Audiobook Demo: Bob Marley \"The Stories Behind Every Song\" / English
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North American (General) North American (US Midwest- Chicago, Great Lakes) US African AmericanTranscript
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An album that was according to Chris Blackwell, a conscious attempt to break into the black american market rasta man vibration was released during a year of political chaos in Jamaica that from Marley's perspective began with the death of a stepfather. He had grown to love and ended with a botched attempt by gunmen on his own life. Two days later, he appeared at a free concert for the people Smile Jamaica in downtown Kingston bob Marley whose idea it had been to do the benefit show did not want Smile Jamaica to be politicized, but Michael Manley had other plans. A couple of days after the prime Minister had approved the concert and Marley had announced the show, Manly held his own press conference where he announced the date of the next election time. Shortly after the concert, bob Marley was angered by Manley's crafty political move but chose neither to cancel nor postponed the free show for the people. Then came the shootout at his hope road home speculation about whether or not Marley would brave the stage at the Smile Jamaica event, which would become one of the two milestone local concerts of his career ended when the red vehicle that carried him under armed guard from his blue mountain hideaway pulled up backstage, Still bandaged the singer took to the stage and after hugging a beaming Michael Manley addressed an emotionally explosive audience of about 50,000 people with the stirring and appropriate words of war. Like all election years in Jam Rock 1976 was marked by the kind of senseless violence that serves on this very controlled island only to maintain the political status quo. On june 19th, the governor General or G served floor is all glass bowl declared a state of emergency to combat what incumbent Prime Minister Michael Manley saw as a joint plot by opposition leader Edward Seaga and the United States C. I. A. To discredit his party caught in the middle, Marley was increasingly seen as supporting Manley's People's National Party. PNP a suspected allegiance, which many feel was the reason he almost died on the night of december 3rd when two carloads of gunmen broke into the grounds of 56 Hope Road and shot the singer wife rita and manager Don Taylor who took five of the bullets meant for bob and whose legs crossed as he sits on the cream colored couch in his living room, a mere stone's throw away from where he was shot still bear the jagged scars of that night. As it was later told, Marley had just taken a rehearsal break and was eating a grapefruit when the first shot was fired, Taylor crossed the room in the line of fire, sparing Marley all but one of the shots intended for him rita Marley was hit in the head when she stepped out from her yellow Volkswagen to investigate the noise that everyone initially thought had come from fireworks while the whalers. So the story goes, took shelter in the bathtub