Title: Bob rules digital charts

Excerpt: REGGAE King Bob Marley still reigns supreme. According to popular digital music outlet iTunes, the Jamaican icon and his 1984 compilation album Legend has the number one spot in 17 of 22 international markets .

Excerpt: So dominant is Bob Marley's music, he holds six spots on Norway's and Spain's top 10 album charts. Similarly, he holds five spots in Belgium, Portugal and The Netherlands.

Excerpt: The younger Marley appears on the top 10 in four countries. In the United States his Grammy-winning album Welcome to Jamrock is at number eight, it holds the number five spot in the United Kingdom and Canada, and number three in Ireland. His 2002 release Half Way Tree is number three in Canada.

Title: Africa Unite projected through Bob's eyes

Excerpt: Black notes that while the film does not have a heavy Bob Marley presence, it is replete with what was important to him - the continent of Africa, his family, Haile Selassie and the concept of African unity. "I feel those are the ingredients in the film," Black said. "We are looking through his eyes. I felt that is was all the things he loved."

Excerpt: Camera crews went to different locations - the conference, Jubilee Palace and Shashamane, where there is a Rastafari community. A crew also accompanied the Marley family on their aeroplane flight. Naturally, a lot of resources were required for the concert, which Black said attracted 300,000 persons.

Excerpt: Among her more cherished moments from Africa Unite are American actor Danny Glover speaking to a granddaughter of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie, telling her about the significance of Selassie's pre World War II speech to the League of Nations.

Title: The Bob Marley legacy 30 years later

Excerpt: Reggae is far from either the most innovative or exciting type of music, but even people who have no great affinity for it tend to like at least a couple of Bob Marley tracks. One Love is arguably his best known and best loved composition.

Excerpt: Marley was a follower of Marcus Garvey, one of the truly great Negro intellectuals of the late 19th/early 20th Centuries, and someone who like Major Douglas has been largely written out of history, albeit for different reasons.
He was also an adherent of the somewhat comical Rastafari cult, but in spite of this, many of his songs have a universal quality to them.

Excerpt: We probably won't know for at least another hundred years where the music of Bob Marley belongs in the hierarchy of contemporary music, if there is such a thing as hierarchy anymore, but there can be little double that just as his music is still being played thirty years after his death, so it will still be played one hundred and thirty years after his death. Assuming of course, we haven't heeded Marley's message of One Love, and destroy the world in the meantime.

Title: Kevin MacDonald Says His 'Marley' Doc Is Headed To TIFF

Excerpt: "I've got the Bob Marley film, which I should be finishing up the edit of today," he told us. "And then the plan is to take it to Toronto." While not officially announced (yet) as part of TIFF, who unveiled their first wave of films this morning, attendees in Toronto can add another big ticket title to their plans.

Excerpt: But MacDonald didn't just finish Demme's work. He explained, "I came on, started over from scratch, and I've made my film, which has been a great experience." It looks like we'll get our first taste in Toronto and with Marley touching upon music, politics and culture in a way that very few artists ever do, it should be a fascinating portrait of a man whose influence clearly resonates.

Excerpt: Still, he says, the idea nagged at him: "When I went to Uganda for 'Last King of Scotland' I was amazed at how Marley was present there and I've subsequently seen it in other parts of the developing world - Marley as this kind of saint, a philosophical and religious figure.

Title: Bob Marley presides over the Peace Concert

Excerpt: The One Love Peace Concert, held in the outdoor National Stadium in Kingston, the Jamaican capital, was the longest and most political reggae concert ever staged, and one of the most remarkable musical events I have attended. That day in April was a remarkable day for Jamaican reggae and its greatest celebrity, Bob Marley. It started at 5pm, and ended, under a full moon, in the early hours of the following morning with the prime minister Michael Manley and opposition leader Edward Seaga embracing two previously notorious rival gang leaders, Bucky Marshall and Claude Massop. The two political leaders then joined hands with Bob Marley, in an emotional scene that was made all the more bizarre by the billowing marijuana clouds provided by the watching Rastafarians.

Excerpt: Considering the background, the Peace Concert was a remarkably easy-going event. The crowd was informed that Mick Jagger and the foreign press were present, and watching them, and there were constant chants of "peace" from the Rastas. For their part, the politicians and security forces refused to be publicly angered either by outspoken comments by the musicians or the blatant marijuana smoking by the Rastas. If they had reacted, there would have been a riot.

