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Bob Marley: the regret that haunted hislifeDirector Kevin Macdonald explains how he pieced together his
new film about reggae legend Bob Marley, from troubled early
years in Jamaica to worldwide adulation - even after death
Tim Adams
The Observer, Sunday 8 April 2012
Article history
Bob Marley: 'always the outsider'. Photograph: Stills Press Agency /Rex Features
In 2005, the director Kevin Macdonald was working in Uganda on his film The Last
King of Scotland . In the slums of Kampala he was struck by a curious fact. There
seemed to be images of Bob Marley and "Get up, stand up" slogans and dreadlocks
wherever he went.
Marley had been on Macdonald's mind anyway: he had been asked by Chris Blackwell,
founder of Island Records, if he would be interested in getting involved in a film project
about the Jamaican musician's enduring legacy.
The original plan had been to follow a group of rastafarians on their journey from
Kingston to their spiritual homeland of Ethiopia, to attend a celebration of the 60th
anniversary of Marley's birth. As it worked out, that film was never made, but, when the
opportunity arose for Macdonald to make a more ambitious documentary about Marley,
he jumped at the chance.
Crucially, the film had the blessing and support of the Marley family and key figures in
his musical evolution, including the long-estranged original Wailer, Neville "Bunny"
Livingstone. "It seemed very important to make this film now, while some of the people
who had known Bob the best, in the early years in particular, were still around to tell the
tale," Macdonald says.
He set about collecting interviews and researching some of the more mysterious aspects
of a much mythologised life, that ended tragically prematurely in 1981, with Marley aged
only 36.
There were frustrations for Macdonald, not least the almost complete absence of footageor photography from the formative years of Bob Marley and the Wailers. But, with
persistence and the rich memories of the period from Livingstone, Marley's widow Rita
and others, he pieced the biopic together.
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VoodooJunkie
8 April 2012 1:25AM
A lot of folk like to slate Bob for his assimilation into the
commercial mainstream, then profess reggae is nothing other
than Toots & The Maytals, King Tubby, The Upsetters, Junior
Marvin, Max Romeo etc ... A point of view only held because
everyone owns a copy of the Legend album. Go beyond that
though to classics like 'Crazy Baldhead', 'My Cup', 'Small Axe',
and many more of his essentialy lo-fi material and what you get
is one of the most authentic, iconic and symbolic songwriters of
our time. Enjoy the skunk up there Bob & mind to give St. Peter
some blow-backs.
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In his lifetime Bob Marley was a reluctant interviewee. "Having little formal education,"
Macdonald suggests, "he felt uncomfortable being asked questions by journalists."
Anyway, there were aspects of his past on which he did not want to dwell, particularly
his feelings about his white, absent father, Norval Marley, a man who claimed to have
been a captain in the colonial Caribbean army, but wasn't.
In some ways, in the film, "Captain" Norval becomes the key to understanding Marley.
As Macdonald says, "a lot of people assume Bob was black and are surprised to discover
he had a white father". The prejudice associated with that fact in Marley's remote home
village of Nine Miles high up in the Jamaican hills helped to form the powerful quest for
identity that he discovered in rastafarianism.
The contradictions of his biography were translated into a hugely seductive global
metaphor for struggle and unity: "Let's get together and feel all right."
"I was doing some press with Ziggy Marley the other day," Macdonald says, "and he said
of his father, 'I think Bob always regretted that he wasn't black.'
"I wouldn't put it in those bald terms, but I think that was a key to his psychology and to
the music. He was always the outsider, and he found a way in his life and music to
redeem that fact."
That redemption also provided Macdonald part of the answer to why Marley had hugesignificance not only in the Ugandan slums but among the dispossessed the world over.
His film ends with a sequence of contemporary references to the singer among popular
political movements. "In Tunisia at the start of the Arab spring, people are singing Get
Up, Stand Up," Macdonald says. "Immediately after the fruit seller set fire to himself to
start the revolution, that was the slogan written on the wall near where he died."
That influence can be measured in many ways: three decades after his death, Marley has
30 million Facebook followers.
