Bob Marley: One Love (2024) Movie Script
1
Take care
on di road, Nesta.
Is it true
your family has been threatened?
Jamaica is
on the brink of civil war.
They say
Edward Seaga is affiliated
with the CIA.
Do you think this will
impact the election?
Jamaica's been
in turmoil for 14 years.
Why get involved
in politics now?
Mr. Marley, please,
tell us whose side are you on?
All right, settle down,
settle down.
Smile Jamaica
is a non-political event.
A free concert that Bob Marley
has planned
for all di people dem.
My goal is to unify di people
through the message
of His Imperial Majesty,
Emperor Haile Selassie I,
King of Kings, Lord of Lords,
Earth's rightful ruler.
Rastafari.
Do you really believe music
can end the violence
when the government
has been unable?
Well, every government
pon di face of dis earth
is illegal, man.
Not one of dem is legal.
That's why mi don't deal
wid no politics.
And, yeah, reggae music
come to feed a revolution
that no guns can stop.
You're not concerned you'll
be seen as choosing sides
when you have gang leaders
like Bucky Marshall
and Claudie Massop fomenting
violence on the streets
and both political parties
are involved?
Mi tell di people mi a go play,
so mi a go play.
Thank you for your questions.
Get up, stand up
Stand up for your right
Get up, stand up
Stand up for your right
Get up, stand up
Stand up for your right
Get up, stand up
Jah! Jah!
Don't give up the fight
Preacher man don't tell me
Heaven is under the earth
I know you don't know
What life is really worth
It's not all that glitters
Is gold
Mi have 20 pon skins!
So now you see the light
Stand up for your right
Come on
Get up, stand up
Stand up for your right
Get up, stand up
Don't give up the fight
Stephen! Ziggy!
You all right?
Yes, Daddy.
- Come. Let's go.
- Everybody all right?
...approach of
next week's election...
Yu see me score
the winning goal?
Yu think yu better than Pel?
Pel?
Pel soft compared to me, man.
Yu think dem call mi
Tuff Gong fi joke?
Daddy, why di man dem
shoot up di place?
Don't worry 'bout dat.
Don't worry about dat
Don't worry
'Bout a thing
'Cause every little thing
Gonna be all right
All right, next.
Show me your papers.
Come through. Come through.
Move along!
Halt! Halt! Halt! Halt!
Weh yu going, sir?
Bull Bay, Officer.
- Come out here!
- Yow, yow!
Yu nuh see a who dat?
Let him through.
Dirty dread.
See dat?
One time when police
dem see Rasta,
shoot first, ask question later.
That's what dem used to say.
Play I some music
Dis a reggae music
Play I some music
Two six is 12.
Two seven is 14.
Daddy!
Daddy!
- Yu stayin' for dinner?
- Oh, sorry, next time.
- Mi have to work.
- Again?
Mommy, some man was shootin'
at di football game today.
And den di police just come
and just block up di road.
Go on and play.
Ziggy.
Rita, yu all right?
I don't know why yu have the
boys in dem kinda environment.
Suppose somethin'
did happen to dem.
Nuttin no happen to dem.
Dem will learn.
I startin' to wonder if you
need to take it serious, Bob.
I don't think is a coincidence
that you doin' this concert
and all of a sudden,
Manley feel is time to vote.
Mi no control
dem politics, Rita.
Please.
Think about cancelin' the show.
Mm?
For everybody's safety.
- Greetings.
- Gong!
Too much comings and goings,
too much people in a yard!
We need fi clear
some of dem out.
What's cooking tonight, Gillie?
Fish tea I mek for rehearsal.
Nice.
Give dem some stamina.
Yeah, man.
What you say, Gong?
Wa dat?
Mek di people dem stay, yu know.
Bob, mi a beg you some help.
Mi want open a little shop
fi make a little money.
Please, if you can do somethin'.
Where Don?
Don, set up di sistren yah.
Make sure she get what she need.
- Bob! Bob, another interview!
- Hold on, Jeff.
Where dem running to?
They're scared.
They've seen enough.
Scared of what?
Everything here
is politicized, Bob.
I really don't think you should
go through with this concert.
Chris, listen.
There's no way we back down.
That's Bob's decision though,
isn't it?
Thank you, Don.
Let me go help this woman.
Yeah, man.
Be right back.
All right.
You know I was called into the
American ambassador's office.
Oh, yeah? And what dem say?
Apparently I have been
associating with someone
who could destabilize
the country.
Who, me?
Bob, listen to me.
This is bigger than Jamaica.
I've chartered a jet.
Chris, we good.
Jah protect I and I,
yu know.
Jah has a lot of people
to protect.
You gonna lively up yourself
And don't be no drag
Yeah, lively up yourself
Oh, reggae is another bag
Wow!
Yeah, lively up yourself
And don't say no
You gonna lively up yourself
'Cause I said so
Hey, sista Rita.
Greetings.
I shot the sheriff
But I didn't shoot no deputy
Oh, no, oh
I shot the sheriff
But I didn't shoot no deputy
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Yeah!
All around in my hometown
They tryin' to track me down
Yeah
They say they want to
Bring me in guilty
For the killing of a deputy
For the life of a deputy
But I say...
Oh, now, now
I shot the sheriff
I shot the sheriff
But I swear
It was in self-defense
Oh, no
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Yeah, I said
I shot the sheriff
Oh, Lord!
And they say
It is a capital offense
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Hold it right yah so.
That feel good!
Yeah, man, feel good.
Nice.
Skip, di show name
Smile Jamaica.
Why we don't start with dat one?
It have a more irie vibe.
Hold on.
What happen to other song,
like, uh, "Stir It Up,"
yu know?
"Stir It Up"?
Yeah, man.
It's the girls
you want play for.
True.
I nuh lie.
Hey, loverbwoy.
Jah soon tell me the right song
fi sing, man. Yu know?
True.
Fams, go work di horn section.
Yes I.
I have another rehearsal.
You need me right now?
Mi always need yu.
Come on. Not all di time now.
You busy, huh?
Yes.
If yu hafi do your thing...
See you tomorrow.
Take five.
Jamaica's been in a state
of emergency since June.
And whilst politicians
have argued,
gunmen have been
shooting it out in the streets.
The whole communist
charge is really an attempt
to sort of upset
and confuse people.
It's worse than just dishonest.
It is really quite vicious.
Manley describes himself
as a Democratic Socialist
and perceives...
Skip. Sounding good.
Wa dat?
Must be dem youths
with di firecrackers.
Don, yu on top o' everyting?
I think everything
is in line for the concert.
All right, listen.
Orange woulda work betta.
Yow, Don! You can do dis?
Yow, take cover!
Look at dem. Dey down, man.
Skipper!
Gillie, come here!
Git 'em. Lift him up.
Don cough up!
Stay alive, Don.
Call an ambulance, please!
I'll call an ambulance.
Wake up, wake up.
Call an ambulance, please!
Rita.
...periods of domination,
all Third World countries
begin with a first commitment
to the preservation of their
own national sovereignty.
Her dreadlocks
stopped the bullet
an inch away from her brain.
She'll make a full recovery.
She's a very lucky woman.
Rastafari.
Yeah, little darlin'
What's the meanin' of this?
Dis a joke to you?
Yu makin' fun,
sendin' mi love notes?
Yu sleep in here?
Yeah.
For how long?
Since mi madda moved
to Delaware.
She want mi come work
in America,
but I can't leave di music.
She give mi dat
before she leave.
My madda said I look like him.
My madda leave me, too.
Take my bredda instead.
Guess we're both on our own.
Why yu so hard in rehearsal?
Actin' like
yu can't stand me.
I think yu no like
brown-skin man.
When I was in school,
the other children
call me "blackie tootus."
Dem call me "yellow bwoy."
Don't let that trouble you.
What I like is a man
with ambition
who want him life
to have meanin'.
Skipper.
Don is being airlifted to Miami.
We must pray for him.
Yow, Skipper,
everybody knows yu are dere.
We need fi get up
on higher ground.
Can't leave her right now.
Well, yu can't stay here,
Skipper.
If the gunmen
dem come look fi yu,
yu gonna put her in danger.
Him right, Skip.
We hafi move now.
All right, give mi a minute.
Yes I.
We don't need
No, we don't need
No more trouble
No more trouble
We don't need
No more trouble
Whoa, whoa
We don't need
We don't need
No more trouble
Raasclaat, Skipper.
Di gunmen dem, yu know.
Dat's cool, man.
A Claudie.
You sure I can trust Claudie?
Yu must know
I had nuttin to do with dis.
Di order never come from mi.
Come.
Play di show?
You crazy? Skippa need
fi get di hell outta here.
What you going to tell
di organizers?
Nesta, di shootin' is a sign.
You have pure intention,
but Rasta shoulda never
get mix up in a Babylon system.
It nuh go work!
What about
the thousands of people
who will be waiting for you?
You have a machine gun
fi him fi take pon stage?
His guitar is his machine gun.
Who di bloodclaat dis white boy?
Claudie.
Him all right, man.
Jeff, yu have somethin' to say?
Look, I know it's easy for me,
but if you don't play the show,
then they win.
They get what they want.
How you want to
handle it, Bob?
Hail, young lion.
'Tis natural to be frighten.
Dis is perilous time.
Di two seven clash.
A year of reckonin' coming.
Mi see it in a vision, yu know.
Di shootin'.
Rasta.
Mi never listen.
I'm a never believe
seh my own people
dem would try a kill mi.
Is Jah make dat happen?
Dat's not di right question.
Den a what?
Not why dem try kill you,
but why dem could not succeed.
Rastafari know
dere is a purpose
and a reason fi everyting.
So wa you a go do
with dis chance Jah give you?
Bless dis Holy Herb
as I and I begin dis Nyabinghi
with di sound of creation!
Blessed is the man dat walketh
not in di counsel of di ungodly
nor sitteth in the seat
of di scornful.
His delight is in di law of Jah!
Rastafari!
Mi say leave o leave
I neva really
know my faada,
but him is not from Africa.
Robbie,
when your family reject you,
Rastafari accept you.
Rastafari is I shepherd
I shall not want
I and I shall not want!
