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🗓️ 14 August 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Despite an assassination attempt, Bob Marley continues to spread political messages of peace, freedom and anti-colonialism throughout the world. But health issues from his childhood are catching up with him, and he'll have to confront a devastating diagnosis. Today, his face appears on t-shirts, lighters and posters around the world, but has his legacy become detached from the meaning behind his music?
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0:24.0 | Welcome to Legacy and the final episode of our series on Bob Marley. |
0:30.0 | In the last episode, we saw how Marley had become not just an international but a global |
0:34.8 | success touring the US, the UK and Europe to increasing acclaim. |
0:39.6 | He's written some of his most famous and greatest songs, including Get Up Stand Up and No Woman, No Cry, |
0:45.6 | amazing songs that are still played every day around the world today. |
0:49.6 | But he's been forced out of his own home after surviving a political assassination attempt |
0:53.9 | that comes |
0:54.8 | very close to killing him and his wife, Rita. We'll see Bob Marley leave his beloved homeland for |
1:00.7 | his own safety and rise to become not only a music icon, but a political figure both in |
1:06.8 | Jamaica and further afield. Although he's survived an assassination attempt, there's something else |
1:11.9 | he won't be able to survive. |
1:24.3 | From Wondery and Goalhanger, I'm Peter Frankopern. I'm Afwa-Hirsch. |
1:28.9 | And this is Legacy, the show that tells the lives of the most extraordinary men and women ever to have lived, and asks if they have the reputation that they deserve. |
1:51.9 | Thank you. This is Bob Marley, Episode 4, One Love. So there's a botched effort to kill Bob Marley that we ended our previous episode on. |
2:08.9 | It hasn't succeeded, but it's been enough to make him leave Jamaica away from his beloved 56 Hope Street and away from his homeland. |
2:16.6 | So now Bob Marley, the Whalers, and Bob's |
2:19.3 | wife Rita have moved to London in 1977. And he seems really happy there. He's renting a house |
2:24.2 | near Albert Bridge. And in the morning, he drinks his mint tea and chews on a couple of oranges |
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