03/16/2026
“Something fascinating has happened since Bob Marley transitioned twenty-four years ago: He has continued. It isn’t simply that his records still sell in substantial numbers (though they do), it’s that his mission might still have a chance. It isn’t a simple mission. Marley wasn’t singing about how peace could come easily to the world but rather about how hell on earth comes too easily to too many. His songs weren’t about theory or conjecture, [they] were his memories. He had lived with the wretched, he had seen the downpressors and those whom they pressed down, he had been shot at. It was his ability to describe all this in palpable and authentic ways that sustains his body of music unlike any other we’ve ever known.” – 📖 Gong on the cover of magazine, from March of 2005!
📷 by Annie Leibovitz
(Repost: Bob Marley)
