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Bob is not a hero but a "LEGEND," and a legend live on forever. as a Jamaican, Bob not only makes me feel proud to be a Jamaican with his level of success, but also with the fact that he was proud and not afraid to speak the truth through his music. His music is not popular because of the rythymn or beat, but because of the heart and message that he speaks.

I had a vegan (ital) restaurant in Atlanta from 1977 to 1980, he visited our restaurant and visit the people who came to see him perform for one of the last performances before he died. Unfortunately I such a bad headache I left the concert and went home, but from my late wife said, his presence was the high point of the Here N Now Restaurant. Even though I was in terrible pain I saw him perform.

fuva- i wasn't even knocking hi-hop. i'm just saying hip-hop may have been helped along by the lack of musical instrument availability and instruction. that's all. i'm not evil. i was saying something quite different from the other guy,yet you put me in the same camp. how smart is that ?

Pop' music comes.....and goes. Yawn.

Hip-hop is crapola? Can an entire genre of music be so maligned? Can Hip-hop. emceeing be judged by the standards of reggae, for instance? Granted, radio music today is -- generally speaking -- lacking in depth and soul. But Jon and 'a g' don't know hip-hop. They probably don't even know they don't know...

Words cannot describe how deep Bob Marley's music has effected me. No other musician comes close, to his voice, the messages within his songs, and his honest presentation.

Simply the best that there ever was!

marley is bigger than the beatles in certain parts. that does not take away from either. how does one compare such things anyway. it is folly of a high magnitude, to engage such a mindless circular discussion.

Bob Marley's music is like gunja! It's influence & traces are everywhere!

@ jon from manhattan: maybe this is what happens when public school music programs are destroyed. devolution by nefarious design perhaps ?

I've heard two references now on the program to Marley being bigger than The Beatles... what a joke! Granted Bob Marley had some great tunes and a solid message, but greater than The Beatles? Come on, let's get serious!

As great as Marley was, and he was great, it seems that Reggae died with him. Like much of African-Americas music, it appears to have devolved into rap, dub-step and other forms of crapola.

Hi How do you think Marley would have responded to the Buju Banton-type of gay-hatred that has run through some Jamaican music? Thanks

I travel often all over the world (was at the Bob Marley Museum and Studio 1 two weeks ago) and Bob Marley is not only the music I hear the most (I hear Madonna and Michael Jackson quit a bit) but he seems to be the most known and most liked (Jesus and Bruce Lee are contenders from Asia to Africa to South America).

Bob Marley already had a career playing dance halls and recorded alot of his later hits with Lee "Scratch" Perry. The Island years was not the beginning of his career at all. More of a major label debut after playing strictly in Jamaica.

Bob at his core was a folk singer. a lot of his songs were more about the life a working class religous man than about being "a rasta". He was also a dreamer and very much a hippie.

I've loved Bob Marley's music since I was two years old and Buffalo Soldier was blaring out of my dad's stereo. I can't help but start dancing when I hear it now. I know the music has been over-played on many a college campus, but that only means you need to take some time off and come back to it later.

Bob was not my all time favorite reggae artist, but he influenced so, so many who I love. And his was the first "musician biography" I ever read... but yep he's still just so huge; perhaps a little over exposed like an Elvis of Reggae, but totally great.

In fact, last week I just designed a point of purchase display for someone making a new tea called Marley Mellow Mood... he's the easy go-to sound track for so many beach bars, etc., for uncontested summer chilling... one wonders if he'll ever go away.

Bob Marley was how the white and black youth of South Africa came together. You can directly trace the end of apartheid back to Bob Marley...

I first heard Bob Marley when my Dad took me to his home in Barbados. The music moved me then and it does today. Thanks to Sophie and Mr Farley for remembering Bob today!

Back in 1976 or thereabouts, I was attending the Art's Student's League on West 57th Street, and leaving my class,
who do I see right in front of me on the street? Bob Marley! I will never forget it.

un ser ejemplar. una gran figura de musica,y derechos humanos. un poeta, y, un inovador,de primera categoria.

Bob really was light as a feather, heavy as lead.

A musical prophet who's message thankfully lives on!!

Bob's influence is everywhere, all the time. Musicians, stoners, surfers, designers, young, old, white, black; everywhere I look, see, listen, I hear the whispers of Bob. When Sinead caused such a fuss by doing her a cappella version of "War" and then tore up that photo of the Pope, all I could do was smile and think: "Bob, I and I are still messin' with our heads!"

Bob Marley is an icon of defiance, rebellion, self worth, equality and unity with fellow man. No, these are not contradictions. Mr. Marley's journey in life is an example of the good in humanity.

Bob Marley is one of the greatest musican and spiritual person ever, his music is very spiritual he reach the the top level of the I AM Presence ( I'AM That I'AM)