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BONO<br> | |||
GEORGE HARRISON <br> | |||
CYRIL NEVILLE <br> | |||
ERIC CLAPTON <br> | |||
CARLOS SANTANA <br> | |||
KEITH RICHARDS <br> | |||
DARYL HALL <br> | |||
TINA WEYMOUTH <br> | |||
PETER GABRIEL <br> | |||
ELVIS COSTELLO<br> | |||
PAT BENATAR <br> | |||
It never ceases to amaze me how touched other artists are by Bob Marley's legacy. Not just reggae musicians but those of every stripe, every genre, every persuasion. On the morning after Bob Marley died, I got a phone call at Rolling Stone from [[James Taylor]], then on tour for his ''Dad Loves His Work'' album. Sitting in a bedroom somewhere in the Midwest, Taylor told me how deeply saddened he was by Bob's death, and he explained that he knew writing how much the man's music meant to me. Through his tears, he said he wanted to let me know that "people all over the world felt strongly" about the loss. | |||
Then, over the phone, James played me the bare bones of a tune he'd spent part of the previous evening working on, a simple tribute to Bob he had titled "A Man Is Gone." It was a brief, spare. three-chord tune more a narrative accompanied by James' distinctive picking style than a full-blown song, but what has always lingered in my mind in the years since was the tenderness of the effort itself. | |||
"l don't think I've written this for the public," he said when he was done playing, "I believe I wrote it to make me feel better. " | |||
Of course. to have gotten such an intimate call out of the blue extraordinary, yet in the days immediately following Bob's death in May '81 there was such a palpable sadness in the air that the need to acknowledge it was very strong on the part of many musicians. In the years since. some of the most moving conversations I have had about Bob Marley have been ones initialed by other performers — some of them familiar with my own writing about Bob, others having no prior knowledge of it yet eager to discuss the man after his name had come up. | |||
[[Sting]] has always been very open in his admiration of Bob. The profound respect Sting says he has for Marley played a pivotal role in Sting's teaming up with Ziggy Marley in 1988 to record a duet version of [[The Police]]'s 1981 reggae track "One World (Not Three)" to open a European tv special for the Council of Europe's North South Campaign, an educational drive designed to show citizens of fully industrialized countries the importance of their ties to Third World nations. Others who have enthusiastically initiated discussions of Bob Marley with me over the years have been Peter Gabriel. Don Henley. Danny Kortchmar, David Byrne, Talking Heads/Tom Tom Club members Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth (who co-produced Ziggy Marley's superb ''Conscious party'' album), [[Randy Newman]], Rickie Lee Jones, Little Steven, Pat Benatar, and the members of U2, particularly [[Bono]] and bassist Adam Clayton. | |||
What follows are informal interview testaments to the enduring impact of Bob Marley by those who had a special love for him - his fellow musicians. Their diversity alone is a marvelous indication of how many | |||
hearts he has touched and his enduring place in each of them. | |||
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