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The One Love Peace Concert brought together 16 of Reggae's biggest acts, and was dubbed by the media as the "Third World Woodstock", "Bob Marley plays for Peace" and simply, "Bob Marley Is Back." The concert attracted more than 32,000 spectators with the proceeds of the show going towards "much needed sanitary facilities and housing for the ...
At 8:30pm, on December 3, 1976, two days before the Smile Jamaica Concert, seven men armed with guns raided Marley's house at 56 Hope Road. Marley and his band were on break from rehearsal. Marley's wife, Rita, was shot in the head in her car in the driveway. The gunmen shot Marley in the chest and arm.
The Smile Jamaica Concert was a reggae concert held on 5 December 1976 at the National Heroes Park in Kingston, Jamaica, aimed at countering political violence. Bob Marley had agreed to perform, but, two days before the concert, he was shot in his home. He recovered and, with The Wailers, played a 90-minute set for the 80,000 people in attendance.
The climax of Marley’s message of peace came during the One Love Peace Concert on April 22, 1978. At great personal risk, he returned to Jamaica and united political rivals Michael Manley and ...
The film begins after a subsequent assassination attempt in December, 1976 and before the Smile Jamaica concert. The story then follows Marley as he travels to London to record his “Exodus ...
In 1978, Marley – by then already having moved to England – returned to Kingston, Jamaica for the One Love concert, reuniting with the original Wailers, who had gone on to solo careers.
Bob Marley's final show, at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh, felt different and more emotional, concert promoter Rich Engler recalls. Bob Marley film resonates for Pittsburgh men who were part ...
Live Forever: September 23, 1980 • Stanley Theatre • Pittsburgh, PA is a live album by Bob Marley & The Wailers released in February 2011, recorded at Pittsburgh's Stanley Theatre during the Uprising Tour to support their, then, latest album of the same name.