Bob Marley Caribbean Lives

[9781904955412]

One of the twentieth century’s most iconic cultural figures, Bob Marley was responsible for popularising reggae music throughout the world. But Marley was no mere pop star: his strong attachment to Rasta beliefs and practices and his fierce hostility to the injustice of ‘Babylon’ made him an important spokesman for the dispossessed. In this new biography, Garry Steckles follows Marley’s eventful life through the early days in rural Jamaica, arrival in Kingston, first recordings and performances, to his spectacular status as an international superstar.