{"id":22308,"date":"2012-04-08T21:52:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T21:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22308"},"modified":"2017-02-19T22:09:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T22:09:54","slug":"22308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22308","title":{"rendered":"Bob Marley: the regret that haunted his life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bob Marley: the regret that haunted his life<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/a>
\n2012-04-07<\/p>\n

Tim Adams<\/strong><\/a>, Staff Writer<\/p>\n

Director Kevin Macdonald explains how he pieced together his new film about reggae legend Bob Marley, from troubled early years in Jamaica to worldwide adulation – even after death<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2005, the director Kevin Macdonald<\/a> was working in Uganda on his film The Last King of Scotland<\/em>. In the slums of Kampala he was struck by a curious fact. There seemed to be images of Bob Marley<\/a> and “Get up, stand up” slogans and dreadlocks wherever he went.<\/p>\n

Marley had been on Macdonald’s mind anyway: he had been asked by Chris Blackwell<\/a>, founder of Island Records, if he would be interested in getting involved in a film project about the Jamaican musician’s enduring legacy.<\/p>\n

The original plan had been to follow a group of rastafarians<\/a> on their journey from Kingston to their spiritual homeland of Ethiopia, to attend a celebration of the 60th anniversary of Marley’s birth. As it worked out, that film was never made, but, when the opportunity arose for Macdonald to make a more ambitious documentary about Marley, he jumped at the chance…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob Marley: the regret that haunted his life The Guardian 2012-04-07 Tim Adams, Staff Writer Director Kevin Macdonald explains how he pieced together his new film about reggae legend Bob Marley, from troubled early years in Jamaica to worldwide adulation – even after death In 2005, the director Kevin Macdonald was working in Uganda on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,1245,8],"tags":[573,80,9696,1392,2103,10347],"class_list":["post-22308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-biography","category-media-archive","tag-bob-marley","tag-jamaica","tag-kevin-macdonald","tag-music","tag-the-guardian","tag-tim-adams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51675,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22308\/revisions\/51675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}