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Bob Marley: Encyclopedia - Bob Marley

Robert Nesta Marley, OM, (February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) better known as Bob Marley, was a Jamaican singer, guitarist, songwriter and activist. He is the most widely known reggae musician of all time, famous for popularizing the genre outside of Jamaica. Much of his work deals with the struggles of the impoverished and/or powerless. Bob Marley is also renowned for the way in which he spread faith through his music. He was the husband of Rita Anderson Marley, who regularly performed with Bob Marley as a member ...

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Bob Marley - Political and religious convictions

Bob Marley - Early life

Bob Marley - Music

Bob Marley - Early career

Bob Marley - Shot in election violence

Bob Marley - Later career

Bob Marley - Battle with cancer

Bob Marley - Diagnosis

Bob Marley - Collapse and treatment

Bob Marley - Death

Bob Marley - Legacy

Bob Marley - Posthumous reputation

Bob Marley - Controversy over burial place

Bob Marley - Awards and honors

Bob Marley - Discography

Bob Marley - Studio One recordings

Bob Marley - Beverly's recordings

Bob Marley - Upsetter recordings marketed by Trojan Records

Bob Marley - Island/Tuff Gong

Bob Marley - Heartbeat Records – Compilations of material recorded at Studio One 1963–1966

Bob Marley - JAD/Universal Records – Compilations of material recorded 1966–1971

Bob Marley - Official albums containing remixes

Bob Marley - Sound samples

Bob Marley: Encyclopedia II - Bob Marley - Music

Bob Marley - Early career. Marley started his musical experimentation in ska and gravitated towards reggae as the music evolved, playing, teaching and singing for a long period in the 1970s and 1980s. Marley's early music career was with the ska, rocksteady and reggae group "The Wailers", which included two other celebrated reggae musicians, Bunny Livingston (Bunny Wailer) and Peter McIntosh (Peter Tosh), both who later left the group and went on to become successful solo artists. After The Wailers broke u ...

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1945 - Ongoing events

1945 - Science and technology

1945 - September-October

1945 - November-December

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Bob Marley: Encyclopedia - 1981

1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. 1981 - Events. January - Sarawak chamber found January 1 - Greece enters the EEC January 1 - Palau becomes self-governing January 4 - Sheffield police arrests Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper January 13 - Donna Griffiths, a schoolgirl in Pershore, Worcestershire, UK, begins a uncontrollable series of sneezes that end September 16, 1983 - after 978 days Janua ...

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1981 - August-October

1981 - November-December

1981 - July-September

1981 - October-December

1981 - Deaths

1981 - Nobel Prizes

1981 - Templeton Prize

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Bob Marley: Encyclopedia II - Saint Ann Parish Jamaica - Economy

Saint Ann Parish Jamaica - Agriculture. The agricultural products are mainly bananas, pimento, sugar, coconuts, coffee, limes, corn, ginger, sweet potatoes, yams, and annatto. The soil is also suitable for citrus and, sisal is cultivated in the drier areas. The parish is also noted for cattle rearing, horses and hogs. Recently, however, agriculture has been on the decline as farmland is being used for housing and other developments and the cultivated area has decreased. ...

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Billboard 200 - Uses

Billboard 200 - Limitations

Billboard 200 - Milestones and Trivia

Bob Marley: Encyclopedia - Bill Laswell

Bill Laswell (born February 12, 1955 in Salem, Illinois and raised in Detroit) is a prolific bassist, producer, and record label owner who has collaborated with hundreds of musicians all over the world. He is married to the Ethiopian singer Gigi. Bands he has led include Material and Praxis. He was a member of the hardcore punk flavoured free jazz supergroup Last Exit, a direction he continues working in with Massacre. Bill Laswell - Overview. Laswell's first recording appearance was in 1978, playin ...

