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00:02Bob Marley is the most famous artist in the world.
00:06On every continent, rich or poor, musician or not, everyone knows Bob Marley.
00:13Yet his international career lasted only from 1974 to 1981.
00:20Seven years in which he fascinated the West, amazed the East and conquered Africa.
00:25Since then, all musical movements have cited him as a point of reference.
00:32He died prematurely at the age of 36.
00:42For those who knew him he was at the same time Bob Marley, the superstar,
00:48and Tuff Gong, the nickname of the boy who grew up in the ghetto.
00:55Rastamon Vibration!
01:19What was important was not Bob Marley as a person,
01:24but rather the message he wanted to convey to people.
01:29I'm Julian Marley, Rastafari!
01:33Bob Marley and the Whalers!
01:35Bob Marley and the Fabulous Whalers!
01:39Bob Marley and the Whalers!
01:46And here we are at the main event.
01:48This evening Bob Marley is in Paris, at Le Bourget.
01:52It's his European stop and it will probably be an extraordinary concert.
01:56A few numbers to give an idea of the scale of the event.
01:59Over 500 security personnel, 10 infirmaries and all this in one airport, that of Le Bourget.
02:08On July 3, 1980, Bob Marley performed a historic concert,
02:13the largest ever organized in Paris.
02:16It will be the artist's last in France and one of the last of his life.
02:20Less than a year later, in fact, he died.
02:23But that evening no one could have imagined it,
02:26not even the 47,000 spectators gathered to applaud him.
02:30For the first time, a concert is organized on the runways of an airport north of Paris,
02:36since no room is large enough to hold the audience.
02:40I remember that concert.
02:41There were dreadlocks everywhere.
02:43It was impressive.
02:45The music, the Rastas smoking long joints like this everywhere.
02:49And I watched them when I was 14.
02:55I had never seen such a crowd to get into a concert.
02:59An absurd thing.
03:00I couldn't even lift my arm.
03:09It was one of the last concerts of his life and it was something extraordinary.
03:13He sang all the songs we still know today, 40 years later.
03:26In 1980 Bob Marley had just released his eighth album, Uprising,
03:32which sold over one and a half million copies in six different countries.
03:36The Paris concert is part of the Uprising Tour,
03:39with an expected duration of over a year across three continents.
03:43Emblem of a mixed culture,
03:45Bob Marley conquers an entire generation in search of something new.
03:49I had a gorgeous pink dress.
03:51I had little dreadlocks like that, baby locks.
03:54Well, I was a child, but I remember it very well.
03:57It was fantastic.
03:58There is an image that will always stay with me.
04:01We who dance with Marley on stage,
04:04he who beats time with the guitar
04:06and many stunned faces in the crowd.
04:17A delirium.
04:19A real delirium.
04:20He could have even saved his voice,
04:23the audience sang along in his place.
04:26On July 3, nearly 50,000 French people attended Bob Marley's concert.
04:31The previous week in Milan
04:33a crowd of 120,000 spectators had gathered.
04:37The tour ends with a sold-out crowd.
04:40In 1980, Bob Marley, the prophet of reggae,
04:44become a real pop star.
04:46He had a sense of spectacle.
04:48It was on that tour that Bob Marley took on a pop look
04:51in the literal sense of the word,
04:53because he knew what he was doing.
04:55Unlike all other reggae groups
04:57born in the same period, at the beginning of the movement,
05:00because he knew how to repeat himself
05:01and became a reggae superstar
05:03while everyone else doesn't?
05:04Because he had a sense of stage presence
05:07and sound quality, high fidelity.
05:10He knew how to combine technology with aesthetics and stage experience.
05:14He was the only one, at that moment, who knew how to do it.
05:23That year there will be almost half a million of them
05:26spectators across Europe
05:28to have seen Bob Marley in concert
05:30and more than a million worldwide.
05:32These are unprecedented numbers,
05:34even more surprising if you think about it
05:36that seven years before
05:37Bob Marley was totally unknown
05:40outside his island,
05:41Jamaica.
05:52In 1972, this small Caribbean island,
05:56independent for about ten years,
05:58still bears the marks of British domination.
06:02He is looking for his own musical identity.
06:07Ska, a derivative of slave music,
06:11characterized by a syncopated and pressing rhythm,
06:14echoes through the streets of Kingston, the capital.
06:20Bob Marley is 27 years old.
06:23He has been making music for ten years now,
06:25with the trio he created together with his friends,
06:28Peter Tosh and Bunny Whaler.
06:44He was inseparable from the Whalers,
06:46they were the musicians he had chosen,
06:48they were technically good
06:50and also excellent arrangers.
06:52Bob Marley was a tireless worker,
06:55almost obsessed.
06:57The group never rested,
06:59he was constantly trying.
07:01When you listen to the Whalers,
07:03when you listen to their music,
07:05one gets the impression of musical perfection.
07:08In 1972, Bob Marley and his Whalers
07:11They already enjoy a certain notoriety in Jamaica,
07:15since its publication in 1964,
07:18of their local hit, Simmerdown.
07:21Since then, covers of American songs have followed one another.
07:24without much success.
07:25One day Bob Marley meets an eccentric young producer
07:29his peer, Lee Scratch Perry.
07:32Lee Scratch Perry came from a poor background
07:36as much as Bob Marley's,
07:38who came from a very difficult situation.
07:41He was the type who tended to strut,
07:45who had an incredible style
07:47and that he had sharpened.
07:49it was Lee Perry who said to Bob Marley
07:52stop chasing international success
07:55singing covers of English or American songs.
07:59Write something of your own, tell us about your life.
08:03Bob Marley begins to tell his life story like this
08:06in the Trench Town ghetto,
08:07a poor neighborhood of the capital.
08:09The song is called Trench Town Rock
08:12and ranks first in Jamaica.
08:15Bob Marley, who dreams of conquering Europe and the United States,
08:19he does everything to meet a young Anglo-Jamaican producer
08:22everyone is talking about and is interested in reggae.
08:27Illand Records was founded by Chris Blackwell,
08:31a white Jamaican, a wealthy settler,
08:35who produced music and who, at a certain point,
08:39he realized that something was happening on the island
08:42around that musical genre.
