Celebrations In Ethiopia! Do You Have Birthday Wish For Bob Marley?

[DistressedAmerican]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/07/arts/music/07marl.html?ex=1108443600&en=0bb4bf7f426628ba&ei=5070

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Reggae Fans Get Up, Stand Up for a Birthday
By MARC LACEY

Published: February 7, 2005


ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Feb. 6 - If he had been onstage, Bob Marley would have waved his graying dreadlocks in the air and beseeched black people to continue struggling. In that lilting voice of his, he would have sung of love, of unity, of his beloved Ethiopia.

But Marley was only a memory, albeit a powerful one, at the celebration of the 60th anniversary of his birth on Sunday in the sprawling central square of the Ethiopian capital. So his wife, Rita, his sons, including Ziggy Marley, and numerous other admirers did the singing for the late reggae great, as tens of thousands of people jumped and gyrated to the trademark beat at a daylong concert entitled "Africa Unite." Also performing were the singers Lauryn Hill, formerly of the Fugees; Angélique Kidjo from Benin; and Ethiopian entertainers singing their versions of reggae.
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Departing from the evils of the world for the day to remember that yesterday was Bob Marley's 60th birthday. Found this shot of folks celebrating in Ethiopia. Couldn't resist making a positive graphic for a change. Rita Marley has announced plans to move his body to Addis Ababa soon.

If he were still here, he'd be horrified at the things happening in the world today. Play on Bob.

Any birthday wished you'd like to add?

DA
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[DistressedAmerican]

1. No Love For Bob?

Come on people, he penned what could be the very motto of DU itself:
"Only You can free YOUR mind!"

[kwassa]

2. Pass the spliff?

[bryant69]

3. Woth thinking about

I always loved Redemption Song and No Woman No Cry.

Bryant
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[noonwitch]

4. I wish that they would return his body to his grave in Jamaica.

I understand Rastas belief that Haile Salassie was/is God incarnate and all that, but Bob was from Jamaica, his songs were about the black experience in the americas, and his wife must be crazy to have him reburied in a nation that has extreme penalties for marijana possession.

[mr blur]

5. I wish he were still alive.

That's all.