This Bob Marley-interview is from september 15. 1980. Bob was interviewed by Stephen Davies. Bob had just arrived Boston from Miami where he had been rehearsing. He was about to start the Uprising tour in USA, the next day at The Hynes Auditorium. september 16.
Bob should have to cancel the tour after only four shows. He got ill September 21. and was diagosed with cancer.
Plenty themes come up in this interview. They speak about the upcoming tour, about bad sound at The Hynes Auditorium, about the spirit of community - Bob says: "The spirit of community is the greatest feeling of humanity, that's why harmony is so nice, when people singing harmony" , about his wife Rita, about his upbringing and about his children and their upbringing, about sending children to school, about when he started to play music, about his musical family, about his 9 months stay in America working at Chrysler, about seeing Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, about playing soccer -- exercise, about religious upbringing, about the album Uprising, about ska, calypso, jazz, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Earth Wind and fire, Commodores, about the assassination against him, his opinion on politics, about African bands making versions of "Zimbabwe", about his stay in Zimbabwe, about Tuff Gong, about young artists like Nadine Sutherland and Junior Tucker and about Burning Spear, Dennis Brown, Steel Pulse, Black Uhuru, Denzel Washington, linton kwesi Johnson, Meditations, about the atomic energy in "Redemption song", about Bob Dylans religious music, about travelling with a chef, about herb supply, about how he was treated by customs, about the show in Milan, about Europe, about black Americans being the last group to catch up with reggae, about "The harder they come", and about money: "There are many things me love and money can't buy them ting there".