Music

January, 1981

Rasta Return: The last time we met Bob Marley, we were standing on the porch of an empty wooden house that had once been Marley's residence. The house was located in a section of Kingston, Jamaica, that looked like a tropical South Bronx. Marley was surrounded by several Rastafarian men who wore knitted wool caps in the noonday sun. In the frame of the doorway, just above where Marley stood, two bullet holes from a sniper's attempt on his life a year earlier had been left unpatched as a reminder...