Marley is out in cinemas from 20 April
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Bassline
8 April 2012 1:56AM
Hardly a penetrating insight into Bob Marley's world view and
certainly not an original one. I sometimes marvel at the
remoteness of the mainstream creative class from the mundane
and incidental common currency of black life. It's an odd thing to
be reminded of that distance yet again.
I don't have a problem with a white film-maker tackling the
subject matter but it's hard to believe that MacDonald was the
right choice. Marley gave a voice to an African and Caribbean
take on world history and politics that wasn't widely appreciated.
Being partly white, would he have encountered resentment from
some for his father's social privileges? Of course. But it was not
remarkable that he saw the bigger injustice because, crucially, in
the Caribbean Bob's mixed heritage is simply not that rare.
Yeah, I'll see the film for the archive material but it's a bit of a
shame that I'm going to have to suffer the spectacle of white boys
challenging their own assumptions while I do it. Again.
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distortedsystem
8 April 2012 3:05AM
Releasing it on for 4-20 is hilariously brilliant. Not only will
many stoners go to watch it (I ended up going to the cinema
stoned with some random people after the hyde park smoke up
last year) but the money cinemas will make on food will be alot. I
also like the fact that the distribution company have
acknowledged 4-20, I once spent my april in America and there
was a big build up.
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Dedevelopment
8 April 2012 3:42AM
Guardian, your picture number 4 of 6 captions Claudius Massop
as a leader of a PNP Gang. That's not correct.
I look forward to the documentary. Sadly Jamaica's history isspun by politics. Everything. Every interview. Politics of one sort
or another. Black and white, PNP and JLP, uptown and
downtown. Anything of a political nature.
No matter how critical one might be of Marley and jealous of his
enduring fame, I suggest that whoever wrote the lyrics for many
of his songs belongs in the realm of the greatest lyric writers of
all time. That's my opinion. If anyone disagrees I have no
problem with that. However the nuances of the creole language
of Jamaica (sometimes referred to as Patois) is crucial in
understanding how the lyrics become so riveting. A plain Patoisto English translation can not do the lyrics true justice. Besides
translation of dialect is subjective and changes depending on the
translator. Many Jamaican's (and others) speak a very limited
amount of Patois. But it is a deep dialect. Deeper than just the
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few more well known phrases. Songs like "Chee likkle birds" and
"One love" are most known internationally but Bob's originals
like "I shot the Sheriff" and "Crazy Baldheads" are just a few of
his gems that truly sets him apart from the pack. Time Song of
the century, TIME album of the century. Thanks Bob. There will
always be haters but thanks Bob,
Love
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derekmull
8 April 2012 6:26AM
'Crazy Baldhead,' 'Small Axe' - type 'Hypocrites Bob Marley' in
YouTube for an example of another uncommercial classic. Clip| Link
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Holti
8 April 2012 7:00AM
Whilst working in East Africa as a volunteer for VSO, I had
occasion to visit the Hollywood club one Sunday night. At that
time, 25 years ago, you didn't see many dreadlocks on the streets
as there were stigmas associated with the Mao Mao. Rastas were
stereotyped as "Banghi Smoking Wahuni" throughout East
Africa (Hooligans who smoked weed). But every Sunday night
the Hollywood was brimming with Rastafarians. Having been
invited there to share some dancehall music which I had brought
from back home in Moss SIde, I was struck by the absolute
reverence which was displayed whenever a Bob Marley track was
played, its not like the people were dancing - the impact was
mesmeric people simply holding their hands aloft with heads upto the sky, singing ever word. I had a similar experiences in
Tanzania, South Africa, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and
ust about everywhere that I have been I've been struck by the
connection that ordinary people feel for Bob Marley and the
Wailers above all others.
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RichBiggles
8 April 2012 7:57AM
Interesting facts about Norval Marley, He was also a mixed race
Jamaican, He was 60 when he decided to initiate sexual relations
with his landlords 17 year old daughter.
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Mark777
8 April 2012 8:09AM
They're selling Bob Marley 'Mellow Mood' (it's a soft drink) in
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Gingecat
8 April 2012 9:00AM
Peter Tosh was better.
