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- - Jah Rastafari!
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- Exodus
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- Movement of jah people yeah
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- jah come to break the oppression
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- Rule equality
- Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
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- Wipe away transgression
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- Set your captives free
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- jah
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- Rastafari
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- jah
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- Rastafari
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- He used to love singing.
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- I used to teach him little jingles,
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- and he used to love them.
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- And the chief one that he used
- to know was...
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- I had a little donkey that's grey
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- I feed him in a barn every day
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- And when he hears me whistle
- he knows I have a thistle
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- He'd rather eat a thistle than hay
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- Hee-haw hee-haw
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- And that is all my donkey can say
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- And then you would see him,
- you know, keeping time.
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- And you would see
- that he was enjoying it.
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- How did it all start?
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- Had music always been a part of your life
- from when you were a little boy?
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- What part of Jamaica?
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- - Yeah?
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- Well, you see,
- Bob Îœarley is my cousin, you know?
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- - Bob liked to ride the donkey
- and, you know,
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- go to the field with his grandfather
- and things like that.
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- Because he's a country boy, you know.
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- 00:04:59,882 --> 00:05:02,259
- Nine Îœile was a place that...
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- there wasn't a lot of civilized activity.
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- Electricity was not available
- in those areas,
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- so you see a lot of "peeny wallies"...
- You know, those little fireflies.
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- And that's the only light at night...
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- other than the moon
- and the stars, you know.
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- So, as a youth
- coming out of Kingston...
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- that was accustomed
- to jukebox and sound system,
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- it was really something
- to get accustomed to.
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- 00:05:33,833 --> 00:05:35,834
- And do you remember
- when you first met Robert?
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- - Yes. First time I saw him,
- I saw this little youth...
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- cutting up this big chunk of wood
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- and putting it on his head bit by bit
- and taking it away...
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- 00:05:44,844 --> 00:05:47,012
- I say, that's...
- You know, and then...
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- He was the only little,
- what you call it,
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- red "pickney" in the place,
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- because everybody else
- was black people.
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- 00:05:57,565 --> 00:05:59,483
- Who was Bob's dad?
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- 00:06:12,663 --> 00:06:15,332
- He liked
- when you call him "Captain."
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- Yes, but his...
- His name is Norval.
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- I met him right there in Nine Îœile,
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- and then as a white man in the district,
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- you know, always ride
- his horse and things like that.
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- He and my father
- becomes good friends.
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- Then at that time he see this little girl
- and I guess he liked her, and, um,
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- we finally get together
- and that's how it...
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- That's how it happened.
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- How old was your sister
- when she met the Captain?
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- - She was, what, 1 6.
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- Captain was...
- He was about in his 60s.
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- - So he was an old man?
- - Yes.
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- - Îœy name is Peter Îœarley.
- Bob Îœarley is my second cousin.
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- What did you know about
- Bob Îœarley's father?
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- He rode a horse most of the time.
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- He was in the British army.
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- I think he was stationed somewhere
- in India in World War II...
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- when he got shell shock.
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- I understand he drank
- and that he lived a...
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- What should I say?
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- A full life.
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- Did he get teased
- for being mixed?
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- Yeah, sure.
- Worse than teased.
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- Teased is not the word
- You call it rejected.
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- He did everything that
- his bigger uncles should be doing...
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- because it was
- their duty to move horses...
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- and to make sure
- that the pigs were fed,
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- and they left
- all of that work for Robert.
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- He had to earn his every meal.
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- We went to the same school.
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- And he had me teaching me the stuff...
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- of what takes place in the country...
- How to ride a donkey, how to ride a horse.
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- How to do all of this kind of stuff.
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- And I taught him about music,
- 'cause...
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- that was what I was exposed
- to prior coming to Saint Ann.
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- 00:09:23,813 --> 00:09:26,773
- I was accustomed to
- building bamboo guitars...
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- and sardine tin guitars.
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- Cutting the wire...
- The electric wire...
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- 00:09:31,153 --> 00:09:35,156
- Opening it up, taking out those little
- fine wires and making our strings.
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- In a little district on a little island
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- Where men and pretty gal run wild
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- Well there's one old crazy
- who went much wider
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- 00:10:30,963 --> 00:10:33,465
- So they call her rider
- Rough rider
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- - Outta that, Robert Îœarley saw...
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- a way out.
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- His guitar.
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- In high seas or in low seas
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- I'm gonna be your friend
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- 00:11:05,706 --> 00:11:09,376
- I heard her praying praying praying
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- 00:11:12,213 --> 00:11:15,715
- I said I heard my mother
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- 00:11:15,883 --> 00:11:20,553
- She was praying in the night
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- 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:27,519
- And the words that she said
- The words that she said
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- They still lingers in my head
- Lingers in my head
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- She said a child is born in this world
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- He needs protection
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- Whoa mmm
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- God guide and protect us
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- One good thing about music
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- When it hits You feel no pain
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- 00:12:00,094 --> 00:12:03,972
- I say one good thing about music
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- When it hits You feel no pain
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- Hit me with music
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- Hit me with music now
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- 00:12:13,190 --> 00:12:15,108
- This is Trenchtown rock
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- Don't what's that
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- 00:12:17,278 --> 00:12:20,613
- We grew up in Trench Town.
- We were exposed to everything.
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- 00:12:20,781 --> 00:12:22,323
- 'Cause you have the bad guys there
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- 00:12:22,491 --> 00:12:24,534
- who eventually turn out
- to be the con men.
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- 00:12:24,702 --> 00:12:28,913
- You have the musicians.
- And you have the sportsmen.
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- 00:12:29,290 --> 00:12:33,585
- Everybody lived just like a block away
- from each other.
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- 00:12:33,753 --> 00:12:34,753
- It's like a melting pot.
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- 00:12:36,130 --> 00:12:39,466
- - Well, living in Trench Town,
- you know, um,
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- as a young man, surviving was easy.
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- 00:12:42,887 --> 00:12:45,930
- The only thing that you have to really
- look out for was the police, you know,
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- 00:12:46,098 --> 00:12:48,892
- 'cause the police can just get ya,
- frame ya.
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- You go to prison and...
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- 00:12:50,686 --> 00:12:53,730
- "Look, I come from Trench Town."
- Trench Town's that...
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- 00:12:53,898 --> 00:12:55,440
- Find them say, "Where you from?"
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- 00:12:55,608 --> 00:12:57,859
- You say, "Trench Town."
- You're gone.
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- You know what I mean?
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- - No, it was tough.
- All of Kingston is like that, you know?
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- Everybody.
- A lot of people don't know, but Bob, me,
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- all of we, went to bed hungry a lot.
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- 00:13:08,454 --> 00:13:09,662
- I mean real hungry.
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- 00:13:09,830 --> 00:13:11,664
- I don't mean like, "Oh, he had some,
- a little piece of this."
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- Nothing.
- One of the famous lines was,
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- "Drink some water and go to bed."
- You know?
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- 00:13:17,797 --> 00:13:20,131
- In those days you never have...
- You might have one pair of shoes.
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- 00:13:20,299 --> 00:13:23,301
- One suit of clothes.
- So you walk bare feet all the time.
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- 00:13:23,469 --> 00:13:25,720
- Bob too, you know?
- A lot of people don't know that.
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- 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:29,599
- That kind of sufferation and struggle...
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- 00:13:29,767 --> 00:13:33,353
- can make you either go bad or good.
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- 00:13:33,521 --> 00:13:35,121
- And I guess
- that's what he did, you know?
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- 00:13:35,231 --> 00:13:37,315
- He figured the music would get him out,
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- 00:13:37,483 --> 00:13:39,901
- so he stuck to it and focused,
- you know?
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- 00:13:44,949 --> 00:13:48,827
- You know, as an individual
- they're forced to be creative.
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- 00:13:48,994 --> 00:13:51,579
- Because that's where
- your reggae music born, Trench Town.
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- Dread natty dread now
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- 00:14:07,805 --> 00:14:09,347
- Natty dread
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- 00:14:09,515 --> 00:14:12,517
- Dreadlock Congo bongo I
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- 00:14:13,185 --> 00:14:14,561
- Natty dread
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- 00:14:14,728 --> 00:14:16,855
- Natty dreadlock
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- 00:14:17,022 --> 00:14:18,606
- In Trench Town
- we have First Street.
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- 00:14:18,774 --> 00:14:20,233
- All the way up to 1 3th Street.
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- 00:14:20,401 --> 00:14:21,693
- First, Second, Third,
- Fourth, Fifth, Sixth,
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- 00:14:21,861 --> 00:14:23,444
- and so on and so forth.
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- 00:14:23,612 --> 00:14:25,446
- Him sing about it in "Natty Dread."
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- 00:14:25,865 --> 00:14:28,825
- Then I walk up the First Street
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- Natty dread
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- 00:14:31,203 --> 00:14:35,164
- And then I walk up
- the Second Street to see
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- 00:14:35,332 --> 00:14:36,583
- Natty dread
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- 00:14:49,638 --> 00:14:52,765
- - He was different, mon.
- He was different.
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- 00:14:52,933 --> 00:14:55,727
- He just loved music.
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- 00:14:56,979 --> 00:14:59,439
- Îœusic and cricket and football.
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- 00:14:59,857 --> 00:15:01,900
- Natty Congo I
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- 00:15:02,067 --> 00:15:03,401
- Natty dread
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- 00:15:03,569 --> 00:15:04,652
- Oh
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- 00:15:07,531 --> 00:15:09,574
- - One day he just come home
- and give me the books and say,
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- 00:15:09,742 --> 00:15:11,326
- "I'm not going back to school."
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- 00:15:11,493 --> 00:15:16,080
- And, um, him say have a friend
- that he can give these books to.
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- 00:15:16,248 --> 00:15:18,791
- And he did that,
- and then he turned to his music.
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- 00:15:19,043 --> 00:15:21,461
- I'm a rebel
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- 00:15:23,464 --> 00:15:26,215
- Soul rebel
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- 00:15:28,010 --> 00:15:30,595
- I'm a capturer
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- 00:15:30,763 --> 00:15:31,804
- That's right
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- 00:15:31,972 --> 00:15:34,641
- Soul adventurer
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- 00:15:34,808 --> 00:15:36,851
- Yeah mon
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- 00:15:37,019 --> 00:15:39,228
- I'm a rebel
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- 00:15:41,565 --> 00:15:43,274
- Soul rebel
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- 00:15:43,692 --> 00:15:47,528
- Robert keep pounding,
- keep pounding, keep pounding.
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- 00:15:47,696 --> 00:15:50,907
- Telling me that
- this is what it should be and, uh...
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- 00:15:51,075 --> 00:15:52,909
- And I'm saying, "No,
- I'm gonna get ready to go to college.
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- 00:15:53,077 --> 00:15:55,286
- I can't be no music."
- He say, "No, it's music."
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- 00:15:55,704 --> 00:15:58,247
- When did you begin
- to get involved in music?
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- 00:15:58,415 --> 00:15:59,832
- - Well, I was always interested
- in music,
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- 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,377
- but at that time I was learning
- a trade, you know,
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- 00:16:02,544 --> 00:16:05,421
- and meet up
- some guys who can sing.
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- 00:16:05,589 --> 00:16:07,090
- One named Desmond Dekker.
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- 00:16:08,926 --> 00:16:14,013
- - Desmond Dekker and Bob
- used to work as welders...
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- 00:16:14,181 --> 00:16:15,306
- at the same place.
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- 00:16:15,808 --> 00:16:19,560
- Desmond Dekker came down,
- and I auditioned him.
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- And we recorded his song.
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- 00:16:22,439 --> 00:16:27,360
- And after he did that song,
- Robert wanted now to record.
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- 00:16:27,528 --> 00:16:29,070
- So Desmond take him Beverley's.
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- 00:16:29,530 --> 00:16:31,447
- And he went away
- and recorded a song...
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- 00:16:31,615 --> 00:16:36,244
- to prove to me that if he
- could record a song, I could.
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- 00:16:37,162 --> 00:16:41,207
- Don't you look at me so smug now
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- 00:16:41,917 --> 00:16:44,752
- And say I'm going bad
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- 00:16:45,546 --> 00:16:49,674
- Who are you to judge me
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- 00:16:49,842 --> 00:16:53,052
- And the life that I live
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- 00:16:53,220 --> 00:16:56,389
- - I noticed his use of words
- in the songs.
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- 00:16:56,932 --> 00:17:00,268
- "Judge Not"...
- It was a revolutionary song...
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- 00:17:00,436 --> 00:17:03,855
- defending his rights as an individual.
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- 00:17:04,565 --> 00:17:08,818
- It occurred to me,
- "Wow, this guy's really a good poet."
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- 00:17:08,986 --> 00:17:10,278
- judge not
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- 00:17:11,739 --> 00:17:13,656
- Before you judge yourself
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- 00:17:14,283 --> 00:17:15,575
- - After the recording,
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- 00:17:15,743 --> 00:17:17,827
- Leslie Kong wanted
- to change Bob's name,
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- 00:17:17,995 --> 00:17:21,831
- because Robert Îœarley
- didn't sound so catchy and easy.
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- 00:17:21,999 --> 00:17:25,460
- So he wanted to call Bob "Adam."
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- 00:17:25,627 --> 00:17:27,879
- Adam Îœarley.
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- 00:17:28,047 --> 00:17:29,922
- Bob wouldn't have it.
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- 00:17:34,219 --> 00:17:38,014
- He realizes that a group
- would be maybe the appropriate thing,
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- 00:17:38,182 --> 00:17:41,434
- other than being individual,
- solo artists.
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- 00:17:41,602 --> 00:17:44,937
- We used to listen to groups
- like Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers,
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- 00:17:45,105 --> 00:17:47,690
- The Drifters, The Platters.
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- 00:17:47,858 --> 00:17:51,486
- So there was a recruitment
- process taking place.
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- 00:17:51,653 --> 00:17:55,907
- Îœyself and Robert started
- to put the group together.
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- 00:17:56,325 --> 00:17:59,660
- And then here comes this tall, dark,
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- 00:17:59,828 --> 00:18:02,330
- as they would say,
- handsome dude named Peter,
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- 00:18:02,498 --> 00:18:04,749
- and he has
- this guitar knowledge.
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- 00:18:04,917 --> 00:18:08,127
- And from Robert, you hear Robert say,
- "Play guitar? You serious?"
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- 00:18:08,295 --> 00:18:10,004
- So he goes give him
- the guitar right away.
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- 00:18:10,172 --> 00:18:14,634
- So it's four-string steel,
- but Peter tune the four-string,
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- 00:18:14,802 --> 00:18:16,177
- and he's just like that.
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- 00:18:18,806 --> 00:18:20,264
- On First Street
- is a music street.
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- 00:18:20,432 --> 00:18:24,310
- We had three or four places
- on First Street that we rehearse,
- 228
- 00:18:24,478 --> 00:18:26,145
- and they were rehearsing
- like every day.
- 229
- 00:18:26,980 --> 00:18:30,024
- At the time,
- it was Bob, Peter, Bunny.
- 230
- 00:18:30,192 --> 00:18:34,403
- We used to call ourselves
- "Juveniles." "Brothers in the Ghetto."
- 231
- 00:18:34,571 --> 00:18:36,739
- Where we used to go to rehearse,
- they'd say,
- 232
- 00:18:36,907 --> 00:18:40,118
- "You come from a wailing environment
- where people always bawling.
- 233
- 00:18:40,285 --> 00:18:42,411
- And, well,
- you should be named the Wailers."
- 234
- 00:18:42,579 --> 00:18:46,541
- This train it is bound to glory
- 235
- 00:18:46,708 --> 00:18:48,626
- This train
- 236
- 00:18:52,422 --> 00:18:56,425
- This train is bound to glory
- 237
- 00:18:56,593 --> 00:18:59,470
- This train
- 238
- 00:19:02,391 --> 00:19:07,311
- This train is bound to glory
- 239
- 00:19:07,521 --> 00:19:09,480
- This train don't carry
- 240
- 00:19:09,648 --> 00:19:15,027
- - As far as the Wailers' harmony,
- and the building of the Wailers musically,
- 241
- 00:19:15,195 --> 00:19:18,948
- Joe Higgs is the responsible person.
- 242
- 00:19:19,283 --> 00:19:21,534
- Having his own career,
- 243
- 00:19:21,702 --> 00:19:24,829
- he decided to take the group up
- as a project.
- 244
- 00:19:55,152 --> 00:19:59,280
- His policy was that great stars
- sometimes get messed up...
- 245
- 00:19:59,448 --> 00:20:02,867
- when they get afraid, you know,
- when they get nervous on stage.
- 246
- 00:20:03,035 --> 00:20:04,785
- So he said that...
- 247
- 00:20:04,953 --> 00:20:08,915
- if we went to the cemetery
- at, say, 2:00 in the morning...
- 248
- 00:20:09,082 --> 00:20:11,292
- and sang for those people,
- 249
- 00:20:11,460 --> 00:20:14,670
- then we can't be afraid
- when we hit the stage.
- 250
- 00:20:14,838 --> 00:20:18,799
- And we went with Joe,
- sat on the graves, played.
- 251
- 00:20:18,967 --> 00:20:23,179
- Several times we do it until he thought
- we were brave enough now.
- 252
- 00:20:29,895 --> 00:20:33,439
- Gather together
- Be brothers and sisters
- 253
- 00:20:33,607 --> 00:20:36,651
- We're independent
- We're independent
- 254
- 00:20:36,818 --> 00:20:39,445
- Just about the time
- of the independence,
- 255
- 00:20:39,613 --> 00:20:42,281
- the Jamaican musicians
- wanted to have a music...
- 256
- 00:20:42,449 --> 00:20:44,575
- that they can call Jamaican music.
- 257
- 00:20:44,743 --> 00:20:46,994
- - Well, Jamaica came up
- with a unique rhythm.
- 258
- 00:20:47,162 --> 00:20:48,955
- I didn't think it was deliberately done.
- 259
- 00:20:49,122 --> 00:20:53,167
- I think it was an attempt to play
- something, and it came out that way.
- 260
- 00:20:53,335 --> 00:20:56,170
- It became known as reggae,
- but it started off as ska,
- 261
- 00:20:56,338 --> 00:20:58,798
- which was putting all the accent...
- 262
- 00:20:58,966 --> 00:21:01,884
- on a different beat than what is normally
- where the accent is.
- 263
- 00:21:02,052 --> 00:21:04,804
- It would be on the off beat
- instead of the on beat.
- 264
- 00:21:08,475 --> 00:21:12,478
- Ska developed out of American
- music that we were exposed to...
- 265
- 00:21:12,646 --> 00:21:15,564
- on top of our Jamaican
- indigenous music,
- 266
- 00:21:15,732 --> 00:21:20,403
- such as mento, calypso, Kumina.
- 267
- 00:21:20,570 --> 00:21:22,405
- Simmer down
- 268
- 00:21:22,572 --> 00:21:24,365
- You lickin' too hot
- 269
- 00:21:24,533 --> 00:21:27,785
- So simmer down
- Soon you'll get dropped
- 270
- 00:21:27,953 --> 00:21:31,539
- - We were at a bar one evening.
- 271
- 00:21:31,707 --> 00:21:34,292
- And one of the guys, them says to us,
- "Listen to this group."
- 272
- 00:21:34,459 --> 00:21:37,086
- And they punched the jukebox.
- 273
- 00:21:37,254 --> 00:21:41,007
- And the song was called "Simmer Down."
- 274
- 00:21:41,174 --> 00:21:44,010
- And no more other tune
- play on that box...
- 275
- 00:21:44,177 --> 00:21:47,513
- the whole time we were there
- but "Simmer Down," I tell you.
- 276
- 00:21:47,681 --> 00:21:51,600
- Oh simmer down
- Oh control your temper
- 277
- 00:21:51,768 --> 00:21:54,937
- Simmer down
- For the battle will be hotter
- 278
- 00:21:55,105 --> 00:21:58,316
- - "Simmer Down" went straight
- into the number-one position,
- 279
- 00:21:58,483 --> 00:22:01,444
- and the Wailers were launched.
- 280
- 00:22:01,611 --> 00:22:04,739
- That I'm leaving you today
- Simmer down
- 281
- 00:22:07,409 --> 00:22:10,369
- - What was it like working at Studio 1,
- where you started, in those days?
- 282
- 00:22:10,537 --> 00:22:13,497
- Yeah, it was good,
- you know, 'cause, you know,
- 283
- 00:22:13,665 --> 00:22:14,915
- first experience within music.
- 284
- 00:22:15,083 --> 00:22:16,459
- Working with some good musician
- 285
- 00:22:16,626 --> 00:22:19,754
- and trying to get the harmonies
- and everything. It was great.
- 286
- 00:22:19,921 --> 00:22:22,715
- I heard you actually...
- You personally lived in the studio.
- 287
- 00:22:22,883 --> 00:22:24,091
- Sometime.
- 288
- 00:22:24,259 --> 00:22:26,552
- You had Coxsone made you
- a room out the back.
- 289
- 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:27,928
- Yes.
- 290
- 00:22:28,096 --> 00:22:31,891
- Well, Coxsone was,
- um, a smart guy,
- 291
- 00:22:32,059 --> 00:22:34,393
- in that he has an ear
- for music, good music.
- 292
- 00:22:34,561 --> 00:22:36,361
- - He might not have been
- an instrument player.
- 293
- 00:22:36,521 --> 00:22:38,773
- He might not even know
- if the guitar is tuned,
- 294
- 00:22:38,940 --> 00:22:42,109
- but he knows when the sound is right.
- 295
- 00:22:42,277 --> 00:22:44,487
- - He has his own program on the radio.
- 296
- 00:22:44,654 --> 00:22:46,113
- Has his own record shop.
- 297
- 00:22:46,281 --> 00:22:48,991
- Has his own sound system.
- Has his own studio.
- 298
- 00:22:49,159 --> 00:22:50,534
- So he's obviously a leader.
- 299
- 00:22:50,702 --> 00:22:54,121
- - Coxsone was like a father to us,
- you know, to be honest with you.
- 300
- 00:22:54,289 --> 00:22:55,581
- Coxsone was like a father to us.
- 301
- 00:22:55,749 --> 00:22:57,750
- He cared for us.
- 302
- 00:23:01,755 --> 00:23:05,966
- Coxsone gave Robbie a little room
- round the back of the premises.
- 303
- 00:23:06,134 --> 00:23:08,010
- I didn't have anywhere
- to live neither.
- 304
- 00:23:08,178 --> 00:23:10,888
- So Robbie and me lived there.
- Both of us lived there.
- 305
- 00:23:11,056 --> 00:23:12,598
- So we became intimate good friends.
- 306
- 00:23:13,934 --> 00:23:18,396
- He gave Robbie a record player
- and a lot of foreign records.
- 307
- 00:23:19,731 --> 00:23:22,525
- Robbie was a fanatic
- in listening to these people...
- 308
- 00:23:22,692 --> 00:23:24,944
- because he was a serious,
- focused man.
- 309
- 00:23:25,112 --> 00:23:26,987
- Even as a youth.
- 310
- 00:23:27,155 --> 00:23:33,077
- - Jamaican music developed from
- what we call "do overs,"
- 311
- 00:23:33,245 --> 00:23:35,913
- a version of somebody's song
- in America.
- 312
- 00:23:36,873 --> 00:23:42,920
- Each night
- I ask the stars up above
- 313
- 00:23:43,088 --> 00:23:49,009
- Why must I be a teenager in love
- 314
- 00:23:49,177 --> 00:23:52,054
- Put me in your milling machine
- 315
- 00:23:52,222 --> 00:23:56,809
- I never thought you could act so mean
- 316
- 00:23:57,018 --> 00:24:00,896
- Now I'm wondering what to do
- 317
- 00:24:01,064 --> 00:24:04,900
- To see if you could love me too
- 318
- 00:24:05,068 --> 00:24:08,112
- Bob had a good sound
- 'cause he's singing lead.
- 319
- 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:09,738
- And the harmony was tight.
- 320
- 00:24:09,906 --> 00:24:13,409
- - The harmony Bunny carried,
- and Peter was fantastic.
- 321
- 00:24:14,953 --> 00:24:21,083
- Why must I be a teenager in love
- 322
- 00:24:22,711 --> 00:24:26,839
- Peter and Bunny was
- the most vocal one to say hi,
- 323
- 00:24:27,007 --> 00:24:31,135
- but Bob was very reserved
- and just look.
- 324
- 00:24:31,303 --> 00:24:33,345
- As he would say, just "cotch and look."
- 325
- 00:24:35,098 --> 00:24:38,851
- - As much as there was this obvious
- love and admiration...
- 326
- 00:24:39,019 --> 00:24:40,978
- for each other and of each other,
- 327
- 00:24:41,146 --> 00:24:43,939
- there was always
- a deep underlying tension...
- 328
- 00:24:44,107 --> 00:24:47,359
- that none would be
- a "yes man" to the other.
- 329
- 00:24:48,695 --> 00:24:52,865
- I think the music was the glue
- that held them together.
- 330
- 00:24:53,033 --> 00:25:01,033
- Feel them spirit
- 331
- 00:25:04,878 --> 00:25:10,758
- Lord, I thank you
- 332
- 00:25:12,093 --> 00:25:17,723
- I'm gonna put it on
- 333
- 00:25:26,066 --> 00:25:28,776
- - By then he was admiring me.
- 334
- 00:25:32,364 --> 00:25:34,615
- I got a letter from Bunny,
- bringing a letter.
- 335
- 00:25:34,783 --> 00:25:38,369
- It was him sending his letter
- through his friend. Not by himself.
- 336
- 00:25:38,537 --> 00:25:42,164
- And to say yes, he likes me
- and want to talk to me.
- 337
- 00:25:42,332 --> 00:25:44,375
- I say, "Come over and talk."