08:44signed Bob Marley and began publishing his songs
08:48and, after the intervention of Chris Blackwell,
08:50the entire music industry jumped on reggae.
08:54The collaboration between Bob Marley and Illand Records
08:58begins at the end of 1972
09:00with two titles destined to change everything.
09:06When did you start to feel the success?
09:09When did you start to feel the success?
09:11The success had been achieved, but the exhibition was different.
09:14Not so much success, but success,
09:17but the success of doing it with our music.
09:19It was 1973.
09:24Bob Marley and the Whalers
09:25I remember very well the first time I heard it.
09:28It was 1973.
09:31I had entered, as he said, the press at Philips
09:33February 15, 1973
09:35and February 16 of the same year
09:37I heard Bob Marley for the first time.
09:40It was my second day on the job.
09:42We listened to the albums that were coming out
09:44and I listened to Bob Marley
09:45because it was part of my job.
09:48In 1973 Island Records records
09:52They are distributed in France by Philips.
09:55It appears in European record stores in spring
09:58a new album titled Catch a Fire.
10:08Well, this was the Whalers' first album.
10:14Bob Marley's first international outing.
10:19Listening to it I said to myself that it was very good.
10:21Yes, I liked it a lot, really.
10:23You could feel that he had something special.
10:27In the same year, the public heard Angie by the Rolling Stones.
10:44And Catch a Fire with its nine pieces
10:47that don't resemble anything known
10:49it attracts attention.
10:51I listened to the record and thought
10:53what is this stuff, what is this wow music.
10:57Because at that time I was listening to stuff like
10:59David Bowie, The Beatles, pop music.
11:02The pace was very different.
11:04He had a kind of counter-tempo
11:07which tended to leave you a little bit disoriented
11:11while maintaining something essentially familiar.
11:35Catch a Fire is considered the first album
11:38of international reggae
11:39because it is with that album that Europeans discover him.
11:45I was fascinated by it.
11:47I listened to that record on repeat.
11:50and there were those famous vibrations,
11:52that something that excited.
11:54They made me, a white boy, vibrate too.
12:02Reggae was born in Jamaica in the late 1960s.
12:07We return to Trench Town, where music resonates everywhere.
12:11At the time you listen to the chin,
12:13a traditional genre of the island.
12:20But the most popular is ska,
12:22with its cadence and its fast, danceable rhythm.
12:27It's slowing down the pace and playing the guitar
12:29reggae was born in counter-tempo.
12:37So, actually, if we consider time,
12:40ska is upbeat.
12:42One, two, three, four.
12:44One, two, three, four.
12:54Ska does that, though I'm simplifying.
12:57Reggae, on the other hand, is about hitting,
12:59but the two and the four are emphasized.
13:02One, two, three and four.
13:11One, two, three and four.
13:18One, two, three and four.
13:22More or less it is like this.
13:29Reggae is much more than music.
13:32For them it was a religion,
13:34a political act.
13:36Bob Marley sings it, he says
13:38reggae is another story.
13:41It's a music that makes us enter
13:43in another dimension,
13:45both historical and spiritual
13:47or in some way even physical,
13:49because once again
13:50it's a very particular vibration.
13:53Reggae music gives true information
13:59on what people say
14:01but which is not usually heard around.
14:03Reggae music is the voice of the people.
14:06It's the music of freedom,
14:09of the positive revolution
14:12and awareness.
14:16In the mid 70s
14:18reggae gains great popularity.
14:21His committed texts
14:22describing the violence in the ghetto
14:24and call for a fight for equality
14:27they affect all categories of the population,
14:30from the poorest to the richest.
14:32My mother met Chris Blackwell
14:35and had a relationship with him
14:36lasted a few years.
14:38And so, at the age of 14,
14:41I went to Chris for the first time
14:43at BAMAS.
14:46I was really into reggae at the time.
14:49I listened to a lot of singers,
14:52but...
14:53Bob...
14:55Bob had something extra, in my opinion.
14:57not only at the lyrical level,
15:00because the texts are easy to understand,
15:02unless one speaks no English at all.
15:05But also on a musical level,
15:07in terms of pace,
15:09in terms of melody,
15:10there was something more.
15:12Nothing really came close to Bob.
15:17Bob.
15:25Bob Marley didn't invent reggae,
15:28he takes it over to transform it
15:30and create a hybrid genre,
15:32his reggae.
15:35Keeps the rhythm, the basics,
15:36spirituality and commitment,
15:38but its producer, Chris Blackwell,
15:40adds a rock'n'roll touch
15:42to conquer Europe.
15:45So, Catch a Fire,
15:46registered in Kingston,
15:48It is entirely mixed in London
15:50by English technicians.
15:52With that record,
15:54Bob Marley then imposes
15:55a new musical identity
15:57and a new tone.
15:58I'll show you the cover,
16:00because it has the peculiarity
16:02to open from above
16:04and reveal a lighter.
16:06Catch a Fire
16:07it's a popular expression
16:09in Jamaican patois.
16:12Catch a Fire means
16:13go to hell,
16:14but looking at the cover,
16:16the concept is also
16:17a way to light the fuse.
16:19It's the record that lit the fuse.
16:22It wasn't a big hit at the time,
16:24but it has begun to arouse
16:26media interest.
16:29Catch a Fire
16:30it doesn't sell many copies,
16:31just 14,000 worldwide,
16:34but it attracts attention,
16:35intrigues music lovers
16:37and experts.
16:39Today this album
16:40is considered
16:41one of the milestones
16:42at the basis of reggae music.
16:44In October 1973
16:46it is announced
16:47a new album.
16:52I worked very hard
16:54to play on the radio
16:55some talented artists,
16:57but he was expected.
16:59Every Marley album
17:00it was expected.
17:01Marley, Marley.
17:03There was a kind of effervescence,
17:04a Marleymania.
17:07The new album
17:08it's titled
17:09Burning,
17:09which we could translate
17:10how to burn.
17:12The song that makes the difference
17:13in this case
17:14And
17:14I Shot the Sheriff.
