{"id":22411,"date":"2012-04-12T00:54:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T00:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22411"},"modified":"2012-04-12T00:54:47","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T00:54:47","slug":"hitting-the-right-rhythm-to-tell-marley%e2%80%99s-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22411","title":{"rendered":"Hitting the Right Rhythm to Tell Marley\u2019s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hitting the Right Rhythm to Tell Marley\u2019s Story<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2012-04-06<\/p>\n

John Anderson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of all the friends, lovers, relatives and Rastas that the director Kevin Macdonald<\/a> wrangled into his new documentary, \u201cMarley,\u201d one of his favorite finds was Dudley Sibley<\/a>, a onetime recording artist and the janitor at the Jamaican recording studio where Bob Marley<\/a> cut his musical teeth.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe lived with Bob for 18 months in the back of Studio 1,\u201d Mr. Macdonald said recently over breakfast in Manhattan. \u201cNo one ever thought to talk to this guy. My researcher in Jamaica said to me, \u2018Oh, by the way, there\u2019s this guy I\u2019ve met who says he lived with Bob.\u2019 I said, \u2018Oh, yeah, yeah, I don\u2019t believe that.\u2019 But I met him. And he was for real.\u201d<\/p>\n

Making a definitive biographical film about Marley, the reggae superstar, who died of cancer in 1981, has always been problematic, plagued by a shortage of archival footage, disagreements over music publishing, and the fact that Marley had 11 children by seven women and never wrote a will…<\/p>\n

…The people Mr. Macdonald set out to interview included \u201ceveryone who\u2019s alive and was intimate with Bob,\u201d he said. They included Neville Livingston, a k a Bunny Wailer of the original Wailers (later Bob Marley and the Wailers<\/a>) and Marley\u2019s relatives, black and white. (His absentee mixed-race father, Norval Marley, who was considered a white Jamaican, is a ghostly presence.) Anyone familiar with Bob Marley would assume that, if anything, the difficulties inherent in getting his inner circle to sign off on the same film would keep the full story from getting on screen for 31 years. But Mr. Macdonald said he got total cooperation. Ziggy Marley<\/a>, Bob\u2019s eldest son, said the family is happy with the result.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cThis is what we wanted it to be,\u201d Ziggy Marley, a successful pop performer, said by phone. \u201cI\u2019ve never read one book about my father,\u201d he said. \u201cWho are they? They don\u2019t know him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rita Marley<\/a>, Ziggy\u2019s mother and Bob\u2019s widow, concurred…<\/p>\n

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

Hitting the Right Rhythm to Tell Marley\u2019s Story The New York Times 2012-04-06 John Anderson Of all the friends, lovers, relatives and Rastas that the director Kevin Macdonald wrangled into his new documentary, \u201cMarley,\u201d one of his favorite finds was Dudley Sibley, a onetime recording artist and the janitor at the Jamaican recording studio where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,8],"tags":[573,80,10376,9696,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-22411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-media-archive","tag-bob-marley","tag-jamaica","tag-john-anderson","tag-kevin-macdonald","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411","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=22411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}