- 338
- 00:25:44,543 --> 00:25:47,336
- And he would stay
- on the other side of the road and...
- 339
- 00:25:47,504 --> 00:25:51,090
- He was very shy. He was very shy.
- He was a shy guy.
- 340
- 00:25:51,716 --> 00:25:56,845
- I'll play your favorite song darling
- 341
- 00:25:57,013 --> 00:25:59,348
- He had a seriousness,
- and he was one
- 342
- 00:25:59,516 --> 00:26:02,059
- that you could say
- was reaching out for love.
- 343
- 00:26:10,110 --> 00:26:12,987
- - I didn't think,
- I liked brown-skin men.
- 344
- 00:26:13,154 --> 00:26:17,908
- I always dream of a guy...
- Tall, black, handsome.
- 345
- 00:26:18,076 --> 00:26:21,412
- Every young girl's dream in Jamaica
- is to have a tall, black boyfriend.
- 346
- 00:26:23,415 --> 00:26:25,332
- They would call Bob an outcast...
- 347
- 00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:28,043
- because he really don't belong to no...
- You're in-between.
- 348
- 00:26:28,211 --> 00:26:30,921
- You're black and white, so they're...
- "You're not even black."
- 349
- 00:26:32,799 --> 00:26:35,217
- I think he always felt
- like an outsider...
- 350
- 00:26:35,385 --> 00:26:37,511
- because he was a half breed.
- 351
- 00:26:37,679 --> 00:26:40,431
- And when Îœortimer Planno took him in,
- 352
- 00:26:40,599 --> 00:26:43,809
- well, that automatically
- gave him acceptance.
- 353
- 00:26:45,353 --> 00:26:49,857
- Îœortimer Planno was
- a Rasta spiritual leader who taught Bob.
- 354
- 00:26:50,859 --> 00:26:54,570
- - He was like a preacher.
- He preached Rastafarianism,
- 355
- 00:26:54,738 --> 00:26:56,280
- and he had a following.
- 356
- 00:27:01,411 --> 00:27:04,663
- He hooked up
- with Bob as a young boy.
- 357
- 00:27:04,831 --> 00:27:07,124
- I think that they gelled together.
- 358
- 00:27:07,292 --> 00:27:09,835
- - Bob looked up to him?
- - Oh, yes.
- 359
- 00:27:38,406 --> 00:27:44,036
- Rastafarian were
- the only true Afrocentric black people.
- 360
- 00:27:44,204 --> 00:27:47,623
- Who preached self-reliance,
- who preached self-confidence.
- 361
- 00:27:48,875 --> 00:27:51,585
- But we interpret
- the Bible a different way.
- 362
- 00:27:51,753 --> 00:27:55,297
- Îœost of these places that they're telling
- you about in the Bible is in Africa.
- 363
- 00:27:55,465 --> 00:27:58,050
- The Garden of Eden is in Africa.
- 364
- 00:27:58,218 --> 00:28:01,261
- The teaching that we get
- from the elders then...
- 365
- 00:28:01,429 --> 00:28:04,848
- is that we always have to look upon
- a black man as God.
- 366
- 00:28:05,016 --> 00:28:08,727
- For we, somebody
- that we can identify with.
- 367
- 00:28:29,124 --> 00:28:34,461
- Emperor Haile Selassie I
- is the reincarnation of Jesus Christ.
- 368
- 00:28:34,629 --> 00:28:36,922
- He's our God. Rasta God.
- 369
- 00:28:38,133 --> 00:28:42,052
- Rasta said the purpose of life
- is to be happy.
- 370
- 00:28:42,220 --> 00:28:44,847
- Everybody's supposed to be happy...
- 371
- 00:28:45,014 --> 00:28:47,641
- and live in peace, love and unity.
- 372
- 00:28:47,809 --> 00:28:49,184
- Yeah, mon.
- 373
- 00:28:51,229 --> 00:28:54,606
- I think when him start take it serious
- now as a Rastaman...
- 374
- 00:28:54,774 --> 00:28:57,359
- was when him start growing dreadlocks.
- 375
- 00:28:57,527 --> 00:29:01,864
- - Locks meant that you were a Rastafarian
- and you've taken a vow...
- 376
- 00:29:02,031 --> 00:29:05,409
- Nazarite vow not to cut or comb
- your hair for a certain length of time,
- 377
- 00:29:05,577 --> 00:29:08,871
- and it has a significance
- and is not to be taken lightly.
- 378
- 00:29:09,038 --> 00:29:11,123
- - How important are the dreadlocks?
- 379
- 00:29:11,291 --> 00:29:14,835
- - This? This is my identity, mon.
- - Is that part of being a Rasta?
- 380
- 00:29:15,003 --> 00:29:16,420
- - Yeah, this is my identity.
- 381
- 00:29:16,588 --> 00:29:20,883
- - Then you go through
- all the various rules...
- 382
- 00:29:21,050 --> 00:29:23,051
- for living as set out by the Bible.
- 383
- 00:29:23,219 --> 00:29:26,930
- How you eat, how you live,
- how you treat other people.
- 384
- 00:29:27,098 --> 00:29:28,474
- And he believed that, um,
- 385
- 00:29:28,641 --> 00:29:31,018
- if you practice these things,
- well, life will be better.
- 386
- 00:29:31,186 --> 00:29:33,896
- Not only for you,
- but for everyone else.
- 387
- 00:29:34,230 --> 00:29:42,230
- Got to have kaya now
- 388
- 00:29:47,660 --> 00:29:50,537
- For the rain is falling
- 389
- 00:29:50,705 --> 00:29:52,998
- Marijuana's illegal in jamaica,
- 390
- 00:29:53,166 --> 00:29:57,294
- but the Rastas say they smoke it
- because the Bible tells them to.
- 391
- 00:29:57,462 --> 00:30:01,840
- The Book of Revelations
- says to "partake of the herb."
- 392
- 00:30:02,008 --> 00:30:04,885
- - The herb was like
- a sacramental food to us.
- 393
- 00:30:05,053 --> 00:30:08,806
- We take it for reasons,
- not just to get high.
- 394
- 00:30:09,599 --> 00:30:12,100
- It put us in a holy, peaceful,
- 395
- 00:30:12,268 --> 00:30:14,436
- happy, inspirational mood.
- 396
- 00:30:15,563 --> 00:30:18,190
- Were you born as a Rasta?
- 397
- 00:30:18,358 --> 00:30:20,984
- When I was born, you know,
- and growing,
- 398
- 00:30:21,152 --> 00:30:25,280
- there was a certain amount
- of consciousness...
- 399
- 00:30:25,448 --> 00:30:27,241
- in the higher self...
- 400
- 00:30:27,408 --> 00:30:30,035
- that, you know,
- 401
- 00:30:30,203 --> 00:30:31,703
- it was always a lonely world,
- 402
- 00:30:31,871 --> 00:30:36,917
- not finding people who might
- think like me, you know?
- 403
- 00:30:37,085 --> 00:30:38,794
- So off I'm going on, and going on
- 404
- 00:30:38,962 --> 00:30:42,047
- and I come to Kingston,
- meet some more people.
- 405
- 00:30:42,215 --> 00:30:43,757
- Them people is Rasta.
- 406
- 00:30:43,925 --> 00:30:47,845
- It's after that I find out
- it's the same thing I have inside.
- 407
- 00:30:48,012 --> 00:30:49,263
- It's the same thing.
- 408
- 00:30:49,430 --> 00:30:51,270
- - How old were you
- when this started to happen?
- 409
- 00:30:51,307 --> 00:30:54,560
- - This is about 1 7, 1 8, you know?
- - Ah.
- 410
- 00:30:54,727 --> 00:30:58,939
- - I think in the belief or knowledge...
- 411
- 00:30:59,107 --> 00:31:05,070
- of Haile Selassie,
- Bob found his real father,
- 412
- 00:31:06,030 --> 00:31:08,240
- which he'd never really knew.
- 413
- 00:31:08,408 --> 00:31:10,450
- - I think he saw himself now.
- 414
- 00:31:10,618 --> 00:31:12,536
- This is where he found himself, yes.
- 415
- 00:31:12,704 --> 00:31:15,330
- No more about being
- half white or half black.
- 416
- 00:31:15,498 --> 00:31:18,125
- It's just one... one love.
- 417
- 00:31:18,293 --> 00:31:21,712
- One love One heart
- 418
- 00:31:22,171 --> 00:31:25,591
- Let's join together
- and I'll feel all right
- 419
- 00:31:26,551 --> 00:31:30,554
- One love One heart
- 420
- 00:31:30,722 --> 00:31:33,974
- Let's join together
- and I will feel all right
- 421
- 00:31:34,142 --> 00:31:37,394
- Undaunted by the driving rain,
- a sea of faces awaited...
- 422
- 00:31:37,562 --> 00:31:40,522
- at the Palisadoes Airport
- the arrival of a living legend.
- 423
- 00:31:40,815 --> 00:31:43,150
- For some,
- he was the King of Kings.
- 424
- 00:31:43,318 --> 00:31:45,068
- The Lion of judah...
- 425
- 00:31:45,236 --> 00:31:46,236
- Even a god.
- 426
- 00:31:46,321 --> 00:31:49,239
- Members of a local cult,
- the Rastafarians,
- 427
- 00:31:49,407 --> 00:31:53,035
- who worship this figure as a deity,
- were present in full force.
- 428
- 00:31:56,873 --> 00:31:59,625
- His Imperial Majesty,
- Haile Selassie I,
- 429
- 00:31:59,792 --> 00:32:02,044
- Emperor of Ethiopia, arrived.
- 430
- 00:32:02,211 --> 00:32:06,924
- When the plane landed,
- thousands ran out and surrounded the plane.
- 431
- 00:32:07,592 --> 00:32:10,761
- Some of them smoking.
- Our police were powerless.
- 432
- 00:32:10,929 --> 00:32:14,806
- And Selassie came to the door
- of the plane, I remember,
- 433
- 00:32:14,974 --> 00:32:19,102
- and after about 20 minutes
- and he just looked and went back in.
- 434
- 00:32:19,354 --> 00:32:21,813
- It took a long time
- to get him off the plane.
- 435
- 00:32:23,358 --> 00:32:26,777
- So he came off the plane
- and he greet, and I say...
- 436
- 00:32:26,945 --> 00:32:28,737
- I say, "Wait, but this is a little man.
- 437
- 00:32:28,905 --> 00:32:31,156
- There is this little man they say is God.
- Them crazy."
- 438
- 00:32:32,951 --> 00:32:36,536
- - I sit there on my
- bicycle, waiting on him.
- 439
- 00:32:36,704 --> 00:32:39,247
- And when him come up,
- he look right in my face.
- 440
- 00:32:39,499 --> 00:32:43,460
- It was like him look
- into everybody face.
- 441
- 00:32:43,628 --> 00:32:45,128
- But he look upon everyone.
- 442
- 00:32:46,255 --> 00:32:47,756
- I remember, I see that.
- 443
- 00:32:48,174 --> 00:32:50,634
- And he just
- turn his head around...
- 444
- 00:32:50,802 --> 00:32:52,552
- and he was looking straight at me.
- 445
- 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,262
- And he did like this.
- 446
- 00:32:55,974 --> 00:32:57,057
- And I look and I look,
- 447
- 00:32:57,225 --> 00:33:01,144
- and I saw his hand,
- and I saw a mark in his hand.
- 448
- 00:33:01,771 --> 00:33:05,899
- And believe you, my brother,
- when I saw that I went crazy.
- 449
- 00:33:06,067 --> 00:33:08,819
- I run all the way back
- to Trench Town.
- 450
- 00:33:09,153 --> 00:33:17,153
- Take your troubles to Selassie
- 451
- 00:33:26,546 --> 00:33:32,801
- He is the only King of Kings
- 452
- 00:33:34,387 --> 00:33:37,514
- King of Kings
- 453
- 00:33:37,682 --> 00:33:41,727
- King of Kings Selassie
- 454
- 00:33:44,689 --> 00:33:48,358
- The deeper Bob got
- into the faith... the Rastafarian faith...
- 455
- 00:33:48,526 --> 00:33:52,821
- The more his music
- became entwined.
- 456
- 00:33:54,323 --> 00:33:58,493
- - He was very into the social
- commentary side of the music.
- 457
- 00:33:58,661 --> 00:34:01,705
- Îœr. Dodd didn't like that because
- it wasn't commercial enough.
- 458
- 00:34:02,081 --> 00:34:05,083
- So he was a little frustrated
- because he couldn't do the music...
- 459
- 00:34:05,251 --> 00:34:07,377
- the way he really wanted it to be done.
- 460
- 00:34:08,296 --> 00:34:12,758
- And also at that time,
- money was a problem.
- 461
- 00:34:12,925 --> 00:34:17,429
- Coxsone wasn't the kind of person
- at the time to argue money with,
- 462
- 00:34:17,597 --> 00:34:19,556
- unless you were willing
- to go to war.
- 463
- 00:34:20,058 --> 00:34:22,517
- When you go
- and ask him for your money,
- 464
- 00:34:22,685 --> 00:34:25,604
- he usually like to bring off
- some bad boy style.
- 465
- 00:34:25,772 --> 00:34:28,148
- 'Cause he has his thugs around him.
- 466
- 00:34:28,316 --> 00:34:31,068
- You know what I mean?
- Enforcer type of guys.
- 467
- 00:34:31,235 --> 00:34:34,279
- - It was traditional in those days...
- 468
- 00:34:34,447 --> 00:34:38,200
- that artists who recorded
- never made money...
- 469
- 00:34:38,367 --> 00:34:41,036
- because the record company
- who collected the money...
- 470
- 00:34:41,204 --> 00:34:42,746
- never gave the artist any money.
- 471
- 00:34:42,914 --> 00:34:45,207
- - Yeah, we got paid
- like minimum wage.
- 472
- 00:34:45,374 --> 00:34:48,418
- Three pounds a week, that's it.
- Each.
- 473
- 00:34:48,586 --> 00:34:50,420
- - You couldn't live off it.
- 474
- 00:34:50,588 --> 00:34:52,589
- - Could Bob live off it?
- - Nah, mon.
- 475
- 00:34:52,757 --> 00:34:56,134
- That's why Bob had to leave
- and start doing his own thing.
- 476
- 00:34:56,928 --> 00:35:00,180
- So Robert left the group
- to go to Delaware,
- 477
- 00:35:00,348 --> 00:35:01,348
- to the United States.
- 478
- 00:35:01,516 --> 00:35:02,849
- To migrate.
- 479
- 00:35:13,528 --> 00:35:16,196
- Gotta hold on to
- this feeling we got
- 480
- 00:35:16,364 --> 00:35:18,323
- We gonna blow blow blow
- 481
- 00:35:18,491 --> 00:35:21,326
- 'Cause we love love love you now
- 482
- 00:35:21,869 --> 00:35:25,789
- - Yeah, well that was a marriage
- that I wasn't invited to, nor Peter.
- 483
- 00:35:26,499 --> 00:35:29,668
- But because he's our brother
- we lived with it.
- 484
- 00:35:32,004 --> 00:35:34,005
- We got married, like,
- on the 1 1th.
- 485
- 00:35:34,173 --> 00:35:37,259
- And he left on the 1 2th of February.
- 486
- 00:35:43,891 --> 00:35:48,395
- Run for cover
- 487
- 00:35:48,563 --> 00:35:49,980
- Rain is taking over
- 488
- 00:35:51,816 --> 00:35:53,650
- Taking over
- 489
- 00:35:54,694 --> 00:35:56,361
- He came here...
- His mother wants him here.
- 490
- 00:35:56,529 --> 00:35:58,488
- Bob loved his mother.
- 491
- 00:36:00,032 --> 00:36:03,869
- He got a job at the du Pont Hotel
- vacuuming the floor.
- 492
- 00:36:04,036 --> 00:36:06,663
- Then he got a job at Chrysler.
- 493
- 00:36:06,831 --> 00:36:09,583
- - When he was working there,
- he used to...
- 494
- 00:36:09,750 --> 00:36:12,836
- I think he used to drive
- one of the forklift.
- 495
- 00:36:13,004 --> 00:36:17,716
- I think he have a song out
- of that driving the forklift all night.
- 496
- 00:36:17,884 --> 00:36:20,635
- I'm working all night
- 497
- 00:36:20,803 --> 00:36:23,013
- Got to be all right
- 498
- 00:36:23,181 --> 00:36:26,224
- See I work for my bread
- 499
- 00:36:26,392 --> 00:36:27,934
- All right
- 500
- 00:36:28,102 --> 00:36:29,895
- Night and day All night
- 501
- 00:36:30,062 --> 00:36:31,521
- Work for my pay
- 502
- 00:36:31,689 --> 00:36:33,940
- All right Night and day
- 503
- 00:36:35,109 --> 00:36:41,698
- No no no no no no
- 504
- 00:36:44,118 --> 00:36:47,245
- Can you feel it
- No no no no no no
- 505
- 00:36:47,413 --> 00:36:49,873
- - Well, he was just very
- humble, very loving,
- 506
- 00:36:50,041 --> 00:36:52,209
- and he was very quiet, really.
- 507
- 00:36:53,127 --> 00:36:54,878
- Was he smoking
- a lot of ganja then?
- 508
- 00:36:55,046 --> 00:36:58,715
- - Yeah, he was growing it too,
- man, in his backyard,
- 509
- 00:36:58,883 --> 00:37:01,968
- and he had a row of herb plants,
- 510
- 00:37:02,136 --> 00:37:04,971
- I mean towering in the air,
- and I couldn't believe it.
- 511
- 00:37:05,139 --> 00:37:07,140
- 'Cause at that time
- in Wilmington, Delaware,
- 512
- 00:37:07,308 --> 00:37:10,101
- man, they were kicking
- people's doors in for a little joint.
- 513
- 00:37:11,604 --> 00:37:13,355
- - I used to go up to his house
- and we'd go in the basement.
- 514
- 00:37:13,522 --> 00:37:16,316
- He'd play his guitar, and I would play
- my congas. I played congas.
- 515
- 00:37:16,484 --> 00:37:17,567
- And we would just jam.
- 516
- 00:37:17,735 --> 00:37:20,070
- And I didn't really realize
- he was such a great musician.
- 517
- 00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:24,366
- But he never gave up music,
- 518
- 00:37:24,533 --> 00:37:27,077
- 'cause his mummy,
- she would write me to say,
- 519
- 00:37:27,245 --> 00:37:30,664
- "All Nesta does
- is stay in the basement...
- 520
- 00:37:30,831 --> 00:37:32,540
- and play his guitar."
- 521
- 00:37:32,792 --> 00:37:37,629
- Well, I couldn't stand it.
- I wasn't doing what I wanted to do.
- 522
- 00:37:37,797 --> 00:37:41,091
- So I went back to Jamaica,
- where I must get more freedom.
- 523
- 00:37:41,259 --> 00:37:44,094
- Bend down low
- 524
- 00:37:45,388 --> 00:37:48,848
- Let me tell you what I know yeah
- 525
- 00:37:50,643 --> 00:37:53,186
- Bend down low
- 526
- 00:37:55,982 --> 00:37:57,983
- When Robbie came back
- from the U.S.,
- 527
- 00:37:58,150 --> 00:38:03,613
- we decided to start our own independent
- label, "Wail'n Soul'm."
- 528
- 00:38:03,781 --> 00:38:07,325
- So we went in and did
- "Bend Down Low."
- 529
- 00:38:07,660 --> 00:38:10,495
- "Bend Down Low" was a number one.
- 530
- 00:38:10,663 --> 00:38:13,290
- We started to build our own economy.
- 531
- 00:38:13,457 --> 00:38:17,127
- We used to ride with our bicycles
- and distribute the records to jukeboxes,
- 532
- 00:38:17,295 --> 00:38:21,006
- sound systems, record stores,
- with our bicycles.
- 533
- 00:38:21,173 --> 00:38:23,675
- - The Wailers' music
- dominated the dance halls.
- 534
- 00:38:23,843 --> 00:38:28,555
- But it was hardly played
- on our Jamaican radio stations.
- 535
- 00:38:30,016 --> 00:38:32,684
- In the music business,
- www.akumenang.com
- 536
- 00:38:32,852 --> 00:38:35,020
- The first problem is being a Rasta.
- 537
- 00:38:35,187 --> 00:38:38,565
- And the next problem is that
- you're not with the big companies.
- 538
- 00:38:38,733 --> 00:38:40,608
- So that's a...
- That's a heavy load to carry.
- 539
- 00:38:40,985 --> 00:38:43,987
- These disc jockeys,
- when they went on air,
- 540
- 00:38:44,155 --> 00:38:45,322
- they had their own program sometime.
- 541
- 00:38:45,489 --> 00:38:48,158
- They had their own
- sorts of records from these...
- 542
- 00:38:48,326 --> 00:38:50,994
- These different companies
- that they would have to play.
- 543
- 00:38:51,162 --> 00:38:54,873
- Sometimes we were not included.
- So to be included in that,
- 544
- 00:38:55,041 --> 00:38:57,167
- we had to get real tough sometimes.
- 545
- 00:38:57,418 --> 00:39:00,170
- - I used to drive Bob with "Skill" Cole...
- 546
- 00:39:00,338 --> 00:39:01,463
- - Yeah.
- 547
- 00:39:01,630 --> 00:39:03,214
- - And Frowser and Tek-Life.
- 548
- 00:39:03,382 --> 00:39:05,717
- Do you remember them,
- these two little gangsters?
- 549
- 00:39:05,885 --> 00:39:07,093
- - Yeah. Right.
- 550
- 00:39:07,261 --> 00:39:09,054
- Yeah.
- 551
- 00:39:09,221 --> 00:39:12,015
- - I used to drive to the radio station, right?
- - Right.
- 552
- 00:39:12,183 --> 00:39:14,934
- - And they'd leave me in the car.
- Right?
- 553
- 00:39:15,102 --> 00:39:17,103
- And they'd go in.
- Skill Cole had a baseball bat.
- 554
- 00:39:17,271 --> 00:39:19,031
- You know they don't play baseball
- in Jamaica.
- 555
- 00:39:19,065 --> 00:39:20,857
- I don't know where
- he got a baseball bat.
- 556
- 00:39:21,025 --> 00:39:23,068
- And Skill Cole was big... A big guy.
- - Yeah.
- 557
- 00:39:23,235 --> 00:39:25,528
- - Right?
- They'd go in the radio station.
- 558
- 00:39:25,696 --> 00:39:29,616
- They'd have me listen
- to the radio...
- 559
- 00:39:29,784 --> 00:39:31,910
- to make sure that they're really
- 560
- 00:39:32,078 --> 00:39:33,620
- playing the record.
- - Right.
- 561
- 00:39:36,290 --> 00:39:39,584
- And then Coxsone, Studio 1,
- 562
- 00:39:39,752 --> 00:39:43,755
- Dualcreed, Trojan
- and Prince Buster...
- 563
- 00:39:43,923 --> 00:39:47,217
- decide to form an organization
- called "The Big Tree."
- 564
- 00:39:48,094 --> 00:39:50,136
- Then the Wailers pulled the ax.
- 565
- 00:39:51,555 --> 00:39:54,599
- If you are a big tree
- 566
- 00:39:55,518 --> 00:39:59,020
- We are the small ax
- 567
- 00:39:59,188 --> 00:40:02,315
- Sharpened to cut you down
- 568
- 00:40:02,483 --> 00:40:03,942
- Well sharp
- 569
- 00:40:04,110 --> 00:40:05,568
- To cut you down
- 570
- 00:40:37,268 --> 00:40:39,936
- Lee Perry used to work
- with Coxsone.
- 571
- 00:40:41,689 --> 00:40:45,108
- So when he started doing
- his independent business,
- 572
- 00:40:45,276 --> 00:40:49,362
- we admired him, because he follow
- our footstep out of Coxsone.
- 573
- 00:40:54,452 --> 00:40:56,286
- Îœy experience of "Scratch" is that,
- 574
- 00:40:56,454 --> 00:40:59,664
- number one,
- he's a very innovative producer.
- 575
- 00:40:59,832 --> 00:41:01,624
- Very creative.
- 576
- 00:41:01,792 --> 00:41:04,502
- I mean, to the point
- that it became an excitement...
- 577
- 00:41:04,670 --> 00:41:08,423
- to see him come into the studio
- with a half flask of white rum...
- 578
- 00:41:08,591 --> 00:41:11,593
- and sprinkle the four corners
- of the studio with it.
- 579
- 00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:12,969
- Flash.
- 580
- 00:41:13,137 --> 00:41:15,430
- And then he would go into his little...
- 581
- 00:41:15,848 --> 00:41:18,183
- You know, he would, like, dance.
- 582
- 00:41:18,350 --> 00:41:20,852
- He didn't write music scores.
- He would say, you know,
- 583
- 00:41:21,020 --> 00:41:22,395
- "Snap, I want you to play this,"
- you know?
- 584
- 00:41:22,563 --> 00:41:24,898
- And he would just hop
- through the music, you know?
- 585
- 00:41:25,065 --> 00:41:26,649
- And they...
- They would follow him.
- 586
- 00:41:28,277 --> 00:41:30,862
- I would believe that his early
- recordings with the Wailers
- 587
- 00:41:31,030 --> 00:41:33,239
- were the best to my knowledge.
- 588
- 00:41:33,491 --> 00:41:36,701
- Perry had a lot of influence
- on Bob's, uh, career.
- 589
- 00:41:45,211 --> 00:41:49,797
- These are the words of my master
- 590
- 00:42:03,062 --> 00:42:05,730
- Why do people like his music
- so much though?
- 591
- 00:42:50,150 --> 00:42:51,710
- - It is mentioned often in the Bible...
- 592
- 00:42:51,819 --> 00:42:56,030
- that there shall be a music
- that all people of all global concerns...