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Bill Laswell - Overview

Bill Laswell - Collaborators

Bob Marley: Encyclopedia - Cannabis spiritual use

Cannabis has a long history of spiritual use, especially in India, where it has been used by wandering spiritual sadhus for centuries. The most famous religious group in the West to use cannabis in a spiritual context are the Rastafari movement, though they are by no means the only group. Some historians and etymologists have claimed that cannabis was used by ancient Jews, early Christians and Muslims of the Sufi order. Cannabis spiritual use - Rastafari use. It is not known when the Rastafari first made cannabis ...

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Cannabis spiritual use - Rastafari use

Cannabis spiritual use - Judeo-Christian use

Cannabis spiritual use - Muslim use

Cannabis spiritual use - Hindu use

Cannabis spiritual use - Sikh use

Cannabis spiritual use - Others

Bob Marley: Encyclopedia - Bunny Wailer

Bunny Wailer, also known as Bunny Livingston, was an original member of reggae group The Wailers along with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. Bunny Wailer, a singer songwriter and percussionist, was born Neville O'Riley Livingston on April 10, 1947 in Jamaica. Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh continued recording as the Wailers during the period of time that Marley was in Delaware. Bunny Wailer toured with the Wailers in England and the United States, but soon became reluctant to leave Jamaica. He and Tosh became more m ...

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Bunny Wailer - Solo discography

Bob Marley: Encyclopedia - Burning Spear

Winston Rodney (born March 1, 1948) a.k.a. Burning Spear is a Jamaican roots rock reggae singer and musician. Like many famous Jamaican reggae artists, Burning Spear is known for his rastafarian messages. Burning Spear was born in St. Ann's Bay, St. Ann, Jamaica, as was Bob Marley and Marcus Mosiah Garvey; both who had an great influence on Burning Spear's life. Garvey in his philosophy, which Burning Spear greatly took to, and Marley in directly help ...

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Burning Spear - Discography

Bob Marley: Encyclopedia - The Notorious B.I.G.

Christopher Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), also known as Biggie Smalls (after a stylish gangster in 1975's Let's Do it Again) and Frank White (from the film King of New York), but best known as The Notorious B.I.G. (Business Instead of Game and, since his death, Books Instead of Guns), was a popular Brooklyn-born rapper of the mid-1990s. Following his untimely death in 1997, he has been immortalized as a hip hop icon. The Notorious B. ...

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The Notorious B.I.G. - Childhood and drug career

The Notorious B.I.G. - Rap career

The Notorious B.I.G. - East Coast/West Coast feud and death

The Notorious B.I.G. - Posthumous career

The Notorious B.I.G. - Legacy

The Notorious B.I.G. - Movie

The Notorious B.I.G. - The Final Chapter

The Notorious B.I.G. - Facts

The Notorious B.I.G. - Discography

The Notorious B.I.G. - Albums

The Notorious B.I.G. - Singles

The Notorious B.I.G. - Featured Roles

The Notorious B.I.G. - B-Sides

Bob Marley: Encyclopedia - Arrested Development hip hop crew

Arrested Development is a progressive hip-hop group, founded by Speech and Headliner as a positive, Afrocentric alternative to the gangsta rap popular in the early 1990s. It took the group three years, five months and two days to be offered a record deal. Hence the name of the first album was 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of..., which produced several hit tracks. These included "Tennessee", "People Everyday", and "Mr. Wendal", which hit the top ten. The group won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album and Best Ne ...

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Arrested Development hip hop crew - Discography

Arrested Development hip hop crew - Samples

Arrested Development hip hop crew - External link

Bob Marley: Encyclopedia - 1993 in music

See also: 1992 in music, other events of 1993, 1994 in music, 1990s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1993 in music - Events. January 8 - The U.S. Postal service issues an Elvis Presley stamp. The design was voted on in February of 1992. January 12 - Cream reunites for a performance at their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Los Angeles, California. Other inductees include Creedence Clearwater Revival, Ruth Brown, The Doors, Van Morrison, and Sly & The Family Stone. ...