17:40Recorded in 1972
17:42in Jamaica,
17:43the song ends
17:44on an audio cassette
17:45that Chris Blackwell
17:46send to all his contacts
17:48in the United States.
17:49Nobody knows there
17:51Bob Marley,
17:52but Blackwell
17:53he hopes to succeed
17:54to organize a tour.
17:56That song,
17:57by chance,
17:57ended up in my hands
17:58of two types
17:59that they were looking for
18:00to detoxify
18:01from heroin.
18:02It was about
18:03of two musicians,
18:04Keith Richards
18:05and Eric Clapton.
18:06Eric Clapton
18:07in the early 70s
18:09he was in a bit of a crisis.
18:10he was looking for
18:11his way,
18:12he didn't know how
18:13renew his
18:15repertoire.
18:16Listened to the song
18:17by Bob Marley,
18:18Keith Richards
18:19he fell in love
18:20madly reggae
18:21and Jamaica.
18:22Really
18:23he moved to the island.
18:24Even today
18:24owns a house
18:25in Jamaica,
18:26if my information
18:27they are correct,
18:28and Eric Clapton
18:29decided with the album
18:30461 Ocean Boulevard
18:32to record
18:33his version
18:33by I Shot the Sheriff.
18:55It's history
18:56of an accused man
18:57of having killed
18:57the sheriff
18:58and his deputy
18:59what does he say?
18:59the sheriff
19:00yes I killed him
19:01because he was a racist
19:02but his deputy
19:02I didn't kill him.
19:04But be precise.
19:05that the sheriff
19:06he was killed
19:07in self-defense.
19:30That of violence
19:31of the police
19:32it's a theme
19:32current affairs.
19:34We still wonder
19:36I have a place
19:37in society.
19:37Yes, they are themes
19:39that he sang
19:39at the time
19:40and which are still current.
19:42Because of this
19:43he was so ahead.
19:45With this text
19:46Bob Marley
19:47it fits in
19:48in tradition
19:49rock and roll
19:49that tells
19:50the adventures
19:51of a rebel
19:51what a fight
19:52against the established order.
19:54Eric Clapton's cover
19:55reaches number one
19:57in the United States
19:58in Canada
19:58and in England.
19:5914 weeks left
20:01in the ranking
20:02American Billboard.
20:04It was partly
20:05thanks to Eric Clapton
20:06that we discovered
20:07Bob Marley
20:08because his version
20:08it was a great success
20:10and consequently
20:11people got interested
20:12to the original.
20:13And it was also
20:13a little thanks to Clapton
20:14that a part
20:15of the white public
20:16middle class
20:17who listened to rock
20:18he discovered reggae.
20:23Bob Marley and the Wailers
20:27In 1975
20:29in the small world
20:30of music lovers
20:32of rock critics
20:33and record stores
20:34we only talk
20:36by Bob Marley
20:37and the Wailers.
20:38I'm not there yet
20:39of the big stars
20:40but rather
20:40a new phenomenon
20:42to listen and see.
20:43They just published
20:45their third album
20:46Natty Dreed
20:47and to promote it
20:49live
20:49Chris Blackwell
20:50convinced of the potential
20:52by Bob Marley
20:53he does everything
20:54to create
20:54a legendary show.
20:56It was a theater
20:58Italian style.
21:00He organized that concert
21:01also renting
21:02recording tools
21:04to realize
21:05a live album.
21:06Blackwell
21:07he practically invited
21:08all the European press.
21:10Luckily for me
21:11I was among the first
21:12to have the opportunity
21:13to write about reggae
21:15and I went to that concert.
21:18Musically
21:18it was an explosion
21:20a band
21:20perfectly in tune
21:22that pulsated
21:23it was perceived
21:24a mechanism
21:25well oiled
21:26something of
21:27extremely
21:28regular and powerful
21:29what did he do to you
21:30vibrate inside.
21:33Even if that evening
21:34there were only
21:353000 people
21:36more than 50 years later
21:37we're still talking
21:38of that concert
21:39at the Icee Home
21:40of London
21:40as the most important
21:42in his career
21:42by Bob Marley.
21:47From that concert
21:49it was taken
21:51an album
21:51that I have here with me
21:54Bob Marley
21:55and the Whalers
21:56Live
21:57at the Lyceum
21:58Furthermore
21:59at the time
22:00they had had
22:02the idea
22:02to include
22:04a beautiful one
22:07poster
22:07of the concert
22:08you can see
22:09an image
22:10by Bob Marley
22:11as it was
22:11live
22:21from this album
22:22it was extracted
22:23the single
22:24No Woman No Cry
22:48it was this song
22:50to allow Bob Marley
22:52to really impose oneself
22:53at least on the radio frequencies
22:55No Woman No Cry
22:58It's one of the biggest hits
23:00by Bob Marley
23:01No Woman No Cry
23:04No Woman No Cry
23:07No Woman No Cry
23:09In addition to effectiveness
23:11of the song
23:11to his committed text
23:13and nostalgic
23:14to the perfect balance
23:15between Marley's voice
23:16and the choirs
23:17the context too
23:18in which it was written
23:19It is very significant
23:22it's a special song
23:24why it was composed
23:25at a turning point
23:27a moment of transition
23:29between Bob Marley
23:31of Trench Town
23:32and what it achieves
23:33the success
23:34a change
23:35that marks
23:35a complete turnaround
23:37in his life
23:39at the end of 1975
23:41the Live album is released
23:43the recording
23:44of his legendary concert
23:46in London
23:46and Bob Marley
23:47change status
23:48from that moment on
23:50his popularity
23:51it grows continuously
23:52reaching a level
23:54that not even he
23:54could have imagined
23:56but with celebrity
23:57loneliness also arrives
23:59and until the end
24:00of his short life
24:02the artist will continue
24:03to be divided
24:04between the superstar
24:05which has become
24:06and the man who was before
24:15long before becoming
24:17the great Bob Marley
24:19it was the little one
24:20Robert Nesta Marley
24:21born February 6, 1945
24:24at Nine Miles
24:25in the Jamaican countryside
24:28Bob Marley
24:29he came from a small village
24:32was born from the union
