When Bob was five, his father took him to Kingston so he could get a better education; however, Marley ended up living with his grandmother, who was unable to properly look after him. He ended up on the streets hanging out with the various gangs of Kingston, later known as "Rude Boys". One year later Bob bumped into one of his mother's friends. He told her that he had not received the education his father had intended for him. She told his mother and soon Bob was reunited with his mother. A couple of years later Bob and his mother moved to Trench Town (West-Kingston) because his mother was looking for a job. Bob Marley loved the fast life in the big city, as well the music of Fats Domino and Ray Charles. One of Bob's friends, known as "Bunny" was into music and he and Bob, with the help of Trenchtown's famous singer, Joe Higgs, perfected their vocal abilities. It was during one of these informal lessons for aspirin

In December 1971 Bob went to Chris Blackwell of Island Records and he asked Chris if the band could get a record deal. Chris gave them 8,000 pounds (in advance) to make an album. It was a revolutionary move: for the first time a reggae band had access to the best recording facilities and they were treated in much the same way as, say, a rock group. Before The Wailers signed with Island it was considered that reggae sold only singles and cheap compilation albums. The Wailers made the first reggae-album Catch A Fire. The band made successful tours through the U.K. and the States. The follow-up album at Island was Burnin' and it included some of the band's older songs together with tracks like Get Up, Stand Up and I Shot The Sheriff.

Bob Marley's funeral in Jamaica on 21 May 1981 could be compared with that of a king. Hundreds of thousands of people (including the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition) visited the funeral to celebrate the fact that Bob Marley was a real 'Jah Rastafari' after all. After the funeral Bob Marley's body was taken to his birthplace where it rests in a mausoleum. The mausoleum became a real place of pilgrimage in the years after.

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