Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley
Bob Marley, reggae superstar and pop culture icon, left an indelible mark on modern music.Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marleydelves deep into the life of the lionized leader of a musical, spiritual, and political explosion that still reverberates more than a decade after his death.  Almost nothing pertaining to the life of Bob Marley is left out; the origins of Rastafarianism (the Ethiopian religion that was the keystone of his life), the roots of the reggae sound, the Jamaican political and social debacle that informed his lyrics--this is a comprehensive account of the life of the artist and the times that produced him.Catch a Fireis assiduously researched; the details writer Timothy White presents of the King of Reggae's life are cinematic in scope and, at times, cumbersome. White includes much of his primary source material, ranging from full interviews with band members to unearthed CIA documents, and devotes a whole section to describing his exhaustive research process. The final product is rich with elements of spiritual tome, rock biography, and history text; it is a hagiographic epic--the story of a man and his legend.--Brendan J. LaSalle--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.