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1993 in music - Events

1993 in music - Albums released

1993 in music - Top hits

1993 in music - Top Ten Selling Albums of the Year

1993 in music - Classical music

1993 in music - Opera

1993 in music - Musical theater

1993 in music - Births

1993 in music - Deaths

1993 in music - Awards

1993 in music - Grammy Awards

1993 in music - Country Music Association Awards

1993 in music - Eurovision Song Contest

1993 in music - Mercury Music Prize

1993 in music - Charts

1993 in music - KROQ

1993 in music - Triple J Hottest 100

Bob Marley: Encyclopedia - 20th century

The 20th century lasted from 1901 to 2000 in the Gregorian calendar. Common usage sometimes regards it as lasting from 1900 to 1999. The 20th century is also sometimes known as the nineteen hundreds (1900s). However, a number of arguments have been used to justify the common usage. One advanced by Stephen Jay Gould is that the first decade had only nine years, thus contradicting the definition of decade equaled 10 years. Another argument is that the astronomical year numbering system for years does have a year zero, the ...

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20th century - Overview

20th century - Important developments events and achievements

20th century - Science and technology

20th century - Wars and politics

20th century - Culture and entertainment

20th century - Disease and medicine

20th century - Natural resources and the environment

20th century - Significant people

20th century - World leaders

20th century - Scientists

20th century - Humanities

20th century - Business

20th century - Aerospace pioneers

20th century - Spiritual figures

20th century - Artists

20th century - Music

20th century - Film

20th century - Writers and poets

20th century - Sports figures

20th century - Decades and years

Bob Marley: Encyclopedia - Ben Harper

Ben Harper (born October 28, 1969) is an American musician of the 1990s and 2000s. Ben Harper - Biography. As a child, he began playing guitar in his hometown of Claremont (in California's Inland Empire) - eventually specializing in the acoustic slide guitar (weissenborn guitars). As a young man, he recorded an LP (Pleasure and Pain) with fellow folk guitarist Tom Freund, which spurred record label attention. After this limited edition record, Harper received a record deal from Virgin Records, releas ...

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Ben Harper - Biography

Ben Harper - Discography

Ben Harper - DVD's

Ben Harper - Sound samples

Bob Marley: Encyclopedia - Bad Brains

The Bad Brains are an American all-black hardcore punk and reggae band, originally formed in Washington, DC in 1977. They are considered pioneers of hardcore punk. Originally formed as a jazz fusion ensemble, the Bad Brains developed a very fast and intense punk rock sound, which was both musically complex and more extreme than most of their punk rock contemporaries. The Bad Brains are arguably the first hardcore punk band. They were also an adept reggae band, in a sort of Jekyll-and-Hyde arrangement, while later recordings featured elements of funk and heavy metal. The Bad Br ...

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Bad Brains - History

Bad Brains - Trivia

Bad Brains - Discography

Bad Brains - Other Appearances

Bob Marley: Encyclopedia - List of best-selling music artists

This is a list of the best selling musical acts globally. Equal weight is given to album and single sales, as well as paid downloads. The artists are grouped by approximate sales figures, rather than ranked on a numerical scale. This is because global sales figures are hard to come by, with poor or no records available for many countries. Estimates are thus often made by fan sites, record labels and the addition of figures from various different sources. List of best-selling music artists - World's biggest seller< ...

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List of best-selling music artists - World's biggest seller

List of best-selling music artists - Artists reported to have sold 250 000 000 records or more

List of best-selling music artists - Artists reported to have sold 100 000 000 records or more

List of best-selling music artists - Artists reported to have sold 50 000 000 records or more

List of best-selling music artists - See Also

Bob Marley: Encyclopedia - 1981 in music

See also: 1980 in music, other events of 1981, 1982 in music, 1980s in music and the list of 'years in music' 1981 in music - Events. January 10 - Revival of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Pirates of Penzance opens at Broadway's Uris Theatre, starring Linda Ronstadt and Rex Smith February 14 - Billy Idol leaves the band Generation X to begin a solo career February 15 - Blues guitarist Mike Bloomfield is found dead in San Francisco. The cause of death was ruled an accide ...