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Redemption Song
- Being left as everything he stood for in life
- The pain he was enduring while making this song
- What the song represented
Quote
Analysis of Redemption Song
by Bob Marley
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
-Bob Marley
Health issues and death
Background
- Diagnosed with cancer
- Redemption song being the last song he wrote
- Died on May 11, 1981 at the age of 36
- Born Robert Nesta Marley, on February 6,1945
- Birth place Nine Miles St Ann, Jamaica, but in his teenage years moved to Kingston
- Meet future band mates in Kingston later to be known as Bob Marley and the wailers
Background cont
- Born into a christian based household but later converted to the growing religion Rastafarian religion movement
- Grew up in poverty, Jamaica being a third world country
- Oppression of dark skin people, the darker the skin the lower in the class system you were placed
- The Caribbean island having embedded history still affecting them in the present