1. BOB MARLEY AND HIS INFLUENCE ON POPULAR CULTURE

2. Jamaica Bob Marley wanted to make Jamaica a better place as a whole and for the people living there They felt that his music helped them, capturing all aspects of Jamaica in his songs He became popular at a time where Jamaica was in political turmoil; the people looked to him for inspiration and hope He just wanted to make Jamaica better and took over as their representative

3. INSPIRATION TO OTHER NATIONS Bob Marley’s song, “Get Up, Stand Up” became an anthem for a lot of third world countries. They believed that the song was telling them to get up and fight the oppressors. “Get Up, Stand Up” Preacher man don’t tell me heaven is under the earth/ I know you don’t know what life is really worth/ Is not all that glitters in gold and/ Half the story has never been told/ So now you see the light, aay/ Stand up for your right. Come on/…Most people think great God will come from the sky/ Take away ev’rything, and make ev’rything feel high/ But if you don’t know what life is worth/ You would look for yours on earth/ And now you see the light/ You stand up for your right, yeah!/… Get Up, Stand Up, stand up for your right/ Get Up, Stand Up, don’t give up the fight/ Get Up, Stand Up. Life is your right/ So we can’t give up the fight/ Stand up for your right, Lord, Lord/ Get Up, Stand Up. Keep on struggling on/ Don’t give up the fight/…

4. MARIJUANA According to the Rastafarian faith, marijuana is regarded as “wisdom weed”. Rastafarian leaders urge that it be smoked as a religious rite They claim that it was growing on the grave of King Solomon According to Psalms 104:14: “He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man, that he may bring forth food out of the earth.”

5. RASTAFARIAN FORBIDDEN THINGS No amputations No alcohol, tobacco, all meat (especially pork), shellfish, scale less fish, snails, predatory and scavenger species of marine life, and seasonings like salt No combing or cutting of hair (Leviticus 21:5: “They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.”)

6. OTHER MUSICIANS ERIC CLAPTON Eric Clapton is one of the American musicians that knew Bob Marley. According to Eric Clapton, “I walked into this dressing room that I couldn’t see the other side of for the smoke… I sat and talked with Bob, and he was just a great guy. He was so warm. A beautiful man. He was serious about what he was doing, but was very gentle.” Many people all over the world admired and respected Bob Marley

7. OTHER MUSICIANS because of what he believed in and the way he promoted and stood by peace.

8. OTHER MUSICIANS Bob Marley influenced other musicians like Johnny Nash, Bruce Springsteen, Sly and The Family Stone (number one black band in the United States), and Stevie Wonder

9. Bob Marley “Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned everywhere is war, me say war.”

10. Peace Bob Marley always promoted peace above all else. He threw a free concert in Jamaica, was invited to the United Nations in New York to receive the Medal of Peace, was invited by the governor of Zimbabwe to play an Independent Ceremony- which was the greatest honour and it showed their importance Also, in Jamaica, they were given the Order of Merit which is the third

11. Peace highest honour for their contribution to Jamaican culture Performed at a concert called, One Love Peace Concert, which was for the Prime Minister at the time

12. BOB MARLEY’S DEATH While in London, England on tour, Bob Marley was playing football/ soccer, he injured his toe. He went to the doctors who did not do a good job on his Toe. Eventually, the toe became cancerous and the doctors told him that the only way to stop the cancer is to have the toe amputated. (According to the Rastafarian faith, amputation is forbidden.) Bob Marley did nothing about his

13. BOB MARLEY’S DEATH toe. Later on while he was walking he felt faint and went back to the doctors who told him that the cancer had spread all over his body and that he was going to die. Bob Marley Always referred to the doctors as practicing “witchcraft.” Bob Marley did not want to die in the United States. According to Bob Marley, “