For he has maketh I
To lieth
Green pasture
After the cowardly attack,
this show was to be a tribute
to Bob Marley.
Bucky, what happen?
Sorry, Bob. I should have
been dere dat night.
Jah know,
mi upset with what go on.
All right.
Bob, listen, they are ready.
You gotta get out there, man.
We're good.
Yu all right?
Yeah. Mi all right.
Skipper, we can't find Fams,
so Richie from Third World
a do di show.
Bob.
Rita? Praise Jah.
What yu a do?
I checked myself
outta the hospital.
You somethin' else.
"War"!
Yeah!
Until the philosophy
Which holds one race superior
And another
Inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned
Well, everywhere is war
It's Jah war
And until there's no longer
First-class or
Second-class citizens
Of any nation
Until the color
Of a man's skin
Is of no more significance
Than the color of his eyes
I've got to say war, yeah
And until the basic
Human rights
Are equally
Guaranteed to all
Without regard to race
This Jah war
'Cause until that day
The dream of lasting peace
World citizenship
And the rule
Of international
Morality, yeah
Will remain
But a fleeting illusion
To be pursued
But never attained
Yes, everywhere is war
War
Everywhere
Everywhere, everywhere
War in the east
War in the west
War up north
War down south
War!
War!
War!
War!
War!
And verily, verily
I'm saying unto thee
Unite yourself
And love I-manity
'Cause puss and dog
They get together
What's wrong with
Loving one another?
Puss and dog
They get together
What's wrong with you
My brother?
Bob!
Bob, are you all right?
What are you goin' to do?
I need fi take some time
fi find some answers.
Can't stay inna Jamaica
right now.
I need yu fi take the children
and go America.
Stay with mi madda in Delaware
until things cool down.
Without yu, Bob? No.
Yu nuh safe around me, Rita.
Dem try kill yu because of mi.
Can't risk dat again.
What we going
to tell di children?
Mi all right, will see dem soon.
Mi love yu, yu hear?
Yu hear?
Why did you bring him here?
Please, we need help.
Yu him faada, Norval.
I told you that boy
cannot stay here.
But him need
someone fi look after him.
I can't take him to Delaware.
Then leave him
with your family.
He's not my son.
White riot, I wanna riot
White riot, a riot of my own
White riot, I wanna riot
White riot, a riot of my own
Black man
Got a lot of problems
But they don't mind
Throwing a brick
You know, I got shot?
Like six times.
It's my first night out
in a while.
Dem a rebel, yu know.
But dem no sing 'bout Rasta.
Dem rock the English monarchy,
yu know? Yeah, man.
Who you lookin' at, mate?
Oh, here's a brave bwoy.
Huh? What?
Don!
Don, come now!
I'm his manager, yeah.
I'm his number one man.
Everything goes through me.
And everybody's doin'
Just what they're told to
And nobody wants
To go to jail!
Skip, dis here remind me
of Trench Town.
Skip, hold on, man.
Hafi catch my breath.
Nuh yu say yu
can't take di cold up here?
Yu said. Yu hafi
keep moving fi stay warm
in dis English weather,
bwoy, yu know.
Yow. Look pon dis now.
Dem take the conquerin' lion
and a try tame him.
Yeah, man.
Plenty people walk past everyday
and dem see it,
but dem no see di meanin'
of it, yu know?
Skip, what are we doing here?
It's been months.
Skipper! Skip!
What you skivers doin', eh?
Stay there! Stay there.
Mi no have anything.
Dat nuh necessary, yu know.
All di ganja is mine, yu know!
No have nothing.
Him no have nothing, either.
Yu nuh afraid for come here?
Police arrestin' Rasta,
yu know.
I no care.
I and I come here to learn
after Selassie visit Jamaica,
and I see fi myself that
he was the true King of Kings,
the Christ return.
"I and I"?
Rasta know that we are all one.
Words like "you," "me," "they"
and "them" separate people.
Dat's why we say "I and I."
So is a unity thing?
No.
I-nity.
The prophet
Marcus Garvey said,
"Look to Africa
fi di crownin' of a Black king."
Our god is not a white man
with blond hair and blue eyes.
Our god is Black!
Jah!
Rastafari!
Preach, Kumi!
Hail, Rita. Who dis?
This is my husband.
What is your name,
young lion?
My madda name me Nesta, sir.
But sometimes
dem call me Robbie.
Nesta! Di messenger!
A man can't see di message
unless him search.
Chris, mi want to talk
to yu about something.
Mi no want just to think
about di shooting.
It's time fi get
back in di studio.
What do you have in mind?
Something different.
Something big.
Mi hafi keep searching.
Everyone need Jah message.
Mi nuh have no time fi waste.
We need fi reach a new audience.
Mi want to cross everybody
with dis next record.
Tell me, what is this big
sound you're thinking of?
Mi want to experiment
and go in a different headspace
fi dis one.
Mi really need fi add
another sound to di band.
Yu can think of anyone?
Leave it with me.
Just make sure we have
a good engineer
and mi will take care
of di rest.
I'll make some calls.
Music will run like river.
Mm-mm.
- What di problem now, Skip?
- Nuh feel natural.
It sound different to yu?
Wa you mean?
'Cause to mi dat sound like
di same thing
we have played
for di last four hours.
Yu know what I mean?
Is different
but it feelin' like
di same thing.
Carly, yu know di meanin'
of dis song?
Yeah, man.
"There's a natural mystic
blowin' through di air."
"There is a natural mystic
blowin' through di air."
Right?
"If yu listen carefully now..."
"If yu listen carefully now,
you will hear.
Dis could be di first trumpet...
...but it might as well
be di last.
Many more
will have to suffer.
Many more will have to die.
Don't ask me why."
It's a revelation now!
Because di time is now.
We don't want our children
come suffer
inna di streets again
like how we suffered.
- Never. True, never.
- Nah, man!
And music can lead di way.
And you drinkin' Red Stripe.
Yu giddyheaded.
Yu nuh listenin' to
what I-man have to say.
Nah, man,
I hear what yu say, man.
I hear what yu say.
Di message is di feelin' inna
di song dat we hafi create.
Yeah, it's a natural mystic,
like a--
like a creepin' sensation.
Yes, man. It hafi creep
up on yu like a fog.
"Like a fog."
All right, come, Tyrone.
Try a ting for me now.
No, man! Is Carly a di drums.
What yu mean?
Yu want mi play a little harder?
Gimme a one-drop, man.
All right.
Slower.
Stop di music.
We here fi work, right?
Go again.
Mi feel like mi can't find
the right sound fi dis record,
yu know.
Something still missing.
So yu writing plenty?
Oh, no, dis a trial
and a tribulation, yu know.
Di pickney dem good?
Dem good.
Yu hear di news from back home?
I hear dem burn down
di orphanage
while di baby dem sleeping,
den shoot up di water truck
that come fi put out di fire.
Police still
digging out di bodies.
Mi no want to think about that.
What do you say?
Can come a England?
Why yu ask me dat, Bob?
Mi can't make this album
without yu, yu know.
Mmm.
Mi need dat nice flavor,
yu know.
Yeah, yeah.
See if Judy and Marcia
will forward, too.
Yu no have other company, still?
Rita, please.
Mi need yu beside mi.
Dis album important.
Mi want to make a record dat
can shake up di place, yu know?
Who dat bredda?
I don't know, yu know.
Him have a vibe still.
Junior's been recording
with Stevie Wonder.
Big shot, dat.
Skippa, what make yu feel
like di people'll like this?
Dem don't hafi like it.
Dem just hafi hear it,
and when dem hear it,
dem'll like it.
Mm.
All right.
I agree, Bob. I think this
could be very special.
Where yu born, Junior?
Jamaican-born, British-raised.
Jazz, soul and rock and roll,
Junior Marvin's in control.
Rasta is in control.
A lyrics man.
English bwoy are different,
yu know, man.
"No chains around my feet,
but I'm not free.
I know I am bound here
in captivity."
It's one of my favorite lyrics
from "Catch a Fire."
It's really good.
Good.
What kinda hairstyle dat?
Mi other look, Skipper.
Di man curl up, curl up.
Mi just a joke with yu,
brethren.
What yu know about Rasta?
Yeah, tell him now, Skip.
Yu know yu Bible?
I know Matthew, Mark,
Luke and John.
But music is my passion, Bob.
For we, di music and di message
are di same thing.
Can't separate.
No, man. It's I and I right
to live in unity.
Yes, man.
Dis reggae music is di vehicle.
And dis album going to transmit
di message to everybody
pon di face of dis earth today,
because dem must unite.
Yes I.
Must hafi unite. Yu dig?
Yeah, man. I and I dig.
Jah Rastafari.
Yes, I.
Sound great, dere be another.
Hey, man,
make we try dis again.
But dis time make it
a little less giddyheaded.
Little less psychedelic.
Yeah, man, make him play.
Him can play.
Yeah, man. Come in, Mister Perm!
There's a natural mystic
Blowin' through the air
If you listen carefully now
You will hear
Another wave
of political violence
rocked the tiny island
last week,
when five members
of the Jamaica Labour Party
were killed by rival PNP gunmen
in a bloody late-night ambush.
Many more
Will have to suffer
Many more will have to die
Don't ask me why
Last week's murders marked
a grim escalation
in the already
deeply divided nation.
Jamaican Prime Minister
Michael Manley
has denied any responsibility
for the violence leading
up to last year's election
and instead blames
opposition leader Edward Seaga
for fueling the flames
that led to the murders.
The perpetrators are now held
in detention camps
known as Gun Courts.
Among those taken into custody
are Claudie Massop
and Bucky Marshall,
rival gang leaders suspected
of fomenting the violence.
Such a natural mystic
Blowing through the air
There's a natural mystic
Blowing through the air
Such a natural mystic
Blowing through the air
Woe to the downpressor
They'll eat
The bread of sorrow
Woe to the downpressor
Wa-- Rita.
You frighten mi, man. Wow.
You catch mi.
You dere a long time?
Uh-uh. Not too long.
It sound good. Sound good.
Thank you.
The melody could use
a little work.
Well, yu know, mi figure it out
little by little.
How di children?
Dem good. Mm...
Ready to see you.
Ziggy?
Him good.
