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ACADEMY AWARD-WINNING FILM-MAKER, BARRY MORROW, YEARNS TO DO MOVIE ON BOB MARLEY!

BY HOWARD CAMPBELL—-  Top: Barry Morrow on the set of his latest film, Smitten, in northern Italy. Bottom: Reggae legend Bob Marley— IT was the summer of 1974 and, according to film-maker Barry Morrow, “every long-haired youth in the US was digging (Eric) Clapton’s hit, I Shot The Sheriff ”. Not long after, those youth, which included Morrow, discovered that the song was written and originally done the previous year by Bob Marley and The Wailers. Yesterday was 35 years since Marley died from cancer at age 36. I Shot The Sheriff struck a chord with Morrow, who later won an Academy award for Best Original Screenplay as co-writer of the 1988 film, Rain Man. By mid-1974, Marley had completed Natty Dread, his first solo album which would be released in October that year by Island Records.   In … Read entire article »

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