“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”— Bob Marley
From Bob Marley's song 'Trenchtown Rock' (1971). The lyric reflects his philosophy that music transcends suffering, rooted in his childhood poverty in Kingston's Trenchtown neighbourhood.
The Story of Bob
Legacy
On April 22, 1978, at the One Love Peace Concert in Kingston, Marley called rival politicians Michael Manley and Edward Seaga on stage during Jammin' and joined their hands. In 1977 doctors found melanoma under his toenail. They recommended amputation. He refused. The cancer spread. His last concert was September 23, 1980, in Pittsburgh. On May 11, 1981, Bob Marley died in Miami. He was 36. He is buried in a mausoleum in Nine Mile, where he was born.
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