- 593
- 00:42:56,198 --> 00:42:58,533
- shall play and dance
- and sing this music.
- 594
- 00:42:58,701 --> 00:43:00,368
- It's in the Revelation.
- 595
- 00:43:00,536 --> 00:43:02,245
- What other music could that be?
- 596
- 00:43:03,664 --> 00:43:05,290
- Reggae.
- 597
- 00:43:06,542 --> 00:43:10,003
- - What really changed it to reggae...
- 598
- 00:43:10,170 --> 00:43:12,547
- was the riff actually with the guitar.
- 599
- 00:43:13,090 --> 00:43:15,216
- It just basically a rhythm change...
- 600
- 00:43:15,384 --> 00:43:17,594
- in terms of what the guitar...
- 601
- 00:43:17,761 --> 00:43:20,138
- The guitar used to play
- like cha, cha, cha.
- 602
- 00:43:20,306 --> 00:43:22,890
- And then it start playing
- chaka, chaka, chaka, chaka.
- 603
- 00:43:33,736 --> 00:43:36,988
- Yes my friend
- 604
- 00:43:38,991 --> 00:43:42,952
- We're in the streets again
- 605
- 00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:46,623
- Sometimes some of these things happen
- out ofjust maybe an accident.
- 606
- 00:43:46,790 --> 00:43:50,001
- Somebody was doing something
- and the producer went, "Hey, I like that."
- 607
- 00:43:50,502 --> 00:43:53,171
- Can set me free again
- 608
- 00:43:53,339 --> 00:43:58,051
- Coxsone had bought a piece
- of equipment from the United States.
- 609
- 00:43:58,218 --> 00:44:01,218
- And it was in the studio for a long time
- and no one knew what to do with it.
- 610
- 00:44:01,347 --> 00:44:03,222
- They decided to hook it up.
- 611
- 00:44:03,390 --> 00:44:06,643
- And when it was hooked up,
- they realized it was a tape delay.
- 612
- 00:44:06,810 --> 00:44:08,311
- So when you make one strum,
- 613
- 00:44:08,479 --> 00:44:10,855
- it comes back at you
- at the same time. "Chicka."
- 614
- 00:44:11,565 --> 00:44:15,234
- And the other studios heard "Chicka"...
- 615
- 00:44:15,402 --> 00:44:17,278
- and thought it was a guitar
- making more sounds.
- 616
- 00:44:17,446 --> 00:44:20,990
- So reggae, to my mind, actually
- developed out of an illusion.
- 617
- 00:44:23,369 --> 00:44:25,870
- So if you a bullbucka
- 618
- 00:44:26,038 --> 00:44:28,039
- Let me tell you this
- 619
- 00:44:28,582 --> 00:44:32,877
- I'm a duppy conqueror
- 620
- 00:44:33,962 --> 00:44:34,962
- Conqueror
- 621
- 00:44:35,089 --> 00:44:37,256
- The beats are
- bam, bam, bam, bam.
- 622
- 00:44:37,424 --> 00:44:40,259
- With reggae you got three beats
- out of four beats,
- 623
- 00:44:40,427 --> 00:44:41,969
- and you imagine the next beat.
- 624
- 00:44:42,137 --> 00:44:44,430
- Feel the next beat.
- That's reggae.
- 625
- 00:44:44,598 --> 00:44:46,766
- Feel. Heartbeat. Feel.
- 626
- 00:44:56,360 --> 00:44:57,610
- Yeah.
- 627
- 00:44:58,862 --> 00:45:00,363
- Heartbeats.
- 628
- 00:45:01,615 --> 00:45:02,949
- Real deal.
- 629
- 00:45:03,117 --> 00:45:07,370
- - The basic parts of the music
- were the drum and the bass.
- 630
- 00:45:09,039 --> 00:45:13,167
- Because, you know, drums are
- the first instruments in music.
- 631
- 00:45:18,132 --> 00:45:20,550
- So the drum is the heartbeat,
- 632
- 00:45:20,718 --> 00:45:23,177
- and the bass, it is the backbone.
- 633
- 00:45:23,303 --> 00:45:26,139
- Well, I think
- the drum and bass...
- 634
- 00:45:26,306 --> 00:45:28,391
- play a very important part
- in Bob's music.
- 635
- 00:45:28,559 --> 00:45:31,394
- It was, you know, "Family Îœan"
- and Carlton... two brothers.
- 636
- 00:45:31,562 --> 00:45:33,730
- They have their own style.
- 637
- 00:45:33,897 --> 00:45:35,732
- Stir it up
- 638
- 00:45:37,860 --> 00:45:39,902
- Little darlin'
- 639
- 00:45:40,070 --> 00:45:41,362
- Stir it up
- 640
- 00:45:42,781 --> 00:45:44,824
- Come on baby
- 641
- 00:45:44,992 --> 00:45:49,412
- Reggae is a concept
- of all different type of music.
- 642
- 00:45:49,580 --> 00:45:53,291
- You got funk.
- You got rhythm and blues.
- 643
- 00:45:53,459 --> 00:45:55,793
- You got soul.
- 644
- 00:45:55,961 --> 00:45:59,130
- And then very jazzy when it's ready.
- 645
- 00:45:59,298 --> 00:46:01,674
- It's been a long long time
- 646
- 00:46:03,218 --> 00:46:06,804
- Since I've got you on my mind
- 647
- 00:46:08,724 --> 00:46:11,142
- Whoa whoa whoo yeah
- 648
- 00:46:11,310 --> 00:46:14,187
- And now you are here
- 649
- 00:46:14,354 --> 00:46:18,065
- I say it's so clear
- 650
- 00:46:18,233 --> 00:46:21,652
- To see what we could do baby
- 651
- 00:46:22,029 --> 00:46:23,821
- just me and you
- 652
- 00:46:23,989 --> 00:46:26,157
- Come on and stir it up
- 653
- 00:46:28,535 --> 00:46:32,497
- Little darlin' Stir it up
- 654
- 00:46:33,707 --> 00:46:35,458
- Come on baby
- 655
- 00:46:37,002 --> 00:46:39,670
- Come on and stir it up
- 656
- 00:46:41,882 --> 00:46:45,927
- Little darlin' Stir it up
- 657
- 00:46:50,307 --> 00:46:53,643
- - I was working with a company
- called National Dry Cleaners.
- 658
- 00:46:53,811 --> 00:46:56,229
- And I was in charge of a branch.
- 659
- 00:46:56,396 --> 00:46:59,190
- And Rita came in one day
- with some clothes to,
- 660
- 00:46:59,358 --> 00:47:01,067
- you know, to be dry-cleaned.
- 661
- 00:47:01,235 --> 00:47:04,779
- She gave out the clothes
- and she said, "Rita Îœarley."
- 662
- 00:47:04,947 --> 00:47:06,948
- So I was quite surprised,
- 663
- 00:47:07,115 --> 00:47:10,076
- because, I mean, the only Îœarley I know
- was the white Îœarleys.
- 664
- 00:47:10,244 --> 00:47:12,161
- I call them the white Îœarleys.
- 665
- 00:47:12,329 --> 00:47:15,414
- And, uh, so I said, "Who is Îœarley?"
- 666
- 00:47:15,582 --> 00:47:17,834
- She said, "Well, that's my husband."
- 667
- 00:47:18,001 --> 00:47:19,794
- And I said, "Who is his father?"
- 668
- 00:47:19,962 --> 00:47:23,631
- She said she don't know much about him,
- but she know they call him Captain Îœarley.
- 669
- 00:47:23,799 --> 00:47:25,591
- And then I said, "That's my father."
- 670
- 00:47:28,220 --> 00:47:30,888
- Îœy mother used to work
- in a boardinghouse,
- 671
- 00:47:31,056 --> 00:47:33,808
- and my dad would stay there
- when he comes from...
- 672
- 00:47:33,976 --> 00:47:38,062
- From sea or wherever he goes,
- and that's how she met him.
- 673
- 00:47:38,230 --> 00:47:41,023
- And did they have a long relationship
- or was it very brief?
- 674
- 00:47:41,191 --> 00:47:43,025
- - I think it was very brief.
- 675
- 00:47:44,236 --> 00:47:47,321
- Îœy mother didn't really know
- what happened to him.
- 676
- 00:47:50,409 --> 00:47:53,119
- In Jamaica,
- used to have a big company.
- 677
- 00:47:53,287 --> 00:47:55,872
- Established company
- named Îœarley and Plant.
- 678
- 00:47:56,039 --> 00:47:58,207
- They did construction,
- Îœarley and Plant.
- 679
- 00:47:58,375 --> 00:48:02,044
- Îœost of the construction jobs
- in and around the country.
- 680
- 00:48:02,212 --> 00:48:05,047
- That was the company who did it.
- 681
- 00:48:05,215 --> 00:48:07,633
- And he always said
- those were his family.
- 682
- 00:48:07,801 --> 00:48:09,844
- - Yeah, I remember one time, I think,
- 683
- 00:48:10,012 --> 00:48:13,222
- him go to them to try borrow
- some money to buy a car,
- 684
- 00:48:13,390 --> 00:48:17,560
- you know, so they can
- deliver the records.
- 685
- 00:48:17,728 --> 00:48:19,937
- And the story goes,
- when he walked in the office,
- 686
- 00:48:20,105 --> 00:48:23,774
- like the whole staff turned around
- 'cause he looked so much like them.
- 687
- 00:48:26,153 --> 00:48:28,195
- - They told us to go away.
- 688
- 00:48:28,363 --> 00:48:31,908
- They know nothing
- about Norval having a baby.
- 689
- 00:48:32,075 --> 00:48:35,703
- - Knowing my father, as I do, um,
- 690
- 00:48:35,871 --> 00:48:38,372
- I don't know how strong
- the word rejected is.
- 691
- 00:48:38,540 --> 00:48:42,376
- But he might have
- been rejected, for sure,
- 692
- 00:48:42,544 --> 00:48:47,757
- because, um, a different era
- and my father was a disciplinarian,
- 693
- 00:48:47,925 --> 00:48:50,468
- and he was quite
- a stern man in his own way.
- 694
- 00:48:50,886 --> 00:48:55,681
- In those days Rastafarians weren't
- as socially accepted as they are now.
- 695
- 00:48:57,601 --> 00:49:01,103
- - He said to me, "When all this happened,
- it gave me more strength...
- 696
- 00:49:01,271 --> 00:49:03,230
- because I went to write a song."
- 697
- 00:49:03,398 --> 00:49:05,650
- You know, write a song.
- I said "What song?"
- 698
- 00:49:05,817 --> 00:49:08,235
- He said, "Try to pick it up."
- He said, "The stone the builder refuse.
- 699
- 00:49:08,403 --> 00:49:10,237
- I'm the stone. I'm the one."
- 700
- 00:49:10,530 --> 00:49:14,909
- I just wanted to play you a song...
- which we were told, Bob,
- 701
- 00:49:15,077 --> 00:49:18,579
- after he went to see your father
- and he felt rejected,
- 702
- 00:49:18,747 --> 00:49:20,915
- he wrote this song
- about that experience.
- 703
- 00:49:21,083 --> 00:49:23,167
- I'm just very curious to know
- what you think of it.
- 704
- 00:49:23,335 --> 00:49:27,254
- - Oh, really? I'd be interested.
- I'd be interested to hear it.
- 705
- 00:49:39,434 --> 00:49:43,187
- The stone that the builder refused
- 706
- 00:49:43,355 --> 00:49:46,816
- Will always be the head cornerstone
- 707
- 00:49:46,984 --> 00:49:49,026
- Sing it brother
- 708
- 00:49:57,411 --> 00:49:58,869
- - Nice song.
- 709
- 00:49:59,871 --> 00:50:02,498
- You're a builder baby
- 710
- 00:50:03,291 --> 00:50:05,793
- Here I am a stone
- 711
- 00:50:08,213 --> 00:50:11,924
- Don't you pick and refuse me
- 712
- 00:50:12,551 --> 00:50:14,802
- 'Cause the things people refuse
- 713
- 00:50:14,970 --> 00:50:17,346
- Are the things they should use
- 714
- 00:50:17,514 --> 00:50:19,682
- Do you hear me
- 715
- 00:50:19,850 --> 00:50:22,476
- Hear what I say
- 716
- 00:50:22,644 --> 00:50:26,981
- - I've heard this song before,
- but I never placed any significance in it.
- 717
- 00:50:27,149 --> 00:50:31,444
- But I can see where
- what you're saying could be so.
- 718
- 00:50:31,611 --> 00:50:32,862
- Îœm-hmm.
- 719
- 00:50:34,364 --> 00:50:36,866
- - Am I allowed to talk?
- - Îœm-hmm.
- 720
- 00:50:37,034 --> 00:50:40,202
- - Yeah, how true that is.
- 721
- 00:50:40,370 --> 00:50:45,791
- 'Cause Bob put the Îœarley name
- in the world, you know?
- 722
- 00:50:45,959 --> 00:50:50,838
- He filled the world with the Îœarleys
- by all his music and his children's.
- 723
- 00:50:51,965 --> 00:50:55,509
- And he now becomes the Îœarley.
- 724
- 00:50:55,677 --> 00:50:58,054
- You know what I mean?
- He now becomes the Îœarley,
- 725
- 00:50:58,221 --> 00:51:01,974
- and nobody knows what happened
- to the rest that used to be so...
- 726
- 00:51:04,102 --> 00:51:06,103
- adored and wonderful.
- 727
- 00:51:06,271 --> 00:51:08,898
- They're in the background now,
- and he's in the forefront.
- 728
- 00:51:09,066 --> 00:51:13,569
- Isn't that amazing?
- Yes. Yes. Truly.
- 729
- 00:51:15,489 --> 00:51:19,366
- The stone that the builder refused
- 730
- 00:51:19,534 --> 00:51:23,788
- Will always be the head cornerstone
- 731
- 00:51:25,123 --> 00:51:27,708
- - I think what happened to him...
- That rejection...
- 732
- 00:51:27,876 --> 00:51:31,087
- That is why he was able
- to reach the world.
- 733
- 00:51:31,254 --> 00:51:34,507
- And I think there are so many people
- out there that are hurting.
- 734
- 00:51:34,674 --> 00:51:37,760
- So many people out there that have felt
- what I have been through,
- 735
- 00:51:37,928 --> 00:51:43,599
- and I have a message that can bring change
- and transformation.
- 736
- 00:51:54,236 --> 00:52:02,236
- No woman no cry
- 737
- 00:52:12,671 --> 00:52:13,921
- 'Cause 'cause
- 738
- 00:52:14,089 --> 00:52:17,716
- 'Cause I remember
- when we used to sit
- 739
- 00:52:18,927 --> 00:52:21,804
- In the government yard
- in Trench Town
- 740
- 00:52:23,849 --> 00:52:28,352
- Oba observing
- the hypocrites yeah
- 741
- 00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:33,065
- Mingle with the good people
- we meet yeah
- 742
- 00:52:33,233 --> 00:52:38,320
- Good friends we have
- Oh good friends we've lost
- 743
- 00:52:38,488 --> 00:52:42,700
- Along the way yeah
- 744
- 00:52:42,868 --> 00:52:47,663
- In this great future
- you can't forget your past
- 745
- 00:52:47,831 --> 00:52:51,333
- So dry your tears I say
- 746
- 00:52:51,501 --> 00:52:52,668
- Yeah
- 747
- 00:52:52,836 --> 00:53:00,836
- Everything's gonna be all right
- 748
- 00:53:34,169 --> 00:53:36,420
- Somebody rang me and said,
- "Oh, by the way,
- 749
- 00:53:36,588 --> 00:53:40,090
- Bob Îœarley and the Wailers are in London.
- Would you like to meet them?"
- 750
- 00:53:40,258 --> 00:53:42,551
- I was intrigued to meet them
- because, you know,
- 751
- 00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:44,845
- you'd heard a lot about them by now.
- 752
- 00:53:48,934 --> 00:53:52,311
- When they came in the office,
- they were just really impressive.
- 753
- 00:53:52,479 --> 00:53:54,396
- Very charismatic.
- 754
- 00:53:55,607 --> 00:53:59,151
- I just said to go make an album
- and asked them how much they thought.
- 755
- 00:53:59,319 --> 00:54:01,862
- They told me, and I gave them
- the money to do that.
- 756
- 00:54:04,908 --> 00:54:07,576
- We took 4,000 pounds and
- did the Catch a Fire album.
- 757
- 00:54:09,663 --> 00:54:11,903
- I was trying to get across
- that this is a black rock act.
- 758
- 00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:14,250
- That's how I wanted it
- to be perceived.
- 759
- 00:54:14,417 --> 00:54:16,627
- Get up stand up
- 760
- 00:54:16,795 --> 00:54:19,630
- Stand up for your rights
- 761
- 00:54:19,798 --> 00:54:22,758
- Get up stand up
- 762
- 00:54:22,926 --> 00:54:25,469
- Stand up for your rights
- 763
- 00:54:25,637 --> 00:54:27,805
- Get up stand up
- 764
- 00:54:27,973 --> 00:54:30,849
- And don't give up the fight
- 765
- 00:54:35,021 --> 00:54:38,941
- Îœy sense is that Bob
- was ready to give it a try,
- 766
- 00:54:39,109 --> 00:54:40,629
- and that the others weren't that keen.
- 767
- 00:54:44,197 --> 00:54:47,700
- The frame of mind that Bob was in,
- he didn't mind it.
- 768
- 00:54:47,867 --> 00:54:50,160
- He said, "I had to start somewhere."
- 769
- 00:54:50,328 --> 00:54:51,453
- He always said it.
- 770
- 00:54:51,621 --> 00:54:53,664
- "If you don't start somewhere,
- you're not gonna get nowhere."
- 771
- 00:54:53,832 --> 00:54:56,208
- Get up stand up
- 772
- 00:54:56,876 --> 00:54:58,502
- Stand up for your rights
- 773
- 00:54:59,838 --> 00:55:01,422
- Get up stand up
- 774
- 00:55:03,049 --> 00:55:05,676
- Bob wanted it to reach
- not just the Jamaicans...
- 775
- 00:55:05,844 --> 00:55:08,554
- Bob wanted it to reach
- the American market.
- 776
- 00:55:08,722 --> 00:55:10,973
- He wanted it to reach
- the European market.
- 777
- 00:55:11,141 --> 00:55:13,809
- And in order to do that,
- you had to flavor it that way.
- 778
- 00:55:14,519 --> 00:55:15,811
- Stand up for your rights
- 779
- 00:55:17,230 --> 00:55:19,898
- Get up stand up
- 780
- 00:55:20,066 --> 00:55:21,692
- And don't give up the fight
- 781
- 00:55:28,533 --> 00:55:30,326
- Ital.
- 782
- 00:55:30,493 --> 00:55:31,952
- Irie.
- 783
- 00:55:34,331 --> 00:55:36,790
- The first record
- is easily the most,
- 784
- 00:55:36,958 --> 00:55:39,501
- for want of a better word, pasteurized.
- 785
- 00:55:39,669 --> 00:55:41,962
- I added sort of different things into it.
- 786
- 00:55:42,130 --> 00:55:45,674
- - All those guitars and the keyboards
- are all overdubs.
- 787
- 00:55:55,977 --> 00:56:00,981
- No sun will shine in my day today
- 788
- 00:56:02,150 --> 00:56:04,443
- No sun will shine
- 789
- 00:56:05,904 --> 00:56:10,824
- The high yellow moon
- won't come out to play
- 790
- 00:56:10,992 --> 00:56:14,244
- Won't come out to play
- 791
- 00:56:14,412 --> 00:56:19,166
- I said darkness
- has covered my light
- 792
- 00:56:21,002 --> 00:56:25,005
- And has changed my day
- into night yeah
- 793
- 00:56:26,299 --> 00:56:30,844
- Where is the love to be found
- 794
- 00:56:32,055 --> 00:56:34,640
- Won't someone tell me
- 795
- 00:56:34,808 --> 00:56:36,934
- I had no doubt
- that it would succeed.
- 796
- 00:56:37,102 --> 00:56:38,977
- I had no doubt.
- 797
- 00:56:39,145 --> 00:56:41,313
- The only thing that
- could stop it succeeding...
- 798
- 00:56:41,481 --> 00:56:43,357
- is if I couldn't get them to tour.
- 799
- 00:56:43,525 --> 00:56:44,942
- That was my only fear.
- 800
- 00:56:45,110 --> 00:56:46,860
- Concrete jungle
- 801
- 00:56:47,028 --> 00:56:50,948
- I say where the living is hardest
- 802
- 00:56:51,116 --> 00:56:52,408
- They went on this famous tour,
- 803
- 00:56:52,575 --> 00:56:54,493
- and things went wrong.
- 804
- 00:56:54,661 --> 00:56:56,245
- Things went sour.
- 805
- 00:56:56,413 --> 00:57:00,249
- - We did a tour of England
- of the Catch a Fire album,
- 806
- 00:57:00,417 --> 00:57:03,836
- but no one told us that
- it was a promotional tour,
- 807
- 00:57:04,003 --> 00:57:06,922
- so we wouldn't be getting any money.
- 808
- 00:57:07,090 --> 00:57:09,049
- You're top group in Jamaica now,
- 809
- 00:57:09,217 --> 00:57:13,595
- and you probably think that going
- to England is going to be the same.
- 810
- 00:57:13,763 --> 00:57:15,264
- Bob was more real.
- 811
- 00:57:15,432 --> 00:57:18,350
- 'Cause he said to me,
- "Eh, nobody know the Wailers."
- 812
- 00:57:18,518 --> 00:57:21,687
- - I think Bob recognized he needed
- to get out there and do it,
- 813
- 00:57:21,855 --> 00:57:23,772
- and I think the others were not sure.
- 814
- 00:57:23,940 --> 00:57:26,066
- It's like grassroots, you know?
- 815
- 00:57:26,234 --> 00:57:29,778
- You're on a bus all night,
- schlepping up and down the motorway,
- 816
- 00:57:29,946 --> 00:57:31,822
- eating terrible food.
- 817
- 00:57:31,990 --> 00:57:32,990
- You know, it's rough.
- 818
- 00:57:33,908 --> 00:57:38,078
- In the case of Bunny, I think he just
- didn't want to be in the cold and the snow.
- 819
- 00:57:38,246 --> 00:57:40,664
- He just... it just wasn't worth it to him.
- 820
- 00:57:44,377 --> 00:57:47,045
- Bob wanted success.
- 821
- 00:57:47,213 --> 00:57:49,465
- Bunny and Peter were more militant.
- 822
- 00:57:49,632 --> 00:57:52,092
- People wanted to separate them...
- 823
- 00:57:52,260 --> 00:57:56,472
- because they didn't want
- to deal with Bunny and Peter.
- 824
- 00:57:56,639 --> 00:57:58,891
- - When you say people,
- do you mean Island Records?
- 825
- 00:57:59,058 --> 00:58:00,392
- - Of course.
- 826
- 00:58:00,560 --> 00:58:03,061
- - The American leg was next.
- 827
- 00:58:03,229 --> 00:58:06,607
- So I said, "Are we going to get
- some money out of this leg?"
- 828
- 00:58:06,816 --> 00:58:11,820
- Chris Blackwell said, no, because
- you're gonna be doing freak clubs.
- 829
- 00:58:11,988 --> 00:58:16,366
- You know, a place where
- all kinds of immoral, mix-up things.
- 830
- 00:58:16,534 --> 00:58:19,870
- I say, "Chris
- you know that we are Rastas.
- 831
- 00:58:20,038 --> 00:58:23,290
- Why are you exposing us
- to them kind of situations there?"
- 832
- 00:58:23,458 --> 00:58:26,835
- "Well, if the Wailers don't do those clubs,
- they're nobody."
- 833
- 00:58:27,212 --> 00:58:31,298
- So I said, "Yeah?
- So I'm not going on this tour.
- 834
- 00:58:31,466 --> 00:58:34,384
- This leg, I'm coming off."
- 835
- 00:58:34,552 --> 00:58:36,712
- And my brothers, I thought,
- would have done the same...
- 836
- 00:58:36,763 --> 00:58:38,889
- as the conversation affected them both.
- 837
- 00:58:39,682 --> 00:58:44,770
- But I was left to look as if
- I was the only cold front.
- 838
- 00:58:44,938 --> 00:58:49,066
- So I hold my position anyway,
- and still holds my position.
- 839
- 00:59:02,997 --> 00:59:10,997
- Stop that train I'm leaving
- 840
- 00:59:15,176 --> 00:59:17,511
- Peter was
- a militant type of guy.
- 841
- 00:59:17,679 --> 00:59:20,722
- And I think he didn't like
- Chris Blackwell too much.
- 842
- 00:59:20,890 --> 00:59:24,059
- He figured Chris Blackwell
- was ripping them off.
- 843
- 00:59:25,478 --> 00:59:27,896
- - Well, the time came about '74...
- 844
- 00:59:28,064 --> 00:59:30,899
- when we did two L.P.'s
- with Chris "Whitewell."
- 845
- 00:59:31,067 --> 00:59:34,027
- And the way he intend to handle us...
- 846
- 00:59:34,195 --> 00:59:37,906
- was like we were unprofessional,
- or we were just beginners,
- 847
- 00:59:38,074 --> 00:59:40,242
- which I did not appreciate.
- 848
- 00:59:40,410 --> 00:59:44,580
- But after 1 2 years of being
- a background vocalist with the Wailers,
- 849
- 00:59:44,747 --> 00:59:47,082
- I didn't get much access of saying,
- 850
- 00:59:47,250 --> 00:59:49,793
- or materializing what was in me.
- 851
- 00:59:49,961 --> 00:59:52,254
- And that was totally
- depreciating my ability.
- 852
- 00:59:52,422 --> 00:59:55,757
- So I left because I need recognition
- 853
- 00:59:55,925 --> 00:59:57,843
- and respect.
