Marley Page #2

One suit of clothes.

So you walk bare feet all the time.

Bob too, you know?

A lot of people don't know that.

That kind of sufferation and struggle...

can make you either go bad or good.

And I guess

that's what he did, you know?

He figured the music would get him out,

so he stuck to it and focused,

you know?

You know, as an individual

they're forced to be creative.

Because that's where

your reggae music born, Trench Town.

Dread natty dread now

Natty dread

Dreadlock Congo bongo I

Natty dread

Natty dreadlock

In Trench Town

we have First Street.

All the way up to 13th Street.

First, Second, Third,

Fourth, Fifth, Sixth,

and so on and so forth.

Him sing about it in "Natty Dread."

Then I walk up the First Street

Natty dread

And then I walk up

the Second Street to see

Natty dread

- He was different, mon.

He was different.

He just loved music.

Music and cricket and football.

Natty Congo I

Natty dread

- One day he just come home

and give me the books and say,

"I'm not going back to school."

And, um, him say have a friend

that he can give these books to.

And he did that,

and then he turned to his music.

I'm a rebel

Soul rebel

I'm a capturer

That's right

Soul adventurer

Yeah mon

I'm a rebel

Soul rebel

Robert keep pounding,

keep pounding, keep pounding.

Telling me that

this is what it should be and, uh...

And I'm saying, "No,

I'm gonna get ready to go to college.

I can't be no music."

He say, "No, it's music."

When did you begin

to get involved in music?

- Well, I was always interested

in music,

but at that time I was learning

a trade, you know,

and meet up

some guys who can sing.

One named Desmond Dekker.

- Desmond Dekker and Bob

used to work as welders...

at the same place.

Desmond Dekker came down,

and I auditioned him.

And we recorded his song.

And after he did that song,

Robert wanted now to record.

So Desmond take him Beverley's.

And he went away

and recorded a song...

to prove to me that if he

could record a song, I could.

Don't you look at me

so smug now

And say I'm going bad

Who are you to judge me

And the life that I live

- I noticed his use of words

in the songs.

"Judge Not"...

it was a revolutionary song...

defending his rights as an individual.

It occurred to me,

"Wow, this guy's really a good poet."

Judge not

Before you judge yourself

- After the recording,

Leslie Kong wanted

to change Bob's name,

because Robert Marley

didn't sound so catchy and easy.

So he wanted to call Bob "Adam."

Adam Marley.

Bob wouldn't have it.

He realizes that a group

would be maybe the appropriate thing,

other than being individual,

solo artists.

We used to listen to groups

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