Saturday, January 10, 2015

Bob Marley - Reggae Superhero

Robert
Nesta Marley is the figure more famous this country has produced. (Even if
Usain Bolt might be he if she usurped in places like the China and the India).
mention Jamaica, and the foreigners who know somewhat in which hemisphere of
the country it is that it will cry in the recognition, "Bob Marley!"

He is more
and more in Jamaica this that Robert Burns is that of Scotland - more famous
son, the national poet, and symbol of cultural identity. The parallels between
two great Roberts it is disturbing. Bob Marley - Reggae Superhero Both have been born to humble circumstances
in a little country with few million inhabitants. Both were free spirits what
it has praised the intoxicating pleasures of ganja and whisky, respectively.
Both children's fathers of more numerous mothers - about novae with sects for
Marley and 11 six for Burns. You stripe both hymns of the world, with One Love
of being probably the nearest modern equivalent of Auld Lang Syne. And both
young man died, Marley to 36 and Burns to 37.

But it is
not only the music that has made a great international icon Marley. His songs
are inseparable by the beautiful one, dread, mixed race, almost similar to
Christ turned that has made it a global ideal visual icon. Being, obviously,
not pure, nothing was meaning each competition it might be identified by him,
in a way often Peter Tosh is not possible with one how, for example. And in our
western mass media still dominated world, those blows with a hatchet with
Europe and in America to become famous in the whole world. If Bob Marley seemed
Peter Tosh and vice versa, whose music would be a more popular today? And 'an
interesting question on which to reflect.

His
remarkable wife Rita certainly played his list.

"I
have had so much faith in him. And it was for this Bob-sleigh such success
remains, to my notice. It times I am sorry to say it. If there was no strength.
But it is a datum actually. It causes, looks at Peter and other singers who
have been forgotten. Also Chris. When I say 'Chris, we do a circle legend and
things' there said Chris 'Take it easy'. And I said: ' No, I have intention
of'. And I and the Wailers and me-Threes put together this tour legend
Bob-sleigh and to lead on the box in a film. So, instead of only put in a
wardrobe, here he realises this inheritance is to live."

Then the
factor is a martyr. In our image - driven age, like stand - up comics I joke,
youth dies is a big movement career. The greatest part of the icons twentieth
century dominating - James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, That Guevara,
the princess Diana for example - has died before the 40, or in case of John F.
Kennedy was looking.

While their
survived contemporaries slowly reduced mortality in age, that in the mind of
the public remained always young and glamour. Looking at Bunny Wailer in
concert some years ago, one was asking for some observatories how the public
would have reacted to an as grey one and speckled one of 60 odd years Bob
Marley.

The glory
is a cold sun that does not warm the bones up. But in the mind of the living
ones, the first dead men remain perennially young and immune to the age
devastation - without spot white cloths on which to paint our dreams of the
ideal. Marlon Brando was an actor better of James Dean, Eisenhower leader
greater of Kennedy, and Johnny Cash a superior artist to Elvis Presley. But in
the popular mind, the fat successes old Marlon, bald Dwight, and it curled
Johnny simply JFK and Elvis cannot compete with beautiful, elegant, aerografato
Jimmy.

Nothing of
everything this carries Marley size in discussion, even if any burning admirers
to take the hand. The man was a singer and singer-songwriter - that, like all
the musicians, has produced the poor fortuitous passage - not one day this last
biblical prophet. It has never professed certainly a list for itself.

International
symbol

It has not
prevented this to him from becoming an international symbol of the posthumous
resistance against the oppression. Partisans in all the corners of the world
have testified the inspiration that derives from Bob's freedom songs. And
'almost impossible today to imagine a procession against the injustice in any
place and Get up not to be accompanied by stumps dì up stand, stand up for your
rights 'and' emancipating himself mental slavery, anybody, if not we it can
free our mind '.

Without
doubt one of the best musicians of 20 ° century, the almost global popularity
without preceding Marley seems to include all the humanity. American, African,
Arab, Asiatic, European, the men, the women, the youth, the old men, the old
mass media - it seems that all the music of Bob Marley likes. And his simply
continuous brilliance to be grown. In 2000 the review Time has chosen 'Exodus'
like album of the century, and the BBC like One Love song of the century. And
'difficult at the beginning than for lasting global appeal.