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Bob Marley Passed Away 30 Years Ago Today
Started by Lenny Bruce, May 11 2011 02:35 PM
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Posted 11 May 2011 - 02:35 PM
Don't know how many murmursians are aware of this fact, but Bob Marley passed away 30 years ago today (May 11). His music is timeless, as is REM's music. R.I.P. Bob Marley...
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Posted 11 May 2011 - 06:56 PM
One of the all-time greats. Only 36 when he passed.
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Posted 11 May 2011 - 07:38 PM
Free Bob Marley!
He's been hijacked by stoned suburban teenagers.
By Field Maloney
Wednesday, May 11 is the 30th anniversary of legend Bob Marley's untimely death. In the 2006 article reprinted below, Field Maloney explored the musician's commercial afterlife.
Saving Bob Marley from his fans
Bob Marley's greatest-hits album, Legend, came out in 1984, three years after his death, at 36, of a cancer that spread from his big toe. It's one of the best-selling albums of all time, in the company of Michael Jackson's Thriller and Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. During his lifetime, Marley's following outside Jamaica was mostly cultish and underground until his last years, when he acquired a modest international stardom. But Marley didn't really become a mainstream fixture—a singer instantly recognizable to anyone who's lingered over a fajita at Chili's or wandered through a freshman quad in the springtime—until after his death, and after Legend. Greatest-hits collections are notoriously bad showcases, but Legend was a doozy—a defanged and overproduced selection of Marley's music. Listening to Legend to understand Marley is like reading Bridget Jones's Diary to get Jane Austen.
Click here to read the rest of the article.
He's been hijacked by stoned suburban teenagers.
By Field Maloney
Wednesday, May 11 is the 30th anniversary of legend Bob Marley's untimely death. In the 2006 article reprinted below, Field Maloney explored the musician's commercial afterlife.
Saving Bob Marley from his fans
Bob Marley's greatest-hits album, Legend, came out in 1984, three years after his death, at 36, of a cancer that spread from his big toe. It's one of the best-selling albums of all time, in the company of Michael Jackson's Thriller and Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. During his lifetime, Marley's following outside Jamaica was mostly cultish and underground until his last years, when he acquired a modest international stardom. But Marley didn't really become a mainstream fixture—a singer instantly recognizable to anyone who's lingered over a fajita at Chili's or wandered through a freshman quad in the springtime—until after his death, and after Legend. Greatest-hits collections are notoriously bad showcases, but Legend was a doozy—a defanged and overproduced selection of Marley's music. Listening to Legend to understand Marley is like reading Bridget Jones's Diary to get Jane Austen.
Click here to read the rest of the article.
"We were listening to the UNC radio (station) there and they were playing an R.E.M. song. I like R.E.M. fine, but at the end of it, the DJ says, 'Ya that was R.E.M., the sound of the new South'. I looked at my roommate and we said, Gawd, if that's the sound of the new South, I preferred it when it was on the skids. That's how we got the name."
- Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids
- Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids
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