935174
	Reggae musicians. (OCoLC)fst01093061
	Jamaica. (OCoLC)fst01211575
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & Musicians.
	MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Reggae.
	MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician.
Genre/Form	Oral histories.
	Biographies.
	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
	Interviews. (OCoLC)fst01423832
	Oral histories. (OCoLC)fst01726295
Added Author	Johnson, Linton Kwesi, 1952- writer of introduction.
ISBN	9780393058451 (hardcover)
	039305845X (hardcover)

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