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Summary: Bob Marley's Own Albert Goldman
Review: An excellent account of Bob Marley's career. Unmissable buy. This book reveals those who manipulated and exploited Bob's career and talent. Bravo!
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Summary: Don't Support This Crook
Review: Don Taylor was Bob Marley's manager, yes. But he also stole alot of money from Bob - he lied about concert earnings to put more money in his own pocket. Anyone who buys this book is supporting a man who stole from Robert Nesta Marley. Do you want that on your conscience? Bob was pissed when he found out about Taylor's dishonesty, and he wrote Bad Card, a song off of his masterpiece, Uprising (1980). I refuse to pay for a book that will benefit a man who stole from my idol. Don Taylor, you are a filthy thief, and your attempt to capitalize off of Bob makes me SICK.
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Summary: Marley and Me
Review: Don Taylor, the author of Marley and Me, is one of the most influential managers in the history of the music industry. Living in Jamaica in his youth, he learned his street smarts by hustling in the villages around his home. Spontaneously, he started working for the entertainment industry, helping musicians get around Jamaica and getting them whatever they pleased. Word got around that Taylor was a good manager and sooner than later, Marley and Taylor started working together, booking shows all around Jamaica while developing a strong fan base. Eventually, Bob's music was being heard all around the world, partly due to Taylor's work in and out of the United States. As things started to slow down for Bob near the end of his career, Don and Bob began to part their seperate ways on bitter paths. Bob's death to cancer ultimatly ended their relationship, yet before he died, Taylor tried to clear things up with Bob, but it was too late. Bob had passed away.
I throughly enjoyed this book. Having a view point of Bob Marley's life through the eyes of someone very close was an interesting way to understand the man and his music. This book was the best Bob Marley biography I have ever read. It clarified every aspect of his life and opened up many new doors that had been closed due to other sources that failed to offer as much information as this book had done. If your looking for a great book to unvail the life of Bob Marley, go to your local library and pick this book up.
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Summary: Marley and Me
Review: Don Taylor, the author of Marley and Me, is one of the most influential managers in the history of the music industry. Living in Jamaica in his youth, he learned his street smarts by hustling in the villages around his home. Spontaneously, he started working for the entertainment industry, helping musicians get around Jamaica and getting them whatever they pleased. Word got around that Taylor was a good manager and sooner than later, Marley and Taylor started working together, booking shows all around Jamaica while developing a strong fan base. Eventually, Bob's music was being heard all around the world, partly due to Taylor's work in and out of the United States. As things started to slow down for Bob near the end of his career, Don and Bob began to part their seperate ways on bitter paths. Bob's death to cancer ultimatly ended their relationship, yet before he died, Taylor tried to clear things up with Bob, but it was too late. Bob had passed away.
I throughly enjoyed this book. Having a view point of Bob Marley's life through the eyes of someone very close was an interesting way to understand the man and his music. This book was the best Bob Marley biography I have ever read. It clarified every aspect of his life and opened up many new doors that had been closed due to other sources that failed to offer as much information as this book had done. If your looking for a great book to unvail the life of Bob Marley, go to your local library and pick this book up.
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Summary: Marley and Me Review
Review: Every Bob Marley fan must read this book. This book had such great insites to the great legends life. Don Taylor does an excellent job of telling the tries and tribulations of Bob Marley's music career and life.
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Summary: Marley and Me Review
Review: I think that anyone who has any interest in Bob Marley or Jamaica will really enjoy this book. I thought that it gave a lot of detail about Bob's life and also a lot about Jamaican culture. There were several references to the Rastafarian religion and how Bob practiced it. It is hard to say how much of the stuff that Don Taylor talked about was really true but it did seem believable. The style of writing he used was basically a journal of different events that took place in his and Bob's life. I did not realize before I read this book that Bob was actually a fairly smart businessman and tried to watch his money as carefully as he could. There were times where he could not protect his money from being taken away, like when Rita Marley would sign his name and make large withdraws there was nothing that he could do because it could not be proven. Bob Marley became popular right in the time when Jamaica was in one of its worst times. He was forced to make a choice between two different political groups, the wealthy and the poor. He never really did make a decision though he continued to remain close to people in both groups. This made me think about hard it must have been for Bob to grow up in the areas with lots of violence and poverty. Once he did become popular he did not leave his old friends behind. Overall I thought that this was a great book and I would encourage anyone interested in Bob Marley to read this and learn more about his life.
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Summary: The Unison of One Man
Review: The life of one man that accomplishes what most people dream of. Most people dream of living a life where oil does not drive our lifestyles. Marley is shown as a person where material values are absent, while preaching a method that love and peace prosper over greed and selfishness.
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Summary: The Unison of One Man
Review: The life of one man that accomplishes what most people dream of. Most people dream of living a life where oil does not drive our lifestyles. Marley is shown as a person where material values are absent, while preaching a method that love and peace prosper over greed and selfishness.
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Summary: Good Reading From An Industry Perspective
Review: When taken simply as a book describing the shadiness of the fledgling Jamaican music industry, "Marley and Me" is an undeniably fascinating read.Some may find this book confusing. If you are unfamiliar with Jamaican history, culture and politics, did not run in the circles described by the author, and haven't read a lot on the legal intricacies involving the Marley estates, it's hard to judge how much of what Don Taylor (who was undeniably close to the late, great lion) is true, how much is biased and how much is completely false. What clued me into the fact that Mr. Taylor is probably glossing over or omitting a LOT of the back story or more sordid workings of his operation is his (extremely) brief mention of his 3-year bout with cocaine addiction. Anyone who spent 6 years trying to stave off the leeches and hangers-on surrounding Marley's camp would have to be seriously ... or a fool to ever mess with coke. ANYWAY, on a more superficial level, the book is filled with really interesting tidbits of gossip, especially relating to Rita Marley and all the other women in the lion's life.
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Summary: Good Reading From An Industry Perspective
Review: When taken simply as a book describing the shadiness of the fledgling Jamaican music industry, "Marley and Me" is an undeniably fascinating read. Some may find this book confusing. If you are unfamiliar with Jamaican history, culture and politics, did not run in the circles described by the author, and haven't read a lot on the legal intricacies involving the Marley estates, it's hard to judge how much of what Don Taylor (who was undeniably close to the late, great lion) is true, how much is biased and how much is completely false. What clued me into the fact that Mr. Taylor is probably glossing over or omitting a LOT of the back story or more sordid workings of his operation is his (extremely) brief mention of his 3-year bout with cocaine addiction. Anyone who spent 6 years trying to stave off the leeches and hangers-on surrounding Marley's camp would have to be seriously ... or a fool to ever mess with coke. ANYWAY, on a more superficial level, the book is filled with really interesting tidbits of gossip, especially relating to Rita Marley and all the other women in the lion's life.
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