24:34between a white man
24:3559 years old
24:36called the captain
24:38and a young woman
24:39of color
24:40just 18 years old
24:41they called him
24:43Robert Nesta Marley
24:45they got married
24:47but the wedding
24:48it didn't last
24:49clearly
24:49because it was impossible
24:50she was a girl
24:52very poor in color
24:53and he's a white man
24:54not rich
24:55but white
24:55a colonizer
24:56Bob sings
24:57since I was a child
24:58sing nursery rhymes
25:00and children's songs
25:01sing at Nine Miles
25:02in the middle of the countryside
25:03where it is surrounded
25:04from nature
25:05and sings
25:05because it's in his DNA
25:07then very soon
25:09since he didn't have
25:10nothing to eat
25:10he ran away
25:11and moved to the city
25:12the city was Kingston
25:14but without money
25:15a city is difficult
25:16Indeed
25:17Bob found himself
25:18in the poor neighborhood
25:19of Trenchtown
25:20he knew he was different
25:22his father was white
25:23his black mother
25:24and he wasn't
25:25completely black
25:26so not fully
25:27accepted by blacks
25:28but not even white
25:29therefore not accepted
25:30from the whites
25:32he knew that his life
25:33it would never have been easy
25:34between 13 and 14 years old
25:37young Robert
25:38he is forced to leave
25:39the studies
25:40because the only school
25:41of the neighborhood
25:42closes
25:42start playing
25:44the guitar
25:44and to earn
25:45to live
25:46learn a real trade
25:47to be able to help
25:48economically
25:49his mother
25:49besides making music
25:51Bob Marley
25:52he was a welder
25:53he had learned
25:54a profession
25:54because he needed it
25:56to work
25:56and this came back to him
25:58useful several times
25:58in life
25:59because there were periods
26:00where he remained
26:01penniless
26:02life in Trench Town
26:04it's hard
26:04moreover
26:05at 17 years old
26:06Marley is the only one
26:07crossbreed
26:07in a neighborhood
26:08completely black
26:09and hard work
26:10to find its place
26:12to get accepted
26:13practice
26:14the two things
26:15most important
26:16in his ghetto
26:16the music
26:17and to relax
26:19football
26:21Bob Marley
26:22and the Wailers
26:23in May 1977
26:26Bob Marley
26:27lands in Paris
26:28to start
26:29a little European tour
26:30a year ago
26:31he had gone out
26:32the album
26:32Rastaman Vibration
26:34his first success
26:35in the United States
26:36he had held it there
26:38some concerts
26:39which had consolidated
26:40his charisma
26:41but put an end
26:42to friendship
26:42with Peter Tosh
26:43and Bunny Wailer
26:45so it comes back
26:46alone in Jamaica
26:47where he can
26:47miraculously
26:48to escape
26:49to an attack
26:50when he arrives in Paris
26:51he's more alone than ever
26:52and his only wish
26:54it's having fun
26:55I remember very well
26:56when I brought it back
26:57in the hotel
26:58he was in front
26:59at the window
26:59and he told me
27:00come on Jackie
27:01he had a nose
27:02leaning against the glass
27:03and looking out
27:04he said
27:04Look
27:05that's a field
27:06from football
27:07I answered him
27:08yes I see it
27:08I played soccer
27:09as a boy
27:10when I was 12
27:1113 years old
27:12and he
27:13I would like
27:14play football
27:15against the French
27:16and so
27:16without thinking about it
27:17twice
27:18I organized
27:19that match
27:19among the Wailers
27:20and the journalists
27:21one day
27:22the phone rings
27:24what are you doing today?
27:25there's a football match
27:26among expert journalists
27:29of rock
27:29and Bob Marley
27:30and his team
27:31I gave myself
27:33a pinch
27:33thinking of dreaming
27:35the appointment
27:36he was around
27:37of the Eiffel Tower
27:38to the field in front
27:39at the Hilton Hotel
27:40we found each other
27:41with other journalists
27:43rock experts
27:44that I didn't know
27:45and with the
27:46Rastafarians
27:48Bob Marley
27:49and his friends
27:50The Wailers
27:51Bob Marley
27:53and the Wailers
27:54they were not numerous
27:55there were few
27:56to set up a team
27:57so they asked
27:58three or four
27:59of us journalists
28:00to join them
28:01to reach
28:02the number
28:02of players
28:03sufficient
28:08the thing I remember
28:09moreover
28:10I am the rain
28:11dreadlocks
28:12a big hat
28:14to collect them
28:15and the image
28:16by Bob Marley
28:17in a tracksuit
28:18before the match
28:19he started dribbling
28:21and he was dribbling
28:22like a pro
28:23he knew how to play
28:25he was very good
28:26a great player
28:27with a style
28:28a little Brazilian
28:29his idols
28:30they were Pelé
28:31and Ardiles
28:32the Argentine
28:32and there I saw
28:34an artist
28:35there are some points in common
28:51let's think about the artists
28:52that dance
28:53and they sing
28:53at the same time
28:54you need to know
28:56coordinate breathing
28:57otherwise
28:58we stay immediately
28:59out of breath
28:59he was
29:00an artist
29:01quite active
29:02on stage
29:03and his style
29:04required
29:04a certain coordination
29:06in football
29:07if you are not coordinated
29:08you run badly
29:08so you waste time
29:09you lose your rhythm
29:10and you are less effective
29:11and they had
29:12this ability
29:13both in football
29:14that in music
29:15so it was
29:16the perfect match
29:24freedom
29:25freedom is a theme
29:30very expensive
29:31to Bob Marley
29:32with success
29:33he lost
29:34a part of one's own
29:35which however finds
29:36when he plays football
29:37during a game
29:38becomes again
29:39the boy from the ghetto
29:40with the head
29:41full of dreams
29:43Bob Marley
29:44and the whalers
29:46stay free
29:47true to himself
29:48despite
29:49the new life
29:50that is offered to him
29:51without leaving each other
29:52corrupt
29:52from money
29:53and from fame
29:54Here you are
29:54what is he trying to do?