Title: "B is for Bob" in top ten

Excerpt: ​8. The Marley Legacy. Both Ziggy and Bob can count a kids' album in their canon--there's Family Time by Ziggy Marley and B Is for Bob, 12 acoustic re-imaginings of some of Marley's most beloved hits. (Sharing music is one thing; Reverb suggests you wait until Junior gets a bit older to share a family spliff).

Title: Bob: an inspiring African story

Excerpt: Thirty years ago, on May 11, Bob Marley died of cancer in a Miami hospital at 36. The Jamaican reggae star was a musical genius and prophet of pan-Africanism who also spread the gospel of Rastafarianism across the world. Marley's astonishing legacy is confirmed by the fact that his music, involving about 20 albums, still accounts for half of all reggae music sold. He is probably the most famous and recognisable individual ever to have emerged from the Caribbean.

Excerpt: Marley identified strongly with Africa throughout his life. As he memorably noted: "A people without knowledge of their past is no better than a tree without roots."

Excerpt: Having sold $240 million worth of records to date, these tributes were fitting celebrations of the life and times of a musical legend who had uncompromisingly and eloquently told the anguished story of Africa and its diaspora.

Title: The Grammy Museum: Bob Marley, Messenger

Excerpt: On May 11, 2011, The GRAMMY Museum debuted a new exhibit, Bob Marley, Messenger. Housed on the Museum's second floor, the exhibit focues on Bob Marley as a private, spiritual man, as a powerful performer who used his lyrics to give a voice to the disenfranchised and as a legend who has inspired legions of fans in the 30 years since his death. Bringing together more than 40 diverse artifacts, rare photographs and more, the exhibit features items from the private collection of the Marley family.

Title: Get up, standup

Excerpt: Thirty years after his death, it is still almost impossible to fully engage with Bob Marley's legacy. We're somehow too closeto his music, still baffled by his songs playing everywhere - in varsity residences, coffee shops, movie soundtracks, Rasta flops and more. He remains ubiquitous.

Excerpt: Why is this so? And what makes Marley's music so enduring? We're not the first to ask that question; nor are we the first to posit that his music endures because it is so sublimely good. One needs no background to love his songs, but to properly understand its place and cultural cache does require a quick refresher.

Excerpt: Bob Marley wanted to change the world. He didn't. He left it better, or at least altered, with some of the most beautiful and stirring popular music ever created. The meaning of that music - its political intent - has been denuded over the years, been wiped clean of nuance by dint of its ubiquity. Marley's message would have meant nothing if no one had heard him; it means nothing because everyone has heard him. He is not dangerous because he is so thoroughly plugged into the mainstream that Blackman Redemption is a slow song at a school dance, and Zimbabwe is a filler cut to mix summer cocktails to. Perhaps, had Marley not died so young, his empathy could have morphed him into an international statesman like Bono. Who knows?

Title: Interview with Ziggy about Bob

Excerpt: "Bob was a very active person and, as kids, whether it would be a pickup soccer game or on the beach to run, he would take us with him. But Bob also grew up tough, in the ghetto, so he was a fighter. He had to fight and was capable of defending himself.

Excerpt: "One time, we went to Zimbabwe, and it was guerrilla warfare at the time because they were still under colonial British rule. When Bob went over there to play for the independence concert, he took me and my brother Stephen with him. I was about 11. The guerrillas came to visit him because Bob was a revolutionary, and his music was used for revolution. So, the guerrillas came and they started talking, and then one of the guerrillas took out one of these old World War II grenades, and he was showing Bob how to use it. As a kid it was like, 'Wow! A grenade!' It didn't scare me, but it tested me.

Excerpt: "I was 12 when my father passed, so I didn't have a father during my teenage years. I grew up doing stuff on my own, learning from my mistakes. But Bob was a strong person even in the hospital when I saw him a few days before he passed away. I was staring at him through the window of the door at the ICU, and I don't think he liked me seeing him that way. He told me, 'Move from the window. The last time we spoke, he called me and he said, 'What's up Young Bob. I have a song for you.' And his song was, 'On your way up / Take me up / On your way down / Don't let me down.' That's all he said. And then I used that for a song called, 'Won't Let You Down.' "

Title: Weeklong Tribute to Bob Marley

Excerpt: Starting on Monday, May 9, the musical guests on Late Night will all tip their (giant, dread-covering) hats to reggae legend Bob Marley in honor of the 30th anniversary of the great one's passing.