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reemgear
8 April 2012 9:00AM
The 'wasn't black' thing sort of surprises me.
If a bunch of racist thugs ran into him I'm pretty sure they'd err
on the side of caution, if you know what I mean?
Just how black do you have to be to be black?
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ElmerPhudd
8 April 2012 9:10AM
Response to slyfas, 8 April 2012 1:29AM
A real Rastafarian is not an adherent of Facebook. I am
happy to be one!
Which one?
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ElmerPhudd
8 April 2012 9:14AM
Response to derekmull, 8 April 2012 6:26AM
'Crazy Baldhead,' 'Small Axe' - type 'Hypocrites Bob
Marley' in YouTube for an example of another
uncommercial classic.
'Rat Race' , 'Concrete Jungle' . . . .
Babylon By Bus - it's stuffed with early songs.
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Marcuskirwin
8 April 2012 9:26AM
Bob Marley = Massively Overrated , lyrics that sounded like
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pushinforty
8 April 2012 9:38AM
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"A lot of folk like to slate Bob for his assimilation into the
commercial mainstream"
Yes, they're called "trustafarians", and they're so "authentic".
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nottydave
8 April 2012 9:51AM
Most people think,
Great god will come from the skies,
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high.
But if you know what life is worth, You will look for yours on earth:
And now you see the light,
To stand up for your right!
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soisthesun
8 April 2012 9:56AM
There's just too much I like in reggae music to be able to write it
down here. I got into it through 2-tone in the early 1980s.
Reggae is music for the oppressed, it is music to dance to, it is
lovers rock, it is revolution rock, it unites. I can never decide who
is better: Bob Marley or Jimmy Cliff. Either way, if I had to listen
to one last song, it could well be 'Three Little Birds' or 'I Can See
Clearly Now'
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Gingecat
8 April 2012 10:08AM
Max Romeo's "War Inna Babylon" is better then anything Marley
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NubiBlue
8 April 2012 10:25AM
Why am I not surprised that a white film maker should suggest
some overwhelming and driving white force behind the success
of Bob Marley. Why not the realisation of the grinding poverty of
Jamaica? Why not being a great songwriter who articulated the
thoughts of a generation of African Disaporan people whose
message reached beyond its original audience and became
international?
Whether endorsed by the Marley family or not, the fact that he is
a replacement producer on an original project started by Martin
Scorsese is a worry on its own. But why is it so hard for whitepeople to give Black people their due credit without the need to
cite the centrality of white influence?
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gurupitka
8 April 2012 10:46AM
Response to NubiBlue, 8 April 2012 10:25AM
Because the white man's god is white.
That's why bredren
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busysquits
8 April 2012 10:49AM
Lets get together and feel alright
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Ray45
8 April 2012 10:55AM
heard him first when i was about 15 such a beautiful thing he was
and his music has been with me all my life, I loved him so don'tknow about white or black or was he commercial or not i thank
him for his great great times and music xx
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Sofalofa
8 April 2012 11:23AM
Kaya was the first Marley and reggae album I listened to (circa
1980) which made me stop listening to all that heavy metal shit I
was into then and embark on a wonderful journey of self
discovery. Whatever may be said about him - he had soul and
spoke for a generation, black or white.
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Payuppal
8 April 2012 11:43AM
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Complete misunderstanding of the film.
Bob was half white in a black village, felt like an outsider and
found a home as a Rasta.
His achievement was that of a mixed race human, not a black or
a white. Which is probably why it has become so universally
accepted.
Here in Thailand, for example, there is a long flourishing Thai
reggae scene that recognises a huge debt to Bob.
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CaptStraptin
8 April 2012 11:53AM
Response to Marcuskirwin, 8 April 2012 9:26AM
@Marcuskirwin
Bob Marley = Massively Overrated , lyrics that sounded likenursery rhymes , worse than Noel Gallagher and thats bad.
You really are a joker m8, you actually managed to make me
laugh, no mean feat I can tell you...
Bob Marley massively overrated...HAH!
What like LOVE is massively overrated...
What like TRUTH is massively overrated...