29:56but it is above all
29:56what is expected
29:58from him
29:58Bob Marley
29:59he is the first artist
30:01coming from
30:01from a country
30:02very poor
30:02to succeed
30:03to impose itself
30:04across the globe
30:05for this reason
30:06and like all pioneers
30:07he had to pay
30:08the price
30:08of an ascent
30:09so glamorous
30:20this interview
30:21taken from the archives
30:22of Australian television
30:24takes place in 1979
30:26Bob Marley
30:27he lives then
30:28at number 66
30:29of Hope Road
30:30in Kingston
30:31in a beautiful house
30:32like those
30:33in which usually
30:34high society lives
30:35Jamaican
30:36so white
30:37that he
30:38yes it was done
30:38to buy
30:39that house
30:39to make it
30:40his headquarters
30:41it's something
30:42of unpublished
30:42on the island
30:43that house
30:44will therefore become
30:45a local attraction
30:46like everyone else
30:47signs of his wealth
30:48to begin
30:49from the parked car
30:50in front of his house
30:52it had been done
30:53send a BMW
30:54and why exactly
30:55a BMW
30:56because they were
30:57the initials
30:58by Bob Marley
30:59and the wheelers
31:00the thing amused him
31:01and the only way
31:02to know
31:03whether he was at home or not
31:04it was to see
31:04if in the parking lot
31:05there was the BMW
31:25economic recognition
31:27he had that one
31:28although
31:29In my opinion
31:30it destabilized him a lot
31:31why manage
31:33so much money
31:34when you've never had anything
31:35when you come from the ghetto
31:37it's not easy
31:38the price
31:39of his success
31:40in Jamaica
31:41it was just
31:42that
31:42to help
31:43to give support
31:44to contribute
31:45to an improvement
31:46there were in fact people
31:48that came
31:48in the morning
31:49especially mothers of families
31:50with their children
31:51to ask him for money
31:53because they needed it
31:54he paid
31:55sports facilities
31:56of a football club
31:57of Trench Town
31:58he bought the uniforms
31:59the balloons
32:00his role
32:02it was also this
32:03and he
32:04he had accepted it
32:06Bob Marley
32:07he succeeded
32:08to leave the ghetto
32:09but it will pass
32:10the rest
32:10of his life
32:11to search
32:11to demonstrate
32:12not to deny
32:13its origins
32:14in Jamaica
32:16it arouses envy
32:17elsewhere curiosity
32:18the European press
32:20with a pinch
32:20of condescension
32:22he nicknames him
32:23the first star
32:24third world
32:25sign of a misunderstanding
32:26mutual
32:27between Bob Marley
32:28and the media
32:28I interviewed
32:30Bob Marley
32:31in 1977
32:32in Paris
32:33upon my arrival
32:35they had all sunk
32:36on the sofas
32:37there were women
32:38that they wore
32:39of the tunic species
32:40and a type
32:40completely disheveled
32:42and dressed carelessly
32:43he was wearing an old shirt
32:45which probably
32:46it didn't come off
32:47for five days
32:48and a dirty old pair of trousers
32:49I remember he got up
32:51carelessly
32:52from the sofa
32:53for the interview
32:54he didn't care
32:55not at all
32:55obviously it was
32:57forgotten
32:57of our appointment
32:58and when I did
33:00one or two questions
33:00on his music
33:02he answered
33:02with things that concerned
33:04the world
33:05and humanity
33:05he said
33:06I believe that the world
33:07it should be better
33:08or I think everyone
33:09they should love each other
33:18Pop Marley
33:20he was not a person
33:21very interesting
33:22to be interviewed
33:23you can see it
33:24you can see it
33:25after all
33:25in all interviews
33:27in various documentaries
33:29he wasn't very used to it
33:30to these things
33:48we must not forget
33:50what bob marley
33:51he died at the age of 36
33:53he was still very young
33:54had attended school
33:56just for a few years
33:57he had not attended
33:58the university
33:59his reference book
34:00it was the Bible
34:01which historically speaking
34:02it's not certain
34:03a very reliable text
34:04he didn't read articles
34:06or essays on geopolitics
34:24it was made like that
34:26it was rather enigmatic
34:29in the way he spoke
34:30he was there with you
34:31and then suddenly
34:33there was no more
34:34it was in another space-time
34:37in an alternate reality
34:39he was there on a mission
34:41had a strong mystical side
34:44there are many songs
34:45in which Marley
34:46already invokes
34:47there was something
34:48decidedly mystical
34:50in his way of being
34:51Bob Marley
34:53he is the first artist
34:54to openly claim
34:55belonging
34:56to the movement
34:56Rastafarian
34:57it defines itself
34:59rasta
34:59sing songs
35:00rasta
35:01and lives
35:01according to the principles
35:02rasta
35:03this is intriguing
35:04a lot of Western media
35:06bob
35:07what rules
35:08it is necessary to observe
35:10to be a Rastafarian
35:11what does it mean
35:12how long
35:13he's a rasta
35:14how important they are
35:15dreadlocks
35:16it is mandatory
35:16have them
35:17if you are Rastafarian
35:18what should I do
35:19to be
35:20Rastafarians
35:23Rastafarianism
35:24it's a social movement
35:26cultural
35:26and spiritual
35:27born in the 30s
35:28in Jamaica
35:29Jamaica
35:31abolishes slavery
35:32in 1833
35:34so very late
35:35and starting
35:37since the twentieth century
35:38this movement was born
35:39Rastafarian
35:40which represents
35:42a reading
35:42more Africanist
35:43of the Bible
35:44the Jamaicans
35:45they are very religious
35:46and they don't put it at all
35:47under discussion
35:48the idea of God
35:49but the God
35:50that he was taught
35:52which is white
35:53blond
35:53on the cross
35:54with around
35:55white apostles
35:57Well
35:58this tends
35:59to refuse it
36:00because they want
36:01a reading
36:01more African
36:02of Christianity
36:03Rastafarianism
36:05help black people
