So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley“Reggae’s chief eyewitness, dropping testimony on reggae’s chief prophet with truth, blood, and fire.” —Marlon James, Man Booker Prize–winning author Renowned reggae historian Roger Steffens’s riveting oral history of Bob Marley’s life draws on four decades of intimate interviews with band members, family, lovers, and confidants—many speaking publicly for the first time. Hailed by the New York Times Book Review as a “crucial voice” in the documentation of Marley’s legacy, Steffens spent years traveling with the Wailers and taking iconic photographs. Through eyewitness accounts of vivid scenes—the future star auditioning for Coxson Dodd; the violent confrontation between the Wailers and producer Lee Perry; the attempted assassination (and conspiracy theories that followed); the artist’s tragic death from cancer—So Much Things to Say tells Marley’s story like never before. What emerges is a legendary figure “who feels a bit more human” (The New Yorker). |
Contents
Trench Town Rocks | |
The Wailers at Studio | |
Good Good Rudies | |
Love and Affection | |
Rasta Shook Them | |
Wailers A Go Wail | |
The CIA and the Assassination Attempt | |
Smile Youre in Jamaica | |
Who Shot Bob Marley? | |
Exodus to London | |
Blackwell Bob and Business | |
The Bloody Toe in the Paris Match | |
The One Love Peace Concert | |
Babylon by Bus from the U N to Ethiopia | |
Nine Mile Exile | |
The JAD Years | |
Leslie Kong Meets the Tuff Gang | |
Lee Perry and Jamaican Politricks | |
Cold Cold Winters in Sweden and London | |
Islands Kinky Reggae | |
Burnin Out in London | |
The End of the Beginning | |
Natty Dread | |
Hope Road Runnings | |
Cindy Breakspeare and the 1975 Tour | |
Rastaman Vibration and the Fatal Reissue | |
Ambush in the Night | |