Bob Marley
Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
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1994
Bob Marley is posthumously admitted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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1990
Marley's birthday is declared a national holiday in Jamaica.
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May 1986
The Marley Museum is opened in Kingston, on the site of his former home.
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May 11, 1981
Marley dies in hospital in the US, aged 36.
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1980
Marley and The Wailers kick off the year with a concert in the newly-independent African nation of Zimbabwe. Later in the year, while jogging in New York's Central Park, Marley collapses. Doctors discover cancer has spread to his lungs, liver and brain.
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1978
He holds the One Love Peace Concert in Kingston, bringing the leaders of Jamaica's rival political factions to the stage to shake hands.
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July 1977
Marley breaks one of the toes on his right foot in a football accident in Paris. Doctors find cancerous cells and remove them.
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December 3, 1976
Marley and wife Rita are injured in an assassination attempt in Jamaica. Days later, he takes to the stage with his arm in a sling.
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1975
The band release the seminal album Natty Dread, which contains their landmark song No Woman, No Cry. Marley becomes a star all over the globe.
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1974
Eric Clapton covers The Wailers' I Shot the Sheriff and takes it into the UK top 10, further adding to their reputation.
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1973
Bob Marley and the Wailers sign to Chris Blackwell's Island Records. They release the album Catch a Fire, the first to make a major impression in music markets outside the Caribbean. Livingston and Tosh, however, leave the band to embark on solo careers.
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1971
Marley forms his own record label, Tuff Gong.
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1969
The band record with noted Jamaican producer Lee "Scratch" Perry. This period includes many classic tracks such as Small Axe, My Cup and Sun is Shining.
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February 23, 1966
Marley marries soul singer Rita Anderson, a member of The Soulettes and later the I-Threes, with whom he will have five children. Shortly after marrying, he moves to the US to work in a factory.
1966
Marley marries soul singer Rita Anderson, a member of The Soulettes and later the I-Threes, with whom he will have five children. Shortly after marrying, he moves to the US to work in a factory.
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February 23, 1966
Marley marries soul singer Rita Anderson, a member of The Soulettes and later the I-Threes, with whom he will have five children. Shortly after marrying, he moves to the US to work in a factory.
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1963
The band, who change their name to Bob Marley and the Wailers, record over 70 songs for producer Coxsone Dodd, including many tracks Marley would re-record to international acclaim in the 1970s.
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1963
He forms the original Wailers - then known as the Teenagers - with Peter Tosh, Bunny Livingstone, Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso and Cherry Smith.
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1962
Records his first song in Kingston, Judge Not, recorded by legendary reggae producer Leslie Kong.
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