36:06of the Antillean ghettos
36:07descendants
36:08of the slaves
36:09to answer
36:10to the questions
36:10on their identity
36:11we must remember
36:13that during
36:13the trade
36:14of the slaves
36:15their ancestors
36:16they were taken away
36:17by force
36:17from Africa
36:18Rastafarianism
36:20he therefore proposes
36:21a return
36:21spiritual
36:22to Africa
36:23mother earth
36:24it's an ideology
36:35strongly
36:36focused
36:36on the refusal
36:38of a symbol
36:39Babylon
36:40Babylon
36:41it's the big city
36:42which represents
36:42all sins
36:43you don't have to
36:52drink products
36:53of the vine
36:54and that is
36:54alcoholic beverages
36:55must
36:56refrain
36:56from consumption
36:57of meat
36:57the dreadlocks
36:58I am
36:58vegetarians
37:02no fat
37:03all healthy
37:04and he had
37:05a great body
37:06he was very slim
37:07he had grown up
37:08in the countryside
37:09he was very attached
37:10to nature
37:10and he needed
37:12to lead
37:12a healthy life
37:13to play sports
37:14everyday
37:14to go and do
37:15the shower under the waterfalls
37:17and things like that
37:18and he needed
37:19to eat food
37:20that he came
37:21directly
37:21from the earth
37:22he was a healthy guy
37:23In short
37:24who wanted to live
37:25in a healthy way
37:26and then a bit like
37:27certain Jews
37:28very observant
37:29they wear curls
37:30here because
37:31it is the spirit
37:32of God
37:32that settles
37:33on this part
37:34of the body
37:34the Rastafarians
37:36in the same way
37:37let it grow
37:38their hair
37:38hence the appearance
37:40dreadlocks
37:41which is a way
37:42to let it penetrate
37:43in them
37:44spirituality
37:45but the government
37:46Jamaican
37:47fresh from independence
37:48he doesn't look favorably on it
37:50those men
37:50long-haired
37:51that reinterpret
37:53the Bible
37:53at that time
37:54Bob Marley
37:55like all Rastafarians
37:57it was continuously
37:58tormented
37:59from the police
38:00they arrested them
38:01they searched them
38:02they were cutting him
38:03dreadlocks
38:04they forced them
38:05to eat pork
38:06that for them
38:07it was absolutely
38:08the food
38:09most impure in the world
38:12the dreadlocks
38:13they are persecuted
38:14why do they smoke
38:15cannabis
38:17do you have to smoke
38:19to be a rasta
38:22no man
38:25but
38:27at this time
38:28I mean like
38:29for instance
38:32you reach in a sense
38:33where
38:35you're strong enough
38:36can't take a lick of smoke
38:38so when all of them
38:39carapass
38:40although you live in the city
38:42you don't hear it
38:43because you're thinking
38:46Bob Marley
38:47claims
38:48the use of cannabis
38:49in the 70s
38:50it's a real one
38:51political position
38:55Herb
38:57Herb
38:57is a plant
39:01I mean
39:02herbs are good
39:03for everything
39:05why
39:07why
39:07these people
39:08who wants
39:09to do so much good
39:11for everyone
39:12who call themselves
39:14governments
39:14and this and that
39:15why they say
39:17you must not use the herb
39:18at that time
39:20the Netherlands
39:21I'm the only one
39:22state of the world
39:22to have decriminalized
39:24consumption
39:24of cannabis
39:2540 years later
39:27Marley
39:28will become
39:28a brand
39:29of cannabis
39:30legal
39:30in some states
39:31of the United States
39:33Bob Marley
39:34and the whalers
39:37how are you?
39:40I feel vibrations
39:42positive here
39:43Thank you
39:44Thank you
39:52Julian Marley
39:53it's today
39:53one of the largest
39:54ambassadors
39:55of reggae
39:55in 2024
39:57public
39:58a new album
39:59Colors of Royal
40:00and starts
40:01a world tour
40:02that stops
40:02also in France
40:05also wins
40:06the Grammy Award
40:07for the best
40:08reggae album
40:09illegitimate child
40:10by Bob Marley
40:11his future
40:12it was something else entirely
40:13that guaranteed
40:15beast Fariani
40:17thank you
40:20Julian was born
40:22in London
40:22in 1975
40:24it is not known
40:25practically nothing
40:26of his mother
40:27apart from the name
40:27Lucy Pounder
40:29and the fact
40:29who raised
40:31his son
40:31between England
40:32and Jamaica
40:33Julian met
40:34his father
40:35when he had
40:36already 5 years
40:36I have few memories
40:38I was very small
40:39at that time
40:40I remember being
40:42at a concert
40:43in England
40:44in 1980
40:46at the Crystal Palace
40:48was part of
40:49of the tour
40:50of the album
40:51Uprising
40:53I remember being
40:54went to the concert
40:55with my mother
40:57I remember being
40:58got into a van
40:59of having arrived
41:00at the concert venue
41:02I went
41:03backstage
41:03there was a big tent
41:06And
41:07when I entered
41:09in the tent
41:10he was right there
41:12in front of me
41:14I don't remember
41:16if he spoke to me
41:17but I got closer
41:18I looked from below
41:20I shook hands
41:22and I ran away
41:23and that's it
41:25this little memory
41:28it is the seed of everything
41:35in 1980
41:36Julian discovers
41:37to be part of
41:38of a large family
41:39the first time
41:41that I went
41:42in Jamaica
41:42I was 5 years old
41:44on that occasion
41:46I met
41:47all my brothers
41:48and sisters
41:48that I didn't know
41:50to have
41:50suddenly
41:52they told me
41:52Hey
41:53you have six brothers
41:54wow
41:56there was a lot of music
41:58brothers
42:00sisters
42:01to find each other again
42:02we were having fun
42:04we played soccer
42:05we made music
42:08it really is
42:08a feeling
42:09wonderful
42:10have
42:10a big family
42:12and be able to
42:14grow
42:14how we are
42:15grown up
42:15at that time
42:16Bob Marley
42:18and his family
42:19his wife Rita
42:20and his children
42:20they live right there
42:22next to
42:22to his studies
42:23of registration
42:24in the big house
42:25from Kingston
42:28Bob Marley
42:29he was a prophet
42:31but it was also