What like POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS is massively
overrated...
What like AMAZING MUSIC is massively overrated...believe me
I could go on...
IF ONLY KIDS WERE SINGING 'GET UP, STAND UP, STAND
UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS....' IN THE PLAYGROUND...why it
might even change the world...
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DoubleGlazing
8 April 2012 11:55AM
James Blunt for black people.
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hellsteeth
8 April 2012 11:58AM
Response to Bassline, 8 April 2012 1:56AM
If 'white boys' offend your racist sensibilities that much, you
don't have to watch the film.
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chromatics
8 April 2012 12:06PM
Rastafari Live
One Love
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irussell
8 April 2012 12:12PM
You could see the whiteness most when he tried to dance.
Though got to admire the songs, some of them, and he was a
good door into reggae proper.
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11gabriel
8 April 2012 12:37PM
If Bob Marley read these comments I am sure he would say, most
are missing the piont.
Love is the only answer.
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atrack
8 April 2012 12:56PM
Bob Marley's racial background is irrelevant. The man stood for
peace and love and that's what we should remember.
One Love!
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3090
8 April 2012 1:00PM
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Maybe Bobs unease with his heritage had more to do with the
circumstances of his conception and birth?
A 60 year old man and a seventeen year old girl, sounds a bit
suspicious. Why would a young girl want to be sexually intimate
with a man three times her age? Thinking back to when I was
seventeen I never found men older than my dad remotely
actractive. Any how Bob Marley is a legend and always will be
and rightly so. Looking forward to the film.
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3090
8 April 2012 1:17PM
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heritage and so it is not irrelevant. To say that is not respecting
his feelings. Roll on the day when racial background "has no
more significance than the colour of the eyes"
War/ No More Trouble. Bob Marley/
panpipes
8 April 2012 1:26PM
When I was in Brazil in the mid-90s it seemed like every young
black man I ran into was singing Buffalo Soldier. One of the best
concerts I ever went to (a four-way tie with Sun Ra, Koko Taylor
and the Talking Heads) was Marley in Minneapolis on his last
tour. Exiting the stairs, the crowd spontaneously started singing
his songs in call and response form.
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Nussbaum
8 April 2012 2:04PM
Jeremy Marre's Rebel Music: The Bob Marley Story (2000) will
be hard to beat. It firmly places Marley in his cultural and
historical context: post-Independence Jamaica, including the
turbulent years of the 1970s. And as for other filmmakers who
would have been up to this task, Isaac Julien seems an obvious
choice.
I will see this film, but already, any snippets of interviews with
Macdonald UNDERWHELM me, if only because he portentously
sounds like a researcher. One gets the impression that no one
had been there before him. Anyone familiar with Caribbean
society will not be surprised by the racial perspective.
Important question that this reviewer has left unanswered: Has
the film been depoliticised?
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jahlew
8 April 2012 2:11PM
As a massive Bob Marley fan, reading this article as put me off
going to watch the film, if this is going to be the story behind his
motivation and the regret that haunted his life!! Please... . I'd like
to hope that his biggest regret in death was not getting treatment
for his cancerous toe, so he would be alive now to tell his story from his point of view, not his children's or ex wives etc or a man
who never ever met him or has even lived in Jamaica. Bob's
father was a white Jamaican of mixed heritage, his own mother
(Bob's paternal Grandmother) was of the same complexion as
Bob. To truly understand what colour prejudice is, and that is
what it is, not racism, you need to have lived in the Caribbean.
Even today, sadly it still goes on, the texture of hair is compared,
the lightness or darkness of skin etc, but this is by an ignorant
few.Most of Bob's children have a big American influence, the
race relations there are different to that in England and that in
the Caribbean. Music, poverty, injustice, equal rights, peace andlove is what motivated Bob,
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Liathach
8 April 2012 2:32PM
Those complaining that the director is not of the same racial
background as his subject should remember that Bob Marley's
family were obviously happy for Kevin MacDonald to make the
film, since they gave approval to him, and not the countless other
directors who must have approached them in the last 30 years.
