BOB MARLEY

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BOB MARLEY

• AND HIS INFLUENCE
• ON POPULAR CULTURE

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Jamaica

• Bob Marley wanted to make Jamaica a better place
  as a whole and for the people living there
• They felt that his music helped them, capturing
  all aspects of Jamaica in his songs

• He became popular at a time where Jamaica was in
  political turmoil the people looked to him for
  inspiration and hope
• He just wanted to make Jamaica better and took
  over as their representative

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INSPIRATION TO OTHER NATIONS

• Bob Marleys song, Get Up, Stand Up became an
  anthem for a lot of third world countries. They
  believed that the song was telling them to get up
  and fight the oppressors.

• Get Up, Stand Up
• Preacher man dont tell me heaven is
• under the earth/ I know you dont know what life
• is really worth/ Is not all that glitters in gold
  and/
• Half the story has never been told/ So now you
• see the light, aay/ Stand up for your right.
  Come
• on/Most people think great God will come from
• the sky/ Take away evrything, and make
• evrything feel high/ But if you dont know what
• life is worth/ You would look for yours on earth/
• And now you see the light/ You stand up for your
• right, yeah!/ Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for
• your right/ Get Up, Stand Up, dont give up the
• fight/ Get Up, Stand Up. Life is your right/ So
  we
• cant give up the fight/ Stand up for your right,
• Lord, Lord/ Get Up, Stand Up. Keep on
• struggling on/ Dont give up the fight/

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MARIJUANA

• According to the Rastafarian faith, marijuana is
  regarded as wisdom weed.
• Rastafarian leaders urge that it be smoked as a
  religious rite
• They claim that it was growing on the grave of
  King Solomon

• According to Psalms 10414 He causeth the
  grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the
  service of man, that he may bring forth food out
  of the earth.

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RASTAFARIAN

• FORBIDDEN THINGS
• No amputations
• No alcohol, tobacco, all meat (especially pork),
  shellfish, scale less fish, snails, predatory and
  scavenger species of marine life, and seasonings
  like salt

• No combing or cutting of hair (Leviticus 215
  They shall not make baldness upon their head,
  neither shall they shave off the corner of their
  beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.)

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OTHER MUSICIANS

• ERIC CLAPTON
• Eric Clapton is one of the American musicians
  that knew Bob Marley.
• According to Eric Clapton, I walked into this
  dressing room that I couldnt see the other side
  of for the smoke I sat

• and talked with Bob, and he was just a great
  guy. He was so warm. A beautiful man. He was
  serious about what he was doing, but was very
  gentle.
• Many people all over the world admired and
  respected Bob Marley

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OTHER MUSICIANS

• because of what he believed in and the way he
  promoted and stood by peace.

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OTHER MUSICIANS

• Bob Marley influenced other musicians like Johnny
  Nash, Bruce Springsteen, Sly and The Family Stone
  (number one black band in the United States), and
  Stevie Wonder

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Bob Marley

• Until the philosophy which holds one race
  superior and another inferior is finally and
  permanently discredited and abandoned everywhere
  is war, me say war.

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Peace

• Bob Marley always promoted peace above all else.
• He threw a free concert in Jamaica, was invited
  to the United Nations in New York to receive the
  Medal of Peace, was invited by the governor of

• Zimbabwe to play an Independent Ceremony- which
  was the greatest honour and it showed their
  importance
• Also, in Jamaica, they were given the Order of
  Merit which is the third

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Peace

• highest honour for their contribution to
  Jamaican culture
• Performed at a concert called, One Love Peace
  Concert, which was for the Prime Minister at the
  time

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BOB MARLEYS DEATH

• While in London,
• England on tour, Bob
• Marley was playing
• football/ soccer, he
• injured his toe. He went
• to the doctors who did
• not do a good job on his
• Toe. Eventually, the toe
• became cancerous and

• the doctors told him
• that the only way to stop
• the cancer is to have
• the toe amputated.
• (According to the
• Rastafarian faith,
• amputation is
• forbidden.) Bob Marley
• did nothing about his

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BOB MARLEYS DEATH

• toe. Later on while he
• was walking he felt faint
• and went back to the
• doctors who told him
• that the cancer had
• spread all over his body
• and that he was going
• to die. Bob Marley
• Always referred to the

• doctors as practicing
• witchcraft. Bob Marley
• did not want to die in
• the United States.
• According to Bob
• Marley,

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