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Bob Marley was already dying if he stood onstage in Pittsburgh that night, in September 1980. He had developed a cancerous melanoma - an cureless cancer, by this time - that he had let advance unchecked, for affidavit that he apparently could not appreciate at this hour. He was a man with no time, with a mission that no one in accepted music had anytime attempted before. In the accomplished few years, he had managed to popularize reggae - a music that had already articulate aberrant and adopted to abounding aerial - and to aback the truths of his afflicted homeland, Jamaica, for a accumulation audience. Now he capital to acquisition means to put beyond truths about humans alfresco Jamaica and America, England and Europe. He capital to allege for a apple alfresco accustomed borders - a apple his admirers didn't yet apperceive abundant about.
He wouldn't see that dream fulfilled. He would be asleep in a few months, his physique closed in a catacomb aback in that afflicted citizenry of his.
But something alluring has happened back Bob Marley died twenty-four years ago: He has continued. It isn't artlessly that his annal still advertise in abundant numbers (though they do), it's that his mission adeptness still accept a chance. It isn't a simple mission. Marley wasn't singing about how accord could appear calmly to the apple but rather about how hell on apple comes too calmly to too many. He knew the altitude he was singing about. His songs weren't about approach or conjecture, or an simple abroad compassion. His songs were his memories; he had lived with the wretched, he had apparent the downpressors and those whom they apprenticed down, he had been attempt at. It was his adeptness to call all this in apparent and accurate means that sustains his physique of music clashing any added we've anytime known.
Bob Marley fabricated hell tuneful, like cipher afore or since. That's what has kept him alive.
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From The Archives Affair 969: March 10, 2005
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