Journalist Bernard Loupias, who followed Bob on tour for "Le Matin," recalls his last meeting with Bob Marley. It is 2 o'clock in the morning and here I am in my hotel room when someone knocks at my door. Suddenly I woke up and open the door, it is, Tommy Cowan, Bob Marley's manager. He told me: "Bob wants to see you, now! Under the pallid neon light, Bob Marley is waiting, alone, showing prominent cheekbones and feverish looking eyes! I could not believe eyes that he was the same young musician full of health and energy that I had met three years in London, England. I think that his physical transformation is due to the hard Tour. "Bob Marley was in France for a tour that begins in Grenoble to promote his new album "Uprising." Now we are in Bordeaux, the concert there had been a fantastic two hours of pure unadulterated musical magic. After the concert, in spite of his tiredness, Bob Marley received a group of African students. Roughly, two months previously, on 17th of April 1980, Bob and his band had performed in the historic concert that was held in Zimbabwe. On that blessed day; Zimbabwe was celebrating their independence day! | | U-Roy said: "I did Kingston 12 Shuffle which was my version of Bob Marley's Trenchtown Rock with Peter Tosh playing the melodica." Bob Marley came to see me one day, and asked me if I could do that for him, so we went in the studio and we did the "Kingston 12 Shuffle." Exclaimed U-Roy! Apart from his music Bob Marley was lover of women, he had women all over the world, but the end of the world was closing in on Bob. From the beginning of 1980, all was not too well with Bob Marley's health, he was not his usual jovial self as he was always known to be! |
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