Introduction

Bob Marley was born in the small village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica as Nesta Robert Marley. A Jamaican passport official swapped his first and middle names. Bob was a hero figure. His departure from this planet came at a point when his vision of One World, One Love inspired by his belief in Rastafari, was beginning to be heard and felt. The last Bob Marley and the Wailers tour in 1980 attracted the largest audiences at that time for any musical act in Europe. Bob's first recording attempts came at the beginning of the Sixties and he continued with all full force till the day he died. Music was his life, he believed it was one medium which all living things could connect to and embrace.