20 March 2009 - The Marley estate has recently sold half of the rights to the Marley name to Hilco Consumer Capital, a Canadian private-equity firm whose portfolio includes the Sharper Image, Caribbean Joe, and Linens ‘N Things.

Bob Marley’s image has been generating revenue since his death in 1981: his music has sold steadily, the 1984 compilation Legend sold more than 20 million records, and his image has been used in countless merchandising efforts - including posters, jewelry, and infant clothing. There are also untold amounts of bootleg merchandise.

Friday, 20 March 2009 | 400 Hit(s) | (1 vote) | Read more...

"Music and herb go together. It's been a long time now I smoke herb from 1960s, when I first start singing." - Bob Marley

Kaya, the name of one of Bob Marley's reggae albums is a Jamaican word for cannabis, hemp, marijuana. The backcover of this album shows a picture of a burning joint (by Neville Garrick). The Japanese edition of Kaya was released with a different backcover, so rabid was the anti-marijuana paranoia there.

Bob Marley has always defended this often maligned herb. He equated condemnation of this natural herb with blasphemy. How could a plant created by God be made illegal by humans? "You mean they can tell God that it's not legal?" he once asked a Canadian journalist. If growing cannabis (marijuana) is to be a crime then by man's laws God who made all plants was a criminal too. Bob was not surprized that people who smoke the weed were persecuted by "Babylon", the ruling system, reminding people: "Them crucify Christ, remember?"

Saturday, 09 December 2000 | 199 Hit(s) | (1 vote) | Read more...