music · 06 February 1945 · 80 years ago
birth Bob Marley, singer / songwriter and guitarist who had the 1981 UK No.8 single with No Woman No Cry, plus over ten other UK Top 40 singles and the 1976 US No.8 & UK No. 15 album Rastaman Vibration. Marley died of cancer on May 11th 1981. The 1984 Best Of album spent 330 weeks on the UK chart. In 1990, February 6th was proclaimed a national holiday in Jamaica to commemorate his birth. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
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