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Bob Marley and Marley Family stories
06/04/2007
| Get your Bob Marley Passport today
BobMarley.com is proud to announce the creation of the exclusive Bob Marley Passport Fan Club. If you're a huge Marley fan and you're looking for even more of an insight into the ground-breaking music, poetic lyrics, and iconic presence of your musical hero, the Passport Fan Club is for you, and now is the perfect time to join.06/04/2007
| Marley meets the press
After he was awarded the Peace Medal of the Third World by the United Nations, Bob Marley discussed his opinions on much more than music in this rare 1978 press conference at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria hotel.06/04/2007
| Exodus makes history
A limited edition version of Exodus is being released June 4 on USB memory stick by BobMarley.com. In addition to great music, the new album format features exclusive bonus material. A variety of new and unique Bob Marley music and memorabilia never officially available before will also be accessible for purchase to all Bob Marley site visitors.06/04/2007
| The History of 'Exodus'
Political tensions were heating up in Jamaica in 1976, culminating for Bob Marley and the Wailers on December 3, when members of the band were attacked by a gunman at 56 Hope Road during a rehearsal break. The shooting led to Bob's own enforced exodus to London, and the trip to London inspired the making of the seminal album.06/04/2007
| Marley wasn't always a hero in Jamaica
In BobMarley.com's special presentation of "Come A Long Way," it's clear that New Zealanders respected and praised Bob's musical and political achievements. But his Rasta beliefs kept him at an arm's length of many Jamaicans for years before he achieved international stardom.06/04/2007
| Farley: 'Exodus' marks a homecoming
The writer who nominated Exodus for recognition as the "album of the century" in Time magazine thinks back on how his own experience of the album is intertwined with his first solo trip back to Jamaica, the place of his birth.06/04/2007
| Next stop, Bob Marley Boulevard
Last July, a large portion of Church Avenue between East 98th Street and Remsen Avenue in the East Flatbush section of Brooklyn was renamed Bob Marley Boulevard. Spend a day visiting the most Marley-centric street in New York City with BobMarley.com. 06/04/2007
| Miami rehearsal: 'Lively Up Yourself'
Bob Marley's life was so legendary and unfortunately so short that even his rehearsals have to be considered historic events. This couldn't be more true in the case of the early September 1980 session at Criteria Studios in Miami, which turned out to be the last rehearsal of Bob's life.