Today in History: Bob Marley Died

In a concert at Madison Square Garden, New York on 19 and 20 September 1980 which was the last part of his world tour Bob Marley shared the group The Commodores.

The Commodores, which was then quite famous in the United States, according to The New York Times, could not keep up with the appearance of the original Reggae king.

Only a few days later, Bob Marley collapsed while he was in Central Park, New York.

When taken to the hospital, doctors provide diagnoses that occur, cancer that begins in the back of the finger has spread to the brain, liver, and lungs.

As a result, all of his touring schedule and Bob Marley were taken to a clinic in Germany for treatment from the cancer specialist Dr. Jossef Issels.

Nesta Robert Marley at St. Ann Parish, Jamaica on February 6, 1945. His father was a white navy officer and his mother was an 18-year-old black girl.

At the age of nine, Bob Marley moved to the harsh residential area of ​​Trench Town on the west side of Kingston, the capital of Jamaica.

It was there that Bob Marley became acquainted with those who would be his best friend, Neville "Bunny" Livinstone aka Bunny Wailer and Peter McIntosh aka Peter Tosh.

The three then drop out of school together at the age of 14 and start creating music.

It was on its own. With the easy radio radio dianya then the music from abroad including from the United States easily enjoyed by the islanders.

Then dair blend rhythm of New Orleans blues music and African traditional music for the first time appeared the flow of ska music.

Slowly ska develops into reggae that has not found its shape as we know it today until the late 1960s.

Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Bunny Wailer later formed The Wailers music group in those days.

The Wailers then made reggae into the dominant musical genre on the former British colony island.

Finally, the uniqueness of reggae sounds international record company Music Island who is interested in The Wailers after listening to the album Catch a Fire (1972) and Burnin '(1973).

Jamaican reggae music became famous after British musician Eric Clapton brought in an I Shot the Sheriff song adaptation taken from Burnin 'album.

In 1974, Peter Tosh and The Wailers parted ways with Bob Marley, who successfully made Marley's astrology increasingly "moncer".

In the late 1970s, Bob Marley spawned a series of albums Exodus (1977) in which there were some legendary songs like Jamming, Waiting In Vain, and One Love / People Get Ready.

In 1978, the Rich album was released with a row of popular songs such as Is This Love, and Sun Is Shining.

Uprising's next album released in 1980 also spawned "evergreen" songs such as Could Be Be Love and Redemption Song.

Back to the sickness of Bob Marley, the cancer that dijalap dreadlocked men had actually been known since 1977.

This fact does not match the popular story that mentions cancer caused by injuries while playing soccer.

However, Bob Marley rejected the doctors' insistence that his thumb fall amputated for fear of disturbing his stage career.

Bob Marley also rejected the amputation suggestion because it was not adapted to his beliefs.

However, he agrees that the doctor lifts the toe nail and covers the nail with the skin removed from his thigh.

The next story is history. After eight months of treatment in Germany and uncertainty, Bob Marley requested that he be returned to Jamaica.

While on a flight to Jamaica, Bob Marley's condition deteriorated and upon landing in Miami, he was rushed to Cedars Hospital from Lebanon and died on May 11, 1981 at the age of 36.

The cause of his death was a cancer that had spread to his lungs and brain. Before his death, Bob Marley had given the last message to place him Ziggy.

"Money can not buy life," Bob Marley told his son.

Bob Marley was buried on May 21, 1981 with a state official ceremony. The funeral ritual is a combination of Orthodox Christian Ethiopia and the Rastafari tradition.

Bob Marley was buried in a chapel not far from where he was answered with his red Gibson Les Paul guitar.

"His voice is heard everywhere in the midst of our current electronic world, his sharp features, his magnificent appearance and his prancing style are the indelible scratches from our minds," said Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga in the funeral ceremony of the legend.

"Bob Marley is an experience that left an indelible imprint, a figure that can not be erased from our minds He is part of this nation's collective consciousness," Seaga added.

Bob Marley married Alpharia Constantia Anderson or better known as Rita Marley.

Marley bomb left 11 children, three from