- 854
- 01:00:15,153 --> 01:00:19,072
- For us as his children
- he wasn't like a lovey-dovey daddy.
- 855
- 01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:21,992
- Uh, you know,
- a daddy who would, you know...
- 856
- 01:00:22,160 --> 01:00:24,244
- "Oh, be careful, Son."
- 857
- 01:00:26,873 --> 01:00:28,248
- Him was a rough man.
- 858
- 01:00:28,416 --> 01:00:30,751
- Him was rough, you know?
- Rough, rough, rough.
- 859
- 01:00:41,012 --> 01:00:43,639
- We were always active.
- You know, like, we're on the beach.
- 860
- 01:00:43,806 --> 01:00:46,642
- We're running.
- We're racing each other.
- 861
- 01:00:46,809 --> 01:00:49,269
- It was always about racing
- to see who could beat him.
- 862
- 01:00:50,229 --> 01:00:51,938
- I mean, there was
- no let-up in him.
- 863
- 01:00:52,106 --> 01:00:55,150
- There was no, like, "It's children.
- Let me run slow."
- 864
- 01:00:58,571 --> 01:01:01,782
- The fastest he could run
- against us he would.
- 865
- 01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:05,786
- - And then he would find it hilarious,
- and we didn't find it so funny.
- 866
- 01:01:07,747 --> 01:01:10,165
- Yeah, nobody wanted
- their children around...
- 867
- 01:01:10,333 --> 01:01:11,750
- us.
- 868
- 01:01:14,379 --> 01:01:17,214
- "Nasty. Drug heads.
- 869
- 01:01:17,382 --> 01:01:21,760
- All your parents do
- is smoke weed and play music.
- 870
- 01:01:21,928 --> 01:01:24,054
- And therefore
- my kid cannot play with you."
- 871
- 01:01:25,598 --> 01:01:27,140
- So it wasn't a positive thing.
- 872
- 01:01:28,393 --> 01:01:30,894
- I would have friends who, like,
- basically if they want to sleep over,
- 873
- 01:01:31,062 --> 01:01:33,902
- they would have to tell their parents
- they were sleeping somewhere else.
- 874
- 01:01:34,691 --> 01:01:37,025
- He said, "You don't need friends.
- 875
- 01:01:37,193 --> 01:01:39,236
- You have your brothers and your sisters.
- 876
- 01:01:39,404 --> 01:01:41,446
- And that's all you need.
- 877
- 01:01:42,865 --> 01:01:44,991
- Don't ever think
- you'd need friends."
- 878
- 01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:50,497
- - I feel Bob worked through
- so many different experiences in life...
- 879
- 01:01:50,665 --> 01:01:53,792
- that I don't think him
- trust people so easy.
- 880
- 01:01:54,794 --> 01:01:58,839
- So it's like, "Who really love me?"
- 881
- 01:02:00,633 --> 01:02:03,760
- Play I some music
- 882
- 01:02:03,928 --> 01:02:06,054
- Reggae music
- 883
- 01:02:07,181 --> 01:02:12,227
- Play I some music
- Dis a reggae music
- 884
- 01:02:14,272 --> 01:02:16,815
- Roots rock reggae
- 885
- 01:02:16,983 --> 01:02:19,317
- Dis a reggae music
- 886
- 01:02:20,945 --> 01:02:23,196
- Roots rock reggae
- 887
- 01:02:24,282 --> 01:02:26,032
- Dis a reggae music
- 888
- 01:02:26,409 --> 01:02:31,037
- - Well, the harmony didn't change because
- then Bob took hold of The I-Threes.
- 889
- 01:02:31,414 --> 01:02:33,915
- Because he still wanted
- to maintain that sound.
- 890
- 01:02:35,251 --> 01:02:38,420
- I can't refuse it
- 891
- 01:02:38,588 --> 01:02:42,799
- - And Bob invited us
- to do the Natty Dread tour.
- 892
- 01:02:42,967 --> 01:02:44,885
- Feel like dancing
- 893
- 01:02:45,052 --> 01:02:47,137
- - From the very first show
- it was just...
- 894
- 01:02:49,682 --> 01:02:50,891
- Dynamite.
- 895
- 01:02:51,476 --> 01:02:55,896
- I
- 896
- 01:02:57,064 --> 01:02:58,815
- Rebel music
- 897
- 01:02:58,983 --> 01:03:01,610
- - We sold out everything.
- We're just doing clubs.
- 898
- 01:03:02,278 --> 01:03:04,863
- But like the Paul's Îœall in Boston...
- 899
- 01:03:05,031 --> 01:03:06,948
- We did like something
- like six nights straight.
- 900
- 01:03:08,826 --> 01:03:10,577
- Rebel music
- 901
- 01:03:15,291 --> 01:03:20,796
- It's that experience in a 400-seater,
- 500-seater at the Roxy.
- 902
- 01:03:20,963 --> 01:03:23,965
- The Quiet Knight in Chicago,
- another 500.
- 903
- 01:03:24,133 --> 01:03:26,134
- That was the time to see Bob Îœarley,
- 904
- 01:03:26,302 --> 01:03:30,514
- 'cause you were as close to him
- as I am to you now.
- 905
- 01:03:31,766 --> 01:03:33,683
- All the way from
- Trench Town, jamaica,
- 906
- 01:03:33,851 --> 01:03:35,143
- Bob Marley and the Wailers.
- 907
- 01:03:35,311 --> 01:03:37,521
- Come on!
- 908
- 01:03:42,819 --> 01:03:46,488
- This concert they did
- in London in 1 975... the Lyceum...
- 909
- 01:03:46,656 --> 01:03:48,406
- That was the tipping point.
- 910
- 01:03:48,574 --> 01:03:51,409
- After that, everybody knew his name.
- 911
- 01:03:51,702 --> 01:03:55,872
- There was that sense
- that he's about to be massive.
- 912
- 01:04:01,546 --> 01:04:04,548
- Firstly, it was packed.
- Over packed.
- 913
- 01:04:07,093 --> 01:04:09,886
- When you're at a concert
- and you've managed to get in,
- 914
- 01:04:10,054 --> 01:04:12,681
- and there are X hundred people
- outside who can't get in,
- 915
- 01:04:12,849 --> 01:04:14,015
- you already feel great.
- 916
- 01:04:14,183 --> 01:04:16,017
- And that energy you have
- 917
- 01:04:16,185 --> 01:04:18,186
- spreads to the band
- when they come on stage.
- 918
- 01:04:18,354 --> 01:04:20,856
- And so they feel something.
- And it was one of those things.
- 919
- 01:04:21,023 --> 01:04:24,025
- It was just... just explosive.
- 920
- 01:04:24,193 --> 01:04:28,071
- - When he walked on stage and he felt
- the crowd moving the theater,
- 921
- 01:04:28,239 --> 01:04:30,740
- it was like, "Yes."
- You know, finally.
- 922
- 01:04:31,701 --> 01:04:39,701
- No woman no cry
- 923
- 01:04:54,390 --> 01:04:56,558
- Said said
- 924
- 01:04:56,726 --> 01:05:00,687
- Said I remember
- when we used to sit
- 925
- 01:05:02,148 --> 01:05:06,234
- In the government yard
- in Trench Town
- 926
- 01:05:08,738 --> 01:05:13,074
- Oba observing the hypocrites
- 927
- 01:05:13,242 --> 01:05:16,077
- - This was owned by Chris Blackwell.
- 928
- 01:05:16,245 --> 01:05:17,746
- It was called Island House.
- 929
- 01:05:17,914 --> 01:05:21,791
- And he had several of his friends
- and associates who really lived here.
- 930
- 01:05:21,959 --> 01:05:24,794
- Not like an apartment building,
- but people who knew each other.
- 931
- 01:05:24,962 --> 01:05:28,214
- You know, they're occupied
- downstairs and upstairs.
- 932
- 01:05:28,382 --> 01:05:31,968
- Chris made this available
- for Bob to rehearse.
- 933
- 01:05:32,136 --> 01:05:34,346
- And eventually, over time,
- 934
- 01:05:34,513 --> 01:05:36,640
- Bob bought it from Chris.
- 935
- 01:05:36,807 --> 01:05:39,643
- - Well, Rastas weren't allowed uptown,
- 936
- 01:05:39,810 --> 01:05:44,314
- and, until Bob moved in,
- there were no dreadlocks there.
- 937
- 01:05:44,482 --> 01:05:46,107
- - A woman said to Bob,
- 938
- 01:05:46,275 --> 01:05:48,777
- "How come you live at 56 Hope Road,
- 939
- 01:05:48,945 --> 01:05:53,365
- which is two doors up from King's House
- where the governor lives,
- 940
- 01:05:53,532 --> 01:05:57,661
- and three doors up from Jamaica House
- where the prime minister lives?"
- 941
- 01:05:57,828 --> 01:06:02,290
- And Bob just said,
- "Sister, I bring the ghetto uptown."
- 942
- 01:06:07,630 --> 01:06:12,801
- One of the people who live here
- prior to Bob was Cindy Breakspeare.
- 943
- 01:06:12,969 --> 01:06:16,388
- And she lived there
- with her brother Reds.
- 944
- 01:06:16,555 --> 01:06:20,642
- - I loved the accommodation because I loved
- the old house with the wooden floors,
- 945
- 01:06:20,810 --> 01:06:22,602
- and, you know, it was just lovely.
- 946
- 01:06:23,270 --> 01:06:25,855
- Cool and breezy, and it was great.
- 947
- 01:06:31,278 --> 01:06:33,905
- There's always a stream
- of people up and down,
- 948
- 01:06:34,073 --> 01:06:38,535
- and shouting and laughter
- and just general carrying on.
- 949
- 01:06:39,620 --> 01:06:41,705
- You were right in the mix.
- 950
- 01:06:41,872 --> 01:06:45,500
- The most important thing culturally that
- was happening in Jamaica at that time...
- 951
- 01:06:45,668 --> 01:06:47,168
- was happening right there.
- 952
- 01:06:48,462 --> 01:06:51,589
- That was the headquarters.
- That was the center of it all.
- 953
- 01:06:51,757 --> 01:06:54,384
- Bob never left 56 Hope Road.
- 954
- 01:06:54,552 --> 01:06:58,555
- People come from
- all over the world to see him.
- 955
- 01:06:58,723 --> 01:07:01,391
- Did you live at Hope Road
- with your dad?
- 956
- 01:07:01,559 --> 01:07:03,727
- No, we lived probably a couple
- of miles from Hope Road.
- 957
- 01:07:03,894 --> 01:07:06,312
- - Right.
- - 'Cause Hope Road was really...
- 958
- 01:07:08,107 --> 01:07:10,025
- I don't know. It was a spot.
- 959
- 01:07:11,777 --> 01:07:13,820
- Rasta is an open-door thing.
- 960
- 01:07:13,988 --> 01:07:16,364
- Nobody not checking your credentials.
- 961
- 01:07:16,532 --> 01:07:18,616
- So all kinds of people
- come in to Hope Road.
- 962
- 01:07:18,784 --> 01:07:20,827
- Good, bad and indifferent.
- 963
- 01:07:21,620 --> 01:07:24,539
- Every time you go to
- 56 Hope Road,
- 964
- 01:07:24,707 --> 01:07:27,375
- you would see a lot of people
- gather with Bob... reasoning,
- 965
- 01:07:27,543 --> 01:07:29,377
- talking about politics,
- 966
- 01:07:29,545 --> 01:07:31,046
- talking about God,
- 967
- 01:07:31,213 --> 01:07:33,631
- talking about history.
- 968
- 01:07:33,799 --> 01:07:35,341
- You know, talking about everything.
- 969
- 01:07:36,260 --> 01:07:40,055
- - Bob was very strict.
- Him run this thing like an army.
- 970
- 01:07:40,222 --> 01:07:42,223
- We call him "Skipper."
- 971
- 01:07:42,391 --> 01:07:46,478
- You see, the thing is, we had
- certain strict rules at that time.
- 972
- 01:07:46,645 --> 01:07:50,231
- Woman supposed to wear dress,
- not pants.
- 973
- 01:07:50,399 --> 01:07:51,566
- So you had those kind...
- 974
- 01:07:51,734 --> 01:07:53,902
- Don't come in with
- what we call war paint.
- 975
- 01:07:54,070 --> 01:07:57,947
- Lipstick and eye shadow.
- And this is a roots saying kinda,
- 976
- 01:07:58,115 --> 01:07:59,574
- if you wanna come round Rasta,
- 977
- 01:07:59,742 --> 01:08:02,535
- then you have to throw away
- those Babylonian things.
- 978
- 01:08:03,162 --> 01:08:06,623
- It was a camp
- with rules and doctrines...
- 979
- 01:08:06,791 --> 01:08:10,835
- and tenets to live by,
- and it was serious.
- 980
- 01:08:11,545 --> 01:08:15,006
- Bob was very, like,
- health conscious with him foods.
- 981
- 01:08:15,174 --> 01:08:19,594
- The blender would always be
- going with excellent juices.
- 982
- 01:08:19,762 --> 01:08:22,347
- Irish moss on the fire.
- Fish tea going.
- 983
- 01:08:22,515 --> 01:08:24,974
- You know, everything
- to make you strong.
- 984
- 01:08:30,022 --> 01:08:32,774
- - When I met him,
- we started a routine.
- 985
- 01:08:32,942 --> 01:08:36,027
- Îœy routine was getting up
- in the mornings, training,
- 986
- 01:08:36,195 --> 01:08:38,279
- do a lot of running,
- exercise, go to the beach.
- 987
- 01:08:38,447 --> 01:08:41,032
- So it became an integral part
- of our lifestyle.
- 988
- 01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:44,786
- - The whole Rasta thing
- is based on eternal life
- 989
- 01:08:44,954 --> 01:08:46,621
- and taking care of your body.
- 990
- 01:08:46,789 --> 01:08:48,289
- It's the temple of the Lord.
- 991
- 01:08:49,125 --> 01:08:51,376
- And we'd run on the beach
- and then up this mountain
- 992
- 01:08:51,544 --> 01:08:54,796
- to a place called Cane River Falls.
- Incredible waterfalls.
- 993
- 01:08:54,964 --> 01:08:56,548
- I shot some video up there.
- 994
- 01:08:56,715 --> 01:09:01,136
- 'Cause every day we pay the price
- with a little sacrifice
- 995
- 01:09:01,303 --> 01:09:03,513
- jammin' till the jam is through
- 996
- 01:09:05,141 --> 01:09:06,724
- We're jammin'
- 997
- 01:09:08,227 --> 01:09:10,979
- Cane River,
- we went up there, really,
- 998
- 01:09:11,147 --> 01:09:14,649
- to get the waterfall
- beat on your back.
- 999
- 01:09:14,817 --> 01:09:17,402
- It was like the best massage
- you can get.
- 1000
- 01:09:20,531 --> 01:09:24,242
- This spot we're standing on now
- was a stadium.
- 1001
- 01:09:24,410 --> 01:09:25,827
- This was a football field.
- 1002
- 01:09:31,167 --> 01:09:33,209
- So we had like two goal posts.
- 1003
- 01:09:33,377 --> 01:09:35,378
- You know, like small scrimmage.
- 1004
- 01:09:35,546 --> 01:09:37,922
- The most we ever played
- was five-a-side scrimmage.
- 1005
- 01:09:38,090 --> 01:09:39,382
- So you had one there.
- 1006
- 01:09:39,550 --> 01:09:41,676
- Then we had one down the back here.
- 1007
- 01:09:41,844 --> 01:09:43,011
- So, I'd say maybe...
- 1008
- 01:09:43,179 --> 01:09:45,930
- "Wow, that's a small field
- when you look at it."
- 1009
- 01:09:46,098 --> 01:09:47,849
- Probably was what, 40 yards?
- 1010
- 01:09:50,978 --> 01:09:54,898
- In everything that Bob does,
- very competitive.
- 1011
- 01:09:55,065 --> 01:09:58,985
- So, you know, everything
- he really gave it 1 1 0%.
- 1012
- 01:10:06,118 --> 01:10:07,785
- - He had a passion.
- 1013
- 01:10:07,953 --> 01:10:10,580
- Everything I did with a ball,
- he would try to do it.
- 1014
- 01:10:13,876 --> 01:10:15,627
- He just didn't play
- for the fun of it.
- 1015
- 01:10:15,794 --> 01:10:17,795
- This was always part
- of the process, you know?
- 1016
- 01:10:17,963 --> 01:10:20,256
- Before he writes a song
- he'd burn a spliff.
- 1017
- 01:10:20,424 --> 01:10:23,927
- Then you go run,
- so you can lively up yourself.
- 1018
- 01:10:24,094 --> 01:10:27,055
- And then you get more inspired
- so the lyrics can come out.
- 1019
- 01:10:31,143 --> 01:10:34,437
- I play everywhere.
- 1020
- 01:10:34,605 --> 01:10:36,439
- Anywhere it is possible, you know?
- 1021
- 01:10:48,702 --> 01:10:51,162
- He began to come and visit.
- 1022
- 01:10:51,330 --> 01:10:54,165
- You just hear these footsteps come
- running up the steps in the evening,
- 1023
- 01:10:54,333 --> 01:10:58,002
- always when the football was over
- and place kind of quiet down, you know?
- 1024
- 01:10:58,170 --> 01:11:00,922
- And there's nobody to really see
- the little moves that you're making.
- 1025
- 01:11:01,090 --> 01:11:03,091
- 'Cause in the day the place
- is teeming with people,
- 1026
- 01:11:03,259 --> 01:11:06,803
- so you can't be too overt
- because you'd be outed instantly.
- 1027
- 01:11:32,538 --> 01:11:35,748
- I went downtown I went downtown
- 1028
- 01:11:35,916 --> 01:11:39,002
- I saw Miss Brown
- Said I saw Miss Brown
- 1029
- 01:11:39,169 --> 01:11:42,505
- She had brown sugar
- Had brown sugar
- 1030
- 01:11:42,673 --> 01:11:45,967
- All over her booga-wooga
- Over her booga-wooga
- 1031
- 01:11:46,135 --> 01:11:49,429
- Think I might join the fun
- Think I might join the fun
- 1032
- 01:11:49,596 --> 01:11:52,473
- But I had to hit and run
- But I had to hit and run
- 1033
- 01:11:52,641 --> 01:11:55,852
- See I just can't settle down
- 1034
- 01:11:56,020 --> 01:11:58,521
- In a kinky part of town
- 1035
- 01:11:58,689 --> 01:11:59,856
- Ride on
- 1036
- 01:12:00,024 --> 01:12:01,316
- When did you first meet Bob?
- 1037
- 01:12:01,483 --> 01:12:02,775
- - I see Bob every day.
- 1038
- 01:12:02,943 --> 01:12:05,611
- Bob live on Second Street.
- I live on First Street.
- 1039
- 01:12:05,779 --> 01:12:08,656
- Ride on
- See I just won't settle down
- 1040
- 01:12:08,824 --> 01:12:10,533
- Ride on Everybody
- 1041
- 01:12:10,701 --> 01:12:13,161
- I would take no notice of him...
- 1042
- 01:12:13,329 --> 01:12:16,914
- because he would bother me,
- and I would go and tell my mother.
- 1043
- 01:12:17,082 --> 01:12:19,417
- - How old were you?
- - Sixteen.
- 1044
- 01:12:19,585 --> 01:12:21,419
- Take me away
- 1045
- 01:12:21,587 --> 01:12:23,713
- Kinky reggae now
- 1046
- 01:12:23,881 --> 01:12:25,882
- What did he do
- when he paid you attention?
- 1047
- 01:12:26,050 --> 01:12:30,094
- Like stuff like,
- "Don't give it away. I'm growing you."
- 1048
- 01:12:30,262 --> 01:12:31,554
- "Remember, don't have
- any boyfriend before me."
- 1049
- 01:12:31,722 --> 01:12:34,140
- Stuff like that.
- 1050
- 01:12:34,308 --> 01:12:36,684
- - Was he charming?
- - Oh, yes.
- 1051
- 01:12:43,317 --> 01:12:45,068
- - Why were so many girls attracted to him?
- 1052
- 01:12:45,235 --> 01:12:48,154
- - Oh, my God.
- 1053
- 01:12:48,322 --> 01:12:49,655
- You don't know Bob.
- 1054
- 01:12:51,283 --> 01:12:52,533
- That's a handsome guy.
- 1055
- 01:12:52,701 --> 01:12:56,579
- I went down to Piccadilly Circus
- 1056
- 01:12:56,747 --> 01:13:01,000
- - People have visions of women
- beating down the door to get at Bob Îœarley.
- 1057
- 01:13:01,168 --> 01:13:03,920
- - Je...
- - Grabbing clothes.
- 1058
- 01:13:04,088 --> 01:13:06,964
- - Is it like that?
- - No.
- 1059
- 01:13:07,132 --> 01:13:09,967
- Why was he so successful
- with women?
- 1060
- 01:13:10,135 --> 01:13:12,136
- - Because he was shy.
- 1061
- 01:13:13,430 --> 01:13:15,598
- Bob is not the womanizer...
- 1062
- 01:13:15,766 --> 01:13:18,601
- that people make him out to be.
- 1063
- 01:13:18,977 --> 01:13:21,187
- I think more, the women came at him.
- 1064
- 01:13:21,397 --> 01:13:23,940
- That why they say Nice one
- 1065
- 01:13:24,108 --> 01:13:25,942
- - Was he faithful?
- - To whom? God?
- 1066
- 01:13:26,110 --> 01:13:28,444
- To Jah? Yes, he was faithful to Jah.
- 1067
- 01:13:28,612 --> 01:13:31,572
- Faithful to any one woman?
- No.
- 1068
- 01:13:31,740 --> 01:13:34,033
- Why? Somebody own him?
- 1069
- 01:13:35,577 --> 01:13:38,162
- What is fidelity?
- Western ideology, you know.
- 1070
- 01:13:38,330 --> 01:13:40,456
- A ring on your finger,
- a ring through your nose?
- 1071
- 01:13:40,624 --> 01:13:43,209
- That's for Western men, man.
- 1072
- 01:13:43,377 --> 01:13:45,128
- They can only handle
- one woman at a time.
- 1073
- 01:13:45,295 --> 01:13:46,796
- Bob could handle more.
- 1074
- 01:13:51,427 --> 01:13:54,595
- One day a lady
- came to me and she said,
- 1075
- 01:13:54,763 --> 01:13:56,889
- "Didn't anyone tell you
- that Bob was married?"
- 1076
- 01:13:57,057 --> 01:13:59,100
- And I didn't know.
- 1077
- 01:13:59,268 --> 01:14:01,727
- - For a time there I never knew
- that he was legally married.
- 1078
- 01:14:02,813 --> 01:14:05,940
- I did come to know.
- Eventually, his mom told me.
- 1079
- 01:14:06,108 --> 01:14:08,109
- Did he see Rita
- at all at that time?
- 1080
- 01:14:08,277 --> 01:14:10,570
- - Sure. I mean,
- they worked together, you know.
- 1081
- 01:14:10,737 --> 01:14:12,405
- Toured the world together.
- 1082
- 01:14:13,699 --> 01:14:16,993
- - When we were on tour,
- Rita had her own room.
- 1083
- 01:14:17,161 --> 01:14:19,287
- She was not with Bob.
- 1084
- 01:14:20,205 --> 01:14:21,789
- She would see everything that goes on.
- 1085
- 01:14:21,957 --> 01:14:26,210
- But she had maximum respect
- for the work.
- 1086
- 01:14:29,131 --> 01:14:30,798
- - How did you cope
- through all the years
- 1087
- 01:14:30,966 --> 01:14:32,425
- that you were married together,
- 1088
- 01:14:32,593 --> 01:14:35,636
- and Bob was having these relationships
- with other women?
- 1089
- 01:14:35,804 --> 01:14:38,764
- I became his... his guardian angel.
- 1090
- 01:14:38,932 --> 01:14:40,975
- And then by that time,
- 1091
- 01:14:41,143 --> 01:14:44,103
- I was past the surface
- of being just a wife.
- 1092
- 01:14:45,022 --> 01:14:49,066
- Because of the importance
- of who I knew Bob is.
- 1093
- 01:14:50,402 --> 01:14:52,904
- I didn't see it as a fun trip.
- We were on a mission.
- 1094
- 01:14:53,071 --> 01:14:56,365
- It was like an evangelist campaign...
- 1095
- 01:14:56,533 --> 01:14:58,618
- to bring people closer to Jah.
- 1096
- 01:15:00,662 --> 01:15:03,956
- They had this...
- This bond, you know?
- 1097
- 01:15:04,124 --> 01:15:07,668
- I wouldn't...
- I mean, you know,
- 1098
- 01:15:07,836 --> 01:15:09,545
- if that was my husband,
- I wouldn't.
- 1099
- 01:15:12,049 --> 01:15:15,510
- We never fought about women.
- We would never get into that.
- 1100
- 01:15:16,386 --> 01:15:18,054
- He would come and say to me,
- 1101
- 01:15:18,222 --> 01:15:20,932
- "Rita, I did this,"
- or "This is what happened."
- 1102
- 01:15:21,808 --> 01:15:25,269
- I was the one that he would call
- to get women out of his dressing room...
- 1103
- 01:15:25,437 --> 01:15:27,104
- when it get to that stage.
- 1104
- 01:15:27,272 --> 01:15:30,691
- "Come up for my room.
- Come and get these people out for me."
- 1105
- 01:15:30,859 --> 01:15:32,860
- And I would do that gracefully.
- 1106
- 01:15:33,028 --> 01:15:34,737
- "Come on, ladies. It's bedtime.
- 1107
- 01:15:34,905 --> 01:15:36,822
- We have a show tomorrow, so..."
- 1108
- 01:15:37,533 --> 01:15:40,368
- - She wouldn't get upset, you know,
- 1109
- 01:15:40,536 --> 01:15:41,577
- but...
