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Bob Marley was a legendary Jamaican singer and songwriter who helped popularize reggae music globally.

In this biography, Garry Steckles follows Bob Marley's life through his early days in rural Jamaica, to his status as an international superstar.

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Bob Marley Martin Andersen, Nesta Robert Marley emerged from a poor neighbourhood of Kingston, Jamaica, called Trench Town to become not just the first.

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Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley

December 24, 2020

As someone who grew up listening to the music of Bob Marley, I put this one on my list as soon as I came across it. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a bit of a mixed bag for me...

Author Timothy White (January 25, 1952 – June 27, 2002) was an American rock music journalist and editor, according to his Wikipedia page.

Timothy White:

Catch a Fire opens with an intro by author Timothy White's widow; White died early (like Marley) at 50 of a heart attack.

White gives the reader a decent amount of historical context here; writing fairly extensively about the history of reggae and Rastafarianism.
The life of Ras Tafari/Haile Selassie is also covered by White. The life story of the Ethiopian Emporer is steeped in mysticism.

Book overview.

Haile Selassie:

The book unfolds in a mostly chronological manner, as author White provides a very detailed account of Marley's young life. Perhaps a bit too much detail, IMHO. I thin