No Woman No Cry : My Life With Bob Marley – Rita Marley

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Bob Marley is the unchallenged king of reggae and without question one of music’s great iconic figures. Rita Marley was not just his wife and the mother of four of his children but his backing singer and friend, life-long companion and soul mate. They met in Trenchtown when he was 19 and she was 18, and she was very much part of his musical career, selling his early recordings from their house in the days before Island Records signed up the Wailers. She shared the hard times and the dangers – when Bob was wounded in a gunfight before the Peace Concert, Rita was shot in the head and left for dead. Their marriage was not always easy but Rita was the woman Bob returned to no matter where music and other women might take him, the woman who held him when he died at the age of 35. Today she sees herself as the guardian of his legacy. Packed with new information, No Woman No Cry is an insightful biography of Marley by someone who understands what it meant to grow up in poverty in Jamaica, to battle racism and prejudice. It is also a moving and inspiring story of a marriage that survived both poverty and then the strains of celebrity.

Hardcover tightly bound, with clean and very fresh pages, no markings of a previous owner. Dust wrapper in an excellent condition, and wrapped in a protective cellophane for extra protection, a very good + copy. First Edition. Pages 209 with some lovey black and white photographs

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SKU: 9780283073649 Category: Title: No Woman No Cry : My Life With Bob Marley
Author: Rita Marley
Publisher: Sidgwick amd Jackson
Year: 2004
ISBN10: 0283073640
ISBN13: 9780283073649
Condition: Very Good
Format: Hardcover
Inventory No: 1163

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Bob Marley is the unchallenged king of reggae and without question one of music’s great iconic figures. Rita Marley was not just his wife and the mother of four of his children but his backing singer and friend, life-long companion and soul mate. They met in Trenchtown when he was 19 and she was 18, and she was very much part of his musical career, selling his early recordings from their house in the days before Island Records signed up the Wailers. She shared the hard times and the dangers – when Bob was wounded in a gunfight before the Peace Concert, Rita was shot in the head and left for dead. Their marriage was not always easy but Rita was the woman Bob returned to no matter where music and other women might take him, the woman who held him when he died at the age of 35. Today she sees herself as the guardian of his legacy. Packed with new information, No Woman No Cry is an insightful biography of Marley by someone who understands what it meant to grow up in poverty in Jamaica, to battle racism and prejudice. It is also a moving and inspiring story of a marriage that survived both poverty and then the strains of celebrity.

Hardcover tightly bound, with clean and very fresh pages, no markings of a previous owner. Dust wrapper in an excellent condition, and wrapped in a protective cellophane for extra protection, a very good + copy. First Edition. Pages 209 with some lovey black and white photographs

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Weight 0.46 kg
Dimensions 23.4 × 15.3 × 2.2 cm

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