"Woe to the downpressors.
They eat the bread of sorrow."
Hmm.
Di whole album
a go be like dis?
Wa yu mean?
It sound like you vex.
Don't say mi vex.
Mm.
Hear dis one and tell me
what yu think.
All right.
Turn your lights
Down low now
Turn your lights
Down low yow
Turn your lights down low
And then pull
Your window curtains
Oh, let Jah moon
Come shining in
Into our life again
Singin'
Ooh
It's been a long, long time
And I wanna get through...
But it seem
I was never on time
Somethin' like that.
But I wanna get through...
And the chorus go...
I want to give you some love
I wanna give you
Some good, good lovin'
Oh I, oh I, oh I
I wanna give you
Some good, good lovin'
How yu feel about dat?
I always like your love songs.
Don't let what dem did to us
take away
dat side of yu, Bob.
Yu hear mi?
Hey, Aston!
Yow!
Which track yu play down dere?
Yu know, someone album
mi pick up di other day.
It's a movie soundtrack.
Which movie dat?
Exodus.
Hmm?
Exodus.
Hmm.
Like the Bible?
Yeah, mi like dat
fi di album name.
You have a song with dat name?
I mean...
Yu hear dat?
- Yu hear di sound?
- Beautiful, man.
Vibes, yu know.
All over.
Yes, Gong.
Mi have a little idea
mi wanna try out.
Now?
Yeah.
Yes I.
Can we hear it now?
This one hafi big like
how di movie soundtrack feel.
Epic sound, man.
Yes, I. Yes, I. Yes, I.
Yu make a movie?
Yeah, man. One day, Seeco.
One day.
Exodus!
Junior Marvin, where you at?
Exodus!
Mm!
Movement of Jah people
- Seeco, yu there?
- Yes I.
Play somethin' now, Neville.
Pick somethin' up.
- Yes, Skipper.
- Yes, Skipper.
Exodus!
Movement of Jah people
Men and people
Will fight you down
When you see Jah light
Tell dem, Skipper!
Let me tell you
If you're not wrong
Well, everything
Is all right
Walk. Yeah, man, like marching,
yu know.
March through di roads
Of creation
Trod through
Great tribulation
In this Exodus!
Yeah, Skipper!
Yeah, Skipper!
Movement of Jah people
We're leavin'
Rastafari!
We're goin'
To our father's land
Yes!
Exo--
Right?
Movement of Jah people
Yu go.
Movement
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Right.
Movement--
Sorry.
Move!
Gong, di band tell mi
you would be here.
Bumbaclaat.
We need fi talk.
The two of yu together now?
Di whole island in a crisis.
Dey had mi and Claudie
lock up inna Gun Court.
So we decide we must make peace.
A ceasefire.
But di peace nah go hold
fi long.
So why yu come to mi fa?
The violence hafi stop.
We want yu to come play
a unity show fi di people.
Yu di only man what can do dis.
Yu inspired us to make peace.
We come fi guarantee yu safety.
Trust mi.
It different dis time.
Nah, man.
Jamaica need yu
fi come home now, Rasta!
Nobody dare touch yu dis time!
Di people dem need you, Bob!
Rise and shine.
Ooh, yeah
Well, all right!
We're jammin'
I wanna jam it with you
We're jammin', jammin'
And I hope
You like jammin' too
Ain't no rules, ain't no vow
We can do it anyhow
I and I will see you through
'Cause every day
We pay the price
We're the livin' sacrifice
We're jammin'
Till the jam is through
We're jammin'
To think that jammin'
Was a thing of the past
We're jammin'
And I hope this jam
Is gonna last
No bullet can stop us now
We neither beg
Nor we won't bow
Neither can be
Bought nor sold
We all defend the right
Jah-Jah children must unite
Your life is worth
Much more than gold
Raasclaat! Yu no see di goal?
Mi score! Yu got to pay mi, man!
I see it, Skip. I see it.
Tuffer than tuff.
We're jammin'
We're jammin'
Right straight from yard
Yes, Chris, I roll yu a spliff.
Holy Mount Zion
Just 'cause it's from you, Fam.
Here's the new reverb.
Holy Mount Zion
Jah seated in Mount Zion
And rules all creation
Yeah, we're-- we're jammin'
I got to introduce my friends.
Seeing as you guys
don't see the light of day,
I thought I'd bring
the light to you.
Skipper!
Skip.
Skip.
Like this, album cover.
What yu think?
We're jammin', we're jammin'
We're jammin', we're jammin'
Nah.
No?
Somethin' else.
I hope you like jammin' too
Somethin' else?
Jammin', we're jammin'
Jammin'
Jammin', we're jammin'
Jammin', jammin'
I wanna jam with you now
I wanna jam with you now
We're jammin'
We're jammin'
Hope you like jammin' too
I hope you like jammin' too
Jammin', jammin', jammin'
I wanna jam it
Wanna jam it
Ooh, ooh
Yeah, man. That's nice.
Yu nuh like it.
No, I, uh-- I do.
It's, uh-- It's striking.
I'm a little concerned you can't
read the name of the band.
And there's no photo of Bob.
So...
Mi not inna dis thing
fi my ego, brethren.
Mi in it because, yu know--
Mi in it because of a cause.
Um...
I'm sorry, say again?
What do you, um...
What do you think about it, Bob?
- Mi love it.
- Rastafari.
It's beautiful, man. Beautiful.
Give thanks. Give thanks.
Bob, I commend your humility,
but we need to sell records.
Album cover sell record?
I mean, Neville, tell 'em
what yu wanna tell 'em.
Finish yu thing
about your artwork.
The first cover
was a bit busy, seen?
Dis one more simple.
"Exodus."
The title is derived from
the Ethiopian Amharic script.
Appearing less,
but meaning more.
Right.
Know what I mean?
But it looks like
a Cecil B. DeMille poster.
I mean,
this isn't Sunday school.
We...
I've read the Bible.
Christ, I had to
memorize half of it
and I can tell you
one thing for sure:
Young people do not like it.
You know?
Thanks, Howard.
Let's move on, shall we? Um...
Let's talk about
the European tour dates.
What yu tell dem
about the Africa tour date dem?
Africa?
Yeah, Africa.
It's in di Bible, too,
yu know.
Or dat is the half
you never memorize?
I leave
for Africa next month,
to talk to the promoters,
see what they need,
what they want,
check out the venues.
Good?
Mi good enough, Skip.
Yu all all right?
Good. Yes I.
Yes, man.
Howard. Chris.
I'll call you later.
Bob.
Africa?
Yeah, man. Don tell mi you
and him talk about it already.
No, no. We did. We did.
Uh, it's just--
Just what?
Yeah, man. Want Africa
after di European
tour date dem, yu know?
We have ten shows
already lined up
in the States for after Europe.
It's an important audience.
You'll reach millions
of Black Americans there.
Look, I've been to Africa.
There's no infrastructure there.
So we build it.
Yu know?
We can build it.
We can build it.
Right?
Yes, man.
All right. I hope you're right.
You'd be surprised
what we can build from nothing.
- You bwoys ready?
- Yes.
No need fi nervous.
That yu get, yu fucker!
Don't ever come back talkin'
about no royalty payment.
Dis my label!
Mi own it!
Raasclaat.
Coxsone.
Have some trouble, too, bwoy?
Don't tell mi yu come here
fi money, too.
No, no, Coxsone!
No, man, dis di band
mi done tell you 'bout.
Dem name di Wailing Wailers.
Wailing Wailers? Wa dat?
Yeah.
'Cause we come out
our madda belly crying
and we don't stop yet.
Mi no like crying.
Hold on!
Mi like singing.
Relax now, man.
Calm down. It's cool.
Shake yu up, eh, boy?
Just a joke, man.
Nothing fi worry about,
if yu any good.
Look, just relax, huh?
Just because you think
That you're so smart
Goin' around
Breakin' lovers' hearts
Ghetto music is drum and bass.
Nuh feel this,
yu know, Scratch.
Dis nuh carry no weight.
Dis nuh move earth, yu know.
Dey nuh have soul.
I get a drink.
You not ready yet.
Got some talent, but yu need
fi practice some more.
Maybe come back in a few years.
Joe! Yu need fi teach
dem bwoys right.
Not just some rip-off soul tunes
from di States.
Wait! We have songs like dat,
with message!
Yeah, man.
We save di best for last!
"Simmer Down."
Simmer down
You're licking too hot, so
Simmer down
Soon you'll get dropped, so
Simmer down
Can you hear what I say?
Simmer down
Why won't you
Why won't you simmer down?
Long time people
Dem used to say
What sweet nanny goat
A go run him belly, so
Simmer down
Oh, control your temper
Simmer down
Oh, the battle
Will be hotter
Simmer down
Can you hear what I say?
Simmer down
Oh, that I'm
Leaving you today
Simmer down
Cut.
So what yu say?
Dat's a hit!
How would you boys
like to record?
Why has reggae
become so popular?
Reggae is a people music.
It appeal to di natural self
of everyone.
Reggae music is di consciousness
of di people comin' together.
You okay?
Yeah, man.
I'm so sorry.
Yeah, man.
It wasn't on purpose.
We're good.
What happened?
It was accidental.
I tried to get the ball--
It's fine.
Old injury, it's nuttin.
You're good?
Yeah, man.
Mi good, mi good.
Yow, Gillie!
A man never forget him
first time, eh?
Set list.
- I ain't get a set list.
- No set list, man.
It's like jazz.
All right. Like jazz, yeah.
Where yu wanna start, Skip?
From the beginning.
- Beginning.
- Hmm.
All right.
Mm-hmm.
Exodus!
Movement of Jah people
Men and people
Will fight you down
When you see Jah light
Let me tell you
If you're not wrong
Well, everything
Is all right
So we gonna walk
Come on!
Through the roads
Of creation
We the generation
Trod through
Great tribulation
In this Exodus!
Good God Almighty!
Movement of Jah people
Is it true you smoke
a pound of weed every day?
A pound?
Bob, how are you
handling this sudden fame?
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Jah!
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Pure gold album.
Exodus!
We did it!
Believe now?
Don.
Skip.
Yes.
What happened?
Weren't you supposed to
meet mi last week?
