Eoin Butler: writer, journalist and Mayoman of the Year
Tripping Along The Ledge
trench town rock
Published: Village Magazine, February 5 2005BOB MARLEY: STILL ROCKING AFTER SIXTY YEARS*
*I had a couple of issues with this headline
The late Bob Marley, whose 60th birthday is celebrated this month, wasn’t just Jamaica’s most famous son. He was also the Third World’s first superstar and one of music’s few truly global icons. And yet the image that prevails of this man is of a dreadlocked stoner, preaching ‘one love’ through a cloud of ganja smoke – “just a hippy” as the rock journalist Lester Bangs once described him. Such a verdict evinces a woeful underestimation of the man and his achievements. Read the rest of this entry »