- 1110
- 01:15:43,330 --> 01:15:45,456
- there were times when, you know,
- 1111
- 01:15:45,624 --> 01:15:47,250
- you knew she was hurting.
- 1112
- 01:15:48,252 --> 01:15:49,669
- Hurt all of us.
- 1113
- 01:15:51,171 --> 01:15:53,130
- And that's what he didn't like.
- 1114
- 01:15:53,757 --> 01:15:56,592
- He didn't like it when, like,
- we knew that she was hurt,
- 1115
- 01:15:56,760 --> 01:15:59,011
- and it showed on us.
- 1116
- 01:15:59,179 --> 01:16:01,055
- That's when, "Okay,
- we're going for ice cream.
- 1117
- 01:16:01,223 --> 01:16:03,558
- We're going for burgers.
- What do you want?"
- 1118
- 01:16:03,976 --> 01:16:06,394
- Do you think
- that he was being selfish?
- 1119
- 01:16:06,562 --> 01:16:09,772
- - Yes. It's not fair to no woman.
- 1120
- 01:16:10,899 --> 01:16:12,650
- That is not fair at all,
- 1121
- 01:16:12,818 --> 01:16:16,195
- but we still couldn't hate him for it.
- 1122
- 01:16:33,714 --> 01:16:37,300
- In the capital ofKingston
- there are rival shantytown ghettos...
- 1123
- 01:16:37,467 --> 01:16:40,970
- where whole communities
- are divided along sectarian lines.
- 1124
- 01:16:41,138 --> 01:16:42,555
- These zones are controlled
- 1125
- 01:16:42,723 --> 01:16:45,308
- by the prime minister's
- People's National Party,
- 1126
- 01:16:45,475 --> 01:16:47,727
- who are accused
- of being communists,
- 1127
- 01:16:47,894 --> 01:16:49,812
- or by the opposition
- jamaica Labour Party,
- 1128
- 01:16:49,980 --> 01:16:52,023
- who are accused of being fascists.
- 1129
- 01:16:53,317 --> 01:16:56,027
- - Politics in Jamaica at that time...
- 1130
- 01:16:56,194 --> 01:17:00,823
- was like an East-West confrontation,
- which was scary.
- 1131
- 01:17:00,991 --> 01:17:05,953
- You have one side which is kind
- of more ultra-conservative, right wing,
- 1132
- 01:17:06,121 --> 01:17:07,913
- which is Seaga,
- 1133
- 01:17:08,081 --> 01:17:10,499
- who was like Reagan's man
- in the Caribbean.
- 1134
- 01:17:10,667 --> 01:17:13,961
- And then Îœanley
- was trying to work a system...
- 1135
- 01:17:14,129 --> 01:17:16,881
- called democratic socialism,
- 1136
- 01:17:17,049 --> 01:17:18,674
- which other parties say,
- 1137
- 01:17:18,842 --> 01:17:21,677
- "That's just a disguise for
- saying you are a communist."
- 1138
- 01:17:22,012 --> 01:17:25,014
- Sometimes it's only insults
- or stones and bottles...
- 1139
- 01:17:25,182 --> 01:17:26,682
- thrown from one side to the other.
- 1140
- 01:17:26,850 --> 01:17:28,934
- But often it's bombs and bullets,
- 1141
- 01:17:29,102 --> 01:17:32,063
- and almost every day the newspapers
- carry fresh reports...
- 1142
- 01:17:32,230 --> 01:17:34,732
- of the previous day's killings in Kingston.
- 1143
- 01:17:34,900 --> 01:17:38,819
- The whole thing became
- like a gangster thing.
- 1144
- 01:17:38,987 --> 01:17:40,863
- Political gangster.
- 1145
- 01:17:41,031 --> 01:17:43,699
- - These were the guys
- who kept things in line
- 1146
- 01:17:43,867 --> 01:17:45,993
- for the Μ.P.s, you know.
- 1147
- 01:17:46,161 --> 01:17:51,832
- So you find that in some areas,
- the real power is enforcers.
- 1148
- 01:17:52,000 --> 01:17:54,669
- - You like this girl...
- That's both of us.
- 1149
- 01:17:54,836 --> 01:17:57,338
- You like her, and I like her.
- We start to fight over her.
- 1150
- 01:17:57,506 --> 01:18:02,093
- It's like that.
- He like P.N.P. You like J.L.P.
- 1151
- 01:18:02,260 --> 01:18:03,803
- You wanna fight for your P.N.P.
- 1152
- 01:18:05,514 --> 01:18:07,973
- - Bob was friends
- with all of those guys.
- 1153
- 01:18:08,141 --> 01:18:12,019
- All of the bad guys from
- the Labour Party was Bob friend.
- 1154
- 01:18:12,187 --> 01:18:15,064
- Likewise, all the bad guys
- from the P.N.P.
- 1155
- 01:18:16,274 --> 01:18:17,942
- These are guys that come from...
- 1156
- 01:18:18,110 --> 01:18:20,319
- the same neighborhood
- he grew up with.
- 1157
- 01:18:20,487 --> 01:18:23,030
- These are really bad guys.
- 1158
- 01:18:23,198 --> 01:18:24,865
- 'Cause you might see some guys, yeah,
- 1159
- 01:18:25,033 --> 01:18:28,953
- and then tomorrow you'd take up
- the Jamaican paper,
- 1160
- 01:18:29,121 --> 01:18:30,705
- you'd see the 1 0-most-wanted list...
- 1161
- 01:18:30,872 --> 01:18:33,457
- Four of the guys that were on it
- are already dead.
- 1162
- 01:18:33,625 --> 01:18:34,959
- There are now five.
- 1163
- 01:18:36,545 --> 01:18:38,838
- Some of them actually
- love the music, you know,
- 1164
- 01:18:39,005 --> 01:18:41,590
- but their main thing is, you know...
- 1165
- 01:18:41,758 --> 01:18:44,343
- Warfare and badness, you know.
- 1166
- 01:19:01,236 --> 01:19:07,074
- - Bob did a concert
- with Stevie Wonder in Jamaica,
- 1167
- 01:19:07,242 --> 01:19:11,203
- and they actually performed
- two songs together.
- 1168
- 01:19:11,371 --> 01:19:14,081
- I think very "Superstitious,"
- which Bob knew,
- 1169
- 01:19:14,249 --> 01:19:17,042
- and "I Shot the Sheriff."
- 1170
- 01:19:18,128 --> 01:19:21,046
- I shot the sheriff
- 1171
- 01:19:22,257 --> 01:19:26,677
- But I did not shoot the deputy
- 1172
- 01:19:28,305 --> 01:19:30,973
- Stevie made a gesture
- by giving, I think,
- 1173
- 01:19:31,141 --> 01:19:33,142
- half of his pay for the show...
- 1174
- 01:19:33,310 --> 01:19:36,479
- to the Salvation Army
- blind school in Jamaica,
- 1175
- 01:19:36,646 --> 01:19:39,982
- and I think Bob
- was moved by that.
- 1176
- 01:19:40,150 --> 01:19:44,361
- And Bob said,
- "Well, we'll give a free concert."
- 1177
- 01:19:44,529 --> 01:19:47,031
- They took that idea
- 1178
- 01:19:47,199 --> 01:19:48,365
- to Îœichael Îœanley,
- 1179
- 01:19:48,533 --> 01:19:51,410
- who was just down the road...
- The prime minister...
- 1180
- 01:19:51,578 --> 01:19:53,954
- And they were, like,
- enthused about it.
- 1181
- 01:19:54,372 --> 01:19:58,417
- Bob Marley, the world's
- leading exponent of reggae music,
- 1182
- 01:19:58,585 --> 01:20:02,213
- has agreed to appear in a major free
- concert to be held for the benefit...
- 1183
- 01:20:02,380 --> 01:20:05,049
- of the jamaican people in Kingston
- on Sunday, December 5.
- 1184
- 01:20:05,217 --> 01:20:08,719
- The announcement was made at
- a press conference held at jamaica House...
- 1185
- 01:20:08,887 --> 01:20:10,971
- by Marley, his manager Don Taylor...
- 1186
- 01:20:11,139 --> 01:20:13,307
- and the parliamentary secretary
- in charge of cultural information,
- 1187
- 01:20:13,475 --> 01:20:14,892
- Arnold Bertram.
- 1188
- 01:20:15,310 --> 01:20:17,228
- Well, I think
- he got tricked into it,
- 1189
- 01:20:17,395 --> 01:20:20,115
- 'cause he rang me and asked me
- if I thought he should do the concert.
- 1190
- 01:20:20,273 --> 01:20:24,860
- I said, "Well, if it's the prime minister,
- then you're doing it for the country.
- 1191
- 01:20:25,028 --> 01:20:26,946
- But if there's going to be
- an election soon,
- 1192
- 01:20:27,113 --> 01:20:30,366
- then you're doing it for him
- rather than the country."
- 1193
- 01:20:30,826 --> 01:20:33,994
- Two weeks following
- that announcement on November 22,
- 1194
- 01:20:34,162 --> 01:20:36,038
- jamaica's prime minister,
- Michael Manley,
- 1195
- 01:20:36,206 --> 01:20:39,416
- called new general elections
- for December 1 5.
- 1196
- 01:20:39,709 --> 01:20:43,754
- - If we knew that election was going
- to happen in that space of time,
- 1197
- 01:20:43,922 --> 01:20:45,881
- we'd have never done that concert.
- 1198
- 01:20:52,597 --> 01:20:54,390
- So with the upcoming election,
- 1199
- 01:20:54,558 --> 01:20:57,810
- you don't really want to think about
- or care who wins?
- 1200
- 01:21:02,858 --> 01:21:05,651
- - Remember, Bob is becoming
- very popular,
- 1201
- 01:21:05,819 --> 01:21:08,070
- and whoever side Bob seems to be on,
- 1202
- 01:21:08,238 --> 01:21:10,239
- that's the side people gonna be on.
- 1203
- 01:21:10,448 --> 01:21:12,199
- - Hell, Bob had a lot of control
- 1204
- 01:21:12,367 --> 01:21:14,159
- down there in Jamaica, man,
- you know?
- 1205
- 01:21:14,327 --> 01:21:16,453
- And them politicians didn't like that.
- 1206
- 01:21:16,621 --> 01:21:21,292
- - Bob, I think, had overexposed
- himself on the political side,
- 1207
- 01:21:21,459 --> 01:21:24,879
- and that was bound to draw
- the anger of some others...
- 1208
- 01:21:25,046 --> 01:21:26,547
- because he had friends
- on both sides.
- 1209
- 01:21:26,715 --> 01:21:29,758
- - The thing was, like,
- you have to be on one side.
- 1210
- 01:21:29,926 --> 01:21:31,677
- You have to be on some side.
- 1211
- 01:21:31,845 --> 01:21:34,930
- You can't be in the middle,
- or you can get hurt.
- 1212
- 01:21:39,519 --> 01:21:42,062
- We'd feel a little kind
- of tension,
- 1213
- 01:21:42,230 --> 01:21:44,273
- but, you know,
- the politics kind of getting hot.
- 1214
- 01:21:46,109 --> 01:21:48,944
- There were people saying
- that they heard...
- 1215
- 01:21:49,112 --> 01:21:51,572
- that they were gonna
- shoot up the concert.
- 1216
- 01:21:52,073 --> 01:21:57,494
- People in the group, you know,
- the musicians and The I-Threes...
- 1217
- 01:21:57,662 --> 01:22:01,749
- Every day, as it would get closer
- to this day of the concert...
- 1218
- 01:22:02,208 --> 01:22:05,252
- people was feeling hesitant
- about doing it.
- 1219
- 01:22:05,587 --> 01:22:07,880
- They had a fear for it.
- 1220
- 01:22:11,468 --> 01:22:14,428
- Every night there would be
- rehearsal at 56 Hope Road...
- 1221
- 01:22:14,596 --> 01:22:16,555
- for the concert.
- 1222
- 01:22:18,725 --> 01:22:21,101
- We usually had two guys...
- 1223
- 01:22:21,269 --> 01:22:23,604
- from equivalent to the Secret Service.
- 1224
- 01:22:23,772 --> 01:22:25,481
- They call them the Protective Service.
- 1225
- 01:22:25,649 --> 01:22:28,817
- They, like, protect the prime minister
- and stuff.
- 1226
- 01:22:28,985 --> 01:22:32,947
- And they used to come every night,
- but they never came that night.
- 1227
- 01:22:34,032 --> 01:22:37,284
- - We had took a break, so everybody
- was kind of floating around.
- 1228
- 01:22:38,078 --> 01:22:41,956
- Don Taylor, Bob and myself...
- 1229
- 01:22:42,123 --> 01:22:43,582
- was in the kitchen.
- 1230
- 01:22:45,835 --> 01:22:49,046
- - I was in the car, you know,
- getting ready to come out.
- 1231
- 01:22:49,214 --> 01:22:52,007
- I see some men going up the steps.
- 1232
- 01:22:52,175 --> 01:22:56,929
- - The gunman approached
- from the side here...
- 1233
- 01:22:57,097 --> 01:23:00,349
- and kind of pushed his gun
- through here.
- 1234
- 01:23:00,517 --> 01:23:03,727
- - Well, you see a black glove
- with a gun in it pointing up,
- 1235
- 01:23:03,895 --> 01:23:06,855
- you know... there was nowhere else
- to go in the kitchen...
- 1236
- 01:23:07,023 --> 01:23:09,191
- 'cause we just, like, at the wall.
- 1237
- 01:23:10,944 --> 01:23:13,612
- - And then I heard the gunshots.
- 1238
- 01:23:21,079 --> 01:23:24,665
- - Then they turned the gun on the car.
- 1239
- 01:23:24,833 --> 01:23:27,543
- I felt the warmest of blood running down,
- 1240
- 01:23:27,711 --> 01:23:29,878
- and then I realized I was shot.
- 1241
- 01:23:30,046 --> 01:23:33,757
- - The cat just kept on shooting, man,
- till he ran out of bullets.
- 1242
- 01:23:33,925 --> 01:23:35,509
- - The one hold a gun to my head,
- 1243
- 01:23:35,677 --> 01:23:37,761
- and one said to the other one,
- "Everybody dead?"
- 1244
- 01:23:37,929 --> 01:23:40,472
- And the other said, "Yeah, man,
- everybody dead. Everybody dead."
- 1245
- 01:23:40,640 --> 01:23:43,017
- - Next thing I see
- Don Taylor come out, man,
- 1246
- 01:23:43,184 --> 01:23:45,686
- and, like, blood pouring out of him
- like ketchup, man.
- 1247
- 01:23:46,396 --> 01:23:48,556
- And then he finally collapsed
- right there on the floor.
- 1248
- 01:23:48,648 --> 01:23:50,190
- I'm, like, "Îœan!"
- 1249
- 01:23:50,358 --> 01:23:52,985
- - And I'm shouting out for Bob,
- and then I heard a voice...
- 1250
- 01:23:53,153 --> 01:23:56,280
- who I recognized as Carly Barrett...
- Coming from.
- 1251
- 01:23:56,448 --> 01:23:58,073
- He said, "Bob is all right.
- 1252
- 01:23:59,159 --> 01:24:00,701
- Bob is all right."
- 1253
- 01:24:02,996 --> 01:24:05,122
- He had a burn right...
- 1254
- 01:24:05,290 --> 01:24:07,875
- The bullet traveled right here...
- 1255
- 01:24:08,043 --> 01:24:09,835
- and actually lodged in his arm.
- 1256
- 01:24:12,005 --> 01:24:15,966
- - It's just a miracle, man,
- that nobody died from that, man.
- 1257
- 01:24:16,134 --> 01:24:18,427
- So, it wasn't really
- a professional hit?
- 1258
- 01:24:18,595 --> 01:24:20,804
- - Well, as professional as Jamaica is.
- 1259
- 01:24:20,972 --> 01:24:23,307
- They watch a lot of movies.
- 1260
- 01:24:26,186 --> 01:24:27,561
- Here now is
- a special item of news.
- 1261
- 01:24:28,897 --> 01:24:31,732
- Entertainer and reggae star,
- Bob Marley,
- 1262
- 01:24:31,900 --> 01:24:34,902
- Rita Marley and the manager
- of The Wailers, Don Taylor,
- 1263
- 01:24:35,070 --> 01:24:37,071
- are now patients
- in the University Hospital
- 1264
- 01:24:37,238 --> 01:24:38,989
- after receiving gunshot wounds...
- 1265
- 01:24:39,157 --> 01:24:41,575
- during a shooting incident tonight.
- 1266
- 01:25:02,180 --> 01:25:04,139
- - That's one thing for sure...
- 1267
- 01:25:04,307 --> 01:25:07,434
- That they was trying to stop
- that concert from happening.
- 1268
- 01:25:07,602 --> 01:25:10,354
- - The whole thing about whether
- the concert was gonna happen or not,
- 1269
- 01:25:10,522 --> 01:25:13,002
- there was so much pressure,
- there was pressure from everywhere.
- 1270
- 01:25:13,650 --> 01:25:15,984
- - I was just scared Bob
- would get assassinated.
- 1271
- 01:25:20,281 --> 01:25:21,990
- In the twilight
- inside the arena,
- 1272
- 01:25:22,158 --> 01:25:23,951
- the crowd is fenced off...
- 1273
- 01:25:24,119 --> 01:25:27,371
- and armed police are positioned
- all around the park.
- 1274
- 01:25:27,539 --> 01:25:29,373
- Five hours after the concert
- was due to begin,
- 1275
- 01:25:29,541 --> 01:25:33,585
- the star, Bob Marley,
- is still not there.
- 1276
- 01:25:33,753 --> 01:25:36,380
- Some were trying to say,
- "Bob, don't go.
- 1277
- 01:25:36,548 --> 01:25:39,633
- They didn't get you.
- They may try for you again."
- 1278
- 01:25:39,801 --> 01:25:42,970
- - Everyone saying,
- "You really wanna do it, boss?"
- 1279
- 01:25:43,138 --> 01:25:45,097
- And he was saying... he said, "Yes."
- 1280
- 01:25:45,265 --> 01:25:47,182
- - I said, "Hey, you know,
- I'm with you, man.
- 1281
- 01:25:47,350 --> 01:25:49,393
- If you wanna do it, let's do it."
- 1282
- 01:25:49,561 --> 01:25:52,187
- The police came for him
- and took him down,
- 1283
- 01:25:52,355 --> 01:25:55,482
- and we were in the car
- right behind the police vehicle.
- 1284
- 01:26:01,281 --> 01:26:06,493
- - When I got there, I couldn't
- believe the situation, man.
- 1285
- 01:26:06,661 --> 01:26:08,871
- This is at night in Kingston.
- 1286
- 01:26:09,038 --> 01:26:12,332
- You got, like, 80,000 people, man.
- You know what I mean?
- 1287
- 01:26:12,500 --> 01:26:16,628
- If somebody wanted to try to get you,
- here's, like, a perfect situation.
- 1288
- 01:26:24,846 --> 01:26:27,723
- But it was a special night, man.
- It was a special moment, man.
- 1289
- 01:26:27,891 --> 01:26:32,936
- Come on, people!
- We got a band to see play tonight.
- 1290
- 01:26:33,104 --> 01:26:35,272
- Come on!
- 1291
- 01:26:38,902 --> 01:26:40,068
- - Whoo!
- 1292
- 01:26:44,949 --> 01:26:47,201
- Yeah.
- 1293
- 01:26:49,412 --> 01:26:51,205
- Bob was not afraid.
- 1294
- 01:26:51,372 --> 01:26:56,585
- Bob knew that if anything happens
- while he's doing his work,
- 1295
- 01:26:56,753 --> 01:26:59,004
- he know that the almighty God
- is protect him.
- 1296
- 01:27:00,048 --> 01:27:01,840
- Oh children
- 1297
- 01:27:02,008 --> 01:27:04,009
- In jamaica
- 1298
- 01:27:05,762 --> 01:27:08,138
- In jamaica yow
- 1299
- 01:27:09,599 --> 01:27:13,060
- - If you lacked faith before then,
- 1300
- 01:27:13,228 --> 01:27:16,021
- you could not deny it after that, man.
- 1301
- 01:27:16,189 --> 01:27:20,234
- Almighty
- 1302
- 01:27:20,401 --> 01:27:23,946
- Oh, Lord, help us Tonight
- 1303
- 01:27:24,113 --> 01:27:27,658
- Cast away evil The evil spell
- 1304
- 01:27:27,825 --> 01:27:30,452
- Throw some water in the well
- 1305
- 01:27:30,620 --> 01:27:34,289
- And smile in jamaica
- 1306
- 01:27:36,084 --> 01:27:38,085
- In jamaica, yow
- 1307
- 01:27:39,879 --> 01:27:42,130
- In jamaica
- 1308
- 01:27:43,466 --> 01:27:45,342
- In jamaica yow
- 1309
- 01:28:02,527 --> 01:28:05,112
- In jamaica
- 1310
- 01:28:06,281 --> 01:28:08,740
- In jamaica yow
- 1311
- 01:28:10,076 --> 01:28:12,703
- In jamaica
- 1312
- 01:28:14,080 --> 01:28:15,831
- In jamaica yow
- 1313
- 01:29:04,714 --> 01:29:09,009
- - After the shooting, he was...
- I wouldn't say scared, but just hurt.
- 1314
- 01:29:09,177 --> 01:29:11,762
- Too hurt to face Jamaica.
- 1315
- 01:29:11,929 --> 01:29:15,766
- - I was the one who escaped with him
- out of Jamaica after the shooting.
- 1316
- 01:29:15,933 --> 01:29:17,351
- Yeah... me and him.
- 1317
- 01:29:17,602 --> 01:29:20,062
- He didn't say a word
- the whole way through.
- 1318
- 01:29:22,023 --> 01:29:26,068
- We went to Nassau first,
- and then he went on to London.
- 1319
- 01:29:26,277 --> 01:29:28,195
- Don't worry
- 1320
- 01:29:29,155 --> 01:29:30,655
- About a thing
- 1321
- 01:29:33,284 --> 01:29:35,369
- 'Cause every little thing
- 1322
- 01:29:35,536 --> 01:29:38,163
- Gonna be all right
- 1323
- 01:29:39,540 --> 01:29:40,749
- Singing don't worry
- 1324
- 01:29:42,627 --> 01:29:44,252
- About a thing
- 1325
- 01:29:46,506 --> 01:29:48,423
- 'Cause every little thing
- 1326
- 01:29:48,591 --> 01:29:50,801
- Gonna be all right
- 1327
- 01:29:50,968 --> 01:29:53,845
- I think he just wanted
- to take a break.
- 1328
- 01:29:54,013 --> 01:29:55,972
- He wanted to not be
- looking over his shoulder.
- 1329
- 01:29:56,140 --> 01:29:57,724
- He wanted not to be dealing
- with the problem,
- 1330
- 01:29:57,892 --> 01:30:00,560
- not dealing with the controversy.
- 1331
- 01:30:00,728 --> 01:30:03,021
- He just wanted some
- free head space to work,
- 1332
- 01:30:03,189 --> 01:30:04,981
- to make music, to tour.
- 1333
- 01:30:05,149 --> 01:30:07,901
- Singing sweet songs
- 1334
- 01:30:08,069 --> 01:30:10,904
- - We moved immediately
- into Chelsea area.
- 1335
- 01:30:11,072 --> 01:30:12,239
- Oakley Street.
- 1336
- 01:30:12,407 --> 01:30:15,992
- It was a great experience because
- 1337
- 01:30:16,160 --> 01:30:17,661
- we're all together...
- 1338
- 01:30:17,829 --> 01:30:19,746
- in this house.
- 1339
- 01:30:19,914 --> 01:30:22,249
- - Well, on each floor
- there was a different musician.
- 1340
- 01:30:22,417 --> 01:30:24,584
- There was, uh, Tyrone Downie
- on one floor,
- 1341
- 01:30:24,752 --> 01:30:26,420
- Carlton Barrett on another floor,
- 1342
- 01:30:26,587 --> 01:30:28,630
- "Family Îœan" Barrett on another floor,
- 1343
- 01:30:28,798 --> 01:30:31,133
- Alvin "Seeco" Patterson on another floor.
- 1344
- 01:30:31,300 --> 01:30:34,094
- Neville Garrick, I think,
- was in the basement sharing with somebody.
- 1345
- 01:30:35,179 --> 01:30:38,640
- - We were a stone's throw
- from Battersea Park Bridge.
- 1346
- 01:30:38,975 --> 01:30:43,019
- Once we went over the bridge,
- then you had a football field.
- 1347
- 01:30:43,187 --> 01:30:46,231
- We even played against
- some National Front guys.
- 1348
- 01:30:46,399 --> 01:30:49,234
- We whupped them a couple of times.
- 1349
- 01:30:51,070 --> 01:30:52,487
- Did he feel like
- he was in exile?
- 1350
- 01:30:52,655 --> 01:30:53,947
- - Yeah, man.
- 1351
- 01:30:54,115 --> 01:30:58,410
- But Bob was, like, deeply
- into creation of music.
- 1352
- 01:30:58,578 --> 01:31:02,038
- That's how I think
- he satisfied his soul.
- 1353
- 01:31:03,040 --> 01:31:06,084
- Bob's life was spared,
- and he was very happy to be alive.
- 1354
- 01:31:06,919 --> 01:31:08,628
- See, Jah gave him another chance.
- 1355
- 01:31:10,256 --> 01:31:13,550
- He was also confronted
- by his mortality.
- 1356
- 01:31:13,718 --> 01:31:18,221
- And when you think that these might be
- your last opportunities to do anything,
- 1357
- 01:31:18,389 --> 01:31:22,225
- you place a greater value
- on every moment,
- 1358
- 01:31:22,393 --> 01:31:24,436
- every second of every moment
- of every day.
