Today is the late Bob Marley's 64th birthday. Reggae music had been around for a long time, but most people in the USA weren't familiar with the genre until Marley's mid-1970's albums "Natty Dread" and "Rastaman Vibration."
I started listening to Bob Marley seriously in the 1978/79 period, right when I was ending high school and starting college. As with John Lennon, I found him to be more provocative than most of my teachers. The lyric "emancipate yourself from mental slavery" from "Redemption Song" remains an all-time favorite, and I wasn't surprised when Time Magazine named "Exodus" the best album of the 20th century.
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