I got held up in Gabon.
Yu sure yu didn't get held up
in a Gucci store?
Well, my name
is Don "Tailor," after all.
How would it look
if I didn't dress to impress?
Letters been coming nonstop
from back home for you.
Thanks, but what
di African promoter say?
Dem ready?
Yeah. They want you
and Jimmy Cliff
to play a few shows together.
They already put down
a good deposit,
but I think I can get some more
on the back end for you.
As long as we can pay di band,
mi nuh fussy
'bout di money fi mi.
Just make sure di hotel set and
dem have a good sound system.
Yes, Skipper. I'm on it.
All right.
How Bob look so?
Him not feeling well?
More like too much gallivantin'.
Yu all right?
Yeah.
All right.
Yeah.
What?
Let me see.
We need to make a doctor
look on it, Bob.
Yu hafi come
off of di foot little bit.
I'll talk to Chris.
Yeah, mi look 'bout it
when di tour done.
Claudie and Bucky fly out.
Ask mi to come back,
do a show in Jamaica.
What kind of show?
Same kind di man
almost kill us for.
Police treat Rasta
worse than dog.
Gunmen run di place.
Dem claim dat dem done
wid politics.
Yu nuh see how much bullet
dem fire after we?
When all dis over,
we're goin' to Africa.
Buy some land there.
Yu know? Settle down.
Don book di show dem already?
Yeah, him say
him get di advance.
Him tell yu
how much money him get?
Uh-uh.
See you in a moment.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Bob Marley & The Wailers!
Bob, let me introduce you
to the Duchess of Monaco
and her sister.
Nice to meet you.
And Franoise from Chanel.
Hi. How yu doin'.
Jean, who curates
the Rhne Gallery.
Hi. Nice.
Oh, and of course--
I apologize--
this is, uh, Rita Marley.
Greetings. Rastafari.
I'll leave you here
for one second. Bob, uh,
I'd love to introduce you
to Marcel.
He's an important man
to know in Paris.
Marcel, this is Bob Marley.
Hey, Bob Marley,
it is a pleasure to meet you.
You're the Third-World
superstar.
Nah, I nuh superstar.
I Rasta.
He can be both. He's both.
Rastafari.
Look pon him suit.
No, thank you.
Mi no know
where dem come from.
Who is that Don whispering to?
Is the African promoter.
You know, Don skimming the fees.
Little thief.
Take care.
You have a good night.
Excuse me.
Mm.
To The Wailers, yeah?
To The Wailers
not getting arrested in America.
See you later.
All right.
Kind of a strange fellow, right?
A who dat?
Some producer.
Him want to record di I Threes.
Really.
What yu laugh about?
Mi a go get some fresh air.
All right.
Where you goin'?
Where you goin'?
Oh, God.
Huh?
Move. Move, man!
Huh?
Why yu actin' like
a jealous teenage boy so?
Oh, yu think,
mi would change?
Some things don't change,
but some things
definitely change.
We never used to do all of dis.
Di winin' and dinin',
parties, clubs.
I mingle with all type of people
from who knows where,
doin' who knows what.
And how you think the music
a go spread?
Mi sitting in a corner like
mi betta than everybody else?
Now I know why
Peter and Bunny didn't stay.
Peter and Bunny left
'cause dem never wanna
do di work that mi hafi do.
Mm-mm.
What dem want mi do?
Just suffer and suffer
and mi children dem suffer?
We are suffering!
Nah, man!
Di children dem suffer
and yu don't even know, Bob!
You suffer?
How you suffer?
I have to be a wife
and a soldier.
How much longer I can do that?
A wife?
You think mi nuh know
what goin' on?
What you know, Bob?
Hmm?
Di guy you have
down in Jamaica.
Eh?
Where yu a go?
Where you a go? Where you a go?
Yu think yu can do what you want
and mi get nothin' in return?
You get nothin'?
You get nothin'?
I need more
than a house and a car.
More than money!
You come and go
while I make a home
fi yu children,
including di ones dem
from yu other women!
On top of all of that,
I sing in di band and--
Yu nuh like it?
Yu nuh like it?
Yu nuh see where we are?
Paris!
Yu think I care about Paris?
Yu didn't think I had
my own opportunities?
Huh?
I had The Soulettes,
I had offers.
And I give dem up
fi di message. For us!
And yu throw it in mi face!
Who really know yu?
Who really care about yu, Bob?
Chris?
Di marketin' genius?
Or Don?
Signing deals in di dark.
Mmm!
Yu swim in pollution,
yu get polluted.
We used to talk about dis
and everything else
when you only had one shirt!
I give yu everything
yu ask me fa.
Everything!
Yu so naive.
I remember
When we used to sit
In the government yard
In Trench Town
Observing the hypocrites
As they would
Mingle with
The good people we meet
Good friends we have
Oh, good friends we've lost
Come.
Along the way
In this great future
You can't forget your past
So dry your tears, I say
Everything is gonna
Be all right
Everything is gonna
Be all right
Everything is gonna
Be all right, Jah
Everything is gonna
Be all right
Everything is gonna
Be all right
Everything is gonna
Be all right
Everything is gonna
Be all right, Jah
Everything is gonna
Be all right
So woman, no cry
Oh, no, no
Don't shed no tears
No, no, woman!
No woman, no cry
Ey, ey
Oh, my little sister
Don't shed no tears
No, no, woman!
No woman, no cry
Little sister
Don't shed no tears
No woman, no cry
Thank you, London.
Yay, Skipper!
Hey, guys, Bob.
Wicked show, Skip.
That was amazing.
That was amazing.
What do you want?
Champagne and wine,
no worries.
Coming right up.
Don!
Don, come.
Don Taylor, come here!
Don!
Bob.
What di one thing
mi tell you from day one?
What di one thing
mi tell you from day one?
Didn't I tell you don't lie
to mi? Don't lie to mi!
I don't know what
you're talking about.
Didn't I tell you that?
Don't lie to mi!
Skip!
Yu don't lie to mi!
Don't lie to mi!
Don't lie to mi!
You'll kill him, Skip.
Dat's cool, dat's cool.
Yu charge di African promoter
extra and yu pocket it?
Is a bloodclaat thief.
What you think,
mi wouldn't find out?
Mi tell you,
Africa is not a money thing!
Everyone say Bob Marley
is a hero!
I took six bullets for you!
This is what I get in return?
No. No. Bob! Bob! Bob.
Don't, stop it! Stop it!
Put it down.
You're lucky.
Lift up, man. Come on.
All right, cool now, man.
Get up, Don. Come on.
Pray to Jah-Jah.
Yu all right?
Bob, you okay?
Yeah, man.
Oh, God.
Nobody create
no excitement, Chris.
Bob, you need to see a doctor.
Two sevens clash.
I'm sorry?
Two sevens clash.
Marcus Garvey say on the day
the two sevens clash,
di ruled will rise up
'gainst di rulers.
Seventh of July 1977.
Huh.
Mr. Marley,
did you understand
what I've said?
Uh-huh.
You said it's cancer.
Acral Lentiginous Melanoma.
It's a skin cancer.
Mi can't get skin cancer
from a man stepping on mi toe.
Well, the injury to your foot
isn't the cause.
But the fact that it won't heal
is the result of the illness.
It's very rare.
Do you know
if it runs in your family?
No. My faada
was a white man.
I never know him, Doc.
But my hand
Was made strong
By di hand of di Almighty
We forward in dis generation
Triumphantly
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
Dem say mi have cancer.
I and I all right, man.
Dem can't raas kill me.
What's the treatment?
Dem say if mi cut off mi toe,
might stop it from spread.
But mi nuh inna dat.
Bob, you have to
listen to the doctors.
This is your health.
And look,
if it heals quick enough,
then we can make
the American tour.
You won't have to
miss any of it.
Leave mi, man. Mi hafi work.
Well, Bob--
Leave mi, man!
Okay.
Looking
for chances to counterattack,
George Best being
their brightest hope there.
But Germany in control.
Food is ready!
Now a tremendous scuffle
down on the right.
Now it's Flohe,
and he's done it!
And the fans celebrate
yet another goal!
Oh.
Sister Rita, greetings.
What's going on?
What yu mean?
Where's Bob?
Mi knock, but him
no come down from mornin'.
From mornin'?
Oh, God. Him can't do nothing.
You talk to mi madda?
Mm-hmm.
Di band know?
Why yu never tell mi, Bob?
Never wanna burden yu, Rita.
All I ever wanted to do
was to help yu
carry di weight.
Dis no different
than any other time.
Mi sorry 'bout what happen
in di club, yu know.
Cho.
Dat all water
under di bridge, Bob.
We have more serious things
to think 'bout now.
What is that?
Some sistren drop it off.
Dem say is a gift
from di Ethiopian Crown Prince.
Nuh really inna
no jewelry thing, yu know?
But...
mi feel dis mean somethin'.
Ooh.
Then why you nuh put it on?
Mm.
Bwoy...
I never know so much struggle
from the day I born.
Everything just happened.
Yu know?
What dem think
mi can bring peace
if mi can't even get
a little peace fi myself?
And yu can't see di reason?
Mm?
All dat struggle.
That's the source
of your power.
Yu nuh see?
The stone
that the builder refuse
become di head cornerstone.
Listen.
Who Jah bless
no man curse, Bob.
Just like Joseph.
Mm. Yu remember his story?
Dem attack him?
And him hand was made strong
by di hands
of di Mighty God of Jacob.
Rastafari!
Rasta.
That is you, Bob:
Joseph.
The Most High always protect
his anointed ones.
You have
plenty life to live...
and nuff work to do.
Haile Selassie is the Chapel
Yu know, sometime...
Power of the Trinity
...di messenger has to
become di message.
Time to go back to Jamaica.
Build your mind
In this direction
Don't be afraid.
Serve the livin' God
And live
Take your troubles
To Selassie
He's the only King of Kings
Conquering Lion of Judah
Triumphantly
We all must sing
Well, I've searched
And I've searched
This great book of Man
And in Revelation
See what I find there
Haile Selassie is the Chapel
And all the world
Should know
That man is the Angel
And our God
The King of Kings
Conquering Lion of Judah
Triumphantly
We all must sing
Mm.
