[size="3"]Bob Marley(1945-1981), Jamaican singer, songwriter and musician, started his connection with the music business in 1959. He made a first attempt at solo singing and recorded his first two singles in 1962. Jamaica became an independent island nation in the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean that same year, on 6 August 1962. In 1959 I was 15 and joined the Baha'i Faith. In the same month of 1962 I began my pioneering-travelling life for the Canadian Baha'i community.
Marley is the only third-world performer to be elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1999, the year I retired after 30 years as a teacher, the BBC named his "One Love" the "Song of the Millennium"; the same year Time declared his 1977 Exodus the "Best Album of the Twentieth Century." Voted the third-greatest songwriter of all time in a 2001 BBC poll, behind Bob Dylan and John Lennon, Marley has sold an estimated 50 million records worldwide.-Ron Price with thanks to Wikipedia, 30 October 2011.
[/size][size="3"]By the time you let your hair grow
[/size][size="3"]and were into Rastafarianism I was
[/size][size="3"]teaching high school in Australia. By
[/size][size="3"]the autumn of 1976, after a series of
[/size][size="3"]critically acclaimed albums & concert
[/size][size="3"]tours, you were on your way to being
[/size][size="3"]a global starâand I was on my way to
[/size][size="3"]a career in Australian colleges. You first
[/size][size="3"]attained fame in America not among US
[/size][size="3"]blacks but rather white college students
[/size][size="3"]to whom you were and remain famous
[/size][size="3"]as much marijuana mascot as musician.
[/size][size="3"]When you died in '81 you had become a
[/size][size="3"]symbol and spokesman of anticolonial
[/size][size="3"]aspiration for the world's oppressed,[sup]1[/sup] &
[/size][size="3"]in '81 I was working in a tin mine on the
[/size][size="3"]west coast of Tasmania with decades of
[/size][size="3"]life to live as a quiet commentator on the
[/size][size="3"]Baha'i Faith and, in my retirement, on the
[/size][size="3"]Internet & among cyberspace's hundreds
of millions of websites & billions of users.
[/size][size="3"][sup]1[/sup] Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, The Bob Marley Story, 9 April 2009, The New York Review of Books.
[b]Ron Price[/b]
[b]30 October 2011[/b]
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Marley is the only third-world performer to be elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1999, the year I retired after 30 years as a teacher, the BBC named his "One Love" the "Song of the Millennium"; the same year Time declared his 1977 Exodus the "Best Album of the Twentieth Century." Voted the third-greatest songwriter of all time in a 2001 BBC poll, behind Bob Dylan and John Lennon, Marley has sold an estimated 50 million records worldwide.-Ron Price with thanks to Wikipedia, 30 October 2011.
[/size][size="3"]By the time you let your hair grow
[/size][size="3"]and were into Rastafarianism I was
[/size][size="3"]teaching high school in Australia. By
[/size][size="3"]the autumn of 1976, after a series of
[/size][size="3"]critically acclaimed albums & concert
[/size][size="3"]tours, you were on your way to being
[/size][size="3"]a global starâand I was on my way to
[/size][size="3"]a career in Australian colleges. You first
[/size][size="3"]attained fame in America not among US
[/size][size="3"]blacks but rather white college students
[/size][size="3"]to whom you were and remain famous
[/size][size="3"]as much marijuana mascot as musician.
[/size][size="3"]When you died in '81 you had become a
[/size][size="3"]symbol and spokesman of anticolonial
[/size][size="3"]aspiration for the world's oppressed,[sup]1[/sup] &
[/size][size="3"]in '81 I was working in a tin mine on the
[/size][size="3"]west coast of Tasmania with decades of
[/size][size="3"]life to live as a quiet commentator on the
[/size][size="3"]Baha'i Faith and, in my retirement, on the
[/size][size="3"]Internet & among cyberspace's hundreds
of millions of websites & billions of users.
[/size][size="3"][sup]1[/sup] Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, The Bob Marley Story, 9 April 2009, The New York Review of Books.
[b]Ron Price[/b]
[b]30 October 2011[/b]
[/size]
married for 41 years, a teacher for 35 and a Baha'i for 50