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WORLD WAR ONE: BOB MARLEY’S FATHER “NEUROTIC AND INCONTINENT!”

By Trystan Jones and Genevieve Tudor, BBC News—- Bob Marley was just 10, when his father Norval died A musical icon and one of the best-selling artists of all time, Bob Marley lived most of his short adult life in the spotlight. It was in marked contrast to his enigmatic father about whom little more is known, apart from a less than illustrious World War One record. Norval Sinclair Marley, born in the UK in 1885, was rarely talked about, even by those closest to his reggae star son. Actress Esther Anderson, who became Bob Marley’s girlfriend in the 1970s, said: “The guy didn’t exist. There was a photograph of him on a horse, a white man on a horse.” Bob himself rarely talked about his father, she said, and when he did it was … Read entire article »

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