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Bono Inducts Bob Marley Into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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Bono Inducts Bob Marley Into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame post posthumously in 1994.

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  • One love

  • props

    

  • @MsLittleSD "Get Up Stand Up"

  • he knows exactly how to deleiberetly incite innocent girls to sexual arousal very bad man

  • what is the song in the background?

  • @tagjim Big respect for your words, Tagjim. You have a deeply soulful manner of expression. I count myself lucky to have seen Bob, back in Toronto, in 1979.

  • He raced to the edges, embracing all extremes, creating a oneness. His oneness. One love. He wanted everything at the same time. Prophet. Soul rebel. Rastaman. Herbsman. Wildman. A natural, mystic man. Lady's man. Island man. Family man. Rita's man. Soccer man. Showman. Shaman. Human. Jamaican!

    So the spirit of Bob and the spirit of Jah lives on, in his son Ziggy and his lover Rita Marley. I'm proud to welcome Bob Marley into the Hall of Fame. Amen!

  • And all of this from a man who drove three BMWs. BMW - Bob Marley and the Wailers, that was his excuse!

    Rock & Roll loves its juvenilia, its caricatures, its cartoons. The protest singer, the pop star, the sex god, your mature messiah types [laughs]. We love the extremes, and we're expected to choose: the mud of the blues or the oxygen of gospel, the hellhounds on our trail or the band of angels.Well, Bob Marley didn't choose or walk down the middle.

  • An ancient plea. Prayers catching fire in Mozambique, Nigeria, the Lebanon, Alabama, Detroit, New York, Notting Hill, Belfast. Dr. King in dreads. A Third and a First World superstar. Mental slavery ends where imagination begins. Here was this new music, rocking out of the shantytowns, lolling, loping rhythms, telling it like it was, like it is, like it ever shall be. Skanking. Ska. Blue Beat. Rock Steady. Reggae. Dub. And now ragga.

  • Redemption songs. A sexy revolution where Jah is Jehovah on street level. Not over his people but with his people. Not just stylin', jammin'. Down the line of Judah, from Ethiopia, where it all began for the Rastaman.

    I spent some time in Ethiopia with my wife, Ali, and everywhere we went we saw Bob Marley's face. There he was, dressed to hustle God. Let my people go.

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