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The classic biography of reggae legend Bob Marley, updated and revised for the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death
Bob Marley left an indelible mark on modern music, both as a reggae pioneer and as an enduring cultural icon. Catch a Fire, now a classic of rock biography, delves into the life of the leader of a musical, spiritual, and political explosion that continues today.
Under the supervision of the author’s widow and with the collaboration of a Marley expert, this fourth edition contains a wealth of new material, including many revisions made by the author before his untimely death. An appendix to the new edition chronicles Marley’s legacy in recent years, as well as the ongoing controversy over the possibility that Marley’s remains might be exhumed from Nine Mile, Jamaica, and reburied in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where hundreds of Rastafarians live. The new edition also contains an expanded discography and is factually updated throughout.
Probably the finest biography ever written about a popular musician.”
San Francisco Chronicle
As close as rock journalism comes to transcendent literature.”
Playboy
White has a deep appreciation for reggae’s immediacy, hypnotic power, and contradictions . . . An exhaustively researched labor of love.”
Chicago Sun-Times
One of the most prominent music journalists of the twentieth century, Timothy White wrote extensively on Bob Marley, reggae, and Caribbean music and culture for Rolling Stone, The New York Times, and other leading publications. His close contact with Marley, his family, and inner circle of friends led to his being granted access to private papers, photographs, and memorabilia. White died in 2002. In the quarter century since his death, Bob Marley's stature as reggae superstar and pop culture icon has only grown. Timothy White's definitive biography paints a lasting portrait of the man and his times, taking readers deep into the life of the lionized musician. Rooted in a love for and understanding of Marley's music, Catch a Fire is also a social history of Marley's origins in Jamaica and the Rasta movement. This fourth edition contains a wealth of new material, as well as an expanded and updated discography. "White has a deep appreciation for reggae's immediacy, hypnotic power, and contradictions . . . An exhaustively researched labor of love."Chicago Sun-Times "Probably the finest biography ever written about a popular musician."San Francisco Chronicle "A great book."The Daily Gleaner (Jamaica) "White has a deep appreciation for reggae's immediacy, hypnotic power, and contradictions . . . An exhaustively researched labor of love."Chicago Sun-Times "Superb . . . As fine and moving a biography as Marley could have wanted."New Musical Express
Bob Marley, reggae superstar and pop culture icon, left an indelible mark on modern music. Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley delves deep into the life of the lionized leader of a musical, spiritual, and political explosion that still reverberates more than a decade after his death. Almost nothing pertaining to the life of Bob Marley is left out; the origins of Rastafarianism (the Ethiopian religion that was the keystone of his life), the roots of the reggae sound, the Jamaican political and social debacle that informed his lyrics--this is a comprehensive account of the life of the artist and the times that produced him. Catch a Fire is assiduously researched; the details writer Timothy White presents of the King of Reggae's life are cinematic in scope and, at times, cumbersome. White includes much of his primary source material, ranging from full interviews with band members to unearthed CIA documents, and devotes a whole section to describing his exhaustive research process. The final product is rich with elements of spiritual tome, rock biography, and history text; it is a hagiographic epic--the story of a man and his legend. --Brendan J. LaSalle
Once again, I refuse to pay more than the going rate of $9.99 for a Kindle book. Get real here, publishers. It's not like you're spending a fortune on printing and binding costs. Stop trying to rip off Kindle readers. And Amazon, shame on you for going back on your original promise to Kindle users that no book would cost more than $9.99. Stop caving to the publishers.
White wrote a very thorough book about Jamaica and Jamaican music. The Jamaica that Bob Marley grew up in. He provides a detailed account of the Jamaican culture before and during Bob Marley's rise to success. White also chronicles the unfortunate hangers-on that accumulated with Bob's success and blemished his later years. The songs i have been listening to by Bob Marley for the last 20 years now have new meaning after reading this book. Initially, I thought a song was about this or that, but with some background into Marley's tribulations at the time the song was written, that particular song has a whole new meaning. For a true Bob Marley fanatic such as myself, read this book if you want to know him from his boyhood to a man as well as the musician that broke barriers that were firmly positioned.
This book was really good, but there was so much into each section then it was spuratic all around.
The hands down best biography these eyes have read! Extremely detailed, The Gong and his religion comes to life here!
I found this book in London several years ago, as an avid Marley fan I grabbed it up immediately and simply couldn't put it down. A complex man, a complex faith, deceptively "simple" music and a chaotic world wove a musical phenomenon perfectly caught in this book.
White does a superb job interspersing his obvious passion for Marley and reggae and the island which spawned both, weaving a tapestry which is easy to "just" enjoy or to really delve into and "get" where Marley was coming from. Rasta lives, reggae lives and Bob Marley still lives in both.
Be you a real fan of reggae and it's ultimate master, or just looking for a good read, you won't go wrong with "Catch A Fire".
hydra. St. Petersburg, FL
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