Calling Mr. Marley

[crimresearch]

Apparently NOT an April Fool's day joke, but a clueless employee:

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LONDON (AFP) - A red-faced BBC apologised for requesting an interview with Bob Marley, the Jamaican reggae legend who died 24 years ago.

BBC Three, one of the public broadcaster's digital TV channels, sent an e-mail to the Bob Marley Foundation saying it wanted to do a documentary about his hit song "No Woman No Cry".

It said the project would involve Marley -- who died of cancer in May 1981 at the age of 36 -- "spending one or two days with us", and that "it would only work with some participation from Bob Marley himself".

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050401/wl_uk_afp/afplifestylebritain_050401173110
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Reminds me of the story that the producers of Moulin Rouge sent out a memo setting up a meeting with that Eric Satie guy

 

[Charlie Monoxide]

I like the fact that Bob Marley is this black icon, but his dad is a white guy.

Charlie (we're all black) Monoxide

 

[crimresearch]

You've lost me...???

Bob was a Rastafarian, plain and simple... his 'revolutionary' messages came from that conviction...

And Rastafarianism is a religion, not limited solely by racial identity...

And as far as having a white grandfather who may have forced himself on the female slaves, how is that a reflection on Bob or his reputation?

"Alas, the truth was out there and, it seems, Bob Marley did not have a Welsh father after all.

....My search for Norval Marley has taken me from north Wales to Jamaica, over to Florida and back to Great Britain - Liverpool to be precise.

And after tracking down Bob Marley's second cousin, Chris Marley in Fort Lauderdale, I can conclude that Norval - who died in 1955 - may have passed through north Wales as a soldier. But we cannot lay claim to be his place of birth.

"He was born in Jamaica," said Norval's great nephew, Chris Marley..."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_east/3431139.stm