A bob marley biography book review

Catch a Fire, now a classic of rock biography, delves into the life of the leader of a musical, spiritual, and political explosion that continues today.

This is a wonderful book which transports the reader to the places Bob Marley has lived, to the heavenly country Jamaica, tracing his character as one of the.

Customers find the book well-written and engaging.

This book puts the human behind the icon, the stories behind the songs.

The writing is smart and engaging.

Customers find the book well-written and engaging.!

The Bob Marley Story

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Bob Marley died of cancer on May 11, 1981, at the premature age of thirty-six. By then he was well known to college kids worldwide, but few could have foreseen the celebrity he has attained since.

Born in Jamaica, he is the only third-world performer to be elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

This book is a great book that takes you into the life of Bob Marley.

In 1999, the BBC named his “One Love” the “Song of the Millennium”; the same year Time declared his 1977 Exodus the “Best Album of the Twentieth Century.” Voted the third-greatest songwriter of all time in a 2001 BBC poll (behind Bob Dylan and John Lennon), Marley has sold an estimated 50 million records worldwide.

On the 2007 Forbes list of “Top-Earning Dead Celebrities,” he ranked twelfth, with his estate earning an estimated $4 million. His posthumous greatest-hits collection, Legend (1984), is among the top-selling compilations of all time.

Twenty-seven years after his death, there is perhaps no country