Excerpt: "Big up Jimmy Fallon for honoring the memory of my father," said son Ziggy, who will also spend time on the couch discussing his father's legacy with Fallon. "Much respect."

Title: Bob Marley was 'beyond' famous, says director

Excerpt: The Oscar-winning film-maker behind The Last King of Scotland says he is making the film, Marley, because of the star's "continued resonance around the world".

"He's gone beyond being a famous musician, he's now a philosopher and prophet," he adds.

Excerpt: Macdonald has been given unprecedented access to the Marley family's private archives - the first time they have granted a film-maker full authorisation.

Excerpt: "I think that what is important is what he says to people around the world. He manages to be a serious political figure to some, but he can also be an icon of rebellion."

Title: Ghana's Cape Coast Castle to feature in Bob Marley documentary

Excerpt: The Cape Coast Castle was chosen to feature in 'Marley' because of the historical role it played during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. It is also to show the reggae legend's ancestral slave roots.

Excerpt: "The opening shot of the film will feature a tour of Cape Coast Castle, a fortification in Ghana that contains the infamous "Door of No Return" through which many Africans passed before being shipped into slavery", Los Angeles Times reported citing the film director and Oscar-winner, Kevin Macdonald on February 8, 2011.

Excerpt: Considered a true legend, Bob is one of the most influential singers, songwriters, musicians and activists in history as well as famous Jamaican singer and songwriter
Generally credited as having popularized reggae music on a global scale, Bob Marley was the lead singer and guitarist of The Wailers from 1974 up until his death in 1981.

Title: Bob Marley: The Lion's Last Roar

Excerpt: On September 23, 1980, Bob Marley took the stage at The Stanley Theatre in Pittsburgh, and played the longest known concert of his life—a three-encore epic that culminated with a six and a half-minute rendition of "Get Up, Stand Up." Months earlier, tickets sold out immediately for the gig, and when Marley and the Wailers finally arrived, the capacity crowd of 3,500 got everything they wanted, and more than they even understood. Having spent that night watching from the wings, peering out at the frenzied, packed house, owner/promoter and fervent Marley fan Rich Engler remembers being spellbound. "It was spectacular. I can't even put into words how good it was. They just lit it up."

Title: Ziggy Marley on Legend Bob Marley's Tough Love

Excerpt: "Bob was a very active person and, as kids, whether it would be a pickup soccer game or on the beach to run, he would take us with him. But Bob also grew up tough, in the ghetto, so he was a fighter. He had to fight and was capable of defending himself.

Excerpt: He was known for speed and footwork. Of course, he won. He didn't cut you no slack. No headgear, just gloves. He toughened us up, you know? He always wanted us to be tough, so he gave us that tough treatment.

Excerpt: And what I realized is that when I'm fighting, in those days, I would fight to stop fighting. But some people are fighting to really hurt you. During that fight I realized that I was thinking the same thing—I have to really hurt this person—and realized that not everyone thinks the same as you do during a fight, so if you're going to get in a fight, make sure it's for the right reasons.

Excerpt: The last time we spoke, he called me and he said, 'What's up Young Bob. I have a song for you.' And his song was, 'On your way up / Take me up / On your way down / Don't let me down.' That's all he said. And then I used that for a song called, 'Won't Let You Down.' "

Title: Bob Marley presides over the Peace Concert

Excerpt: The One Love Peace Concert, held in the outdoor National Stadium in Kingston, the Jamaican capital, was the longest and most political reggae concert ever staged, and one of the most remarkable musical events I have attended. That day in April was a remarkable day for Jamaican reggae and its greatest celebrity, Bob Marley. It started at 5pm, and ended, under a full moon, in the early hours of the following morning with the prime minister Michael Manley and opposition leader Edward Seaga embracing two previously notorious rival gang leaders, Bucky Marshall and Claude Massop. The two political leaders then joined hands with Bob Marley, in an emotional scene that was made all the more bizarre by the billowing marijuana clouds provided by the watching Rastafarians.

Excerpt: This was also the first concert that Bob Marley, Jamaica's international celebrity, had given in his homeland in a year and a half. He had left the country after what appeared to be a politically motivated assassination attempt in December 1976, when unknown gunmen, assumed to be linked to the JLP, fired on him inside his home, wounding the singer in the chest and arm. Opposition groups claimed that Marley supported Manley, because he had agreed to appear at the Smile Jamaica free concert, organised by Manley, which aimed to stop fighting between the warring political street gangs.

