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Welcome to Legacy and the second episode of our series on Bob Marley.

In the last episode, we looked at how and where Bob Marley was born, his turbulent and

fractured childhood in Jamaica being moved from place to place. But Bob has started

to do incredibly well in music under the stewardship of Joe Higgs, who's a sort of important guru in

Jamaica at the time. And Bob was formed a band with his friends, Bunny Livingston and Pete Tosh.

And originally they're called the teenagers. They then changed and eventually be called the Whalers.

And they released their first song in 1962.

It's not an enormous success, but it does give them the confidence that this is a career that all of them are interested in.

And this has all happened at a time of great change, of course globally, but above all, in Jamaica,

the transformation to independence from British colonial rule.

It's the summer of 1964, two years since Judge Not was recorded. And Bob Marley desperately wants a

record deal. He and Pete still have to scrape a living on the streets, catching and selling fish,

picking fruit and selling that, Pete works in a dry cleaners, but then they get a meeting

with Cox and Dodd, the cricket-loving DJ who runs a record label and recording studio in Trenchtown.

All could be on the verge of change.

Music From Wondry and Gollhanger, I'm Peter Frankeper. I'm Afouhash.

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

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