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When The Going Gets Tough the Tuff Get Gong

07 Jul 05:40am

Filed under: Bob Marley, Entertainment, Film, Marley, Music, Weekend Punch

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Sure, that stands to reason. But if you nearly died from a gunshot wound, you’d be entitled to take some time off, y’know, life to get patched up and recover.

Tougher than he looked. Picture: Marley (Roadshow)

Not so Bob Marley, as we learn in exhaustive, exuberant new documentary Marley directed by Kevin Mcdonald and featuring talking heads like Lee “Scratch” Perry, Jimmy Cliff, Ziggy Marley and many more.

We’ll get to the near death experience in a moment but first must point out a few other topics one could devote 600 words to after watching Marley. Rita Marley: Guardian Angel to the Kaya Casanova, Who Invented Reggae? Three Beats then the Heartbeat, Big Tree, Small Axe: How Bob Marley and The Wailers Chopped Down The Music Industry, Stevie Wonders What Bob Looks Like and Bob’s Babies: 11 Wailing Children to 7 Ladies.

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John says:

04:56pm | 07/07/12

But if racism is directed at whites, then the world doesn’t care. The communists that own the western banks, western media and the western politicians, keep on pushing the line that white people are the racists and for minority’s to vent their frustration(racism) at whites for so called racist crimes… Read more »
bob marley top ten quotes says:

04:52pm | 07/07/12

Editorial Staff · almost a year ago 10 Awesome Bob Marley Quotes - “The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively” - “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you… Read more »

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