![]() ![]() The live version of “Redemption Song” on “Songs of Freedom” was recorded at this show. The remainder of the tour was subsequently cancelled.īob Marley played his final concert at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on September 23rd, 1980. After playing two shows at Madison Square Garden as part of his Fall 1980 Uprising Tour, he collapsed while jogging in New York’s Central Park. The cancer eventually spread to Marley’s brain, lungs, liver, and stomach. Marley refused amputation, citing worries that the operation would affect his dancing, as well as the Rastafarian belief that the body must be “whole”: In July 1977, Bob Marley was found to have malignant melanoma in a Football (Soccer) wound on his right big toe. Rastafari wear their hair in dreadlocks, worship the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie as God (now deceased - when Haile Selassie was still living, he himself deplored and denied this) and use marijuana as their “communion sacrament.” Marley was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.īob Marley was noted for being a member of the Rastafarian religion, which he joined around age 14. He remains enormously popular and well-known all around the world. His posthumous album “Legend” (1984) became the best-selling Reggae album ever, with sales of more than 12 million copies. _īob Marley’s music has continuously grown in popularity in the years since his death…affording him a mythical status in music history. “One Love” was named song of the millennium by The BBC. Time magazine chose Bob Marley & The Wailers’ “Exodus” as the greatest album of the 20th century. Greatest Album of the 20th Century / Song of the Millennium Some of the Lyrics of the Song, “One Love” (From his Album: “Exodus”) _ Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right ![]() “Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right
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