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- Bob Marley lived in London on a self-imposed exile from 1976 to 1979 and during these three years, he changed a few houses, living in Bloomsbury, Kennington/Brixton, Notting Hill and Chelsea.
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Marley was born on 6 February 1945 at the farm of his maternal grandfather in Nine Mile, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica, to Norval Sinclair Marley and Cedella Malcolm. [21] Norval was a white Jamaican born in Clarendon Parish, and whose cousins claimed that the Marley surname had Syrian-Jewish origins.
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- Ridgmount Gardens, WC1. Bob Marley was first invited to London in 1972 by Johnny Nash; the US singer behind ‘I Can See Clearly Now’. Bob and the Wailers were already big in Jamaica and Johnny hoped to secure them a wider audience by cutting a deal with CBS records.
- Former Peckham Manor School, SE15. At first Bob struggled to get noticed in London; a problem he discussed with art teacher Keith Baugh one evening at Soho’s ‘Bag O' Nails’ club.
- Queensborough Terrace, W2. Like many newly arrived Londoners, Bob did his fair share of sofa-surfing. After Ridgmount Gardens he spent a brief period at Old Church Street, Chelsea where he hooked up with fellow Wailers members; brothers Carlton and Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett, Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer.
- Victoria station, SW1. Let’s face it, a lot of Londoners are closet transport geeks. And it seems Bob Marley was no exception because on April 30 1972 he headed to Victoria station to catch the last ever ‘Brighton Belle’; a luxury railway service that’d been running Pullman trains to the seaside since the 1930s.
Jun 18, 2020 · By his early teens, Marley was living in Kingston’s Trench Town, a desperately poor slum. He and his friends Bunny Livingston (given name, Neville O’Riley Livingston) and Peter Tosh...
Oct 25, 2024 · Virtually kidnapped by his absentee father (who had been disinherited by his own prominent family for marrying a Black woman), the preadolescent Marley was taken to live with an elderly woman in Kingston until a family friend rediscovered the boy by chance and returned him to the village of Nine Miles.
May 11, 2011 · Robert Nesta Marley lived at 34 Ridgmount Gardens in 1972 when he first came to England, just as his group the Wailers were making a name for themselves. But this tells only part of the...
Past Lives: Bob Marley in London. The Jamaican reggae star came to regard the capital as a second home, and has been honoured with a blue plaque at his former Chelsea base. When Bob Marley came to London early in 1977, it was as a political refugee.
Feb 17, 2022 · His London homes. The plaque at 34 Ridgmount Gardens. Getty Images. In 1976, Marley fled Jamaica after narrowly escaping an attempt on his life, and found refuge in London.
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