It was set up for the National Heroes Park. Bob wanted to do something like that, a benefit concert. Stephen Davis: Stevie Wonder had done a concert the previous year in aid of blind children in Jamaica. Others have claimed that it was Bob himself who approached the government for permission to do such an event.Īuthor Stephen Davis wrote one of the first, and best, biographies of Marley and studied the shooting extensively.
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He wanted Bob and others to perform in a free public event. The Smile Jamaica concert, headlined by Marley, was to take place two nights later, and the atmosphere in the city was tense and filled with violence.Ĭharles Campbell, a PNP government official in 1976, told me at the Reggae Sun Ska Festival in France in 2011 that it was he who had come up with the idea six months earlier, in June of that year, for a kind of concert of national unity. Roger Steffens: Bob’s life came within inches of ending on December 3, 1976, when a carload of assassins drove into a suddenly unguarded Tuff Gong at 56 Hope Road and opened fire on everyone in sight. This exclusive advance excerpt focuses on the 1976 assassination attempt that almost took Marley’s life. Reggae historian and archivist Roger Steffens’ new book So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley tells the legendary musician’s life story through 40 years’ worth of interviews with bandmates, family members and Bob Marley himself.
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