Yeah, man.
Yeah.
Don't worry
About a thing
'Cause every little thing
Is gonna be all right
Singin', don't worry
About a thing
Watch it, watch it!
Daddy, Daddy!
'Cause every little thing
Slow down! Hey!
Gonna be all right
Come here.
Rise up this morning
What are you doing?
I smile with the rising sun
Where you come from?
Three little birds
Sit by my doorstep
Singin' sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true
Sayin', "This is my message
To you-ou-ou"
Singin', "Don't worry
About a thing
'Cause every little thing
Gonna be all right"
Singin', "Don't worry
About a thing
'Cause every little thing
Gonna be all right"
Greetings.
Daddy!
"This is my message
To you-ou-ou"
Mi miss you, too.
Don't worry
Welcome back home, Rasta.
About a thing
Welcome.
'Cause every little thing
Gonna be all right
Singin' "Don't worry
About a thing"
I-man come fi forgiveness.
I no carry no vengeance.
Rastafari
is a seed planted
in di heart.
Only you can redeem yu'self.
Old pirates, yes, they rob I
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I
Daddy.
From the bottomless pit
Who was that man?
Oh, him?
But my hand was made strong
Just a man come see yu faada.
By the hand of the Almighty
We forward
In this generation
Triumphantly
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever have
Redemption songs
Redemption songs
Emancipate yourselves
From mental slavery
None but ourselves
Can free our mind
Whoa, have no fear
For atomic energy
'Cause none of dem
Can stop di time
How long shall they
Kill our prophets
While we stand aside
And look?
Some say
It's just a part of it
We've got to fulfill di book
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever have
Redemption songs
All I ever have
Redemption songs
These songs of freedom
Songs of freedom
When yu write dat?
All my life.
Yeah.
That mean yu ready.
That mean yu ready.
So what's changed, Bob?
What's made you return
to Jamaica
to play a peace concert now?
Don't you fear for your life?
Well, my life
is not important to mi.
If my life is only for mi,
my own security,
den mi no want it.
My life is for people.
Dat's di only consciousness
I have in myself,
dat I can be beneficial
to a people.
You don't have anger?
One time I feel like I shoulda
take up my arms and do a thing.
But Jah say, "No, you, cool."
We can't think 'bout vengeance
and do di work dat must be done.
Do you really think
this world can make it?
Make it?
Yeah.
We must make it. Yu know?
We must make it. Yeah.
It must be made.
There's no other way.
Yu know?
Are you ready?
Are you ready,
National Stadium?
Selah.
Yeah.
Are you ready, Jamaica?
Are you ready
for Bob Marley & The Wailers?
Nesta.
Greetings in the name
of His Imperial Majesty,
Emperor Haile I Selassie I.
Jah!
Rastafari!
One love
One heart
Let's get together
And feel all right
Hear the children crying
One love
Hear the children crying
One heart
Are you a rich man?
Possession make you rich?
I don't have dat type of riches.
My riches is life, forever.
Let's get together
And feel all right
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Let them all pass
All their dirty remarks
One love
There is one question
I'd really love to ask
One heart
Is there a place
For the hopeless sinners
Who has hurt all mankind
Just to save
His own beliefs?
One love
What about one heart?
One heart
Yeah, mi see myself
as a revolutionary.
Let's get together
And feel all right
As it was in the beginning
One love
So shall it be in the end
One heart
Give thanks
And praise to the Lord
And I will feel all right
Let's get together
And feel all right
One more thing
Let's get together
To fight this holy Armageddon
One love
So when the Man come
There will be no, no doom
One song
Have pity on those
Whose chances grow thinner
There ain't no hiding place
From the Father of Creation
Sayin'
One love
What about the one heart?
One heart
Let's get together
And feel all right
One love
One heart
Give thanks
And praise to the Lord
And I will feel all right
Let's get together
And feel all right
Give thanks and praise
To the Lord
And I will feel all right
Yes, let's get together
And feel all right
I want to love you
And treat you right
I want to love you
Every day and every night
We'll be together
With a roof
Right over our heads
We'll share the shelter
Of my single bed
We'll share
The same room, yeah
For Jah provide the bread
Is this love, is this love
Is this love
Is this love
That I'm feeling?
Is this love, is this love
Is this love
Is this love
That I'm feeling?
I want to know, want to know
Want to know now
I've got to know, got to know
Got to know now
I'm willing and able
So I throw my cards
On your table
I want to love you
I want to love and treat
Love and treat you right
I want to love you every day
And every night
We'll be together, yeah
With a roof
Right over our heads
We'll share
The shelter, yeah
Of my single bed
We'll share
The same room, yeah
For Jah provides the bread
Is this love, is this love
Is this love
Is this love
That I'm feeling?
Is this love, is this love
Is this love
Is this love
That I'm feeling?
Oh, yes, I know
Yes, I know, yes, I know now
Oh, yes, I know
Yes, I know, yes, I know now
I'm willing and able
So I throw my cards
On your table
You'll see
I want to love you
I want to love and treat you
Love and treat you right
I want to love you
Every day and every night
We'll be together
With the roof
Right over our heads
We'll share the shelter
Of my single bed
We'll share
The same room, yeah
Jah provides the bread
We'll share the shelter
Of my single bed
We'll share the same room
I want to love you
Love and treat you
Love and treat you right
Hear the words
Of the Rastaman say
Babylon, your throne
Gone down, gone down
Babylon, your throne
Gone down
I hear the words
Of the Iyaman say
Babylon, your throne
Gone down, gone down
Babylon, your throne
Gone down
And I hear the angel
With the seven seals saying
Babylon throne
Gone down, gone down
Babylon throne
Gone down
I say fly away home to Zion
Fly away home
I say fly away home to Zion
Fly away home
One bright morning
When my work is over
Man will fly away home
Take care
on di road, Nesta.
Is it true
your family has been threatened?
Jamaica is
on the brink of civil war.
They say
Edward Seaga is affiliated
with the CIA.
Do you think this will
impact the election?
Jamaica's been
in turmoil for 14 years.
Why get involved
in politics now?
Mr. Marley, please,
tell us whose side are you on?
All right, settle down,
settle down.
Smile Jamaica
is a non-political event.
A free concert that Bob Marley
has planned
for all di people dem.
My goal is to unify di people
through the message
of His Imperial Majesty,
Emperor Haile Selassie I,
King of Kings, Lord of Lords,
Earth's rightful ruler.
Rastafari.
Do you really believe music
can end the violence
when the government
has been unable?
Well, every government
pon di face of dis earth
is illegal, man.
Not one of dem is legal.
That's why mi don't deal
wid no politics.
And, yeah, reggae music
come to feed a revolution
that no guns can stop.
You're not concerned you'll
be seen as choosing sides
when you have gang leaders
like Bucky Marshall
and Claudie Massop fomenting
violence on the streets
and both political parties
are involved?
Mi tell di people mi a go play,
so mi a go play.
Thank you for your questions.
Get up, stand up
Stand up for your right
Get up, stand up
Stand up for your right
Get up, stand up
Stand up for your right
Get up, stand up
Jah! Jah!
Don't give up the fight
Preacher man don't tell me
Heaven is under the earth
I know you don't know
What life is really worth
It's not all that glitters
Is gold
Mi have 20 pon skins!
So now you see the light
Stand up for your right
Come on
Get up, stand up
Stand up for your right
Get up, stand up
Don't give up the fight
Stephen! Ziggy!
You all right?
Yes, Daddy.
- Come. Let's go.
- Everybody all right?
...approach of
next week's election...
Yu see me score
the winning goal?
Yu think yu better than Pel?
Pel?
Pel soft compared to me, man.
Yu think dem call mi
Tuff Gong fi joke?
Daddy, why di man dem
shoot up di place?
Don't worry 'bout dat.
Don't worry about dat
Don't worry
'Bout a thing
'Cause every little thing
Gonna be all right
All right, next.
Show me your papers.
Come through. Come through.
Move along!
Halt! Halt! Halt! Halt!
Weh yu going, sir?
Bull Bay, Officer.
- Come out here!
- Yow, yow!
Yu nuh see a who dat?
Let him through.
Dirty dread.
See dat?
One time when police
dem see Rasta,
shoot first, ask question later.
That's what dem used to say.
Play I some music
Dis a reggae music
Play I some music
Two six is 12.
Two seven is 14.
Daddy!
Daddy!
- Yu stayin' for dinner?
- Oh, sorry, next time.
- Mi have to work.
- Again?
Mommy, some man was shootin'
at di football game today.
And den di police just come
and just block up di road.
Go on and play.
Ziggy.
Rita, yu all right?
I don't know why yu have the
boys in dem kinda environment.
Suppose somethin'
did happen to dem.
Nuttin no happen to dem.
Dem will learn.
I startin' to wonder if you
need to take it serious, Bob.
I don't think is a coincidence
that you doin' this concert
and all of a sudden,
Manley feel is time to vote.
Mi no control
dem politics, Rita.
Please.
Think about cancelin' the show.
Mm?
For everybody's safety.
- Greetings.
- Gong!
Too much comings and goings,
too much people in a yard!
We need fi clear
some of dem out.
What's cooking tonight, Gillie?
Fish tea I mek for rehearsal.
Nice.
Give dem some stamina.
Yeah, man.
What you say, Gong?
Wa dat?
Mek di people dem stay, yu know.
Bob, mi a beg you some help.
Mi want open a little shop
fi make a little money.
Please, if you can do somethin'.
Where Don?
Don, set up di sistren yah.
Make sure she get what she need.
- Bob! Bob, another interview!
- Hold on, Jeff.
Where dem running to?
They're scared.
They've seen enough.
Scared of what?
Everything here
is politicized, Bob.
I really don't think you should
go through with this concert.
Chris, listen.
There's no way we back down.
That's Bob's decision though,
isn't it?
Thank you, Don.
Let me go help this woman.
Yeah, man.
Be right back.
All right.
You know I was called into the
American ambassador's office.
Oh, yeah? And what dem say?
Apparently I have been
associating with someone
who could destabilize
the country.
Who, me?
Bob, listen to me.
This is bigger than Jamaica.
I've chartered a jet.
Chris, we good.
