So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley
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"Reggae's chief eyewitness, dropping testimony on reggae's chief prophet with truth, blood, and fire." —Marlon James, Man Booker Prize–winning author
Renowned reggae historian Roger Steffens's riveting oral history of Bob Marley's life draws on four decades of intimate interviews with band members, family, lovers, and confidants—many speaking publicly for the first time. Hailed by the New York Times Book Review as a "crucial voice" in the documentation of Marley's legacy, Steffens spent years traveling with the Wailers and taking iconic photographs. Through eyewitness accounts of vivid scenes—the future star auditioning for Coxson Dodd; the violent confrontation between the Wailers and producer Lee Perry; the attempted assassination (and conspiracy theories that followed); the artist's tragic death from cancer—So Much Things to Say tells Marley's story like never before. What emerges is a legendary figure "who feels a bit more human" (The New Yorker).
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Roger Steffens. (2017). So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley. W. W. Norton & Company.
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"Reggae's chief eyewitness, dropping testimony on reggae's chief prophet with truth, blood, and fire." —Marlon James, Man Booker Prize–winning author
Renowned reggae historian Roger Steffens's riveting oral history of Bob Marley's life draws on four decades of intimate interviews with band members, family, lovers, and confidants—many speaking publicly for the first time. Hailed by the New York Times Book Review as a "crucial voice" in the documentation of Marley's legacy, Steffens spent years traveling with the Wailers and taking iconic photographs. Through eyewitness accounts of vivid scenes—the future star auditioning for Coxson Dodd; the violent confrontation between the Wailers and producer Lee Perry; the attempted assassination (and conspiracy theories that followed); the artist's tragic death from cancer—So Much Things to Say tells Marley's story like never before. What emerges is a legendary figure "who feels a bit more human" (The New Yorker).
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- content: Steffens identifies many more pieces of [Marley] than have ever before been put together in one book.
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- content: A complete portrait.... Calls on many voices to recall the one iconic voice.
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- content: Compulsively readable, exquisitely researched.
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- content: [So Much Things to Say] narrates the life of Marley from cradle to grave.... Steffens has been on the Marley case for decades, and he's a crucial voice in this epic chorus.... Illuminating.
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- source: Carlos Santana
- content: If Bob Marley is Jesus in these times, Roger Steffens is Peter.
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- source: Stephen Davis, author of Bob Marley and Reggae Bloodlines
- content: So Much Things to Say is Steffens's must-read/can't-stop-reading account of Bob Marley's historic career and his indelible achievements.
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- source: Robert Hilburn, author of Johnny Cash: The Life
- content: An invaluable insight into the life and times of one of the great pop culture figures of the twentieth century.... Endlessly fascinating.
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- source: Kwame Dawes, author of City of Bones: A Testament and Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius
- content: All true gospels are shaped by the accounts of eyewitnesses who walked with the one we speak of. Roger Steffens has collected these accounts and has given us a book of truths complicated by the bending of memory, motive and mystery. The effect is a fresh and renewed affirmation of Marley's genius, humanity and mystique. This book is a triumph of the storytelling virtuosity of Jamaican people, and a testament to the care and glorious obsessions of Roger Steffens.
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Starred review from May 8, 2017
In his page-turning oral history of Bob Marley (1945–1981), Steffens, a reggae historian and producer of a one-man show about Marley’s life, brings the singer to life through conversations with his bandmates, lovers, family members, and musical associates. Through this thoroughly engaging history, readers learn about the sometimes uneasy working relationships at Coxson Dodd’s Studio One in Kingston, Jamaica, during the early days of the Wailers; Rita Marley’s revelatory encounter with Haile Selassie, the Rasta god, on Apr. 21, 1966; and the responses of Carl Colby Jr. (son of former CIA director William Colby) to accusations that Carl tried to have Marley killed. In one conversation, Bunny Wailer (Neville O’Riley Livingston) recalls with joyous insight Marley’s songwriting process—“Bob writes bits of songs, as the inspiration come him write, and then him just put them bits there together.” Two of Marley’s band members, Gilly Gilbert and Danny Sims, recall the nights in 1980 when they opened for the Commodores at Madison Square Garden and more than half the audience left when the Wailers finished their set. In this highly entertaining and informative history, Steffens also includes dozens of photos from his own archive.
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June 1, 2017
An oral history that presents a well-rounded portrait of the music legend, allowing for multiple, sometimes-conflicting, points of view. Robert Nesta Marley (1945-1981) left a legacy of beautiful music, helping to push reggae from its Jamaican roots out into the world at large. Mindful of the many books about Marley already available, reggae historian Steffens (The Family Acid, 2015, etc.) worked to make a complete narrative covering the musician's entire life and filling in the cracks left by previous books. The author goes into great detail about Marley's early recordings, the inner workings of the Wailers, and the cancer that eventually took Marley's life. Steffens has interviewed dozens of major and minor players in Marley's life, including Wailers Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, Island Records' Chris Blackwell, Marley's mother, Cedella Booker, and various friends, musicians, and associates. There is a fullness to the collective weight of all these observations that is well-suited to the oral history format. What emerges is a not a clear picture of Marley the man but rather a true sense of how complicated his life was. His legend and impact, his work ethic, his abilities as a musician and leader--these are beyond question--but there are a lot of contrasting voices. On the question of who wrote "I Shot the Sheriff," for example, Marley's then-girlfriend Esther Anderson and his friend Lee Jaffe both think the story starts with them. There are disagreements over how people met, who paid royalty payments, who deserves credit for music and lyrics, etc. Steffens inserts himself as a voice like any of the others, offering structure and sometimes serving as a referee. If someone has told what has proven to be a lie, the author steps in and clarifies. But mostly, he lets his subjects speak for themselves. The author's approach allows him to tell more of the story, and even without presenting Marley's voice directly, this is an illuminating portrait of an extraordinary life.COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Steffens, who owns the world's biggest reggae archive and has traveled worldwide with a one-man multimedia show called The Life of Bob Marley, draws on 40 years of close-quarters interviews with Marley's band members, family, lovers, and confidants to chronicle Marley's life and art. A small-press edition of this book ran through two printings; here's the big time.Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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