Title: Get up, standup

Excerpt: Thirty years after his death, it is still almost impossible to fully engage with Bob Marley's legacy. We're somehow too closeto his music, still baffled by his songs playing everywhere - in varsity residences, coffee shops, movie soundtracks, Rasta flops and more. He remains ubiquitous

Excerpt: Marijuanaman, then, is another shard of Bob Marley's legacy tossed into the pop cultural maw. Indeed, Marley almost singlehandedly brought the idea of marijuana smoking into the mainstream, defending it as a cornerstone of his religious and cultural beliefs. This was only one element of his persona that, all things being equal, should have shut him out of the broader cultural arena. His politics was another. But rather, Marley was embraced. His 1984 album Legend has sold at least 25-million copies, and continues to sell a few hundred thousand a year. When kids are discovering music, they will inevitably make a pit stop at that album. Many stay there for a lifetime.

Excerpt: Now, though, he is Marijuanaman. A character at a safe remove from reality. Thirty years after his death his music means everything and nothing. A rebel tamed. A genre co-opted. Still, it's hard not to thank God for his music.

Title: Kid Rock: The Top 10 Kids' Bands and Albums

Excerpt: 8. The Marley Legacy. Both Ziggy and Bob can count a kids' album in their canon--there's Family Time by Ziggy Marley and B Is for Bob, 12 acoustic re-imaginings of some of Marley's most beloved hits. (Sharing music is one thing; Reverb suggests you wait until Junior gets a bit older to share a family spliff).

Title: Ziggy Marley @ Opening of Bob Marley, Messenger

Excerpt:
May 11 1981. This date has special significance in reggae history. It is the date when reggae legend, Bob Marley, made his transition to Zion thirty years ago. The exhibit contained many photos by famed photographers Adrian Boot, Dennis Morris, Neville Garrick and David Corio. There were many displays containing Bob Marley's memorabilia like his renowned Les Paul guitar, some of his denim shirts, replicas of outfits worn by the I-Threes and copies of all of Bob's album covers

Excerpt: This exhibit will run through October 2, 2011

Title: Legend soon available on Rock Band!

Excerpt: "My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world," said Ziggy Marley, "and now that his music is coming to Rock Band, as the first reggae artist in the game, we are excited to open the doors to reggae music to a whole new group of young people."

Excerpt: Legend, originally released in 1984, is the best selling reggae album of all time, selling 25 million albums in the United States alone and an additional 2.8 million in the United Kingdom. It features 14 of Bob Marley and The Wailers' classic songs and was rereleased as a CD in 1990 - the version available for Rock Band download next week, featuring original album versions.

The album has been the recipient of many awards. In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked it as No. 46 on the magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and at 1,000 weeks, it holds the honor of being the second longest-charting album in Billboard history.

Title: Showcase: Bob Marley by David Burnett

Excerpt: David Burnett has published his first book, "Soul Rebel: An Intimate Portrait of Bob Marley in Jamaica and Beyond" (Insight Editions). It features the legendary reggae musician and his contemporaries, photographed first in Jamaica in 1976, then during Mr. Marley's European tour in spring 1977.

Excerpt: Q: Now he is on more T-shirts than Che Guevara. Who was Bob Marley?


A: Bob Marley was born in the countryside up in Nine Mile but at an early age lived in Kingston. And Kingston was then — and still is — a pretty tough town and very polarized politically. Out of that turmoil and street violence came an amazing array of very poetic and sensitive music. He was a gifted poet who really understood the most basic things about human interaction. And this is what you feel in his songs.

Excerpt: Q: Is there a photograph that you think particularly captures Bob Marley?


A: In the book, there's a double-page picture of a very close-up image of his eyes just looking at the camera, looking at me through the camera. And there is a lot of power in those eyes and a lot of wisdom.

Excerpt: Q: Did you get a contact high when you were with Bob Marley?


A: Well, I will say this: When you're at the home of Bob Marley and he lights up a spliff, because that's what he does, and he passes it around — your job is to be a very good guest. And I was a very good guest. I'm not sure my pictures got any better, but there's always that hope.

