5 STORIES
1974 · 70S
TRENCHTOWN, KINGSTON, JAMAICA
It is not a breakup song and it is not about avoiding women. "No Woman No Cry" is a man comforting the woman he loves, telling her not to we…
1977 · 70S
"One Love" sounds like a sunny invitation to hold hands, but it was written by a young man from a violent Kingston ghetto and re-recorded in…
1977 · 70S
The world's gentlest reassurance song was written by a man who had just been shot in his own home. "Three Little Birds" isn't naive cheerful…
1980 · 80S
Behind the bounciest dance-floor groove Bob Marley ever cut sits a stern sermon: stop letting other people define you, stop judging, and ask…
1983 · 80S
"Buffalo Soldier" sounds like a sunny singalong, but it is a quiet history lesson about Black American cavalrymen who were taken from Africa…