I grew up listening to the reggae music of the 1980's. In addition to Bob, there are many others of the time who were teaching the words of inspiration like love and brotherhood. Its what gave us, the children of the Commonwealth (or the babies slaves and colonizers) hope, as maintaining imperialism was getting too expensive for the United Kingdom.
There were others, like Peter Tosh, Gregory Issacs, Freddie McGreggor and more. They were not Bob Marley famous, in that they didn't break into American pop culture, but on my little island of Saint Lucia, those beats were what people partied to, played all day on the radio, and listened to on those records and cassette tapes.
Some recordings of "One Love" feature Marley performing it in tandem with Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready", which has a very similar message.
I grew up listening to the reggae music of the 1980's. In addition to Bob, there are many others of the time who were teaching the words of inspiration like love and brotherhood. Its what gave us, the children of the Commonwealth (or the babies slaves and colonizers) hope, as maintaining imperialism was getting too expensive for the United Kingdom.
There were others, like Peter Tosh, Gregory Issacs, Freddie McGreggor and more. They were not Bob Marley famous, in that they didn't break into American pop culture, but on my little island of Saint Lucia, those beats were what people partied to, played all day on the radio, and listened to on those records and cassette tapes.