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which was similar to what happened

when Haile Selassie came to Jamaica.

It was amazing to see

this stadium of 30,000 people.

People who were opposed politically...

were sitting beside each other.

I wanna jam with you

I really wanna jam it with you

I wanna jam with you

I really wanna jam it

I really wanna jam

I wanna jam with you

Whoa

I hope you like jammin' too

Well, oh, well-well

Well

I wanna jam it with you

Yeah

Ooh. Just let me

tell you something else.

Yeah.

Hope you like jammin' too

To make everything come true,

we got to be together.

Yeah. Yeah.

I wanna jam it with you

And to the spirit of the most high,

His Imperial Majesty,

Emperor Haile Selassie I,

from writing to...

leading people...

of the slavery to be here...

to shake hands.

Show the people that you love them right

Show the people that you gonna unite

Show the people that we're all right

Show the people

that everything is all right

I actually played

a wrong note.

He started singing,

"Whoa, watch what you're doing."

Watch watch watch

watch watch watch watch

Watch what you're doing

- Everybody thought he was trying

to tell the people out there,

"Watch what you're doing."

But he was really talking to me.

- He was very spiritual.

This was like, "Hey."

I'm trying to say

Could we have...

Could we have up here, on stage here,

the presence of Mr. Michael Manley

and Mr. Edward Seaga?

Whoa

I just want to shake hands

and show the people...

that we gonna be all right.

We gonna unite

We're gonna make them right

We got to unite

He didn't plan it at all.

It was spontaneous.

- I'm waiting.

I'm waiting.

Lord oh Lord

Help us out I pray

Anything could have

happened at that point.

I was just praying that the people didn't

get foolish and start shooting again.

There were no preachment

or anything like that.

He just took our hands and said

a few words, held it up above his head.

And at that moment,

everybody was one.

- Love.

Prosperity.

Be with us all. Jah.

Rastafari. Selassie.

He was able to do that.

He was able to bring people

together in that way.

The same half uptown, half downtown,

half black, half white.

It's that marriage of everything.

He just embodied it

all in one person.

As his career grows,

so grew a better education,

and a better car,

and a bigger house with more rooms.

But my father would always

take us back to Trench Town.

Sometime Bob would go

down the ghetto and, you know,

pass through and thing like that

and would never lock his car up.

'Cause that's like saying

you don't trust people.

Have you made a lot of money

out of your music?

- Money.

I mean, what is a...

How much is...

How much is a lot of money to you?

- That's a good question.

Have you made, say, millions of dollars?

- No.

- Are you a rich man?

- When you mean rich, what you mean?

- Do you have a lot of possessions,

a lot of money in the bank?

- Possession make you rich?

I don't have that type of riches.

My riches is life forever.

Hope Road

was always swarming with people,

and for the same reason...

looking for an opportunity,

looking for some money,

looking for a handout, need a job...

"My children's school fees,"

on and on and on.

You have lines every day

at Hope Road.

People from all walks...

They bring the baby, they bring the kids.

You have long lines,

and he just hand out...

He doesn't just give, like, pittance,

you know.

He give you enough that

you can start something, you know.

A couple of years ago,

no one would have believed...

that this raggle-taggle

tribe of Jamaican musicians...

would be packing

Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens.

It's a sign of reggae's

growing acceptance...

in the international pop music scene.

And it's also catapulted this man,

Bob Marley, to superstardom.

We don't need no trouble

No no no no

- Bob once made a statement.

He said they ask him,

"How big you think this music will get?"

Bob says, "You know, this music

will get bigger and bigger and bigger...

till it reaches right people."

Which, to me, is the whole world.

- Yes, you know, come a long way.

Lively up yourself

And don't be no drag

Lively up yourself

For reggae is another bag

I watched from 200-seaters...

to a thousand, and then I saw 80,000.

I saw a hundred thousand.

'Cause I said so

What you gonna do

You rock so you rock so

We tore up Europe.

We played to, like, maybe

two million people in six weeks.

We broke everybody's record over there.

The Rolling Stones...

You skank so

You skank so

Yeah

You come so

You come so

Come alive today yeah

And lively up yourself

- Yeah!

He did a concert in Tokyo...

Everybody's totally Japanese.

Singing every song word for word.

Most of them could not

even understand.

They spoke a different language.

But they felt the music and

they knew what he was saying.

Lively up yourself

In the morning time Lord

The media lied and said

that Bob smoke a pound a day.

And so everywhere we went,

the police was on our heels,

and they would search our belongings

with a fine-toothed comb.

You would see police

with dogs on the bus, searching.

But every time they searched,

they never found anything.

So, they didn't bother with us again.

Towards the latter years,

they're more, like,

"You have any posters?" like.

So we basically just came out

with the passports,

a whole bunch of records and posters,

and they didn't even look,

they just stamped.

- One of his main concern was

that he wasn't reaching the black people.

You know, he's noticed all his shows

are all white, all white, every show,

so that kind of was puzzling to him.

- I was in Nigeria and came back

and told him about the response...

of the people to him in Nigeria,

who had never seen him,

but just the music.

And he couldn't believe it.

I said, "Yes, I'm serious."

I said, "Africa is really waiting for you.

As a matter of fact, if you go to Africa,

you really might not come back."

Check out the real situation

Nation war against nation

Where did it all begin

Her father was

the president of Gabon.

We didn't know he was a dictator

when we went, but we found out.

It was, like, "Okay, we're here.

It's too late. Let's just play."

And his daughter

was in love with Bob.

To Bob, Africa is

the motherland, you know,

and he loved Jamaica,

but he was in transit.

Africa was his destination.

And everything is just for a while

It seems like total destruction

The only solution

You don't die and go to heaven.

You have to live in heaven.

Africa is our heaven because

that's where we come from.

- Everywhere we went, the kids

were running beside the bus...

and waving and hollering,

"Bob Marley! Bob Marley!

Ganja! Ganja!"

We said, "-oh."

- Bob asked me to find out

from Pascaline...

how much money

we were actually paid.

And what she told me was a lot more money

than what Bob was told by Don.

- He kick him down.

Leapt across the room

and kick him down.

- Yeah, I saw him kick his ass.

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