Marley Page #9

See, Jah gave him another chance.

He was also confronted

by his mortality.

And when you think that these might be

your last opportunities to do anything,

you place a greater value

on every moment,

every second of every moment

of every day.

There is no time.

We've got no time to lose.

He slept basically

about four hours a day.

And he was always writing a song.

You know, you'd be up all night writing,

and then he'd go...

I'd say, "Bob.

I've gotta go get some sleep now."

He'd go, "Just half an hour more."

Half an hour would turn into

four hours, you know.

Bob liked to write

early in the morning.

Come the morning,

him have this gravelly voice, you know,

like kind of Rod Stewart-ish

kind of thing.

He would be working out

the melody, working out the melody,

and then the lyrics

would come after.

Would that leave you there

There's something I have to play

It's that way every day

Children mark my word

It's what the Bible say

And Miss World 1976...

is Miss Jamaica!

And the Royal Albert Hall

is in uproar.

Incredible! Cindy Breakspeare.

The 21 -year-old health club operator

gets the sash.

I think she's as overwhelmed as anyone.

- At the time I won Miss World,

Bob was not yet

a household name in England.

But because he was now tied to me,

and Miss World was

definitely a household name,

we kind of... we complemented

each other very nicely.

Cindy completely overwhelmed

by the emotion of the moment.

And Wilnelia Merced

crowns the new Miss World 1976.

It was considered quite...

Outrageous?

- Yeah, that's a good word.

"Outrageous" works.

But Bob loved the achievement, you know?

He loved the achievement.

I don't think there's a man alive

who doesn't want to get "the girl."

And so...

Would he have liked it

if you had become a Rasta?

Um, yes, I think

he would have liked it.

Things would always come up.

How you present yourself

as a woman.

What's appropriate wear,

cover your hair, this, that.

Here I am on the train coming in

from all parts out of London,

and, you know, they've got

this tiny little triangular sink

in the bathroom on the train,

and I'm washing all the make-up off.

Anyway, one night

I wasn't able to do that,

and I came home in full regalia...

red nails, fur coat, fully made up.

And no sooner than I walked

through the front door and closed it,

he walked in behind.

I turned around, he looked at me and said,

"I catch you."

I wanna love you

And treat you right

I wanna love you

Every day and every night

We'll be together

With a roof right over our heads

We'll share the shelter

Of my single bed

We'll share the same room

Yeah

For Jah provide the bread

Is this love is this love is this love

Is this love that I'm feelin'

Is this love is this love is this love

Is this love that I'm feelin'

Exodus was huge.

That was our biggest album

ever there.

Just mash up Europe,

and it's tearing down America.

They're waiting for us.

- And then the American tour

was canceled...

because Bob was having

problems with his toe.

- Somebody stepped on it

with their spike boots.

And then it started to get infected...

because Bob would still play football

the next day on it...

and the next day.

- And that went on for some time...

before they realized what it really was.

- They came up with a definitive

diagnosis of melanoma.

- And they tested

and they found out that...

that was more like

a white person sort of sickness.

It wasn't coming from a black source.

It was the whiteness in him

that allowed it to get this bad.

What did they recommend

he should do about it?

- They recommended

disarticulation at the hip.

In other words,

remove the entire leg.

The doctor in England

told him he had to cut his whole leg off.

Was that...

Do you remember that?

- No.

Had to cut off his... his toe.

It was definitely not his leg.

- A lot of people told Bob

that once you cut your toe off...

your big toe especially...

you won't be able to dance anymore.

- He loved football, so...

I think the thought

of having his toe amputated

was just unacceptable to him.

- So, this other doctor

we saw in Miami said,

"No, it's not necessary.

We can just take off a portion of it.

We don't have to remove the whole toe.

You can just take off the whole nail bed,

and you know,

it wouldn't be necessary."

He got very bad advice

from the people that was around him.

Until the philosophy

Which hold one race superior

And another

Inferior

Is finally

And permanently

Discredited

And abandoned

Well everywhere is war

Me say war

And until there's no longer

First-class nor second-class citizens

Of any nation

Until the color of a man's skin

Is of no more significance

Than the color of his eyes

I've got to say war

War in the east

War in the west

War up north

War down south

This a war

War

War

War

There was a movement

to bring Bob back...

because it was felt

that he had the potential...

to heal the very strong

division that existed.

- The government was begging...

because they said Jamaica

is lost without Bob Marley.

We can't say, "Bob is in exile."

So they got one of their main leader,

Claudie Massop,

to speak to Bob.

- This guy, he was from

the other side of the party...

Claudie Massop.

And the next one named Tek-Life.

I don't remember his right name,

but we call him Tek-Life.

They went up to England to pursue Bob

to come down, back to Jamaica.

- Bob sent for them, in a way,

to come up, and so they would be on...

away from Jamaica,

away from that political influence,

and they could reason

among themselves.

The two guys who went up there

for him was on the opposition.

So I would represent the other side,

so if he say "I don't come,"

then he ain't coming back to Jamaica.

So I have to go to England.

Of those people,

how many are still alive?

- One.

The one you're speaking to.

We Jah people

Can make it work

Come together

And make it work yeah

I'm singing that we

Can make it work

Bob started doing that song

which is,

"We, Jah people, shall come together

and make it work."

Then they decided to have a concert,

they'd just have a peace concert.

- Last month a truce was arranged...

between the rival political factions

in Kingston, Jamaica.

A peace conference was arranged,

to be preceded by a peace concert...

for the people in a very large park.

They expect over

a hundred thousand people there.

Bob Marley was invited to headline

this peace concert.

Marley has accepted...

and will return to Kingston, Jamaica.

Bob, why are you

returning to Jamaica?

- Well, my life not important to me.

Other people life important.

My life is only important

if me can help plenty people.

If my life is just me and my own security,

then me don't want it.

My life is for people, as many is.

Busloads of people

went out to the airport.

They stormed the runway.

When the plane landed,

they jumped over the barriers

and ran towards the plane,

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