There was no reason to grieve, the Rastas told anyone who expressed sorrow. That was the mood in Kingston when Marley's body arrived on a flight from Miami a few days later.
"Jah give," he replied, "and Jah take away." They raised their eyes, and the roadie paused in the middle of rolling his spliff. "A sad day," I said, unable to think of anything more profound or perceptive. The only people left were a caretaker and one of Aswad's roadcrew, both Jamaicans.
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But it was long after midnight, and the musicians had gone home after watching the tributes to the dead man hurriedly assembled by the British TV networks. On the night of his death, on 11 May, I had gone to the Island Records studios in an old church in Notting Hill, west London, where Aswad had been cutting tracks in the very basement studio where Bob had completed Catch A Fire, his breakthrough album, nine years earlier. Alongside Marley's embalmed corpse, the casket contained his red Gibson Les Paul guitar, a Bible opened at Psalm 23, and a stalk of ganja placed there by his widow, Rita, at the end of the funeral ceremony earlier in the day. His heavy bronze coffin was carried to the top of the highest hill in the village and placed in a temporary mausoleum painted in the colours of red, green and gold. This is also the story of a serendipitous encounter, almost a century later, and the piecing together of Elvas’ experience through the rediscovery of his trusty battlefront Bible.They buried Bob Marley on at Nine Mile, the village where, 36 years earlier, he had been born. Now he had it back to front in his pocket, which means that, because it was a New Testament and Psalms, the bullet went through Psalms, and then Revelation, and then went through all of Paul’s epistles and stopped at John’s Gospel.”īullet in the Bible tells the story of Elvas Jenkins: from outback Australia to Egypt from the scrabbly hills of Gallipoli to the Western Front from a home-grown romance to the story of a miraculous escape, it traces the beauty and tragedy of a life caught up in the times, and of the life that might have been. “A bullet struck him right here – in the Bible that he carried in his breast pocket. To mark the occasion, in this episode of Life & Faith, Natasha Moore brings you extracts from a 2015 documentary about one particular Australian soldier – and how the ripple effects of this one life (and death) reflect the unfathomable cost of the war for a whole society. But the futility of the long war, and our knowledge, looking back, of what was still to come, make the anniversary a muted one. The relief on the faces of those captured in photos from 11 November 1918, celebrating in the streets, is palpable. The centenary of the end of World War I is not an easy one to know what to do with.
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