Jah protect I and I,
yu know.
Jah has a lot of people
to protect.
You gonna lively up yourself
And don't be no drag
Yeah, lively up yourself
Oh, reggae is another bag
Wow!
Yeah, lively up yourself
And don't say no
You gonna lively up yourself
'Cause I said so
Hey, sista Rita.
Greetings.
I shot the sheriff
But I didn't shoot no deputy
Oh, no, oh
I shot the sheriff
But I didn't shoot no deputy
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Yeah!
All around in my hometown
They tryin' to track me down
Yeah
They say they want to
Bring me in guilty
For the killing of a deputy
For the life of a deputy
But I say...
Oh, now, now
I shot the sheriff
I shot the sheriff
But I swear
It was in self-defense
Oh, no
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Yeah, I said
I shot the sheriff
Oh, Lord!
And they say
It is a capital offense
Ooh, ooh, ooh
Hold it right yah so.
That feel good!
Yeah, man, feel good.
Nice.
Skip, di show name
Smile Jamaica.
Why we don't start with dat one?
It have a more irie vibe.
Hold on.
What happen to other song,
like, uh, "Stir It Up,"
yu know?
"Stir It Up"?
Yeah, man.
It's the girls
you want play for.
True.
I nuh lie.
Hey, loverbwoy.
Jah soon tell me the right song
fi sing, man. Yu know?
True.
Fams, go work di horn section.
Yes I.
I have another rehearsal.
You need me right now?
Mi always need yu.
Come on. Not all di time now.
You busy, huh?
Yes.
If yu hafi do your thing...
See you tomorrow.
Take five.
Jamaica's been in a state
of emergency since June.
And whilst politicians
have argued,
gunmen have been
shooting it out in the streets.
The whole communist
charge is really an attempt
to sort of upset
and confuse people.
It's worse than just dishonest.
It is really quite vicious.
Manley describes himself
as a Democratic Socialist
and perceives...
Skip. Sounding good.
Wa dat?
Must be dem youths
with di firecrackers.
Don, yu on top o' everyting?
I think everything
is in line for the concert.
All right, listen.
Orange woulda work betta.
Yow, Don! You can do dis?
Yow, take cover!
Look at dem. Dey down, man.
Skipper!
Gillie, come here!
Git 'em. Lift him up.
Don cough up!
Stay alive, Don.
Call an ambulance, please!
I'll call an ambulance.
Wake up, wake up.
Call an ambulance, please!
Rita.
...periods of domination,
all Third World countries
begin with a first commitment
to the preservation of their
own national sovereignty.
Her dreadlocks
stopped the bullet
an inch away from her brain.
She'll make a full recovery.
She's a very lucky woman.
Rastafari.
Yeah, little darlin'
What's the meanin' of this?
Dis a joke to you?
Yu makin' fun,
sendin' mi love notes?
Yu sleep in here?
Yeah.
For how long?
Since mi madda moved
to Delaware.
She want mi come work
in America,
but I can't leave di music.
She give mi dat
before she leave.
My madda said I look like him.
My madda leave me, too.
Take my bredda instead.
Guess we're both on our own.
Why yu so hard in rehearsal?
Actin' like
yu can't stand me.
I think yu no like
brown-skin man.
When I was in school,
the other children
call me "blackie tootus."
Dem call me "yellow bwoy."
Don't let that trouble you.
What I like is a man
with ambition
who want him life
to have meanin'.
Skipper.
Don is being airlifted to Miami.
We must pray for him.
Yow, Skipper,
everybody knows yu are dere.
We need fi get up
on higher ground.
Can't leave her right now.
Well, yu can't stay here,
Skipper.
If the gunmen
dem come look fi yu,
yu gonna put her in danger.
Him right, Skip.
We hafi move now.
All right, give mi a minute.
Yes I.
We don't need
No, we don't need
No more trouble
No more trouble
We don't need
No more trouble
Whoa, whoa
We don't need
We don't need
No more trouble
Raasclaat, Skipper.
Di gunmen dem, yu know.
Dat's cool, man.
A Claudie.
You sure I can trust Claudie?
Yu must know
I had nuttin to do with dis.
Di order never come from mi.
Come.
Play di show?
You crazy? Skippa need
fi get di hell outta here.
What you going to tell
di organizers?
Nesta, di shootin' is a sign.
You have pure intention,
but Rasta shoulda never
get mix up in a Babylon system.
It nuh go work!
What about
the thousands of people
who will be waiting for you?
You have a machine gun
fi him fi take pon stage?
His guitar is his machine gun.
Who di bloodclaat dis white boy?
Claudie.
Him all right, man.
Jeff, yu have somethin' to say?
Look, I know it's easy for me,
but if you don't play the show,
then they win.
They get what they want.
How you want to
handle it, Bob?
Hail, young lion.
'Tis natural to be frighten.
Dis is perilous time.
Di two seven clash.
A year of reckonin' coming.
Mi see it in a vision, yu know.
Di shootin'.
Rasta.
Mi never listen.
I'm a never believe
seh my own people
dem would try a kill mi.
Is Jah make dat happen?
Dat's not di right question.
Den a what?
Not why dem try kill you,
but why dem could not succeed.
Rastafari know
dere is a purpose
and a reason fi everyting.
So wa you a go do
with dis chance Jah give you?
Bless dis Holy Herb
as I and I begin dis Nyabinghi
with di sound of creation!
Blessed is the man dat walketh
not in di counsel of di ungodly
nor sitteth in the seat
of di scornful.
His delight is in di law of Jah!
Rastafari!
Mi say leave o leave
I neva really
know my faada,
but him is not from Africa.
Robbie,
when your family reject you,
Rastafari accept you.
Rastafari is I shepherd
I shall not want
I and I shall not want!
For he has maketh I
To lieth
Green pasture
After the cowardly attack,
this show was to be a tribute
to Bob Marley.
Bucky, what happen?
Sorry, Bob. I should have
been dere dat night.
Jah know,
mi upset with what go on.
All right.
Bob, listen, they are ready.
You gotta get out there, man.
We're good.
Yu all right?
Yeah. Mi all right.
Skipper, we can't find Fams,
so Richie from Third World
a do di show.
Bob.
Rita? Praise Jah.
What yu a do?
I checked myself
outta the hospital.
You somethin' else.
"War"!
Yeah!
Until the philosophy
Which holds one race superior
And another
Inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned
Well, everywhere is war
It's Jah war
And until there's no longer
First-class or
Second-class citizens
Of any nation
Until the color
Of a man's skin
Is of no more significance
Than the color of his eyes
I've got to say war, yeah
And until the basic
Human rights
Are equally
Guaranteed to all
Without regard to race
This Jah war
'Cause until that day
The dream of lasting peace
World citizenship
And the rule
Of international
Morality, yeah
Will remain
But a fleeting illusion
To be pursued
But never attained
Yes, everywhere is war
War
Everywhere
Everywhere, everywhere
War in the east
War in the west
War up north
War down south
War!
War!
War!
War!
War!
And verily, verily
I'm saying unto thee
Unite yourself
And love I-manity
'Cause puss and dog
They get together
What's wrong with
Loving one another?
Puss and dog
They get together
What's wrong with you
My brother?
Bob!
Bob, are you all right?
What are you goin' to do?
I need fi take some time
fi find some answers.
Can't stay inna Jamaica
right now.
I need yu fi take the children
and go America.
Stay with mi madda in Delaware
until things cool down.
Without yu, Bob? No.
Yu nuh safe around me, Rita.
Dem try kill yu because of mi.
Can't risk dat again.
What we going
to tell di children?
Mi all right, will see dem soon.
Mi love yu, yu hear?
Yu hear?
Why did you bring him here?
Please, we need help.
Yu him faada, Norval.
I told you that boy
cannot stay here.
But him need
someone fi look after him.
I can't take him to Delaware.
Then leave him
with your family.
He's not my son.
White riot, I wanna riot
White riot, a riot of my own
White riot, I wanna riot
White riot, a riot of my own
Black man
Got a lot of problems
But they don't mind
Throwing a brick
You know, I got shot?
Like six times.
It's my first night out
in a while.
Dem a rebel, yu know.
But dem no sing 'bout Rasta.
Dem rock the English monarchy,
yu know? Yeah, man.
Who you lookin' at, mate?
Oh, here's a brave bwoy.
Huh? What?
Don!
Don, come now!
I'm his manager, yeah.
I'm his number one man.
Everything goes through me.
And everybody's doin'
Just what they're told to
And nobody wants
To go to jail!
Skip, dis here remind me
of Trench Town.
Skip, hold on, man.
Hafi catch my breath.
Nuh yu say yu
can't take di cold up here?
Yu said. Yu hafi
keep moving fi stay warm
in dis English weather,
bwoy, yu know.
Yow. Look pon dis now.
Dem take the conquerin' lion
and a try tame him.
Yeah, man.
Plenty people walk past everyday
and dem see it,
but dem no see di meanin'
of it, yu know?
Skip, what are we doing here?
It's been months.
Skipper! Skip!
What you skivers doin', eh?
Stay there! Stay there.
Mi no have anything.
Dat nuh necessary, yu know.
All di ganja is mine, yu know!
No have nothing.
Him no have nothing, either.
Yu nuh afraid for come here?
Police arrestin' Rasta,
yu know.
I no care.
I and I come here to learn
after Selassie visit Jamaica,
and I see fi myself that
he was the true King of Kings,
the Christ return.
"I and I"?
Rasta know that we are all one.
Words like "you," "me," "they"
and "them" separate people.
Dat's why we say "I and I."
So is a unity thing?
No.
I-nity.
The prophet
Marcus Garvey said,
"Look to Africa
fi di crownin' of a Black king."
Our god is not a white man
with blond hair and blue eyes.
Our god is Black!
Jah!
Rastafari!
Preach, Kumi!
Hail, Rita. Who dis?
This is my husband.
What is your name,
young lion?
My madda name me Nesta, sir.
But sometimes
dem call me Robbie.
Nesta! Di messenger!
A man can't see di message
unless him search.
Chris, mi want to talk
to yu about something.
Mi no want just to think
about di shooting.
It's time fi get
back in di studio.
What do you have in mind?
