![]() Indeed, “One Love” calls for peace and harmony through selflessly helping others. It is a song about love, but not physical love, but the kind that transcends the base human capacity to “love one another” and morphs into something truly beautiful. Marley’s classing reggae offering, “One Love” expresses the deeply spiritual and social and moral code of Jamaican Rastafarianism – “One God, One Aim, One Destiny.” It was a theme originated and inspired by one of Jamaica’s premier Black Nationalists, Marcus Mosiah Garvey and his Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). Both offer a refreshing and unbiased look at Marley, the man and his music. I also recommend “Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley” by Timothy White. In fact, the Ghanaian-born Jamaican/ American poet, Kwame Dawes, in his book, “Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius,” does a scholarly job of analyzing the talented and gifted reggae maestro. Indeed, many books have been written about Marley from many different and unique angles. Its an interpretation and it does not necessarily have to be right. This is just my take on it, from my analytical perspective. Let me state here from the onset: There are other ways to decipher Marley and Marlyean Philosophy. Now on the 74 th anniversary of his birth, I’m going to take a shot at analyzing some of Bob Marley’s songs and to interpret the real intrinsic meanings of his lyrics. And I’ve written reams and reams about the man, his music, and his life. I’ve been a follower and fan of Bob Marley’s music since he burst on the musical scene on the 1970s.
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