Title: Learning from Bob Marley

Excerpt: There's little I'll tell you about Marley that you do not already know. Most of us grew up on Marley's songs; we're familiar with all the legend surrounding his death; and if we know nothing else about Jamaica, at least we know that's where Marley was from.

Excerpt: When I hear people say it's not how far, but how well, guys like Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix and Elvis Presley quickly come to my mind. While Bob lived up to 36, Jimi was just 27 when he died in 1970. Yet he continues to be regarded as the greatest guitarist in the history of rock music. Elvis died at 42. All men were born into serious poverty and deprivation; suffered domestic instability and stood no chance whatsoever of making it big. Yet, they were able to shape the world and influence their generation within only a few years.

Excerpt: I admit, I'm a Marley follower. Yes, I do not favour marijuana; I do not speak patois and I am not a Rasta man. But I am a student of Marleyism; same way I am a proud Felaist, Ghandist and Shakurist. And I think that you would be too, if you hate oppression, injustice and discrimination. Doubt me? Please listen to the following songs again: One love, Buffalo soldier, Redemption song, No woman no cry and Exodus. With the world the way it is today, we need to listen and learn from what this prophet said decades ago. We need to take time off all the so-called feel-good music and spend time pondering on all the stuff guys like Marley and Fela warned us about decades ago; that are still part of us, and leading us right into the gutter. If we dissect the lyrics carefully, maybe we'll find a solution to all these mistrust, turmoil, diseases, violence, meltdown and other cankerworms eating us all up?

Title: Marley's One Love tops Jamaica's best song list

Excerpt: Reggae legend Bob Marley's "One Love" topped a list of Jamaica's 100 best songs over 50 years that was unveiled on Tuesday by a panel of musicians and cultural officials associated with the University of the West Indies.

Excerpt: "One Love" recorded the highest score, 726 points, well ahead of the 540 points given to the second placed song, "O Carolina," which was originally recorded by the Folkes Brothers and redone by internationally acclaimed artist Shaggy.

Title: Ziggy Marley Remixing Dad's Classics For Kids

Excerpt: He'll follow that with the June release of a set of Bob Marley song's, revised and remastered with a children's audience in mind.

Excerpt: "It's a very different vibe," says Ziggy, "but still real Bob. It's not like fake Bob. It's still the real Bob...It's Bob singing and I'm playing, like an acoustic session almost. Anything I did on this record is soulful and musical. There's no gimmicks. I'm keeping true to the spirit of my father, to the spirit of his music."

Title: Tuff Gong makes reggae donation to National Library

Excerpt: Most of the items are recordings by reggae superstar Bob Marley who died in 1981. They include Legend, the posthumous compilation of his biggest hit songs, that has sold over 10 million units, and a copy of the Bob Marley Interviews which the singer did with Radio Jamaica broadcaster Neville Willoughby during the early 1970s.

Excerpt: Recordings by his sons Ziggy, Stephen and Damian and a DVD of the Marley charity event, Africa Unite, were also presented.

Title: Bob Marley - a true soldier

Excerpt: "People want to listen to a message, word from Jah. This could be passed through me or anybody. I am not a leader... The word of the songs, not the person, is what attracts people. I don't stand for the black man's side; I don't stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side. Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny." Bob Marley.

Excerpt: Co-written by Marley and Noel G. Williams (also known as 'King Sporty') in 1978, Buffalo Soldier was developed after Marley read an article about African-American soldiers in the 1800s. The name 'Buffalo Soldiers' was given to the troops of the all-black 9th and 10th Cavalry regiments by their adversaries in the Indian wars in 1866.

Excerpt: "In America, the red Indians used to say the black people resembled buffalos because of their dreadlocks - so 'Buffalo Soldier, dreadlock rasta' - and the song is about them being 'stolen from Africa, brought to America, fighting on arrival, fighting for survival' about 400 years ago." Paul Kelly, Bob Marley Foundation, Jamaica.

Title: Nigerian streets to be named for Bob Marley...

Excerpt: ABUJA (AFP) — Nigeria will re-name streets after music legends Fela Anikulapo-Kuti and Bob Marley, as well as Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, a minister said on Wednesday.
Names of some 80 streets in Nigeria's administrative capital are to be rebranded in coming days, some of them stripping off names of former military governors, the minister said.

Excerpt: "The occasion is to celebrate names which have contributed to Nigeria's democracy," he said.

