Iris b.ok gixc~ itself ocr in an am，osphcric fanhion t，， the collfluc llcc<br >otbclicf systems that inE~rmcd Bob Marlcv. It posit~ that if everything<br >s&crlv stiltccl ~flaout Nlarlcv by those closest to him v， crc tmc， the<br >storx xxould unfk~ld as 1 have recorded it. 1 lm~cvcr， there arc 1.， m~m-<br >uhlc turcd facts here. t?，csklcs m ~ investigations of existing doctmlcuts<br >~lll(l i-ccol-ds， which im ~，lvcd carcfidlv thumbill~ through forty cars<br >olthc l~m~，can l)ail)(，leaner in the hlstitutc of Jamaica in Kingsto~l<br >and the Re，watch Institute for the Study of Mall in New York (;il.x，<br >~ls well as any article of COllSC(lllCllCC publisllcd m Jamaica， the l.!nitcd<br >Kin~zdom orthe (Jnitcd States on Jamaica， Bob Marlcv or rcggac， tile<br >i.fOilnafion distilled herein is bascd 011 the intcrx icvs 1 concluctcd<br >with Bob (I spoke with him on some two dozen separate occasions.，<br >between 197S and 1%1， t)lus intcrvic~vs 1 col~ductcd over the years<br >~xith t，lllcr members of the Vailcrs， the t)alld s producers， additional<br >I，~lckuI) musicians， various other co-workers， record compa~ly cxccu-<br >ti ，cs， bodvguarcts and roaclics， as ~ncll as familx and friends. ()thc~<br >so，lrccs illc hlctcd l~romincnt t~gtlrcs in the Jamaican recording indus-<br >tlx， island politicians (~vho haxc made their oxvn tmiquc contril)utions<br > ttl Jamaican music). Rast-a ciders， cotmtrv soothsaxers， l~nc:k

o~cls<br > pleat hers， soci;d workers， sociologists， ghetto thugs and bush nmmics.<br > l hcrc mc more knott problcm，~ ~:onfiollting a.nv iou.rnalisl or<br > I，io~raphcr waclin~ illtO jalnaic a s history ~.，d the life of one of its no~:<br >