Anyone who is interested in the life of Bob Marley should watch the documentary Marley by Kevin Macdonald. It tells the remarkable story of Marley from his humble beginnings in rural Jamaica, where his father was a white English cotton farmer and being half white, Bob was subject to bullying. He survived assassination attempts and was a massive football fan and believed football was true freedom, so much so that playing in his spare time he cut his foot when he was not wearing any sufficient footwear, and this cut got infected and had to travel to Europe for treatment. His friends and colleagues thought everything would be fine and Jah would look after Marley but it was not to be. Marley also economically looked after poor families from Kingston and was a devout socialist.
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