Excerpt: Also honoured are the late right activist and African nationalist Marcus Garvey and the late king of reggae music Bob Marley because "they are an integral part of our history and consciousness".

Title: Bob Marley gets statue in hard-rocking Serbian village

Excerpt: Belgrade - An underdeveloped but hard-rocking Serbian village was set to reveal a sculpture to the Jamaican reggae icon Bob Marley on Saturday and so join others in the region already boasting or planning celebs-in-bronze.

Excerpt: The 2-metre-tall statute of the small musician who has had a huge impact on global music would acknowledge 'admiration for Marley's musical opus, as well as his contribution to freedom and equality,' organizers said on their site www.rockvillage.org.

Excerpt: Due to attend the festival and the ceremony are regional dignitaries from the world of music, including both performers as well as critics, in addition to 'friends' from Jamaica, Ghana and Suriname.

Title: Rochester student's artwork

Excerpt: "I was excited and really surprised" about having her art chosen, she said.

Bob Marley's song, "No Woman No Cry," inspired Rebholz to create her image of a girl weeping.

Excerpt: As part of the assignment on "linguistic exploration," Rebholz had to create a research workbook. Before she began her final work, she filled 38 pages with facts about Bob Marley and the Rastafarian movement, practice sketches, images of eyes and tears and reflections on the song.

"I annotated the song and wrote about what lines meant the most to me and how it made me feel," she said.

For example, she wrote: "Whenever I hear (the song), I picture a man putting his hand on a woman's shoulder telling her over and over, 'No woman, no cry,'" she wrote in the notebook. "I picture the man taking his hand and wiping off the tears."

Title: Marley Music Gets Kid Friendly

Excerpt: PBS Kids Sprout, the digital cable channel aimed at children, this week began running a campaign featuring a cover of Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds."

Excerpt: This is not the first time the Marley family has been involved in commercial ventures aimed at children said Ziggy Marley, one of Bob's children, and head of the Marley estate. "It's less about the regular marketing of things and more about the philosophy that kids have an open mind. From the marketing point of view, my father's music is kid friendly music," he said. Other Marley projects focused on children in the past have included books, and kid friendly films and TV shows such as Shark's Tales and Dora the Explorer as well charities such as Little Kids Rock and Unlimited Resources Giving Enlightenment.

Excerpt: "We've kind of realized we've been singing for all the older folks and maybe we should focus on the kids. Our brand is kid friendly and parents who love the Marley ideal teach their kids that philosophy," said Marley. "We've been doing this stuff for a while but we wanted to step it up a little. Our mission in life is to make a change in the world, we're not just here to grab some cash."

Title: One world, one love, one Bob Marley

Excerpt: He once reflected: "I don't have prejudice against himself. My father was a white and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side nor the white man's side. Me dip on God's side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white."

Excerpt: Bob's story is that of an archetype, which is why it continues to have such a powerful and ever-growing resonance: it embodies political repression, metaphysical and artistic insights, gangland warfare and various periods of mystical wilderness. And his audience continues to widen.

Excerpt: The Island of Jamaica has produced an artist who has transcended all categories, classes, and creeds through a combination of innate modesty and profound wisdom. Bob Marley, the Natural Mystic, may yet prove to be the most significant musical artist of the twentieth century.

Title: Students pay tribute to Bob Marley

Excerpt: The Caribbean Student Association collaborated with The Link to put on "One Love: A Tribute to Bob Marley" in Columbian Square Thursday night.

The tribute served to honor not only Marley, but also the spirit of black heritage and history through poetry readings and musical performances from both student and local groups.

Excerpt: As the event progressed, the audience quickly grew in size with the addition curious onlookers.

"We had a great turnout," White said after the show. "More than a hundred people showed up, and that's pretty much what we were going for, so I'm happy about that."

Title: Scorsese sings Bob Marley's praises

Excerpt: Martin Scorsese, Steve Bing's Shangri-La Entertainment and international sales agent Fortissimo Films will reteam for the helmer's next musically themed effort -- a yet-to-be-titled documentary about legendary reggae star Bob Marley.
Trio were behind the helmer's Rolling Stones docu "Shine a Light," which opened the Berlin Film Festival on Thursday. Tuff Gong Pictures and Shangri-La are producing the pic, which has been authorized by Marley's family. Docu is set for release on Feb. 6, 2010, on what would have been Marley's 65th birthday.

