Rare vintage circa 1970s original glossy 5 x 3.5 candid photo of Marley on stage performing, signed in blue ballpoint, "Jah, Bob Marley." Also included is an original candid 3.5 x 5 glossy photo of Wailer Aston 'Family Man' Barrett, signed in blue ballpoint. In overall very fine condition. By the time this photo was taken, Marley had become a force to be reckoned with, not only as a cultural icon but as a political force in Jamaica. By the mid-1970s, Marley had become an outspoken opponent of the poverty and crime that was overtaking his country. He believed that such issues were stopping Jamaicans from being able to come together through 'creative music and love, but (there) is too much poverty,' he told one writer in 1976. Not everyone shared his opinion, however. This fact became evident in December 1976, when two days before Marley was scheduled to give a free 'Smile Jamaica' concert, aimed at reducing tensions between warring political factions, a gunman attacked him and his entourage. Although Marley and his wife were grazed by bullets, they took the stage as scheduled and electrified a crowd of 80,000 people in what was seen as a gesture of survival. The attack also strengthened his political outlook, resulting in what was perhaps the most militant albums of his career: Exodus, Survival, and Uprising.
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