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Article: Time Will Tell.
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- October 12, 1992
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More than a decade after his untimely death at 36 of cancer, a few things remain certain about the wide-ranging musical legacy of Robert Nesta Marley. First and foremost is its durability. Its continuing impact around the globe guarantees this most prominent of Jamaica's Rastafarian songsters--who rose from abject poverty to worldwide fame and fortune, and with those, considerable political and cultural clout--his place in history as the James Brown of the Caribbean, the godfather of international rock hybrids. The simultaneous release of a four-CD overview of his work, Songs of Freedom (Tuff Gong), and a new feature-length video biography, Time Will Tell (Island), ...