![]() ![]() His posthumous greatest hits album, Legend, released in 1984, has spent more than 950 weeks in the UK top 100 and has sold more than 25m copies worldwide. It’s the latest celebration of a singer who four decades after his death from cancer, aged 36, is still one of the bestselling artists in the world. ![]() Now 53, Ziggy is speaking to the Observer on the eve of a new exhibition about his father’s life and influences opening at the Saatchi Gallery in London next month. Bob wouldn’t be Bob without Rita, you know what I’m saying?” I’m proud of both my dad and my mum because there’s a team work going on between them. “She still showed up for the show, the same as he did. The gig was seen as a rallying cry for peace against the backdrop of Jamaica’s spiralling violence and political unrest, with 80,000 people watching Marley swagger his way through classics including Get Up Stand Up.įor reggae fans it’s the stuff of legend, though Ziggy insists his mother, who had been shot in the head on that night, deserves equal credit. Ziggy finishes up: "With this release we look forward to inspiring not only the long time fans but also the younger generation, giving them a vehicle that opens the door to explore Bob’s life and music and in so doing expand his universal message of unification, justice and peace throughout the earth.Yet just two days later, on 5 December 1976, Bob Marley insisted on playing the Smile Jamaica Concert at Kingston’s National Heroes Park, as planned – even though he had bullet wounds in his arm and chest. The family produced it with Paramount studio and for us it represents the continuation of Bob’s message and growth." Filmed at the actual places where Bob walked, played football and sang like Trench Town and Bull Bay in Kingston, it is an artistic creation that we are proud of and want you to enjoy to be entertained but also to be inspired. "Authenticity fills the screen with numerous Jamaican actors doing us proud in representing the culture. He adds: "Filmed in England and Jamaica the cast and crew represents one of the most unique creation to ever come out of a Hollywood studio. Watch the trailer for Get Up Stand Up - the Bob Marley Musical What is the plot of Bob Marley: One Love? Jesse Cilio will play Bob's dad Norval Marley, with James Norton as Island Records man Chris Blackwell.Īlso in the cast are Tosin Cole, Michael Gandolfini, Nadine Marshall, and Anthony Welsh. Joining Kingsley Ben-Adir is Lashana Lynch – a veteran of both the MCU and James Bond – who will play Bob Marley's wife Rita. ![]() Who else is in the Bob Marley: One Love cast? ![]() In 2023, he joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe to play the main villain in Disney+ series Secret Invasion, starring Samuel L Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Cobie Smulders, Olivia Colman and Emilia Clarke. He's also had a string of hit TV roles, including in The OA, Peaky Blinders, and as President Barack Obama on The Comey Rule. Kingsley attracted plenty of attention playing Malcolm X in Regina King's 2020 film One Night in Miami, a fictionalised retelling of the real-life meeting of Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke in 1964. Who is playing Bob Marley in the biopic?Īfter a year-long global search, Paramount picked British actor Kingsley Ben-Adir to play the reggae legend, Deadline first reported. It wasn't released as a single until 1984, to promote the posthumous greatest hits album Legend. ![]()
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