Rastafari in Bob Marley's Music Marley, like many otherreggaemusicians, proudly used Rastafari language and themes, as well as pertinent scriptural references, in the song lyrics that he wrote. His songs cover many topics, fromromantic lovetopolitical revolution, but even his most romantic love s...
My friends always got surprised when I said I didn’t know who Bob Marley was. Ok, I agree it’s a bit extreme, but consider I’m a classical-trained violinist and I spent my entire childhood with classical music, plus I’m Chinese. It actually makes sense. Why? It dates back to...
William Shakespeare was equally revealing of the paradoxical true nature of the human condition when he wrote, ‘What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty!…In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The...
It felt like she was working through it with me. Disturbed-The Sickness Beastie Boys-Licensed to Ill Greenday-American Idiot Bon Jovi-New Jersey Bob Marley-Exodus Alanis Morissette-Jagged Little Pill Pearl Jam-Ten Reactions: 100proof, wataru330, fenikso and 2 others SC-ULTRA ...
In 2011, Johnny Mad Dog was adapted as a feature film of the same name. Egypt Out of Egypt by André Aciman (Picador USA, 2007) Buy Now: bookshop.org In this memoir, the author of Call Me by Your Name describes his childhood in Alexandria, where his family settled at the beginning ...
Oh, yeah. I spent probably 80 hours making this playlist, choosing the songs and making sure it was all in exactly the right order. There’s a method to it. Don’t listen on shuffle. Some of them are songs from my childhood. My dad’s Jamaican, so Jimmy Cliff ...
Jusitn Beiber had a very unconventional childhood. On 1 March, 1994 he was born to a single mother Patricia Mallete. His father Jeremy Jack Bieber, abandoned his wife and left the mother and son to fend for themselves. Bieber attended a French-language elementary school, called Jeanne SauvÃ...
"It would turn out just fine. What I had was not a handicap, it was just an inconvenience." - Ed Lucas, Blind Broadcaster
She was not the most beautiful girl on the Côte d’Azur but perhaps the prettiest to arrive in the middle of the années folles. As she stepped down onto the platform of the station in her Chanel summer whites. The fragrance of the south hit her like a new lover’s scent. In fact...
A customized Washburn 22-Series Hawk guitar owned by Bob Marley was valued at $1.2 million earlier this year, as theJamaica Observerreported. (That estimate could range up to $2 million, according to other sources.) While the instrument in question was never Marley's main concert guitar, it...