Something different.
Something big.
Mi hafi keep searching.
Everyone need Jah message.
Mi nuh have no time fi waste.
We need fi reach a new audience.
Mi want to cross everybody
with dis next record.
Tell me, what is this big
sound you're thinking of?
Mi want to experiment
and go in a different headspace
fi dis one.
Mi really need fi add
another sound to di band.
Yu can think of anyone?
Leave it with me.
Just make sure we have
a good engineer
and mi will take care
of di rest.
I'll make some calls.
Music will run like river.
Mm-mm.
- What di problem now, Skip?
- Nuh feel natural.
It sound different to yu?
Wa you mean?
'Cause to mi dat sound like
di same thing
we have played
for di last four hours.
Yu know what I mean?
Is different
but it feelin' like
di same thing.
Carly, yu know di meanin'
of dis song?
Yeah, man.
"There's a natural mystic
blowin' through di air."
"There is a natural mystic
blowin' through di air."
Right?
"If yu listen carefully now..."
"If yu listen carefully now,
you will hear.
Dis could be di first trumpet...
...but it might as well
be di last.
Many more
will have to suffer.
Many more will have to die.
Don't ask me why."
It's a revelation now!
Because di time is now.
We don't want our children
come suffer
inna di streets again
like how we suffered.
- Never. True, never.
- Nah, man!
And music can lead di way.
And you drinkin' Red Stripe.
Yu giddyheaded.
Yu nuh listenin' to
what I-man have to say.
Nah, man,
I hear what yu say, man.
I hear what yu say.
Di message is di feelin' inna
di song dat we hafi create.
Yeah, it's a natural mystic,
like a--
like a creepin' sensation.
Yes, man. It hafi creep
up on yu like a fog.
"Like a fog."
All right, come, Tyrone.
Try a ting for me now.
No, man! Is Carly a di drums.
What yu mean?
Yu want mi play a little harder?
Gimme a one-drop, man.
All right.
Slower.
Stop di music.
We here fi work, right?
Go again.
Mi feel like mi can't find
the right sound fi dis record,
yu know.
Something still missing.
So yu writing plenty?
Oh, no, dis a trial
and a tribulation, yu know.
Di pickney dem good?
Dem good.
Yu hear di news from back home?
I hear dem burn down
di orphanage
while di baby dem sleeping,
den shoot up di water truck
that come fi put out di fire.
Police still
digging out di bodies.
Mi no want to think about that.
What do you say?
Can come a England?
Why yu ask me dat, Bob?
Mi can't make this album
without yu, yu know.
Mmm.
Mi need dat nice flavor,
yu know.
Yeah, yeah.
See if Judy and Marcia
will forward, too.
Yu no have other company, still?
Rita, please.
Mi need yu beside mi.
Dis album important.
Mi want to make a record dat
can shake up di place, yu know?
Who dat bredda?
I don't know, yu know.
Him have a vibe still.
Junior's been recording
with Stevie Wonder.
Big shot, dat.
Skippa, what make yu feel
like di people'll like this?
Dem don't hafi like it.
Dem just hafi hear it,
and when dem hear it,
dem'll like it.
Mm.
All right.
I agree, Bob. I think this
could be very special.
Where yu born, Junior?
Jamaican-born, British-raised.
Jazz, soul and rock and roll,
Junior Marvin's in control.
Rasta is in control.
A lyrics man.
English bwoy are different,
yu know, man.
"No chains around my feet,
but I'm not free.
I know I am bound here
in captivity."
It's one of my favorite lyrics
from "Catch a Fire."
It's really good.
Good.
What kinda hairstyle dat?
Mi other look, Skipper.
Di man curl up, curl up.
Mi just a joke with yu,
brethren.
What yu know about Rasta?
Yeah, tell him now, Skip.
Yu know yu Bible?
I know Matthew, Mark,
Luke and John.
But music is my passion, Bob.
For we, di music and di message
are di same thing.
Can't separate.
No, man. It's I and I right
to live in unity.
Yes, man.
Dis reggae music is di vehicle.
And dis album going to transmit
di message to everybody
pon di face of dis earth today,
because dem must unite.
Yes I.
Must hafi unite. Yu dig?
Yeah, man. I and I dig.
Jah Rastafari.
Yes, I.
Sound great, dere be another.
Hey, man,
make we try dis again.
But dis time make it
a little less giddyheaded.
Little less psychedelic.
Yeah, man, make him play.
Him can play.
Yeah, man. Come in, Mister Perm!
There's a natural mystic
Blowin' through the air
If you listen carefully now
You will hear
Another wave
of political violence
rocked the tiny island
last week,
when five members
of the Jamaica Labour Party
were killed by rival PNP gunmen
in a bloody late-night ambush.
Many more
Will have to suffer
Many more will have to die
Don't ask me why
Last week's murders marked
a grim escalation
in the already
deeply divided nation.
Jamaican Prime Minister
Michael Manley
has denied any responsibility
for the violence leading
up to last year's election
and instead blames
opposition leader Edward Seaga
for fueling the flames
that led to the murders.
The perpetrators are now held
in detention camps
known as Gun Courts.
Among those taken into custody
are Claudie Massop
and Bucky Marshall,
rival gang leaders suspected
of fomenting the violence.
Such a natural mystic
Blowing through the air
There's a natural mystic
Blowing through the air
Such a natural mystic
Blowing through the air
Woe to the downpressor
They'll eat
The bread of sorrow
Woe to the downpressor
Wa-- Rita.
You frighten mi, man. Wow.
You catch mi.
You dere a long time?
Uh-uh. Not too long.
It sound good. Sound good.
Thank you.
The melody could use
a little work.
Well, yu know, mi figure it out
little by little.
How di children?
Dem good. Mm...
Ready to see you.
Ziggy?
Him good.
"Woe to the downpressors.
They eat the bread of sorrow."
Hmm.
Di whole album
a go be like dis?
Wa yu mean?
It sound like you vex.
Don't say mi vex.
Mm.
Hear dis one and tell me
what yu think.
All right.
Turn your lights
Down low now
Turn your lights
Down low yow
Turn your lights down low
And then pull
Your window curtains
Oh, let Jah moon
Come shining in
Into our life again
Singin'
Ooh
It's been a long, long time
And I wanna get through...
But it seem
I was never on time
Somethin' like that.
But I wanna get through...
And the chorus go...
I want to give you some love
I wanna give you
Some good, good lovin'
Oh I, oh I, oh I
I wanna give you
Some good, good lovin'
How yu feel about dat?
I always like your love songs.
Don't let what dem did to us
take away
dat side of yu, Bob.
Yu hear mi?
Hey, Aston!
Yow!
Which track yu play down dere?
Yu know, someone album
mi pick up di other day.
It's a movie soundtrack.
Which movie dat?
Exodus.
Hmm?
Exodus.
Hmm.
Like the Bible?
Yeah, mi like dat
fi di album name.
You have a song with dat name?
I mean...
Yu hear dat?
- Yu hear di sound?
- Beautiful, man.
Vibes, yu know.
All over.
Yes, Gong.
Mi have a little idea
mi wanna try out.
Now?
Yeah.
Yes I.
Can we hear it now?
This one hafi big like
how di movie soundtrack feel.
Epic sound, man.
Yes, I. Yes, I. Yes, I.
Yu make a movie?
Yeah, man. One day, Seeco.
One day.
Exodus!
Junior Marvin, where you at?
Exodus!
Mm!
Movement of Jah people
- Seeco, yu there?
- Yes I.
Play somethin' now, Neville.
Pick somethin' up.
- Yes, Skipper.
- Yes, Skipper.
Exodus!
Movement of Jah people
Men and people
Will fight you down
When you see Jah light
Tell dem, Skipper!
Let me tell you
If you're not wrong
Well, everything
Is all right
Walk. Yeah, man, like marching,
yu know.
March through di roads
Of creation
Trod through
Great tribulation
In this Exodus!
Yeah, Skipper!
Yeah, Skipper!
Movement of Jah people
We're leavin'
Rastafari!
We're goin'
To our father's land
Yes!
Exo--
Right?
Movement of Jah people
Yu go.
Movement
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Right.
Movement--
Sorry.
Move!
Gong, di band tell mi
you would be here.
Bumbaclaat.
We need fi talk.
The two of yu together now?
Di whole island in a crisis.
Dey had mi and Claudie
lock up inna Gun Court.
So we decide we must make peace.
A ceasefire.
But di peace nah go hold
fi long.
So why yu come to mi fa?
The violence hafi stop.
We want yu to come play
a unity show fi di people.
Yu di only man what can do dis.
Yu inspired us to make peace.
We come fi guarantee yu safety.
Trust mi.
It different dis time.
Nah, man.
Jamaica need yu
fi come home now, Rasta!
Nobody dare touch yu dis time!
Di people dem need you, Bob!
Rise and shine.
Ooh, yeah
Well, all right!
We're jammin'
I wanna jam it with you
We're jammin', jammin'
And I hope
You like jammin' too
Ain't no rules, ain't no vow
We can do it anyhow
I and I will see you through
'Cause every day
We pay the price
We're the livin' sacrifice
We're jammin'
Till the jam is through
We're jammin'
To think that jammin'
Was a thing of the past
We're jammin'
And I hope this jam
Is gonna last
No bullet can stop us now
We neither beg
Nor we won't bow
Neither can be
Bought nor sold
We all defend the right
Jah-Jah children must unite
Your life is worth
Much more than gold
Raasclaat! Yu no see di goal?
Mi score! Yu got to pay mi, man!
I see it, Skip. I see it.
Tuffer than tuff.
We're jammin'
We're jammin'
Right straight from yard
Yes, Chris, I roll yu a spliff.
Holy Mount Zion
Just 'cause it's from you, Fam.
Here's the new reverb.
Holy Mount Zion
Jah seated in Mount Zion
And rules all creation
Yeah, we're-- we're jammin'
I got to introduce my friends.
Seeing as you guys
don't see the light of day,
I thought I'd bring
the light to you.
Skipper!
Skip.
Skip.
Like this, album cover.
What yu think?
We're jammin', we're jammin'
We're jammin', we're jammin'
Nah.
No?
Somethin' else.
