![]() ![]() Gayle McGarrity: " He used to tell me that one of the reasons he liked being with me was because I looked like him. Tyrone Downie (speaking about the shooting at 56 Hope Road in 1976, when band members took refuge in a bathroom): " We were all in the bathtub, like four or five of us, in the bathtub." His most serious endeavour was just to eat and drink." Nobody wanted him around their corn, so he got what's left. He had to find his own little brush to pick, and his own little cornmeal. Some other striking responses from a book chockfull of choice observations are:īunny Wailer: " Bob was a wild child. I don't know who forced him to do that, because we didn't have much say. ![]() I didn't agree with that decision and I know Rita didn't either. When Bob fell ill and where to take care of him was being decided, she and Rita were excluded from the process which ended with him at a clinic in Germany.īreakspeare says: " I wouldn't really have added to the stress by placing him in a strange place in a climate he hated, surrounded by people he didn't know. On the other hand, Cindy Breakspeare's input is voluble and it is from Damian 'Jr Gong' Marley's mother that one of the many outstanding quotes from So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley, comes. Sign up for The Gleaner’s morning and evening newsletters. And while Bob Marley's sons Stephen and Ziggy, and daughter Cedella, are interviewed, their input, as well as that of Rita, is significantly slender. ![]() Among the notable absentees are Lee 'Scratch' Perry (about whom a thrashing in a nightclub is recorded) and Johnny Nash (communication from him declining to answer some allegations is in So Much Things to Say). Original Wailer, Peter Tosh, was also interviewed he was killed on September 11, 1987.Įarly Wailers producer Clement Dodd, also deceased, speaks, as does Island Records's Chris Blackwell, though with noticeable restraint. Among them are two band members from the 'and the Wailers' period who have died, drummer Carlton 'Carly' Barrett and keyboard player Earl 'Wya' Lindo, who died earlier this week. Through careful selections from interviews over three decades, Steffens puts together Marley's life story chronologically, from birth in 1945 to death in 1981.Īll judgements are left to the reader, as Steffens presents interviews (or parts thereof - there are extensive quotes from Neville 'Bunny Wailer' Livingstone, with whom Steffens has plans for an as-yet unpublished biography) from persons who knew Marley at different levels. Roger Steffens has a stellar roster of interviewees for his book, So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley (WW Norton & Company). ![]()
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