42:32her husband
42:33he was a prophet
42:35and it was also
42:35my brother
42:36my friend
42:37my father
42:38my husband
42:39it was all
42:41the two have only
42:43twenty years
42:43when they meet
42:44they get married
42:45February 11th
42:46of 1966
42:48and soon
42:49they have a daughter
42:50Seatla
42:51and shortly after
42:52a little boy
42:53Ziggy
42:53Bob will not marry
42:55other women
42:55and it will remain
42:56tied to Rita
42:56until the day
42:57of his death
42:58Rita is also
42:59the first singer
43:00reggae
43:05behind every great man
43:06there is an immense woman
43:08and we must respect
43:09very Rita Marley
43:10because in a certain sense
43:12it was her
43:13to educate him
43:14she was there for him
43:15from start to finish
43:31I sing with the high trees
43:33forever
43:34as Bob's backing vocalist
43:35it's important to him
43:37and for his music
43:39Rita was essential
43:41for Bob's songs
43:42and he himself said
43:43that without its choirs
43:45his music
43:46he would not have had
43:46the same intensity
43:49Long before he became famous
43:51Bob Marley
43:52it was already known
43:53for its numerous
43:54female conquests
43:55and with success
43:56the opportunities
43:57they certainly don't lack them
43:58Him
43:59Well
43:59it was almost
44:00a consumer
44:02of women
44:02not only because
44:03he was a great seducer
44:05as they told
44:06all his friends
44:07but also because
44:07the girls
44:08they threw themselves on him
44:09we must remember
44:10that he was a handsome man
44:11extremely charismatic
44:13and then the girls
44:14they fell
44:15stiff as flies
44:17in front of him
44:18and he obviously
44:19he did not oppose
44:20a lot of resistance
44:21whalers on tour
44:23they were like the Rolling Stones
44:24and in hotels
44:25in which Bob Marley
44:26he was staying
44:27there was a lot of coming and going
44:28of women
44:28and Bob had to
44:29just choose
44:31among known loves
44:33we can quote
44:34Esther Anderson
44:35model and photographer
44:36or Cindy Breakspear
44:39Miss World 1976
44:41despite all those conquests
44:44among which were
44:45many models
44:46and actresses
44:47in the end
44:48those that remained
44:49they were
44:50anyway women
44:51with a personality
44:52quite strong
44:53that did not leave each other
44:54to submit
44:55the most secret idyll
44:57what remains is what is revealed
44:58from the journalist
44:59Anne-Sophie Jeanne
45:00in 2021
45:02the love story
45:03with Pascaline Bongo
45:04daughter of an important man
45:06African politician
45:07the relationship
45:09between Pascaline and Bob
45:10it was hidden
45:11for 40 years
45:12actually
45:13it was a secret
45:14almost a state secret
45:16she in fact
45:17she was the daughter
45:17by Omar Bongo
45:18the powerful president
45:20from Gabon
45:20and Bob Marley
45:21he was the biggest star
45:23global
45:23of that era
45:24their meeting
45:25takes place
45:26November 23rd
45:27of 1979
45:28behind the scenes
45:29of a concert
45:30by Bob Marley
45:31at university
45:32from Los Angeles
45:33she was studying
45:35in Los Angeles
45:35Bob was on tour
45:37in the United States
45:37and obviously
45:39she had succeeded
45:41to earn
45:42backstage access
45:43and there
45:44in a cloud of smoke
45:46he had glimpsed
45:47this singer
45:48actually
45:49rather small
45:50under
45:51a huge mass
45:52of dreadlocks
45:53she had come closer
45:55to introduce yourself
45:56she who was
45:58still used to it
45:59to be treated
46:00from everyone
46:00with a certain difference
46:01and he
46:02he had told him
46:03but who have you done?
46:04at the start
46:05Pascaline
46:06had remained
46:07a little surprised
46:08then he understood
46:08which was why
46:09she had stretched herself
46:10to the hair
46:10an unacceptable thing
46:11for Rastafarians
46:12that's how she set herself up
46:13to laugh
46:14instead of getting offended
46:15it wasn't out of spite
46:16and had invited
46:17Bob at dinner
46:18it started from there
46:19their story
46:20as a daughter
46:21of a president
46:22Pascaline
46:23he is a person
46:23important
46:24and very rich
46:25maybe even more
46:26by Bob
46:26and this is news
46:28absolute for him
46:28invites him to Africa
46:30thanks to her
46:31Bob Marley
46:31makes his debut
46:32African tour
46:33in Gabon
46:34financed
46:35from the family
46:36Bongo
46:36Pascaline and Bob
46:38they live a story
46:39of very intense love
46:40Bob absolutely wanted
46:42have a child
46:43with Pascaline
46:44she was very young
46:45he was finishing his studies
46:46and he had ambitions
46:47actually yes
46:48she was an ambitious woman
46:49eager
46:50to make a career
46:51he didn't want to have a child
46:52at that moment
46:53he took the pill
46:54and probably
46:55it was a great regret
46:56for Bob
46:58with Pascaline
46:59Bob Marley
47:00starts
47:01to a new era
47:02that of African commitment
47:04Unfortunately
47:05he can't carry
47:06in port
47:06that love story
47:07in his ambitions
47:08Pan-African
47:17Bob Marley
47:18is dead
47:19last night
47:24a voice
47:24it went out
47:25definitely
47:26Bob Marley
47:27is dead
47:28he was born
47:28in Kingston
47:29in 1945
47:30and he died
47:31due to cancer
47:32I put myself
47:33to cry
47:34as if he were dead
47:35a member
47:35of my family
47:36there are people
47:37that shouldn't die
47:39people who carry
47:40right words
47:41people who make us vibrate
47:43people who give us
47:44so many beautiful things
47:46it was terrible
47:50May 11th
47:52of 1981
47:53the announcement
47:54of death
47:55of the superstar
47:56of reggae
47:57surprises
47:57the whole world
47:58some newspapers
48:00they had spoken
48:01of a disease
48:01that was consuming
48:02the singer
48:03but nobody thought
48:04that he was condemned
48:06but then
48:07what happened?