- 1359
- 01:31:24,604 --> 01:31:27,939
- There is no time.
- We've got no time to lose.
- 1360
- 01:31:29,192 --> 01:31:32,152
- He slept basically
- about four hours a day.
- 1361
- 01:31:32,320 --> 01:31:34,237
- And he was always writing a song.
- 1362
- 01:31:34,405 --> 01:31:37,032
- You know, you'd be up all night writing,
- and then he'd go...
- 1363
- 01:31:37,200 --> 01:31:38,992
- I'd say, "Oh, Bob.
- I've gotta go get some sleep now."
- 1364
- 01:31:39,160 --> 01:31:40,619
- He'd go, "Just half an hour more."
- 1365
- 01:31:40,786 --> 01:31:42,746
- Half an hour would turn into
- four hours, you know.
- 1366
- 01:31:44,624 --> 01:31:48,084
- Bob liked to write
- early in the morning.
- 1367
- 01:31:48,252 --> 01:31:51,171
- Come the morning,
- him have this gravelly voice, you know,
- 1368
- 01:31:51,339 --> 01:31:53,673
- like kind of Rod Stewart-ish
- kind of thing.
- 1369
- 01:32:02,767 --> 01:32:05,268
- He would be working out
- the melody, working out the melody,
- 1370
- 01:32:05,436 --> 01:32:07,812
- and then the lyrics
- would come after.
- 1371
- 01:32:09,065 --> 01:32:13,068
- Would that leave you there
- 1372
- 01:32:13,236 --> 01:32:16,696
- There's something I have to play
- 1373
- 01:32:16,864 --> 01:32:19,866
- It's that way every day
- 1374
- 01:32:21,244 --> 01:32:24,120
- Children mark my word
- 1375
- 01:32:24,288 --> 01:32:26,998
- It's what the Bible say
- 1376
- 01:32:35,841 --> 01:32:39,261
- And Îœiss World 1 976...
- 1377
- 01:32:39,428 --> 01:32:41,179
- is Îœiss Jamaica!
- 1378
- 01:32:42,640 --> 01:32:46,184
- And the Royal Albert Hall
- is in uproar.
- 1379
- 01:32:46,352 --> 01:32:48,311
- Incredible! Cindy Breakspeare.
- 1380
- 01:32:48,479 --> 01:32:51,106
- The 21 -year-old health club operator
- gets the sash.
- 1381
- 01:32:51,274 --> 01:32:53,275
- I think she's as overwhelmed as anyone.
- 1382
- 01:32:53,442 --> 01:32:55,026
- - At the time I won Îœiss World,
- 1383
- 01:32:55,194 --> 01:32:57,362
- Bob was not yet
- a household name in England.
- 1384
- 01:32:57,530 --> 01:32:59,489
- But because he was now tied to me,
- 1385
- 01:32:59,657 --> 01:33:03,118
- and Îœiss World was
- definitely a household name,
- 1386
- 01:33:03,286 --> 01:33:06,371
- we kind of... we complemented
- each other very nicely.
- 1387
- 01:33:06,747 --> 01:33:09,416
- Cindy completely overwhelmed
- by the emotion of the moment.
- 1388
- 01:33:09,584 --> 01:33:14,796
- And Wilnelia Îœerced
- crowns the new Îœiss World 1 976.
- 1389
- 01:33:16,257 --> 01:33:20,218
- It was considered quite...
- 1390
- 01:33:20,386 --> 01:33:22,345
- - Outrageous?
- - Yeah, that's a good word.
- 1391
- 01:33:22,513 --> 01:33:24,264
- "Outrageous" works.
- 1392
- 01:33:24,432 --> 01:33:28,727
- But Bob loved the achievement, you know?
- He loved the achievement.
- 1393
- 01:33:28,894 --> 01:33:32,606
- I don't think there's a man alive
- who doesn't want to get "the girl."
- 1394
- 01:33:32,773 --> 01:33:34,149
- And so...
- 1395
- 01:33:39,947 --> 01:33:42,657
- Would he have liked it
- if you had become a Rasta?
- 1396
- 01:33:43,576 --> 01:33:46,745
- Um, yes, I think
- he would have liked it.
- 1397
- 01:33:46,912 --> 01:33:49,873
- Things would always come up.
- 1398
- 01:33:50,041 --> 01:33:51,875
- Uh, how you present yourself
- as a woman.
- 1399
- 01:33:52,043 --> 01:33:54,794
- What's appropriate wear,
- cover your hair, this, that.
- 1400
- 01:33:54,962 --> 01:33:59,090
- Here I am on the train coming in
- from all parts out of London,
- 1401
- 01:33:59,258 --> 01:34:01,843
- and, you know, they've got
- this tiny little triangular sink
- 1402
- 01:34:02,011 --> 01:34:05,764
- in the bathroom on the train,
- and I'm washing all the make-up off.
- 1403
- 01:34:07,058 --> 01:34:09,851
- Anyway, one night
- I wasn't able to do that,
- 1404
- 01:34:10,019 --> 01:34:12,020
- and I came home in full regalia...
- 1405
- 01:34:12,188 --> 01:34:15,690
- Red nails, fur coat, fully made up.
- 1406
- 01:34:15,858 --> 01:34:18,818
- And no sooner than I walked
- through the front door and closed it,
- 1407
- 01:34:18,986 --> 01:34:20,987
- he walked in behind.
- 1408
- 01:34:21,155 --> 01:34:25,367
- I turned around, he looked at me and said,
- "Ah, I catch you."
- 1409
- 01:34:34,043 --> 01:34:35,794
- I wanna love you
- 1410
- 01:34:37,630 --> 01:34:39,673
- And treat you right
- 1411
- 01:34:39,840 --> 01:34:42,050
- I wanna love you
- 1412
- 01:34:44,261 --> 01:34:46,888
- Every day and every night
- 1413
- 01:34:47,306 --> 01:34:49,808
- We'll be together
- 1414
- 01:34:52,061 --> 01:34:55,063
- With a roof right over our heads
- 1415
- 01:34:55,231 --> 01:34:57,524
- We'll share the shelter
- 1416
- 01:35:00,611 --> 01:35:03,196
- Of my single bed
- 1417
- 01:35:03,364 --> 01:35:06,574
- We'll share the same room Yeah
- 1418
- 01:35:08,786 --> 01:35:11,871
- For jah provide the bread
- 1419
- 01:35:12,039 --> 01:35:14,916
- Is this love is this love is this love
- 1420
- 01:35:15,084 --> 01:35:18,378
- Is this love that I'm feelin'
- 1421
- 01:35:20,089 --> 01:35:23,049
- Is this love is this love is this love
- 1422
- 01:35:23,217 --> 01:35:26,302
- Is this love that I'm feelin'
- 1423
- 01:35:29,807 --> 01:35:31,516
- Exodus was huge.
- 1424
- 01:35:31,684 --> 01:35:33,643
- That was our biggest album
- ever there.
- 1425
- 01:35:33,811 --> 01:35:36,980
- Just mash up Europe,
- and it's tearing down America.
- 1426
- 01:35:37,148 --> 01:35:38,648
- They're waiting for us.
- 1427
- 01:35:38,816 --> 01:35:41,025
- - And then the American tour
- was canceled...
- 1428
- 01:35:41,193 --> 01:35:44,279
- because Bob was having
- problems with his toe.
- 1429
- 01:35:44,447 --> 01:35:47,407
- - Somebody stepped on it
- with their spike boots.
- 1430
- 01:35:49,160 --> 01:35:52,036
- And then it started to get infected...
- 1431
- 01:35:52,204 --> 01:35:55,081
- because Bob would still play football
- the next day on it...
- 1432
- 01:35:55,249 --> 01:35:56,624
- And the next day.
- 1433
- 01:35:56,792 --> 01:36:00,003
- - And that went on for some time...
- 1434
- 01:36:00,171 --> 01:36:02,922
- before they realized what it really was.
- 1435
- 01:36:03,090 --> 01:36:09,429
- - They came up with a definitive
- diagnosis of melanoma.
- 1436
- 01:36:09,597 --> 01:36:12,348
- - And they tested
- and they found out that...
- 1437
- 01:36:12,516 --> 01:36:16,060
- that was more like
- a white person sort of sickness.
- 1438
- 01:36:16,228 --> 01:36:18,271
- It wasn't coming from a black source.
- 1439
- 01:36:18,439 --> 01:36:22,859
- It was the whiteness in him
- that allowed it to get this bad.
- 1440
- 01:36:24,820 --> 01:36:26,620
- What did they recommend
- he should do about it?
- 1441
- 01:36:26,781 --> 01:36:30,158
- - They recommended
- disarticulation at the hip.
- 1442
- 01:36:30,326 --> 01:36:32,952
- In other words,
- remove the entire leg.
- 1443
- 01:36:33,120 --> 01:36:36,915
- The doctor in England told him
- he had to cut his whole leg off.
- 1444
- 01:36:37,082 --> 01:36:38,458
- Was that...
- Do you remember that?
- 1445
- 01:36:38,626 --> 01:36:39,959
- - No.
- 1446
- 01:36:40,127 --> 01:36:42,712
- Had to cut off his... his toe.
- 1447
- 01:36:44,089 --> 01:36:45,840
- It was definitely not his leg.
- 1448
- 01:36:46,008 --> 01:36:50,053
- - A lot of people told Bob
- that once you cut your toe off...
- 1449
- 01:36:50,221 --> 01:36:51,513
- Your big toe especially...
- 1450
- 01:36:51,680 --> 01:36:53,348
- You won't be able to dance anymore.
- 1451
- 01:36:53,516 --> 01:36:57,602
- - He loved football, so...
- 1452
- 01:36:57,770 --> 01:37:00,188
- I think the thought
- of having his toe amputated
- 1453
- 01:37:00,356 --> 01:37:01,731
- was just unacceptable to him.
- 1454
- 01:37:01,899 --> 01:37:05,777
- - So, this other doctor
- we saw in Îœiami said,
- 1455
- 01:37:05,945 --> 01:37:08,112
- "No, it's not necessary.
- 1456
- 01:37:08,280 --> 01:37:10,990
- We can just take off a portion of it.
- 1457
- 01:37:11,158 --> 01:37:12,992
- We don't have to remove the whole toe.
- 1458
- 01:37:13,160 --> 01:37:16,204
- You can just take off the whole nail bed,
- and you know,
- 1459
- 01:37:16,372 --> 01:37:17,956
- it wouldn't be necessary."
- 1460
- 01:37:19,917 --> 01:37:24,379
- He got very bad advice
- from the people that was around him.
- 1461
- 01:37:43,983 --> 01:37:46,317
- Until the philosophy
- 1462
- 01:37:46,485 --> 01:37:48,862
- Which hold one race superior
- 1463
- 01:37:49,029 --> 01:37:50,530
- And another
- 1464
- 01:37:52,575 --> 01:37:53,950
- Inferior
- 1465
- 01:37:55,411 --> 01:37:56,870
- Is finally
- 1466
- 01:37:58,414 --> 01:38:00,415
- And permanently
- 1467
- 01:38:01,375 --> 01:38:03,209
- Discredited
- 1468
- 01:38:04,086 --> 01:38:06,087
- And abandoned
- 1469
- 01:38:06,255 --> 01:38:09,007
- Well everywhere is war
- 1470
- 01:38:09,967 --> 01:38:11,384
- Me say war
- 1471
- 01:38:13,053 --> 01:38:15,388
- And until there's no longer
- 1472
- 01:38:15,556 --> 01:38:18,349
- First-class nor second-class citizens
- 1473
- 01:38:18,517 --> 01:38:20,101
- Of any nation
- 1474
- 01:38:21,395 --> 01:38:24,272
- Until the color of a man's skin
- 1475
- 01:38:24,440 --> 01:38:26,566
- Is of no more significance
- 1476
- 01:38:26,734 --> 01:38:29,110
- Than the color of his eyes
- 1477
- 01:38:29,278 --> 01:38:31,195
- I've got to say war
- 1478
- 01:38:32,698 --> 01:38:35,617
- War in the east
- 1479
- 01:38:35,784 --> 01:38:37,535
- War in the west
- 1480
- 01:38:38,245 --> 01:38:40,163
- War up north
- 1481
- 01:38:40,998 --> 01:38:42,624
- War down south
- 1482
- 01:38:43,959 --> 01:38:46,044
- This a war
- 1483
- 01:38:47,713 --> 01:38:49,464
- War
- 1484
- 01:38:49,632 --> 01:38:53,509
- War
- 1485
- 01:38:57,056 --> 01:38:59,390
- There was a movement
- to bring Bob back...
- 1486
- 01:38:59,558 --> 01:39:01,601
- because it was felt
- that he had the potential...
- 1487
- 01:39:01,769 --> 01:39:05,897
- to heal the very strong
- division that existed.
- 1488
- 01:39:07,983 --> 01:39:09,651
- - The government was begging...
- 1489
- 01:39:09,818 --> 01:39:12,445
- because they said Jamaica
- is lost without Bob Îœarley.
- 1490
- 01:39:12,613 --> 01:39:14,697
- We can't say, "Bob is in exile."
- 1491
- 01:39:14,865 --> 01:39:18,743
- So they got one of their main leader,
- Claudie Îœassop,
- 1492
- 01:39:18,911 --> 01:39:21,079
- to speak to Bob.
- 1493
- 01:39:21,914 --> 01:39:24,582
- - This guy, he was from
- the other side of the party...
- 1494
- 01:39:24,750 --> 01:39:25,959
- Claudie Îœassop.
- 1495
- 01:39:26,126 --> 01:39:28,252
- And the next one named Tek-Life.
- 1496
- 01:39:28,420 --> 01:39:30,964
- I don't remember his right name,
- but we call him Tek-Life.
- 1497
- 01:39:31,131 --> 01:39:36,636
- They went up to England to pursue Bob
- to come down, back to Jamaica.
- 1498
- 01:39:36,804 --> 01:39:39,055
- - Bob sent for them, in a way,
- 1499
- 01:39:39,223 --> 01:39:43,142
- to come up, and so they would be on...
- Away from Jamaica,
- 1500
- 01:39:43,310 --> 01:39:45,311
- away from that political influence,
- 1501
- 01:39:45,479 --> 01:39:47,939
- and they could reason
- among themselves.
- 1502
- 01:39:48,524 --> 01:39:51,859
- The two guys who went up there
- for him was on the opposition.
- 1503
- 01:39:52,027 --> 01:39:54,362
- So I would represent the other side,
- 1504
- 01:39:54,530 --> 01:39:56,614
- so if he say "I don't come,"
- 1505
- 01:39:56,782 --> 01:39:59,367
- then he ain't coming back to Jamaica.
- 1506
- 01:39:59,535 --> 01:40:01,619
- So I have to go to England.
- 1507
- 01:40:04,748 --> 01:40:08,292
- Of those people,
- how many are still alive?
- 1508
- 01:40:09,962 --> 01:40:11,671
- - One.
- 1509
- 01:40:12,589 --> 01:40:14,632
- The one you're speaking to.
- 1510
- 01:40:16,260 --> 01:40:18,720
- We jah people
- 1511
- 01:40:18,887 --> 01:40:21,222
- Can make it work
- 1512
- 01:40:23,017 --> 01:40:25,018
- Come together
- 1513
- 01:40:26,562 --> 01:40:28,563
- And make it work yeah
- 1514
- 01:40:30,482 --> 01:40:33,359
- I'm singing that we
- 1515
- 01:40:33,527 --> 01:40:36,112
- Can make it work
- 1516
- 01:40:36,280 --> 01:40:38,072
- Bob started doing that song
- which is,
- 1517
- 01:40:38,240 --> 01:40:40,700
- "We, Jah people, shall come together
- and make it work."
- 1518
- 01:40:40,868 --> 01:40:43,629
- Then they decided to have a concert,
- they'd just have a peace concert.
- 1519
- 01:40:44,872 --> 01:40:46,312
- - Last month a truce was arranged...
- 1520
- 01:40:46,415 --> 01:40:49,792
- between the rival political factions
- in Kingston, Jamaica.
- 1521
- 01:40:49,960 --> 01:40:53,546
- A peace conference was arranged,
- to be preceded by a peace concert...
- 1522
- 01:40:53,714 --> 01:40:55,381
- for the people in a very large park.
- 1523
- 01:40:55,549 --> 01:40:58,009
- They expect over
- a hundred thousand people there.
- 1524
- 01:40:58,177 --> 01:41:01,971
- Bob Îœarley was invited to headline
- this peace concert.
- 1525
- 01:41:02,139 --> 01:41:04,015
- Îœarley has accepted...
- 1526
- 01:41:04,183 --> 01:41:06,726
- and will return to Kingston, Jamaica.
- 1527
- 01:41:06,894 --> 01:41:08,895
- Bob, why are you
- returning to Jamaica?
- 1528
- 01:41:09,063 --> 01:41:10,897
- - Well, my life not important to me.
- 1529
- 01:41:11,065 --> 01:41:12,940
- Other people life important.
- 1530
- 01:41:13,108 --> 01:41:15,818
- Îœy life is only important
- if me can help plenty people.
- 1531
- 01:41:15,986 --> 01:41:19,113
- If my life is just me and my own security,
- then me don't want it.
- 1532
- 01:41:19,281 --> 01:41:22,825
- Îœy life is for people, as many is.
- 1533
- 01:41:35,798 --> 01:41:38,883
- Busloads of people
- went out to the airport.
- 1534
- 01:41:39,051 --> 01:41:40,718
- They stormed the runway.
- 1535
- 01:41:40,886 --> 01:41:42,970
- When the plane landed,
- 1536
- 01:41:43,138 --> 01:41:45,431
- they jumped over the barriers
- and ran towards the plane,
- 1537
- 01:41:45,599 --> 01:41:48,399
- which was similar to what happened
- when Haile Selassie came to Jamaica.
- 1538
- 01:42:00,781 --> 01:42:04,617
- It was amazing to see
- this stadium of 30,000 people.
- 1539
- 01:42:04,785 --> 01:42:07,078
- People who were opposed politically...
- 1540
- 01:42:07,246 --> 01:42:09,205
- were sitting beside each other.
- 1541
- 01:42:22,636 --> 01:42:25,805
- I wanna jam with you
- 1542
- 01:42:25,973 --> 01:42:29,100
- I really wanna jam it with you
- 1543
- 01:42:30,144 --> 01:42:32,311
- I wanna jam with you
- 1544
- 01:42:33,480 --> 01:42:35,314
- I really wanna jam it
- 1545
- 01:42:35,482 --> 01:42:37,066
- I really wanna jam
- 1546
- 01:42:37,234 --> 01:42:40,695
- I wanna jam with you
- 1547
- 01:42:40,863 --> 01:42:43,823
- Whoa I hope you like jammin' too
- 1548
- 01:42:43,991 --> 01:42:46,367
- Well, oh, well-well
- Oh, well
- 1549
- 01:42:49,955 --> 01:42:52,039
- I wanna jam it with you Yeah
- 1550
- 01:42:52,207 --> 01:42:55,001
- Ooh. Just let me
- tell you something else.
- 1551
- 01:42:55,169 --> 01:42:57,879
- Yeah.
- Hope you like jammin' too
- 1552
- 01:42:58,046 --> 01:43:02,049
- To make everything come true,
- we got to be together.
- 1553
- 01:43:02,217 --> 01:43:04,844
- Yeah. Yeah.
- I wanna jam it with you
- 1554
- 01:43:05,012 --> 01:43:07,805
- And to the spirit of the most high,
- 1555
- 01:43:07,973 --> 01:43:11,809
- His Imperial Îœajesty,
- Emperor Haile Selassie I,
- 1556
- 01:43:11,977 --> 01:43:15,062
- from writing to...
- 1557
- 01:43:15,230 --> 01:43:17,481
- leading people...
- 1558
- 01:43:17,649 --> 01:43:19,734
- of the slavery to be here...
- 1559
- 01:43:19,902 --> 01:43:21,402
- to shake hands.
- 1560
- 01:43:21,570 --> 01:43:24,405
- Show the people that you love them right
- 1561
- 01:43:24,573 --> 01:43:28,743
- Show the people that you gonna unite
- 1562
- 01:43:28,911 --> 01:43:31,871
- Show the people that we're all right
- 1563
- 01:43:32,039 --> 01:43:34,999
- Show the people that
- everything is all right
- 1564
- 01:43:35,167 --> 01:43:36,959
- I actually played a wrong note.
- 1565
- 01:43:38,670 --> 01:43:40,713
- He started singing,
- "Whoa, watch what you're doing."
- 1566
- 01:43:40,881 --> 01:43:43,633
- Watch watch watch
- watch watch watch watch
- 1567
- 01:43:43,800 --> 01:43:45,426
- Watch what you're doing
- 1568
- 01:43:45,594 --> 01:43:47,345
- - Everybody thought he was trying
- to tell the people out there,
- 1569
- 01:43:47,512 --> 01:43:50,097
- "Watch what you're doing."
- But he was really talking to me.
- 1570
- 01:43:54,895 --> 01:43:56,395
- - He was very spiritual.
- 1571
- 01:43:56,563 --> 01:43:58,522
- This was like, "Hey."
- 1572
- 01:44:02,110 --> 01:44:04,737
- I'm trying to say
- 1573
- 01:44:04,905 --> 01:44:06,405
- Could we have...
- 1574
- 01:44:06,573 --> 01:44:09,825
- Could we have up here, on stage here,
- 1575
- 01:44:09,993 --> 01:44:14,789
- the presence of Îœr. Îœichael Îœanley
- and Îœr. Edward Seaga?
- 1576
- 01:44:14,957 --> 01:44:16,624
- Whoa
- 1577
- 01:44:18,126 --> 01:44:20,461
- I just want to shake hands
- and show the people...
- 1578
- 01:44:20,629 --> 01:44:22,922
- that we gonna be all right.
- 1579
- 01:44:23,090 --> 01:44:24,799
- We gonna unite
- 1580
- 01:44:24,967 --> 01:44:26,968
- We're gonna make them right
- 1581
- 01:44:27,135 --> 01:44:28,469
- We got to unite
- 1582
- 01:44:33,308 --> 01:44:36,811
- He didn't plan it at all.
- It was spontaneous.
- 1583
- 01:44:38,605 --> 01:44:41,107
- - I'm waiting.
- I'm waiting.
- 1584
- 01:44:41,275 --> 01:44:43,859
- Oh Lord oh Lord
- 1585
- 01:44:44,027 --> 01:44:45,778
- Help us out I pray
- 1586
- 01:44:50,033 --> 01:44:51,951
- Anything could have
- happened at that point.
- 1587
- 01:44:52,119 --> 01:44:57,290
- I was just praying that the people didn't
- get foolish and start shooting again.
- 1588
- 01:45:00,335 --> 01:45:02,712
- There were no preachment
- or anything like that.
- 1589
- 01:45:02,879 --> 01:45:07,883
- He just took our hands and said a few
- words, held it up above his head.
- 1590
- 01:45:08,051 --> 01:45:10,469
- And at that moment,
- everybody was one.
- 1591
- 01:45:11,888 --> 01:45:13,222
- - Love.
- 1592
- 01:45:13,390 --> 01:45:14,932
- Prosperity.
- 1593
- 01:45:15,100 --> 01:45:17,852
- Be with us all. Jah.
- 1594
- 01:45:18,020 --> 01:45:20,688
- Rastafari. Selassie.
- 1595
- 01:45:27,321 --> 01:45:29,572
- He was able to do that.
- 1596
- 01:45:29,740 --> 01:45:32,616
- He was able to bring people
- together in that way.
- 1597
- 01:45:32,784 --> 01:45:36,245
- The same half uptown, half downtown,
- half black, half white.
- 1598
- 01:45:36,413 --> 01:45:38,456
- It's that marriage of everything.
- 1599
- 01:45:38,623 --> 01:45:41,250
- He just embodied it
- all in one person.
- 1600
- 01:45:55,223 --> 01:45:58,100
- As his career grows,
- so grew a better education,
- 1601
- 01:45:58,268 --> 01:46:01,896
- and a better car,
- and a bigger house with more rooms.
- 1602
- 01:46:02,064 --> 01:46:05,191
- But my father would always
- take us back to Trench Town.
- 1603
- 01:46:06,985 --> 01:46:09,070
- Sometime Bob would go
- down the ghetto and, you know,
- 1604
- 01:46:09,237 --> 01:46:13,699
- pass through and thing like that
- and would never lock his car up.
- 1605
- 01:46:13,867 --> 01:46:16,827
- 'Cause that's like saying
- you don't trust people.
- 1606
- 01:46:17,120 --> 01:46:19,622
- Have you made a lot of money
- out of your music?
- 1607
- 01:46:19,790 --> 01:46:21,832
- - Îœoney.
- 1608
- 01:46:22,000 --> 01:46:23,542
- I mean, what is a...
- How much is...
- 1609
- 01:46:23,710 --> 01:46:25,086
- How much is a lot of money to you?
- 1610
- 01:46:25,253 --> 01:46:29,799
- - That's a good question.
- Have you made, say, millions of dollars?
- 1611
- 01:46:29,966 --> 01:46:31,217
- - No.
- 1612
- 01:46:31,385 --> 01:46:33,177
- - Are you a rich man?
- 1613
- 01:46:33,345 --> 01:46:35,179
- - When you mean rich, what you mean?
- 1614
- 01:46:35,347 --> 01:46:38,224
- - Do you have a lot of possessions,
- a lot of money in the bank?
- 1615
- 01:46:38,392 --> 01:46:39,767
- - Possession make you rich?
- 1616
- 01:46:39,935 --> 01:46:44,855
- I don't have that type of riches.
- Îœy riches is life forever.
- 1617
- 01:46:45,148 --> 01:46:47,441
- Hope Road
- was always swarming with people,
- 1618
- 01:46:47,609 --> 01:46:49,110
- and for the same reason...