"I am thrilled that the Marley family will finally have the opportunity to document our father's legacy and are truly honored to have Mr. Scorsese guide the journey," son Ziggy Marley said.

Title: Bob Marley: A prophet without honour in his homeland

Excerpt: Miss Allison was born in London to a Jamaican mother and developed a love for reggae music - Marley's in particular - from early. "He has such a powerful message and spirit. I don't know anyone who really listened to his music and was not touched in some way," she said.

Excerpt: "I think it's very strange the way you guys celebrate the occasion here. To be honest, it's like you guys don't know what a legend really is. Back home, his birthday is like a huge carnival with street parades, Bob Marley rides and everything. It really is a great tourist attraction," she said.

Title: Bob Marley: More than a poster and a spliff

Excerpt: There's obviously more to it than that, but the fact that his dreadlocked semblance has now become a symbol standing for something much different than he actually intended places him in the league of appropriated heroes, somewhere amid Che Guevara, Marilyn Monroe and John Lennon. When once his music was the rallying cry of the oppressed Jamaicans who saw in him a revolutionary who would bring peace to a torn country, it's now the soundtrack to hazy bro-downs in just about every institution of higher learning in the world.

Excerpt: He spent the next few years as he'd spent much of the last: touring. It's estimated that Bob Marley was directly responsible for the livelihood of more than 6,000 displaced Jamaicans at his Hope Road residence, and the pressure of economically supporting them kept him on the road despite his diagnoses of cancer. Life on the road took its toll on him, but Marley had one more triumphant return to Jamaica left in him.

Excerpt: Furthermore, a lot of his ethnicity has been stripped from him. Reggae is still generally filed under the vague "world music" label, a category that Marley himself is largely responsible for creating. Worse, the urgency has also been stripped from his music. The image of Bob Marley in our world now is one of ganja and peace, love and acoustic guitar jams with your best bros. Where is the blood and suffering? The cries for burnin' and lootin' or revolution for all men?

Excerpt: Because Robert Nesta Marley is no longer with us, his name and image are entrusted to us to protect and his message to spread. So put down the bong, put on Catch A Fire and figure out how you're going to make a difference in the world.

Title: Roots, Rock, Remixed

Excerpt: Digging deeply into that sacred catalog, the dozen remixes of legendary songs on Roots, Rock, Remixed are taking the familiar and cherished and reintroducing it to sound systems worldwide. Roots, Rock, Remixed is slated for release on Quango/rockr music, July 24, 2007.

Excerpt: While some bootleg remixes of these songs exist, Roots, Rock, Remixed is the first remix album to receive a certified blessing from the Marley family and Chris Blackwell, himself, who stated, "Roots, Rock, Remixed retains the songs and the spirit of the original Wailers' recordings and creates a great dance party record."

Excerpt: "We're honored to work with such an important body of music," says Jeff Daniel, the album's co-producer and rockr music's chief. "Marley's sound was like no other and his indelible stamp can be heard all through these great new remixes. We took great care not to disrespect his legend."

Title: Marley Marketing Makes History

Excerpt: Island Records are to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Bob Marley's 'Exodus' by releasing it on two pioneering new formats; on USB Memory Stick and Micro SD Memory Card.

Excerpt: The USB memory stick version will be limited to 4000 copies, produced in the Rastafarian colours of red, green and gold. It also contains three video tracks recorded at London's Rainbow Theatre in June 1977.

Excerpt: The Micro SD Memory Card will also be made as a limited edition collectors' item of 2000 copies. The Micro SD is a small, removable flash memory card - the size of a fingernail - that can be used in mobile phones, portable audio players and PCs.

Title: Marley makes Swiss teen's dreams come true

Excerpt: BOB Marley made 18-year-old Magalie Billod's dreams come true yesterday. The late Reggae icon passed away eight years before Magalie was born, yet yesterday he proved that he still has the power to make women happy.

Excerpt: Magalie wrote a letter to the foundation, explaining her passion for Marley's music and her desire to see Jamaica.
"I explained exactly what I wanted," Magalie told the Sunday Observer yesterday.

Excerpt: Within six months, Magalie, who suffers from Muscular Dystrophy, a genetic disease in which the muscles gradually weaken, got a phone call that her wish had been granted.
"I was very surprised and excited," Magalie said, her face lighting up as though she still had not gotten over that initial surprise - even though she was sitting in the cafe at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston.