{"id":3052,"date":"2015-02-06T15:33:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T23:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=3052"},"modified":"2015-02-07T15:06:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T23:06:06","slug":"bob-marley-happy-70th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2015\/02\/bob-marley-happy-70th-birthday.html","title":{"rendered":"Bob Marley: Happy 70th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;3BXI0gx6g2APPzSTAgIfCMxuJKZAolOM&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>RACING on a deadline, but can&#8217;t resist posting this 1973 <a title=\"Concrete Jungle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZAYNXSv6wmw\" target=\"_blank\">footage<\/a> of Marley singing Concrete Jungle with the original Wailers. Sorry for cacophonous ad at beginning. Listen to those harmonies! This is like post-apocalyptic soul music.<\/p>\n<p>In my 20s I was a huge fan of &#8217;60s\/early &#8217;70s Jamaican music (ska, rocksteady, lovers rock, dub) and interviewed the great producer Coxsone Dodd.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite Marley may be the acoustic medley, including the song &#8220;Hurting Inside,&#8221; the appears on the box sex Songs of Freedom. But songs like &#8220;Rebel Music&#8221; are hard not to love as well.<\/p>\n<p>RIP to a great, passionate, political artist who fought for what he believed in but was felled by cancer far too young<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Bob-Marley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3053\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Bob-Marley-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bob-Marley\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Bob-Marley-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Bob-Marley.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;3BXI0gx6g2APPzSTAgIfCMxuJKZAolOM&#8221;] RACING on a deadline, but can&#8217;t resist posting this 1973 footage of Marley singing Concrete Jungle with the original Wailers. Sorry for cacophonous ad at beginning. Listen to those harmonies! This is like post-apocalyptic soul music. In my 20s I was a huge fan of &#8217;60s\/early &#8217;70s Jamaican music (ska, rocksteady, lovers rock, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69,695,58],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-70s","7":"category-jamaican","8":"category-music","9":"entry","10":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3052"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3056,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3052\/revisions\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}