Transcript: Interview: Writer Stephen Davis discusses Bob Marley

ED GORDON
NPR Special
02-08-2005
Interview: Writer Stephen Davis discusses Bob Marley

Host: ED GORDON
Time: 9:00-10:00 AM

ED GORDON, host:

Writer Stephen Davis' seminal work on the life of Bob Marley, published in 1992, recounted both Marley the icon and Marley the man. I asked Davis what he saw as the difference.

Mr. STEPHEN DAVIS (Writer): The iconic Bob Marley is the guy who, when he died at age 36, was already a world champion of human rights and who is now a T-shirt. I mean, you can't go anywhere on this planet without seeing a--Bob Marley on some kid's T-shirt. That's macro Bob the icon, the T-shirt. Who was micro Bob? You know, he was a semiorphan until he was a teen-ager. He ...

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