- 1619
- 01:46:49,277 --> 01:46:51,987
- Looking for an opportunity,
- looking for some money,
- 1620
- 01:46:52,155 --> 01:46:53,989
- looking for a handout, need a job...
- 1621
- 01:46:54,157 --> 01:46:56,367
- "Îœy children's school fees,"
- on and on and on.
- 1622
- 01:46:56,535 --> 01:46:59,370
- You have lines every day
- at Hope Road.
- 1623
- 01:46:59,538 --> 01:47:03,582
- People from all walks...
- They bring the baby, they bring the kids.
- 1624
- 01:47:03,750 --> 01:47:07,044
- You have long lines,
- and he just hand out...
- 1625
- 01:47:07,212 --> 01:47:09,052
- He doesn't just give, like, pittance,
- you know.
- 1626
- 01:47:09,214 --> 01:47:13,134
- He give you enough that
- you can start something, you know.
- 1627
- 01:47:13,385 --> 01:47:17,054
- A couple ofyears ago,
- no one would have believed...
- 1628
- 01:47:17,222 --> 01:47:20,099
- that this raggle-taggle
- tribe of jamaican musicians...
- 1629
- 01:47:20,267 --> 01:47:23,102
- would be packing
- Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens.
- 1630
- 01:47:23,270 --> 01:47:25,312
- It's a sign of reggae's
- growing acceptance...
- 1631
- 01:47:25,480 --> 01:47:27,857
- in the international pop music scene.
- 1632
- 01:47:28,024 --> 01:47:32,653
- And it's also catapulted this man,
- Bob Marley, to superstardom.
- 1633
- 01:47:34,322 --> 01:47:35,865
- We don't need no trouble
- 1634
- 01:47:36,032 --> 01:47:37,992
- No no no no
- 1635
- 01:47:38,160 --> 01:47:40,786
- - Bob once made a statement.
- He said they ask him,
- 1636
- 01:47:40,954 --> 01:47:42,997
- "How big you think this music will get?"
- 1637
- 01:47:43,165 --> 01:47:47,585
- Bob says, "You know, this music
- will get bigger and bigger and bigger...
- 1638
- 01:47:47,752 --> 01:47:50,463
- till it reaches right people."
- 1639
- 01:47:50,630 --> 01:47:53,174
- Which, to me, is the whole world.
- 1640
- 01:48:02,851 --> 01:48:07,271
- - Yes, you know, come a long way.
- 1641
- 01:48:20,744 --> 01:48:22,369
- Lively up yourself
- 1642
- 01:48:22,537 --> 01:48:25,039
- And don't be no drag
- 1643
- 01:48:26,875 --> 01:48:29,251
- Lively up yourself
- 1644
- 01:48:29,419 --> 01:48:31,545
- For reggae is another bag
- 1645
- 01:48:33,256 --> 01:48:35,633
- I watched from 200-seaters...
- 1646
- 01:48:35,800 --> 01:48:39,762
- to a thousand, and then I saw 80,000.
- 1647
- 01:48:39,930 --> 01:48:41,931
- I saw a hundred thousand.
- 1648
- 01:48:42,098 --> 01:48:43,641
- 'Cause I said so
- 1649
- 01:48:44,851 --> 01:48:48,270
- What you gonna do
- You rock so you rock so
- 1650
- 01:48:49,356 --> 01:48:50,648
- We tore up Europe.
- 1651
- 01:48:50,815 --> 01:48:53,567
- We played to, like, maybe
- two million people in six weeks.
- 1652
- 01:48:54,903 --> 01:48:57,905
- We broke everybody's record over there.
- The Rolling Stones...
- 1653
- 01:48:58,698 --> 01:49:01,325
- You skank so You skank so
- 1654
- 01:49:02,244 --> 01:49:03,619
- Oh yeah
- 1655
- 01:49:05,455 --> 01:49:07,957
- You come so You come so
- 1656
- 01:49:08,124 --> 01:49:10,084
- Come alive today yeah
- 1657
- 01:49:11,836 --> 01:49:13,671
- And lively up yourself
- 1658
- 01:49:16,466 --> 01:49:18,092
- - Yeah!
- 1659
- 01:49:18,468 --> 01:49:22,638
- He did a concert in Tokyo...
- 4,000 people.
- 1660
- 01:49:22,806 --> 01:49:24,390
- Everybody's totally Japanese.
- 1661
- 01:49:24,558 --> 01:49:27,935
- Singing every song word for word.
- 1662
- 01:49:28,103 --> 01:49:31,522
- Îœost of them could not
- even understand.
- 1663
- 01:49:31,690 --> 01:49:32,982
- They spoke a different language.
- 1664
- 01:49:33,149 --> 01:49:36,986
- But they felt the music and
- they knew what he was saying.
- 1665
- 01:49:37,571 --> 01:49:39,530
- Lively up yourself
- 1666
- 01:49:39,698 --> 01:49:41,907
- In the morning time Lord
- 1667
- 01:49:43,368 --> 01:49:47,997
- The media lied and said
- that Bob smoke a pound a day.
- 1668
- 01:49:50,417 --> 01:49:53,794
- And so everywhere we went,
- the police was on our heels,
- 1669
- 01:49:53,962 --> 01:49:57,256
- and they would search our belongings
- with a fine-toothed comb.
- 1670
- 01:50:00,176 --> 01:50:03,929
- You would see police
- with dogs on the bus, searching.
- 1671
- 01:50:04,097 --> 01:50:07,099
- But every time they searched,
- they never found anything.
- 1672
- 01:50:07,267 --> 01:50:08,851
- So, they didn't bother with us again.
- 1673
- 01:50:13,106 --> 01:50:15,899
- Towards the latter years,
- they're more, like,
- 1674
- 01:50:16,067 --> 01:50:18,611
- "You have any posters?" like.
- 1675
- 01:50:18,778 --> 01:50:22,281
- So we basically just came out
- with the passports,
- 1676
- 01:50:22,449 --> 01:50:24,950
- a whole bunch of records and posters,
- 1677
- 01:50:25,118 --> 01:50:27,995
- and they didn't even look,
- they just stamped.
- 1678
- 01:50:54,064 --> 01:50:59,068
- - One of his main concern was
- that he wasn't reaching the black people.
- 1679
- 01:50:59,235 --> 01:51:02,404
- You know, he's noticed all his shows
- are all white, all white, every show,
- 1680
- 01:51:02,572 --> 01:51:04,239
- so that kind of was puzzling to him.
- 1681
- 01:51:04,407 --> 01:51:07,951
- - I was in Nigeria and came back
- and told him about the response...
- 1682
- 01:51:08,119 --> 01:51:09,620
- of the people to him in Nigeria,
- 1683
- 01:51:09,788 --> 01:51:12,081
- who had never seen him,
- but just the music.
- 1684
- 01:51:12,248 --> 01:51:15,167
- And he couldn't believe it.
- I said, "Yes, I'm serious."
- 1685
- 01:51:15,460 --> 01:51:18,170
- I said, "Africa is really waiting for you.
- 1686
- 01:51:18,338 --> 01:51:21,258
- As a matter of fact, if you go to Africa,
- you really might not come back."
- 1687
- 01:51:56,251 --> 01:51:58,669
- Check out the real situation
- 1688
- 01:52:00,004 --> 01:52:02,548
- Nation war against nation
- 1689
- 01:52:03,758 --> 01:52:05,801
- Where did it all begin
- 1690
- 01:52:06,261 --> 01:52:08,846
- Her father was
- the president of Gabon.
- 1691
- 01:52:09,013 --> 01:52:11,056
- We didn't know he was a dictator
- when we went, but we found out.
- 1692
- 01:52:11,224 --> 01:52:14,685
- It was, like, "Okay, we're here.
- It's too late. Let's just play."
- 1693
- 01:52:19,566 --> 01:52:21,066
- And his daughter
- was in love with Bob.
- 1694
- 01:52:36,708 --> 01:52:38,959
- To Bob, Africa is
- the motherland, you know,
- 1695
- 01:52:39,127 --> 01:52:41,587
- and he loved Jamaica,
- but he was in transit.
- 1696
- 01:52:41,755 --> 01:52:43,589
- Africa was his destination.
- 1697
- 01:52:44,507 --> 01:52:46,842
- And everything is just for a while
- 1698
- 01:52:47,010 --> 01:52:50,345
- It seems like total destruction
- 1699
- 01:52:50,513 --> 01:52:51,597
- The only solution
- 1700
- 01:52:51,765 --> 01:52:55,350
- You don't die and go to heaven.
- You have to live in heaven.
- 1701
- 01:52:55,518 --> 01:52:59,062
- Africa is our heaven because
- that's where we come from.
- 1702
- 01:53:42,524 --> 01:53:46,235
- - Everywhere we went, the kids
- were running beside the bus...
- 1703
- 01:53:46,402 --> 01:53:48,320
- and waving and hollering,
- 1704
- 01:53:48,488 --> 01:53:51,073
- "Bob Îœarley! Bob Îœarley!
- Ganja! Ganja!"
- 1705
- 01:53:51,241 --> 01:53:52,324
- We said, "Uh-oh."
- 1706
- 01:54:14,889 --> 01:54:17,558
- - Bob asked me to find out
- from Pascaline...
- 1707
- 01:54:17,725 --> 01:54:19,810
- how much money
- we were actually paid.
- 1708
- 01:54:20,603 --> 01:54:25,023
- And what she told me was a lot more money
- than what Bob was told by Don.
- 1709
- 01:54:39,873 --> 01:54:41,707
- - He kick him down.
- 1710
- 01:54:42,333 --> 01:54:45,419
- Leapt across the room
- and kick him down.
- 1711
- 01:54:45,587 --> 01:54:47,838
- - Yeah, I saw him kick his ass.
- 1712
- 01:54:48,006 --> 01:54:52,718
- In fact, we questioned him
- for almost three hours that night on tape.
- 1713
- 01:54:52,886 --> 01:54:54,595
- - We were on the 23rd floor,
- 1714
- 01:54:54,762 --> 01:54:58,265
- and they kind of held Don
- outside the window for a minute.
- 1715
- 01:54:58,433 --> 01:55:01,602
- - Bob would ask him the same question,
- like, maybe half an hour later,
- 1716
- 01:55:01,769 --> 01:55:03,645
- and he answered different,
- 1717
- 01:55:03,813 --> 01:55:06,607
- and Bob said, "Garrick, rewind."
- 1718
- 01:55:06,774 --> 01:55:08,650
- Ding! Play.
- 1719
- 01:55:08,818 --> 01:55:10,944
- And then, "Wasn't you said that, boy?"
- 1720
- 01:55:11,112 --> 01:55:14,239
- Slap him couple of times.
- Shit!
- 1721
- 01:55:14,407 --> 01:55:16,241
- Hey!
- 1722
- 01:55:18,328 --> 01:55:22,664
- It was the policy
- of keeping Africans in their place,
- 1723
- 01:55:22,832 --> 01:55:24,541
- which, by 1 965,
- 1724
- 01:55:24,709 --> 01:55:28,754
- made Rhodesia illegal
- in the eyes of the world.
- 1725
- 01:55:28,922 --> 01:55:32,883
- - I don't believe in black majority rule
- ever in Rhodesia.
- 1726
- 01:55:33,051 --> 01:55:35,218
- Not in a thousand years.
- 1727
- 01:55:42,894 --> 01:55:44,728
- Bob wrote a song
- called "Zimbabwe."
- 1728
- 01:55:44,896 --> 01:55:46,980
- "Natty mash it in-a Zimbabwe.
- 1729
- 01:55:47,148 --> 01:55:49,316
- I 'n' I liberate Zimbabwe."
- 1730
- 01:55:49,484 --> 01:55:51,276
- And when the song got to Zimbabwe,
- 1731
- 01:55:51,444 --> 01:55:54,488
- the freedom fighters
- embraced that as their anthem.
- 1732
- 01:55:54,656 --> 01:55:56,573
- - They got their independence.
- 1733
- 01:55:56,741 --> 01:55:59,201
- Finally, they got their independence,
- 1734
- 01:55:59,369 --> 01:56:02,746
- and they sent representatives
- here to Jamaica...
- 1735
- 01:56:02,914 --> 01:56:04,957
- to ask Bob to perform.
- 1736
- 01:56:05,124 --> 01:56:08,418
- - They wanted him to come,
- and when they saw the cost,
- 1737
- 01:56:08,586 --> 01:56:10,212
- they said they couldn't afford it.
- 1738
- 01:56:10,380 --> 01:56:13,882
- - And so Bob Îœarley used his own money...
- 1739
- 01:56:14,050 --> 01:56:18,762
- and shipped equipment, I think,
- from London to Zimbabwe.
- 1740
- 01:56:22,266 --> 01:56:23,558
- Zimbabwe
- 1741
- 01:56:23,726 --> 01:56:27,729
- Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe
- 1742
- 01:56:27,897 --> 01:56:31,274
- You had dignitaries
- from all over the world.
- 1743
- 01:56:31,442 --> 01:56:34,611
- You're right you're right
- you're right you're
- 1744
- 01:56:42,370 --> 01:56:45,414
- - I, Robert Gabriel Îœugabe,
- 1745
- 01:56:45,581 --> 01:56:50,627
- do swear that I will well
- and truly serve Zimbabwe...
- 1746
- 01:56:50,795 --> 01:56:54,089
- in the office of minister
- of the government,
- 1747
- 01:56:54,257 --> 01:56:56,174
- so help me God.
- 1748
- 01:57:00,638 --> 01:57:03,890
- Midnight, the exact moment
- of independence.
- 1749
- 01:57:04,058 --> 01:57:05,559
- As Prince Charles, Governor Soames
- 1750
- 01:57:05,727 --> 01:57:07,894
- and hundreds of visiting
- heads of government...
- 1751
- 01:57:08,062 --> 01:57:10,439
- and V.I.P.s from around
- the world watched,
- 1752
- 01:57:10,606 --> 01:57:14,568
- the new flag was raised,
- Robert Mugabe's government assumed power,
- 1753
- 01:57:14,736 --> 01:57:16,737
- and Zimbabwe was born.
- 1754
- 01:57:22,785 --> 01:57:23,994
- Exodus
- 1755
- 01:57:25,496 --> 01:57:27,122
- Oh Lord
- 1756
- 01:57:27,290 --> 01:57:29,624
- Movement of jah people
- 1757
- 01:57:33,755 --> 01:57:36,631
- It was the first time
- anybody in Zimbabwe...
- 1758
- 01:57:36,799 --> 01:57:38,550
- had heard anything like this.
- 1759
- 01:57:38,718 --> 01:57:41,386
- But when the first song started,
- 1760
- 01:57:41,554 --> 01:57:43,055
- the 90,000 people outside,
- 1761
- 01:57:43,222 --> 01:57:46,600
- who couldn't get in,
- decided to come in.
- 1762
- 01:57:46,768 --> 01:57:49,061
- Men and people will fight you down
- 1763
- 01:57:49,228 --> 01:57:52,230
- When you see jah light
- 1764
- 01:57:52,398 --> 01:57:54,191
- Let me tell you if you're not wrong
- 1765
- 01:57:54,358 --> 01:57:56,234
- It was the freedom fighters...
- 1766
- 01:57:56,402 --> 01:57:58,445
- heard Bob Îœarley inside the stadium,
- 1767
- 01:57:58,613 --> 01:58:02,032
- and they are locked out,
- not being able to go in,
- 1768
- 01:58:02,200 --> 01:58:03,560
- and they just flattened the fence.
- 1769
- 01:58:04,869 --> 01:58:07,496
- So, being there, on stage,
- 1770
- 01:58:07,663 --> 01:58:09,247
- I remember I was the first person
- 1771
- 01:58:09,415 --> 01:58:11,625
- to smell something unusual.
- 1772
- 01:58:11,959 --> 01:58:13,543
- It was tear gas.
- 1773
- 01:58:14,545 --> 01:58:18,965
- There was this strange sensation
- that was burning our throats,
- 1774
- 01:58:19,133 --> 01:58:21,593
- and it felt as if we were gonna die.
- 1775
- 01:58:21,761 --> 01:58:25,347
- We didn't know what it was,
- and we felt that we're gonna leave Jamaica,
- 1776
- 01:58:25,515 --> 01:58:29,392
- and come all the way to Zimbabwe
- to leave our kids and just die here.
- 1777
- 01:58:29,560 --> 01:58:32,187
- So, Rita, Îœarcie and I,
- 1778
- 01:58:32,355 --> 01:58:34,147
- we ran off the stage,
- 1779
- 01:58:34,315 --> 01:58:36,691
- and the musicians
- were coming off one by one.
- 1780
- 01:58:36,859 --> 01:58:39,361
- But Bob was still
- in his element, and he...
- 1781
- 01:58:39,529 --> 01:58:41,738
- I guess he didn't even realize
- what was happening.
- 1782
- 01:58:47,328 --> 01:58:48,870
- - That just open my eyes to know
- 1783
- 01:58:49,038 --> 01:58:52,541
- that this man was ready
- to go down with his people.
- 1784
- 01:58:52,708 --> 01:58:57,295
- Whatever the reason was,
- Bob didn't run nowhere.
- 1785
- 01:58:58,673 --> 01:59:00,966
- So when we got back on stage with Bob,
- 1786
- 01:59:01,134 --> 01:59:03,135
- this is what Bob said to us:
- 1787
- 01:59:03,302 --> 01:59:07,430
- "Now I know who are
- the true revolutionaries."
- 1788
- 01:59:07,765 --> 01:59:11,518
- Well well well well
- jah come to break oppression
- 1789
- 01:59:11,686 --> 01:59:14,646
- Rule equality yeah
- 1790
- 01:59:15,273 --> 01:59:17,858
- Wipe away transgression
- 1791
- 01:59:18,025 --> 01:59:20,277
- Set the captives free
- 1792
- 01:59:20,820 --> 01:59:23,155
- Set the captives free now
- 1793
- 01:59:23,865 --> 01:59:25,031
- Set
- 1794
- 01:59:27,076 --> 01:59:28,869
- Set the captives free yeah
- 1795
- 01:59:32,623 --> 01:59:36,209
- And I think that was
- one of his highlights of a dream.
- 1796
- 01:59:37,545 --> 01:59:38,962
- He was at home.
- 1797
- 01:59:44,802 --> 01:59:47,095
- Thank you very much. Zimbabwe!
- 1798
- 01:59:47,263 --> 01:59:48,972
- Freedom!
- 1799
- 01:59:54,687 --> 01:59:57,105
- Did Bob want to reach
- a black audience in America?
- 1800
- 01:59:57,273 --> 01:59:58,773
- - Of course he did.
- 1801
- 01:59:58,941 --> 02:00:00,609
- Bob, until he died, he did.
- 1802
- 02:00:00,776 --> 02:00:04,654
- The last concert in New York
- was to try to get...
- 1803
- 02:00:04,822 --> 02:00:07,157
- African American,
- R & B airplay in America.
- 1804
- 02:00:09,577 --> 02:00:13,538
- Bob had a cult following in America,
- 1805
- 02:00:13,706 --> 02:00:16,499
- and when you go to a Bob Îœarley concert,
- it was sold out,
- 1806
- 02:00:16,667 --> 02:00:18,919
- but it was white.
- 1807
- 02:00:23,883 --> 02:00:26,218
- Yeah, the black people
- in America were not responding.
- 1808
- 02:00:26,385 --> 02:00:27,677
- It was always a big thing.
- 1809
- 02:00:27,845 --> 02:00:29,846
- We always talked about it.
- We always wondered why.
- 1810
- 02:00:31,974 --> 02:00:35,143
- So, Frankie Crocker,
- the number-one jock in the country...
- 1811
- 02:00:35,311 --> 02:00:38,521
- said that I got a concert
- with The Commodores.
- 1812
- 02:00:38,689 --> 02:00:41,399
- "We'll guarantee you
- three months of airplay...
- 1813
- 02:00:41,567 --> 02:00:44,236
- if Bob would open
- for the Commodores."
- 1814
- 02:00:44,403 --> 02:00:46,154
- We said, "You gotta be crazy.
- 1815
- 02:00:46,322 --> 02:00:49,741
- The Commodores should be opening
- the show for Bob Îœarley, not in reverse."
- 1816
- 02:00:49,909 --> 02:00:52,744
- I went back to Bob,
- and Bob said, "No problem."
- 1817
- 02:01:13,391 --> 02:01:16,893
- Could you be loved
- 1818
- 02:01:18,479 --> 02:01:21,064
- And be loved
- 1819
- 02:01:23,442 --> 02:01:25,986
- Could you be loved
- 1820
- 02:01:28,698 --> 02:01:30,782
- And be loved
- 1821
- 02:01:33,411 --> 02:01:36,121
- Don't let them fool ya
- 1822
- 02:01:36,289 --> 02:01:42,002
- Oh, no
- 1823
- 02:01:42,169 --> 02:01:45,630
- Or even try to school ya
- 1824
- 02:01:45,798 --> 02:01:48,883
- Oh, no
- 1825
- 02:01:50,678 --> 02:01:54,139
- When we did
- the Îœadison Square Garden show,
- 1826
- 02:01:54,307 --> 02:01:56,891
- that night was history.
- 1827
- 02:01:57,059 --> 02:01:58,935
- If what you're thinking is not right
- 1828
- 02:02:01,314 --> 02:02:04,441
- Love will never leave us alone
- 1829
- 02:02:04,608 --> 02:02:07,027
- Every single one
- that was in the audience...
- 1830
- 02:02:07,194 --> 02:02:10,947
- stood on their feet
- to acknowledge this man.
- 1831
- 02:02:11,115 --> 02:02:13,158
- Whoa-ho
- 1832
- 02:02:13,326 --> 02:02:15,327
- Could you be loved
- 1833
- 02:02:18,164 --> 02:02:20,123
- And be loved
- 1834
- 02:02:23,169 --> 02:02:25,170
- Could you be loved
- 1835
- 02:02:27,965 --> 02:02:29,424
- And be loved
- 1836
- 02:02:30,718 --> 02:02:32,093
- Oh
- 1837
- 02:02:32,261 --> 02:02:34,888
- Could you be loved
- Could you be could you be loved
- 1838
- 02:02:35,056 --> 02:02:39,100
- I think the doors of America
- was opened to Bob right there.
- 1839
- 02:02:53,199 --> 02:02:55,367
- Îœarley! Îœarley! Îœarley!
- 1840
- 02:02:55,534 --> 02:02:59,579
- Îœarley! Îœarley! Îœarley!
- Îœarley! Îœarley!
- 1841
- 02:02:59,747 --> 02:03:01,831
- Îœarley! Îœarley! Îœarley!
- Îœarley! Îœarley! Îœarley!
- 1842
- 02:03:10,466 --> 02:03:13,385
- The next day,
- we were out in Central Park jogging,
- 1843
- 02:03:13,552 --> 02:03:18,264
- and we was going up this hill,
- and all of a sudden he...
- 1844
- 02:03:18,432 --> 02:03:20,141
- He stumbled,
- 1845
- 02:03:20,309 --> 02:03:23,770
- and we went and we laid him down
- on the side of the trail,
- 1846
- 02:03:23,938 --> 02:03:28,066
- and he... he started shaking,
- and he had foaming at the mouth.
- 1847
- 02:03:28,234 --> 02:03:31,694
- And I said... when I looked at him,
- he looked real strange.
- 1848
- 02:03:31,862 --> 02:03:35,990
- And the guys gathered around him,
- they said something in patois.
- 1849
- 02:03:36,158 --> 02:03:38,952
- And he hollered "Rastafari"
- and jumped up off the ground.
- 1850
- 02:03:39,120 --> 02:03:42,205
- Scared me to death. I mean,
- he was there, shaking and foaming.
- 1851
- 02:03:42,373 --> 02:03:44,541
- Next thing I know, he done...
- He just jumped up.
- 1852
- 02:03:47,670 --> 02:03:50,755
- We took him to the hospital
- next door to my house.
- 1853
- 02:03:52,133 --> 02:03:54,926
- The doctor told Alan and me...
- 1854
- 02:03:55,094 --> 02:03:59,264
- that Bob Îœarley had cancer
- and that it had spread.
- 1855
- 02:03:59,432 --> 02:04:03,017
- - He had cancer all over his body...
- 1856
- 02:04:03,185 --> 02:04:06,438
- Lungs, brain, all over the place.
- 1857
- 02:04:06,605 --> 02:04:09,941
- It was incredible that
- he was able to keep working.
- 1858
- 02:04:10,860 --> 02:04:15,864
- But the doctor told us
- that we shouldn't do anything,
- 1859
- 02:04:16,031 --> 02:04:19,492
- that we should just let him
- stay on the concert tour,
- 1860
- 02:04:19,660 --> 02:04:21,619
- that he was so strong and powerful,
- 1861
- 02:04:21,787 --> 02:04:25,748
- that one day he was gonna walk out on stage
- and he was gonna fall dead.
- 1862
- 02:04:26,876 --> 02:04:29,294
- But that he could not be treated...
- 1863
- 02:04:29,462 --> 02:04:31,588
- and he could not be helped.
- 1864
- 02:04:33,048 --> 02:04:34,466
- How did he take the news?
- 1865
- 02:04:34,633 --> 02:04:38,052
- - Bad.
- He took the news bad.
- 1866
- 02:04:41,182 --> 02:04:43,975
- I knew he'd had a problem
- with his toe before that,
- 1867
- 02:04:44,143 --> 02:04:45,685
- but...
- 1868
- 02:04:45,853 --> 02:04:48,563
- I'd forgotten about it.
- 1869
- 02:04:48,731 --> 02:04:50,857
- I think everybody seemed
- to have forgotten about it...
