No Woman No Cry : My Life with Bob Marley

Marley, Rita, Jones, Hettie

ISBN 10: 0330493302 / ISBN 13: 9780330493307

Published by Pan Macmillan, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: No Woman No Cry : My Life with Bob Marley
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330493302
• ISBN 13: 9780330493307
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 0.463 pounds

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Synopsis

Bob Marley is the unchallenged king of reggae and one of music's great iconic figures. Rita Marley was not just his wife and the mother of four of his children but his backing singer and friend, life-long companion and soul mate. They met in Trenchtown when he was 19 and she was 18, and she was very much part of his musical career, selling his early recordings from their house in the days before Island Records signed up the Wailers. She shared the hard times and the dangers - when Bob was wounded in a gunfight before the Peace Concert, Rita was shot in the head and left for dead. Their marriage was not always easy, but Rita was the woman Bob returned to no matter where music and other women might take him, the woman who held him when he died at the age of 35. Today she sees herself as the guardian of his legacy. Full of new insights, No Woman No Cry is a unique biography of Marley by someone who understands what it meant to grow up in poverty in Jamaica, to battle racism and prejudice. It is also a moving and inspiring story of a marriage that survived both poverty and then the strains of global celebrity. 'It will surely become the definitive biographical account of the reggae guitarist-singer-songwriter who changed pop music and in the process became a leader to millions' The Times 'Rita Marley is reggae royalty ...In her own words, this is a revealing insight into Marley's life and legacy' Daily Mirror

About the Author

Rita Marley performs with the reggae group I-Three and helps run the Bob Marley Foundation. She performs worldwide and makes her home in Ghana, West Africa. Hettie Jones is an award-winning poet, prose writer and editor who lives in Manhattan.