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The role Bob Marley's music and beliefs played in the high-budget Will Smith movie, "I Am Legend" serves as further proof of how often Bob's message crosses genre and age boundaries.
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The Marley family's achievements in music, humanitarianism and spirituality were widely recognized at this year's International Reggae and World Music Awards, held May 4 at the Apollo in New York City.
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If any one moment summarized Bob Marley's lifelong appeal for unity in Jamaica, it came on April 22, 1978, when he joined the hands of warring political leaders Prime Minister Michael Manley and Edward Seaga onstage at Kingston's National Arena during the One Love Peace Concert.
In this special Fan Club exclusive, BobMarley.com looks back at the events that led up to the momentous concert, Bob's performance and the lasting implications of what was dubbed a "Third World Woodstock." More »
Recent News
04/17/2008
| 2008 Reggae Festival Guide
"Sun is shining, the weather is sweet, make you want to move your dancing feet," goes the song, and there's no better way to describe the experience of summer music festivals. Check out our reggae festival guide, detailing the best spots to rock steady this spring and summer.04/14/2008
| EMP conference shines a light on Bob
At the annual Pop Conference at Seattle's Experience Music Project, a panel discussion entitled "These Songs of Freedom," explores Bob Marley's influence and legacy. 04/10/2008
| Mrs. Cedella Booker passes on at 81
Cedella Booker, the mother of Jamaican music legend Bob Marley, passed at her home in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday 8th April. She was 81 years old.04/08/2008
| Stephen Marley tour announced
Stephen Marley hits the road again this spring and summer, kicking off a tour May 4 that will take him across most of the country before he heads to Germany in July.04/02/2008
| Ziggy fights AIDS with fashion
Joining Rhianna, Rufus Wainwright and the Cure in their endeavors to fight AIDS through fashion, Ziggy Marley recently designed a t-shirt for H&M's Fashion Against AIDS campaign.03/20/2008
| Bob & the Wailers: Live at the Beacon
The Beacon, New York City shows of April 30th and May 1st were some of the most magical shows in the 1976 Rastaman Vibration North American tour for Bob Marley and the Wailers. Join the Passport Fan Club today and find out why.
03/17/2008
| Africa Unite reunites I Threes
In the last of our series of outtakes and extras from "Africa Unite," Rita Marley joins Judy Mowatt and Marcia Griffiths onstage to harmonize around one of the Bob's most popular melodies, "Three Little Birds."03/20/2008
| Music City commemorates Coxsone
Tucked away on a busy street in Brooklyn's East New York neighborhood, Coxsone's Music City is the closest you can get to Studio One without hopping a plane to Kingston.03/12/2008
| Preserving the Steppin' Razor's memory
Wayne Jobson is set to embark on a feature film focusing on the period after Peter Tosh's 1974 break from the Wailers until his still-unsolved murder in 1987. We caught up with Jobson after a screening of his breakthrough documentary on Tosh, "Stepping Razor: Red X" that was part of the February Reggae Month festivities in Jamaica.03/10/2008
| Zap Mama finds a kindred spirit in Marley
"I relate my Africa to Bob Marley because he was always singing about Africa, because he wanted people to recognize African culture," says singer Marie Daulne, founder of Zap Mama. "It's what I do too."