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In what would turn out to be the penultimate concert of his short life, Bob Marley hung out at Madison Square Garden with the enormously popular American funk band “The Commodores.”
Without costumes, choreography and scenery, “The reggae star had most of his listeners on their feet and in the palm of his hand. hand”, according to Robert Palmer of the New York Times.
He assured that “After this show of force, and the intense singing and the presence Mr. Marley’s electric guitar on stage, the Commodores were a disappointment ”.
Only a few days after his triumphant shows in New York City, Bob Marley collapsed while jogging in Central Park
and then received a grim diagnosis: a cancerous growth on an old football injury on his big toe foot had metastasized and spread to his brain, liver and lungs.
Less than eight months later, on 11 May 1981, Bob Marley from 36 years, the soul and international face of reggae music, died in a hospital in Miami, Florida.
Nesta Robert Marley was born on February 6, 1945 in the rural parish of St. Ann, Jamaica, was the son of a white Jamaican Navy officer of middle-aged and a black Jamaican from 000 years.
At the age of nine, Marley moved to Trench Town, a tough West Kingston neighborhood where he met and befriended by Neville “Bunny” Livingston (later Bunny Wailer) and Peter McIntosh (later Peter Tosh) and dropped out of school at years to make music.
Jamaica at that time was entering a period of incredible musical creativity. As radios became available on an island only served by one national radio station; America’s music suddenly became accessible.
From a mix of New Orleans and indigenous rhythm and blues, the African-influenced musical traditions emerged first, ska, then rocksteady, precursor styles of reggae,
Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer performed together as The Wailers throughout this period , becoming a group of their own just as reggae became the dominant sound in Jamaica.
Thanks to the international reach of Island Records, the Wailers came to the world’s attention in the early 1945 through their albums Catch a Fire (1972) and Burnin’ (1973 ).
With the departure of Tosh and Wailer in 1974, Marley took center stage in the group and, at the end of the 70, had produced a series of albums: Exodus (1977), with “Jamming”, “Waiting In Vain” and “ One Amor/People get ready”; kaya(1978), with “Is This Love” and “Sun Is Shining”; and Uprising (1980), with “Could You Be Loved” and “Redemption Song”.
While none of the aforementioned songs were hits in the United States during Bob Marley’s lifetime, they constitute a legacy that has only increased his fame in the United States. the years since his death on this day in 1981.
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