48:11to understand it
48:12let's go back to Paris
48:13in 1977
48:14on a soccer field
48:16under the Eiffel Tower
48:17during the match
48:18among the Wailers
48:19and French journalists
48:21an accident
48:22seemingly banal
48:23destined to change everything
48:25there was that famous accident
48:28one of the players
48:30he crushed
48:31a foot
48:32to Bob Marley
48:33yes he got a beating
48:35but I don't remember from whom anymore
48:36and he got hurt
48:37from that moment on
48:38Bob started
48:39to limp
48:40at a certain point
48:41he left the field
48:42the referee
48:43the final whistle blew
48:44of the first half
48:45and to the recovery
48:46Bob
48:46he did not return to the field
48:48it could end there
48:50but some time
48:51after the wound
48:52shows no signs of healing
48:54after a concert
48:56in London
48:56Bob Marley
48:57he takes off his shoe
48:58and discovers his big toe
48:59in very bad condition
49:01he goes to the hospital
49:02the wound
49:03is being examined
49:04and analyzed
49:05the verdict
49:06it's terrible
49:07and unexpected
49:08a cancer
49:09it has developed
49:09under the nail
49:10of his big toe
49:13they did it to him
49:14a curetage
49:15on the big toe
49:15they scraped
49:16away the cells
49:17he is cured
49:18it was cured
49:19he returned to playing football
49:20to make music
49:21he could dance
49:22there were no problems
49:23but evidently
49:25should have
49:26to be followed
49:27if it had been followed
49:28maybe today
49:28would be
49:31still with us
49:32it is often said
49:34that he refused
49:35the treatments
49:36or an amputation
49:37to save themselves
49:38from cancer
49:38maybe it would have been enough
49:40a simple check
49:41just to be
49:42Bob Marley
49:43in 1978
49:44he didn't leave
49:46a long time
49:46for your health
49:58he was on tour
50:00all year round
50:01and I believe
50:02that this
50:03have created
50:04problems
50:04to your health
50:05he was always there
50:06on stage
50:07or he wrote
50:09he didn't sleep
50:10practically never
50:11he was a worker
50:12tireless
50:24he woke up
50:26at 5 in the morning
50:28he took the guitar
50:29he wrote songs
50:30texts
50:31not with his musicians
50:32they were sleeping
50:33until late
50:34after having fun
50:35the previous evening
50:36his women
50:37they were with the children
50:38he was alone
50:38he was a man
50:40that he has never known
50:41peace in rest
50:42this might explain
50:44because at only 36 years old
50:45his body
50:46was consumed
50:51after 5 years
50:53internationally successful
50:54Bob Marley
50:55is at the peak
50:56of the career
50:56but in the morning
50:58of September 21st
50:591980
50:59in New York
51:01the next day
51:02a concert
51:03at Madison Square Garden
51:04he goes to play sports
51:05in Central Park
51:07after a few minutes
51:08suddenly collapses
51:11he was very sporty
51:13he went for a run
51:14and he felt ill
51:16in the hospital they discovered
51:17who had metastases
51:18everywhere
51:19Pascaline
51:20he was with him
51:21in New York
51:21when it collapsed
51:22in Central Park
51:24while jogging
51:25he wasn't running
51:26with him
51:27she had stayed in the hotel
51:28but he understood immediately
51:29that something was wrong
51:30and he knew very soon
51:32who was seriously ill
51:33had metastases everywhere
51:35and at the moment in which
51:36he finally decided
51:37to take care of oneself
51:38it was too late
51:39cancer
51:41invaded the liver
51:42the lungs
51:43and the brain
51:43they announce to him
51:45that remain to him
51:45just two months old
51:46but this time
51:47Bob Marley
51:48he wants to fight
51:49he goes to Europe
51:50to follow
51:51a therapy
51:51New Age
51:52very controversial
51:53he submits
51:54in vain
51:55to treatments
51:55very painful
51:56in a German clinic
51:57where his loved ones
51:58they alternate
51:59to be close to him
52:00included
52:01Pascaline Bongo
52:04Pascaline
52:05he took
52:05your own
52:06private object
52:06to go
52:07to find it
52:07in Germany
52:08where Bob
52:09he was undergoing chemotherapy
52:10he saw it
52:11lose hair
52:12lose weight
52:12it was given to him
52:13very close
52:14in that period
52:15I remember that
52:16my mother
52:18the last time
52:19who saw Bob
52:20he told me
52:21of having remained
52:22shocked
52:22Why
52:23had arrived
52:24with a cap
52:25and when
52:26he took it off
52:27he didn't have
52:28more hair
52:29his dreadlocks
52:31they were his strength
52:32they brought him
52:33in Miami
52:34where he died
52:35in the hospital
52:37he is 36 years old
52:38Bob Marley
52:40it would have been wanted
52:41to die in Jamaica
52:42but it's too weak
52:43to take a plane
52:44for Kingston
52:45he dies like this in Miami
52:47May 11th
52:48of 1981
52:49a week later
52:50the executions
52:51they are celebrated
52:52in his homeland
52:53it was a mix
52:54festive
52:55and of enormous sadness
52:57there were a lot of people
52:58who was crying
52:59but also
53:00people who were smiling
53:01there was an atmosphere
53:03unusual
53:03no tears
53:04no screaming
53:05simply
53:06an emotion
53:07immense
53:08rarely
53:09a people was seen
53:10to identify oneself
53:10to such an extent
53:11with a man
53:12the image
53:13that I keep
53:14of that event
53:15And
53:15the funeral procession
53:17the huge tail
53:18of Jamaicans
53:20that they wanted
53:21enter
53:21in that building
53:22in which
53:24it had been
53:25exposed
53:25the coffin
53:26she was leaning
53:28on a table
53:28the coffin
53:30it was open
53:30and he was inside
53:32with his guitar
53:33is this
53:34the image
53:35that I keep
53:36him with the guitar
53:37Like this
53:38and we passed
53:39everyone
53:41in front of him
53:42for a moment
53:43of recollection
53:44to then go out
53:45on the other side
53:47of the building
53:48Jamaica
53:50loses his own
53:51national hero
53:52and the whole world
53:53he says goodbye
53:54musician
53:55without equal
53:55and has a message
53:57of peace
53:57one of his songs
53:59written
54:00while he was watching
54:01death in the face
54:02is it perhaps
54:02his best testament
54:04his will
54:21and his will
54:30it's a moment
54:31Thank you.
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