- 1870
- 02:04:51,025 --> 02:04:54,861
- because if he'd been going
- to regular checkups,
- 1871
- 02:04:55,029 --> 02:04:58,656
- you know, he might...
- He might be around today.
- 1872
- 02:04:58,824 --> 02:05:01,284
- But...
- - He just didn't go to his checkups?
- 1873
- 02:05:01,452 --> 02:05:03,036
- - No.
- 1874
- 02:05:11,629 --> 02:05:15,006
- The next stop was Pittsburgh,
- 1875
- 02:05:15,174 --> 02:05:18,927
- and we were waiting for Bob
- to come on the bus...
- 1876
- 02:05:19,094 --> 02:05:21,471
- for all of us
- to drive to Pittsburgh.
- 1877
- 02:05:21,639 --> 02:05:23,515
- And we never saw Bob.
- 1878
- 02:05:26,852 --> 02:05:28,811
- - Finally, he arrived,
- 1879
- 02:05:28,979 --> 02:05:31,940
- and he was looking very,
- very stressed, I remember,
- 1880
- 02:05:32,107 --> 02:05:35,652
- and we went to do a sound check,
- 1881
- 02:05:35,819 --> 02:05:39,697
- and I remember
- we did the sound check...
- 1882
- 02:05:39,865 --> 02:05:41,783
- with one song...
- 1883
- 02:05:41,951 --> 02:05:45,203
- and we did that song
- for maybe two or three hours.
- 1884
- 02:05:45,371 --> 02:05:47,247
- "I'm Hurting Inside."
- 1885
- 02:05:49,166 --> 02:05:52,710
- It's the longest sound check
- we have ever had.
- 1886
- 02:05:52,878 --> 02:05:57,215
- It just felt like, "Why?"
- We didn't understand.
- 1887
- 02:06:02,221 --> 02:06:04,847
- - We had a meeting before the show,
- half an hour before the show,
- 1888
- 02:06:05,015 --> 02:06:08,977
- and we were told by Alan Cole that this was
- gonna be our last concert.
- 1889
- 02:06:10,479 --> 02:06:13,815
- And, of course,
- we were all, like, in shock.
- 1890
- 02:06:13,983 --> 02:06:16,109
- Before we went on stage,
- he said to me,
- 1891
- 02:06:16,277 --> 02:06:19,529
- "I want you to stay pretty close
- in case anything should happen."
- 1892
- 02:06:19,697 --> 02:06:22,323
- I'm saying, "Nothing's gonna happen to you.
- Everything's gonna be all right."
- 1893
- 02:06:22,491 --> 02:06:26,619
- But he just said, "Stay close, in case."
- Just in case he got a seizure.
- 1894
- 02:06:26,787 --> 02:06:29,539
- I wanna love you
- 1895
- 02:06:29,707 --> 02:06:31,874
- I wanna love and treat
- 1896
- 02:06:32,042 --> 02:06:34,127
- Love and treat you right
- 1897
- 02:06:34,295 --> 02:06:37,130
- He put on the show,
- but it wasn't the same.
- 1898
- 02:06:37,298 --> 02:06:39,507
- He didn't have the same energy.
- 1899
- 02:06:39,675 --> 02:06:42,802
- But the people kept him
- pumped up 'cause this...
- 1900
- 02:06:42,970 --> 02:06:46,931
- So many people in the audience,
- and they were, "Bob! Bob!"
- 1901
- 02:06:49,184 --> 02:06:51,311
- They called for an encore,
- and we were saying,
- 1902
- 02:06:51,478 --> 02:06:53,313
- "Lord, I wonder if he can do it."
- 1903
- 02:06:53,480 --> 02:06:56,524
- And he went out, and he did
- the encore. He did about four songs.
- 1904
- 02:07:00,904 --> 02:07:04,157
- And they called for another encore,
- and I'm saying,
- 1905
- 02:07:04,325 --> 02:07:07,744
- "Jesus, I wonder if he's gonna fall out
- on this one."
- 1906
- 02:07:07,911 --> 02:07:09,495
- But he did it.
- 1907
- 02:07:09,663 --> 02:07:11,414
- He did it.
- 1908
- 02:07:11,582 --> 02:07:16,210
- And that was the last time
- we performed on stage together.
- 1909
- 02:07:24,386 --> 02:07:27,305
- Thank you very much,
- Pittsburgh! Yeah.
- 1910
- 02:07:30,851 --> 02:07:34,520
- If you keep jumping like this,
- we'll have to come here every year!
- 1911
- 02:07:34,688 --> 02:07:38,483
- Every week, every month!
- 1912
- 02:07:38,651 --> 02:07:40,485
- Thank you.
- 1913
- 02:07:44,865 --> 02:07:47,033
- I was with him the whole time
- in New York...
- 1914
- 02:07:47,201 --> 02:07:48,785
- when he was being treated
- at Sloan-Kettering.
- 1915
- 02:07:48,952 --> 02:07:50,244
- I was with him every day.
- 1916
- 02:07:50,412 --> 02:07:55,750
- I was with him when he was getting chemo,
- and his locks fell out.
- 1917
- 02:07:59,046 --> 02:08:01,339
- The weight of the locks
- was just too heavy.
- 1918
- 02:08:01,507 --> 02:08:04,926
- The few hairs that were still holding
- was beginning to be really uncomfortable,
- 1919
- 02:08:05,094 --> 02:08:06,928
- and he decided to cut it.
- 1920
- 02:08:07,096 --> 02:08:08,930
- That was quite a night.
- 1921
- 02:08:11,433 --> 02:08:15,228
- It was myself, Rita...
- A group of us women.
- 1922
- 02:08:15,396 --> 02:08:18,815
- We lit candles, and we were reading
- from the Bible.
- 1923
- 02:08:18,982 --> 02:08:21,275
- We were reading the Book of Job,
- 1924
- 02:08:21,443 --> 02:08:24,779
- and, uh, we cut.
- 1925
- 02:08:24,947 --> 02:08:26,989
- - I said to him, um,
- 1926
- 02:08:29,535 --> 02:08:31,786
- "You going for the Rude Boy look?"
- 1927
- 02:08:31,954 --> 02:08:36,082
- And he laughed. It was funny.
- But it was really, really sad.
- 1928
- 02:08:36,250 --> 02:08:38,918
- About the saddest thing
- I can ever remember.
- 1929
- 02:08:40,671 --> 02:08:43,256
- - That was the first time I saw him,
- 1930
- 02:08:45,634 --> 02:08:47,719
- like, without his hair.
- 1931
- 02:08:47,886 --> 02:08:51,472
- You know, he looked, like, so tiny.
- 1932
- 02:09:10,784 --> 02:09:13,745
- Him say, "Listen,
- we're gonna fight it. All right?
- 1933
- 02:09:13,912 --> 02:09:17,623
- Regardless of what the doctors might say
- or what they might do,
- 1934
- 02:09:17,791 --> 02:09:20,001
- we're gonna fight it.
- 1935
- 02:09:20,169 --> 02:09:21,919
- 'Cause a Rasta never give up."
- 1936
- 02:09:22,087 --> 02:09:24,714
- - Left to me, I would have said,
- 1937
- 02:09:24,882 --> 02:09:26,257
- "Bob, come home to Saint Ann
- 1938
- 02:09:26,425 --> 02:09:27,925
- and come eat roast fish
- and callaloo every day.
- 1939
- 02:09:28,093 --> 02:09:29,969
- Smoke the biggest spliff if you like,
- 1940
- 02:09:30,137 --> 02:09:33,890
- drink fish tea, just do what you want.
- 1941
- 02:09:34,057 --> 02:09:37,185
- And if you end up in the same place
- at the end of it all,
- 1942
- 02:09:37,352 --> 02:09:40,438
- at least you will have had some comfort
- 1943
- 02:09:40,606 --> 02:09:43,024
- in your last months on this earth...
- 1944
- 02:09:43,192 --> 02:09:46,360
- and being in a place that you really,
- really wanted to be in."
- 1945
- 02:09:46,528 --> 02:09:48,863
- But we girls didn't have much talk
- in those days, you know.
- 1946
- 02:09:49,031 --> 02:09:50,740
- The men made the decisions.
- 1947
- 02:10:00,292 --> 02:10:04,796
- Old pirates yes they rob I
- 1948
- 02:10:04,963 --> 02:10:07,632
- Sold I to the merchant ships
- 1949
- 02:10:09,802 --> 02:10:12,303
- Minutes after they took I
- 1950
- 02:10:13,972 --> 02:10:16,933
- From the bottomless pit
- 1951
- 02:10:17,100 --> 02:10:20,853
- But my hand was made strong
- 1952
- 02:10:22,314 --> 02:10:25,191
- By the hand of the Almighty
- 1953
- 02:10:25,651 --> 02:10:29,487
- We forward in this generation
- 1954
- 02:10:31,323 --> 02:10:33,741
- Triumphantly
- 1955
- 02:10:34,827 --> 02:10:37,829
- Won't you help to sing
- 1956
- 02:10:39,748 --> 02:10:42,792
- These songs of freedom
- 1957
- 02:10:42,960 --> 02:10:45,837
- 'Cause all I ever have
- 1958
- 02:10:48,215 --> 02:10:54,679
- Redemption songs
- 1959
- 02:10:56,181 --> 02:10:58,599
- He was living
- in a house just down the road.
- 1960
- 02:10:58,767 --> 02:11:01,435
- It was actually in walking distance
- from the clinic.
- 1961
- 02:11:01,603 --> 02:11:05,273
- But I mean, you had to put boots on halfway
- up your thigh to get through the snow.
- 1962
- 02:11:06,400 --> 02:11:11,404
- I'm telling you, I had to wear
- dark glasses because it was so white.
- 1963
- 02:11:11,572 --> 02:11:14,115
- The lake was frozen three feet deep.
- 1964
- 02:11:14,283 --> 02:11:16,742
- You could drive a car over it.
- 1965
- 02:11:17,077 --> 02:11:21,122
- I said, "This is a fridge
- where they keep people alive."
- 1966
- 02:11:21,290 --> 02:11:23,916
- No, Rottach-Egern...
- I'll never forget that.
- 1967
- 02:11:25,794 --> 02:11:28,838
- Dr. Josef Issels
- was the ultimate...
- 1968
- 02:11:29,006 --> 02:11:30,798
- in holistic therapy at that time.
- 1969
- 02:11:30,966 --> 02:11:33,134
- But what made him more interesting,
- he was the only doctor...
- 1970
- 02:11:33,302 --> 02:11:36,387
- who had actually cured
- a melanoma on the planet Earth.
- 1971
- 02:12:20,349 --> 02:12:24,644
- - I went to Germany for his, uh,
- 36th birthday.
- 1972
- 02:12:25,562 --> 02:12:28,731
- Rita was there.
- Cindy was there.
- 1973
- 02:12:28,899 --> 02:12:30,900
- His mom was there.
- 1974
- 02:12:32,235 --> 02:12:34,487
- It was kind of frustrating in a sense...
- 1975
- 02:12:34,655 --> 02:12:38,115
- because I know the type of person Bob is.
- 1976
- 02:12:38,283 --> 02:12:42,411
- Him didn't want us
- to see him in that state.
- 1977
- 02:12:44,247 --> 02:12:47,667
- Bob had a stroke,
- I think, on the left side.
- 1978
- 02:12:47,834 --> 02:12:52,380
- So he was frustrated
- he couldn't finger a guitar.
- 1979
- 02:12:52,547 --> 02:12:55,299
- So when you left him,
- you thought he might get better?
- 1980
- 02:12:55,467 --> 02:12:57,510
- - Yeah.
- I was definitely hoping...
- 1981
- 02:12:57,678 --> 02:13:01,097
- Well, he was trying to tell me that...
- That he's gonna beat this thing.
- 1982
- 02:13:01,264 --> 02:13:02,765
- You know?
- 1983
- 02:13:02,933 --> 02:13:04,433
- Gonna beat this thing.
- 1984
- 02:13:47,686 --> 02:13:51,022
- I think people then started
- going after his wealth.
- 1985
- 02:13:51,189 --> 02:13:54,066
- I think that it was...
- It had become...
- 1986
- 02:13:54,234 --> 02:13:57,111
- a bloodthirsty-type situation,
- 1987
- 02:13:57,279 --> 02:14:00,865
- where people knew he was gonna die,
- 1988
- 02:14:01,033 --> 02:14:06,162
- and they was just...
- They just surrounded him.
- 1989
- 02:14:08,582 --> 02:14:12,084
- - That's why Bob never
- write a will, I feel.
- 1990
- 02:14:12,252 --> 02:14:14,545
- Bob will never want to give up.
- 1991
- 02:14:14,713 --> 02:14:16,873
- It seems like when you write a will,
- it's like you say,
- 1992
- 02:14:17,007 --> 02:14:20,259
- "Well, you know, I'm checking in."
- 1993
- 02:14:22,220 --> 02:14:23,554
- So I think that was
- one of the reasons.
- 1994
- 02:14:23,722 --> 02:14:25,056
- I think one of the reasons, too,
- 1995
- 02:14:25,223 --> 02:14:27,266
- is he's not the type of person
- who would say,
- 1996
- 02:14:27,434 --> 02:14:31,020
- "Now, okay.
- I leave this for Ziggy, Cedella."
- 1997
- 02:14:31,188 --> 02:14:34,815
- You know, like, divide up.
- And "Okay, what should I leave for Seeco...
- 1998
- 02:14:34,983 --> 02:14:37,985
- and Neville and Carly and..."
- 1999
- 02:14:38,153 --> 02:14:39,904
- That's not Bob.
- 2000
- 02:14:40,072 --> 02:14:43,282
- Where the Bob I know,
- by leaving it open like that,
- 2001
- 02:14:43,450 --> 02:14:47,203
- everybody reveal
- who they really were.
- 2002
- 02:14:47,370 --> 02:14:49,872
- You get me?
- - Hmm.
- 2003
- 02:14:50,040 --> 02:14:53,167
- - Who really did love him,
- who fighting over the money.
- 2004
- 02:14:53,335 --> 02:14:57,213
- Yeah, man. Him does say,
- but that's how he is. Bob left it open.
- 2005
- 02:15:01,218 --> 02:15:06,055
- The doctor said that
- he couldn't do anything more for Bob,
- 2006
- 02:15:06,223 --> 02:15:07,765
- and if we were going to leave,
- 2007
- 02:15:07,933 --> 02:15:12,103
- we'd have to do it within 48 hours.
- 2008
- 02:15:12,270 --> 02:15:16,565
- - So I said, "I'm on my way back.
- I'm coming back to Germany this week."
- 2009
- 02:15:16,733 --> 02:15:19,026
- And he said, "No, don't come."
- 2010
- 02:15:19,194 --> 02:15:20,861
- He's coming to Îœiami.
- 2011
- 02:15:21,029 --> 02:15:23,697
- - We decided, you know, that...
- 2012
- 02:15:23,865 --> 02:15:27,910
- we'd just rent a plane, you know.
- 2013
- 02:15:28,078 --> 02:15:30,204
- Bob wanted to know if it's a Concorde.
- 2014
- 02:15:30,372 --> 02:15:32,998
- I said, "No.
- 2015
- 02:15:33,166 --> 02:15:35,292
- No Concorde."
- 2016
- 02:15:47,389 --> 02:15:50,474
- So I brought up all the kids from...
- Who was in Jamaica.
- 2017
- 02:15:50,642 --> 02:15:54,562
- Some of them my kids.
- Some from other mothers.
- 2018
- 02:15:54,729 --> 02:15:57,815
- So I gathered everyone and said,
- "Come. Daddy want to see you all."
- 2019
- 02:15:57,983 --> 02:16:01,026
- - I remember me and Ziggy
- were sitting outside,
- 2020
- 02:16:01,194 --> 02:16:04,238
- and some preacher guy
- came from Jamaica,
- 2021
- 02:16:04,406 --> 02:16:07,950
- another one came from
- the Ethiopian Church,
- 2022
- 02:16:08,118 --> 02:16:11,162
- and I'm telling Ziggy, "Ziggy,
- he's gonna be all right, you know?
- 2023
- 02:16:11,329 --> 02:16:13,610
- 'Cause, I mean, look...
- Look how many people are praying."
- 2024
- 02:16:13,707 --> 02:16:18,085
- - Îœy memory was going to
- the intensive care unit,
- 2025
- 02:16:18,253 --> 02:16:20,045
- doing "peep," going like this,
- 2026
- 02:16:20,213 --> 02:16:23,340
- looking through the window,
- you know, like, going...
- 2027
- 02:16:23,508 --> 02:16:26,343
- And him lay down there,
- and him kind of see me, and him go...
- 2028
- 02:16:26,511 --> 02:16:28,304
- Him go, "Come."
- 2029
- 02:16:28,471 --> 02:16:32,266
- So I went in, I went beside him,
- and him say, you know,
- 2030
- 02:16:32,434 --> 02:16:35,728
- "What up, young Bob?"
- You know, "What's up, young Bob?"
- 2031
- 02:16:35,896 --> 02:16:39,064
- And, um, "I've a song for you."
- 2032
- 02:16:39,232 --> 02:16:41,984
- You know, him say,
- "I have a song for you."
- 2033
- 02:16:42,152 --> 02:16:44,445
- And him... him sing a couple
- of lines of the song,
- 2034
- 02:16:44,613 --> 02:16:47,239
- "On your way up, take me up.
- On your way down, don't let me down."
- 2035
- 02:16:50,076 --> 02:16:53,245
- - You know, like the one time
- you're kinda hoping...
- 2036
- 02:16:53,413 --> 02:16:57,166
- you can have him for yourself...
- 2037
- 02:17:01,504 --> 02:17:04,506
- And it wasn't supposed
- to happen again, you know?
- 2038
- 02:17:19,689 --> 02:17:23,192
- Haile Selassie
- 2039
- 02:17:23,360 --> 02:17:31,283
- Is the chapel
- 2040
- 02:17:41,336 --> 02:17:49,176
- Power of the Trinity
- 2041
- 02:17:50,595 --> 02:17:57,643
- Trinity
- 2042
- 02:18:01,022 --> 02:18:03,774
- Build your mind
- 2043
- 02:18:03,942 --> 02:18:09,113
- On this direction
- 2044
- 02:18:18,540 --> 02:18:22,543
- Serve the living God
- 2045
- 02:18:22,711 --> 02:18:25,170
- And live
- 2046
- 02:18:26,756 --> 02:18:30,718
- Livin' God Livin' God
- 2047
- 02:18:30,885 --> 02:18:34,096
- And live
- 2048
- 02:18:36,558 --> 02:18:39,977
- Take your troubles
- 2049
- 02:18:40,145 --> 02:18:45,399
- To Selassie
- 2050
- 02:18:54,159 --> 02:18:56,910
- He is the only
- 2051
- 02:18:57,078 --> 02:19:04,918
- King of Kings
- 2052
- 02:19:05,086 --> 02:19:10,841
- King of Kings is he
- 2053
- 02:19:12,093 --> 02:19:15,929
- Conquering lion
- 2054
- 02:19:16,097 --> 02:19:20,768
- Of judah
- 2055
- 02:19:29,277 --> 02:19:31,987
- Triumphantly
- 2056
- 02:19:32,155 --> 02:19:36,075
- We all must sing
- 2057
- 02:19:37,535 --> 02:19:45,167
- All must sing
- 2058
- 02:19:45,335 --> 02:19:49,838
- I search and I search
- 2059
- 02:19:52,509 --> 02:19:55,511
- Splendid book of man
- 2060
- 02:19:58,098 --> 02:20:02,851
- In the Revelations
- 2061
- 02:20:04,354 --> 02:20:07,564
- Look what I find
- 2062
- 02:20:10,527 --> 02:20:13,570
- Haile Selassie
- 2063
- 02:20:13,738 --> 02:20:19,076
- Is the chapel
- 2064
- 02:20:55,488 --> 02:20:57,322
- Get up stand up
- 2065
- 02:20:58,199 --> 02:21:00,826
- Stand up for your right
- 2066
- 02:21:00,994 --> 02:21:03,662
- Get up stand up
- 2067
- 02:21:03,830 --> 02:21:07,124
- Don't give up the fight
- 2068
- 02:21:07,292 --> 02:21:10,294
- Get up stand up
- Get up stand up now
- 2069
- 02:21:10,462 --> 02:21:13,130
- Stand up for your rights
- Ooh-ooh
- 2070
- 02:21:13,298 --> 02:21:15,799
- Get up stand up
- Get up stand up now
- 2071
- 02:21:15,967 --> 02:21:17,801
- Don't give up the fight
- 2072
- 02:21:20,054 --> 02:21:22,890
- Get up stand up
- Oh whoa whoa whoa
- 2073
- 02:21:23,057 --> 02:21:25,976
- Stand up for your right
- One more time
- 2074
- 02:21:26,144 --> 02:21:28,479
- Get up stand up
- 2075
- 02:21:28,646 --> 02:21:36,646
- Don't give up the fight
- 2076
- 02:21:37,530 --> 02:21:40,032
- Don't give up the fight Why
- 2077
- 02:21:40,200 --> 02:21:48,200
- 'Cause I never give up the fight
- 2078
- 02:21:52,378 --> 02:21:54,379
- Don't give up the fight
- 2079
- 02:21:54,547 --> 02:21:57,216
- Don't give up the fight
- 2080
- 02:21:57,383 --> 02:21:59,635
- Children don't give up the fight
- 2081
- 02:21:59,802 --> 02:22:01,011
- jah jah children
- 2082
- 02:22:01,179 --> 02:22:04,014
- Don't give up the fight
- 2083
- 02:22:04,182 --> 02:22:07,017
- One love
- 2084
- 02:22:07,185 --> 02:22:09,728
- One heart
- 2085
- 02:22:09,896 --> 02:22:15,901
- Let's get together and feel all right
- 2086
- 02:22:16,069 --> 02:22:20,781
- Hear the children crying
- One love
- 2087
- 02:22:20,949 --> 02:22:22,741
- One heart
- 2088
- 02:22:22,909 --> 02:22:25,077
- Give thanks and praise to the Lord
- 2089
- 02:22:25,245 --> 02:22:28,205
- And I will feel all right
- 2090
- 02:22:28,373 --> 02:22:29,623
- Sing it
- 2091
- 02:22:29,791 --> 02:22:34,378
- Let's get together and feel all right
- 2092
- 02:22:34,546 --> 02:22:35,587
- Whoa yo-yo-yo
- 2093
- 02:22:36,506 --> 02:22:40,467
- Let them all pass
- all their dirty remarks
- 2094
- 02:22:40,635 --> 02:22:42,844
- One love
- 2095
- 02:22:43,012 --> 02:22:47,224
- There is one question
- I'd really love to ask
- 2096
- 02:22:47,392 --> 02:22:48,934
- One heart
- 2097
- 02:22:49,102 --> 02:22:50,561
- Is there a place
- 2098
- 02:22:50,728 --> 02:22:53,814
- For the hopeless sinner
- 2099
- 02:22:53,982 --> 02:22:57,025
- Who has hurt all mankind
- 2100
- 02:22:57,193 --> 02:22:59,611
- just to save his own
- 2101
- 02:22:59,779 --> 02:23:01,071
- Believe me
- 2102
- 02:23:01,239 --> 02:23:04,449
- One love What about one
- 2103
- 02:23:04,617 --> 02:23:07,119
- One heart What about
- 2104
- 02:23:07,287 --> 02:23:12,040
- Let's get together and feel all right
- 2105
- 02:23:12,208 --> 02:23:14,626
- As it was in the beginning
- One love
- 2106
- 02:23:14,794 --> 02:23:18,088
- So shall it be in the end
- One heart
- 2107
- 02:23:18,256 --> 02:23:19,590
- All right
- 2108
- 02:23:19,757 --> 02:23:21,425
- Let's send praise to the Lord
- 2109
- 02:23:21,593 --> 02:23:26,054
- And I will feel all right
- 2110
- 02:23:26,222 --> 02:23:28,432
- Let's get together
- 2111
- 02:23:28,600 --> 02:23:30,767
- And feel all right
- 2112
- 02:23:30,935 --> 02:23:32,978
- I'm sayin'
- 2113
- 02:23:33,146 --> 02:23:36,023
- One love
- What about the one heart
- 2114
- 02:23:36,190 --> 02:23:38,442
- One heart What about the
- 2115
- 02:23:38,610 --> 02:23:43,655
- Let's get together and feel all right
- 2116
- 02:23:43,823 --> 02:23:46,533
- I'm pleading to mankind One love
- 2117
- 02:23:46,701 --> 02:23:50,912
- Oh Lord whoa One heart
- 2118
- 02:23:51,080 --> 02:23:52,539
- Give thanks and praise to the Lord
- 2119
- 02:23:52,707 --> 02:23:55,584
- And I will feel all right
- 2120
- 02:23:57,003 --> 02:24:02,966
- Let's get together and feel all right
- 2121
- 02:24:03,134 --> 02:24:05,552
- Give thanks and praise to the Lord
- 2122
- 02:24:05,720 --> 02:24:08,555
- And I will feel all right
- 2123
- 02:24:22,528 --> 02:24:26,948
- Don't worry about a thing
- 2124
- 02:24:29,077 --> 02:24:33,372
- 'Cause every little thing
- gonna be all right
- 2125
- 02:24:35,166 --> 02:24:39,753
- Singin' don't worry about a thing
- 2126
- 02:24:41,964 --> 02:24:46,218
- 'Cause every little thing
- gonna be all right
- 2127
- 02:24:48,179 --> 02:24:52,849
- Singin', don't worry
- about a thing
- 2128
- 02:24:54,977 --> 02:24:59,398
- 'Cause every little thing
- gonna be all right
- 2129
- 02:24:59,565 --> 02:25:01,316
- I won't worry
- 2130
- 02:25:01,484 --> 02:25:04,027
- CNST, Îœontreal
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