I was at the Lyceum for the gig that was recorded for the Live
album. I was at the back, dancing, and it was so packed that the
only bit of him I saw was his dreadlocks when he tossed them in
the air. It was brilliant, of course.
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Drust
8 April 2012 2:36PM
As long as it promotes the great talent that was Bob Marley, I
don't mind.
Groove to Mr Brown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=525TscClHwo
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Butchknowsbest
8 April 2012 2:38PM
His mixed-race parentage growing up in 1940s Jamaica must
have had a personal impact on him, and it could have alienated
him, especially as his Father wasn't around for him.
But when the authorities and the police were harassing him as a
teenager from the late 1950s on, how do you think they
categorized him? As white or black? Those experiences were
what shaped his adult outlook. Isn't that the same experience as
every other oppressed young man?
And The Guardian seems to have forgotten that Get Up Stand
UP was written by Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.
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8 April 2012 2:39PM
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JHCinDub
8 April 2012 2:46PM
The Wailers split because they didn't want to tour and Bob went
ahead and kept the name. So it's two different bands pre and
post split. The strength of the songwriting remained though
which is clearly something which the people who have appeared
on here to make negative comments would never understand in a
million years
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Response to Liathach, 8 April 2012 2:32PM
I'd say one of the best live albums ever but since I haven't heard
every live album in existance I'll say one of the best live albums
I've ever heard/own. Was listening to it again a few weeks ago
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SushiLesson
8 April 2012 2:57PM
When I listen to his songs, I feel like I could live my life with
peace
And I can be myself and love myself and others and the world I
live in.
His music is beautiful, and it goes beyond the colour of my skin,
It goes to direct to my heart.
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glasseyes
8 April 2012 3:11PM
You know that's really rather crass, the inference that not
knowing his father, and by implication WHITENESS, was alasting cause of regret for Bob Marley. Agree with Jahlew that
even if unintentional, inferring such a thing betrays deep
ignorance of the complexity of racial politics in the Caribbean.
Not everything is about you, white people. Sheesh!
Having said that, and talking about oppression etc, I did some
work once with Irish Traveler girls and Bob Marley was very
popular with them.
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Payuppal
8 April 2012 3:12PM
Response to Nussbaum, 8 April 2012 2:04PM
All a bit problematic.
On the one hand, it's easy to understand why there is sensitivity
about a white expropriation of 'black' culture.
On the other, the idea that only people who have lived in the
milieu are allowed to comment on it is rather restricting, don't
you think?
That white actor Shakespeare was way out of order in writing
about Othello.
That male Russian aristocrat Tolstoy could never understand a
woman like Anna Karenina.
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glasseyes
8 April 2012 3:23PM
Response to Payuppal, 8 April 2012 3:12PM
On the other, the idea that only people who have lived
in the milieu are allowed to comment on it is ratherrestricting, don't you think?
Not at all, it depends on whether they're getting it right.
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Anglida
8 April 2012 3:43PM
Kevin Macdonald's comments will have been edited, folks!! Am
sure he has more to say on Bob than there was room for here.
He's a great film maker and I'm really looking forward to this
one-I love Bob Marley.
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Payuppal
8 April 2012 3:44PM
Response to glasseyes, 8 April 2012 3:23PM
There are great works of art throughout history that are written
about characters from entirely different backgrounds than the
author.
So I think it's rather presumptuous to assume that only someone
who has grown up in the Caribbean can understand it, don't you?
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OkuriOhkami8 April 2012 3:53PM
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bigorson
8 April 2012 4:09PM
Bob was an original & I respect the fact that he is revered by
many. I was never a reggae fan and in the one interview I read
with him he sounded like a complete moron who did not haveone intelligent thing to say. His inane prattling about Haille
Selassie being a figure akin to Christ, and his complete devotion
to the religion founded on this ridiculous assumption is a good
study on the stupidity of religious belief and the credulousness
and willing ignorance of believers of all stripes who elevate such
men to the level of godhood out of their own personal need for
redemption. Despite this typically irrational religious belief, his
songs of freedom and the unity of mankind are stirring anthems
that have the power to move us to a sense of unity among all
people, and for that I appreciate his human spirit.
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