1. Before ever picking up a guitar, the young Bob Marley dreamed of owning and operating his own small independent accountancy firm.
2. Though best know for hits like 'No Woman No Cry' or '3 Little Birds' Bob's first foray in to the world of music was as a Tom Jones impersonator.
3. Bob Marley has for many years been associated with smoking cannabises, or 'doobies' as they are known on the street. But in reality Marley never took so much as an aspirin. Hated druggers.
4. As we all know Jamaican's are really fast and Bob was no exception, winning gold in the 100m final at the 1976 summer Olympics.
5. Like all reggae singers Bob Marley was proud of his natty rasta dreads. But hairologists from the National Museum of Celebrity Barnets in Manchester now believe that Marley's famous doo was a fake!
6. Bob Marley had many showbiz pals, one of the closest was martial arts wiz Bruce Lee. Marley even starred along side Lee in 'Game of Death' playing the part of NBA star Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
7. Bob Marley's dad invented the machine that puts stripes in toothpaste.
8. Bob Marley played with his backing band 'The Wailers' until they were brutally murdered by misinformed Greenpeace activists.
9. Bob Marley in real life never actually shot the sheriff, and he certainly didn't shoot any deputies! He did however kill a man in cold blood, in what was a tragic crime of passion.
10. Bob Marley was the fist ever celebrity to provide a voice over for long running cartoon comedy The Simpsons. Voicing Sideshow Bob's lawyer in season 1.
No Woman, No Cry was written to promote the gay mans lifestyle.
ReplyDeleteI saw the film about his life with Owen `Wilson, but the dog who played him didn't really do the great man justice. He couldn't sing, nor did he spark up a fatty in the whole film, to add insult to injury he wasn't even black.
ReplyDeleteMarley and Me sucked the big one.
Hans Quandt who founded BMW in 1972, named the German motoring giant after his favorite singer/ band.
ReplyDeleteThe singer was created in a top seccret facility, bred to be a super rasta, with a mission to smoke bud and save the world with mellow tunes.
ReplyDeleteBob Marley is an anagram of his real name; Lab Embryo.
A bit like a hippy version of the sinister Treadstone program in the films about the tormented Jason Bourne, H? And it's that whee he could never remember anything and was forever losing his keys and standing at the top of the stairs in his snake filled Rasta house thinking to himself why did I come up here?
ReplyDeleteSnake? Smoke-filled..Probably full if snakes as well sent by Rastastone to torment Bob and make him come in from the cold. 'He's gone rogue he's making mellow tunes, he was supposed to supply Ganga to Vladimir Putin ....'
DeleteThe secret facility to train ninja rasters was Dreadstone.
ReplyDeleteAfter graduation, they were sent to be futher trained in the art of ganga at Treadstoned.