Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley

White, Timothy

ISBN 10: 0030621097 / ISBN 13: 9780030621093

Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1983

About this Item

Large trade paperback. 380pp., Discography, Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with photographs. First edition, first printing. A copy that has been read but is still clean, square, and unmarked. Good or better. Scans sent on request. Seller Inventory # 010457

Bibliographic Details

Title: Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York

Publication Date: 1983

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Edition: First Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

A vivid, dramatic account of the life and career of Bob Marley, undisputed master of reggae music, political visionary, and revolutional soul prophet, and the sociocultural matrix that spawned him

Review:

Bob Marley, reggae superstar and pop culture icon, left an indelible mark on modern music. Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley delves deep into the life of the lionized leader of a musical, spiritual, and political explosion that still reverberates more than a decade after his death. Almost nothing pertaining to the life of Bob Marley is left out; the origins of Rastafarianism (the Ethiopian religion that was the keystone of his life), the roots of the reggae sound, the Jamaican political and social debacle that informed his lyrics--this is a comprehensive account of the life of the artist and the times that produced him.

Catch a Fire is assiduously researched; the details writer Timothy White presents of the King of Reggae's life are cinematic in scope and, at times, cumbersome. White includes much of his primary source material, ranging from full interviews with band members to unearthed CIA documents, and devotes a whole section to describing his exhaustive research process. The final product is rich with elements of spiritual tome, rock biography, and history text; it is a hagiographic epic--the story of a man and his legend. --Brendan J. LaSalle