I hope you like jammin' too
Somethin' else?
Jammin', we're jammin'
Jammin'
Jammin', we're jammin'
Jammin', jammin'
I wanna jam with you now
I wanna jam with you now
We're jammin'
We're jammin'
Hope you like jammin' too
I hope you like jammin' too
Jammin', jammin', jammin'
I wanna jam it
Wanna jam it
Ooh, ooh
Yeah, man. That's nice.
Yu nuh like it.
No, I, uh-- I do.
It's, uh-- It's striking.
I'm a little concerned you can't
read the name of the band.
And there's no photo of Bob.
So...
Mi not inna dis thing
fi my ego, brethren.
Mi in it because, yu know--
Mi in it because of a cause.
Um...
I'm sorry, say again?
What do you, um...
What do you think about it, Bob?
- Mi love it.
- Rastafari.
It's beautiful, man. Beautiful.
Give thanks. Give thanks.
Bob, I commend your humility,
but we need to sell records.
Album cover sell record?
I mean, Neville, tell 'em
what yu wanna tell 'em.
Finish yu thing
about your artwork.
The first cover
was a bit busy, seen?
Dis one more simple.
"Exodus."
The title is derived from
the Ethiopian Amharic script.
Appearing less,
but meaning more.
Right.
Know what I mean?
But it looks like
a Cecil B. DeMille poster.
I mean,
this isn't Sunday school.
We...
I've read the Bible.
Christ, I had to
memorize half of it
and I can tell you
one thing for sure:
Young people do not like it.
You know?
Thanks, Howard.
Let's move on, shall we? Um...
Let's talk about
the European tour dates.
What yu tell dem
about the Africa tour date dem?
Africa?
Yeah, Africa.
It's in di Bible, too,
yu know.
Or dat is the half
you never memorize?
I leave
for Africa next month,
to talk to the promoters,
see what they need,
what they want,
check out the venues.
Good?
Mi good enough, Skip.
Yu all all right?
Good. Yes I.
Yes, man.
Howard. Chris.
I'll call you later.
Bob.
Africa?
Yeah, man. Don tell mi you
and him talk about it already.
No, no. We did. We did.
Uh, it's just--
Just what?
Yeah, man. Want Africa
after di European
tour date dem, yu know?
We have ten shows
already lined up
in the States for after Europe.
It's an important audience.
You'll reach millions
of Black Americans there.
Look, I've been to Africa.
There's no infrastructure there.
So we build it.
Yu know?
We can build it.
We can build it.
Right?
Yes, man.
All right. I hope you're right.
You'd be surprised
what we can build from nothing.
- You bwoys ready?
- Yes.
No need fi nervous.
That yu get, yu fucker!
Don't ever come back talkin'
about no royalty payment.
Dis my label!
Mi own it!
Raasclaat.
Coxsone.
Have some trouble, too, bwoy?
Don't tell mi yu come here
fi money, too.
No, no, Coxsone!
No, man, dis di band
mi done tell you 'bout.
Dem name di Wailing Wailers.
Wailing Wailers? Wa dat?
Yeah.
'Cause we come out
our madda belly crying
and we don't stop yet.
Mi no like crying.
Hold on!
Mi like singing.
Relax now, man.
Calm down. It's cool.
Shake yu up, eh, boy?
Just a joke, man.
Nothing fi worry about,
if yu any good.
Look, just relax, huh?
Just because you think
That you're so smart
Goin' around
Breakin' lovers' hearts
Ghetto music is drum and bass.
Nuh feel this,
yu know, Scratch.
Dis nuh carry no weight.
Dis nuh move earth, yu know.
Dey nuh have soul.
I get a drink.
You not ready yet.
Got some talent, but yu need
fi practice some more.
Maybe come back in a few years.
Joe! Yu need fi teach
dem bwoys right.
Not just some rip-off soul tunes
from di States.
Wait! We have songs like dat,
with message!
Yeah, man.
We save di best for last!
"Simmer Down."
Simmer down
You're licking too hot, so
Simmer down
Soon you'll get dropped, so
Simmer down
Can you hear what I say?
Simmer down
Why won't you
Why won't you simmer down?
Long time people
Dem used to say
What sweet nanny goat
A go run him belly, so
Simmer down
Oh, control your temper
Simmer down
Oh, the battle
Will be hotter
Simmer down
Can you hear what I say?
Simmer down
Oh, that I'm
Leaving you today
Simmer down
Cut.
So what yu say?
Dat's a hit!
How would you boys
like to record?
Why has reggae
become so popular?
Reggae is a people music.
It appeal to di natural self
of everyone.
Reggae music is di consciousness
of di people comin' together.
You okay?
Yeah, man.
I'm so sorry.
Yeah, man.
It wasn't on purpose.
We're good.
What happened?
It was accidental.
I tried to get the ball--
It's fine.
Old injury, it's nuttin.
You're good?
Yeah, man.
Mi good, mi good.
Yow, Gillie!
A man never forget him
first time, eh?
Set list.
- I ain't get a set list.
- No set list, man.
It's like jazz.
All right. Like jazz, yeah.
Where yu wanna start, Skip?
From the beginning.
- Beginning.
- Hmm.
All right.
Mm-hmm.
Exodus!
Movement of Jah people
Men and people
Will fight you down
When you see Jah light
Let me tell you
If you're not wrong
Well, everything
Is all right
So we gonna walk
Come on!
Through the roads
Of creation
We the generation
Trod through
Great tribulation
In this Exodus!
Good God Almighty!
Movement of Jah people
Is it true you smoke
a pound of weed every day?
A pound?
Bob, how are you
handling this sudden fame?
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Jah!
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Movement of Jah people
Pure gold album.
Exodus!
We did it!
Believe now?
Don.
Skip.
Yes.
What happened?
Weren't you supposed to
meet mi last week?
I got held up in Gabon.
Yu sure yu didn't get held up
in a Gucci store?
Well, my name
is Don "Tailor," after all.
How would it look
if I didn't dress to impress?
Letters been coming nonstop
from back home for you.
Thanks, but what
di African promoter say?
Dem ready?
Yeah. They want you
and Jimmy Cliff
to play a few shows together.
They already put down
a good deposit,
but I think I can get some more
on the back end for you.
As long as we can pay di band,
mi nuh fussy
'bout di money fi mi.
Just make sure di hotel set and
dem have a good sound system.
Yes, Skipper. I'm on it.
All right.
How Bob look so?
Him not feeling well?
More like too much gallivantin'.
Yu all right?
Yeah.
All right.
Yeah.
What?
Let me see.
We need to make a doctor
look on it, Bob.
Yu hafi come
off of di foot little bit.
I'll talk to Chris.
Yeah, mi look 'bout it
when di tour done.
Claudie and Bucky fly out.
Ask mi to come back,
do a show in Jamaica.
What kind of show?
Same kind di man
almost kill us for.
Police treat Rasta
worse than dog.
Gunmen run di place.
Dem claim dat dem done
wid politics.
Yu nuh see how much bullet
dem fire after we?
When all dis over,
we're goin' to Africa.
Buy some land there.
Yu know? Settle down.
Don book di show dem already?
Yeah, him say
him get di advance.
Him tell yu
how much money him get?
Uh-uh.
See you in a moment.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Bob Marley & The Wailers!
Bob, let me introduce you
to the Duchess of Monaco
and her sister.
Nice to meet you.
And Franoise from Chanel.
Hi. How yu doin'.
Jean, who curates
the Rhne Gallery.
Hi. Nice.
Oh, and of course--
I apologize--
this is, uh, Rita Marley.
Greetings. Rastafari.
I'll leave you here
for one second. Bob, uh,
I'd love to introduce you
to Marcel.
He's an important man
to know in Paris.
Marcel, this is Bob Marley.
Hey, Bob Marley,
it is a pleasure to meet you.
You're the Third-World
superstar.
Nah, I nuh superstar.
I Rasta.
He can be both. He's both.
Rastafari.
Look pon him suit.
No, thank you.
Mi no know
where dem come from.
Who is that Don whispering to?
Is the African promoter.
You know, Don skimming the fees.
Little thief.
Take care.
You have a good night.
Excuse me.
Mm.
To The Wailers, yeah?
To The Wailers
not getting arrested in America.
See you later.
All right.
Kind of a strange fellow, right?
A who dat?
Some producer.
Him want to record di I Threes.
Really.
What yu laugh about?
Mi a go get some fresh air.
All right.
Where you goin'?
Where you goin'?
Oh, God.
Huh?
Move. Move, man!
Huh?
Why yu actin' like
a jealous teenage boy so?
Oh, yu think,
mi would change?
Some things don't change,
but some things
definitely change.
We never used to do all of dis.
Di winin' and dinin',
parties, clubs.
I mingle with all type of people
from who knows where,
doin' who knows what.
And how you think the music
a go spread?
Mi sitting in a corner like
mi betta than everybody else?
Now I know why
Peter and Bunny didn't stay.
Peter and Bunny left
'cause dem never wanna
do di work that mi hafi do.
Mm-mm.
What dem want mi do?
Just suffer and suffer
and mi children dem suffer?
We are suffering!
Nah, man!
Di children dem suffer
and yu don't even know, Bob!
You suffer?
How you suffer?
I have to be a wife
and a soldier.
How much longer I can do that?
A wife?
You think mi nuh know
what goin' on?
What you know, Bob?
Hmm?
Di guy you have
down in Jamaica.
Eh?
Where yu a go?
Where you a go? Where you a go?
Yu think yu can do what you want
and mi get nothin' in return?
You get nothin'?
You get nothin'?
I need more
than a house and a car.
More than money!
You come and go
while I make a home
fi yu children,
including di ones dem
from yu other women!
On top of all of that,
I sing in di band and--
Yu nuh like it?
Yu nuh like it?
Yu nuh see where we are?
Paris!
Yu think I care about Paris?
Yu didn't think I had
my own opportunities?
Huh?
I had The Soulettes,
I had offers.
And I give dem up
fi di message. For us!
And yu throw it in mi face!
Who really know yu?
Who really care about yu, Bob?
Chris?
Di marketin' genius?
Or Don?
Signing deals in di dark.
Mmm!
Yu swim in pollution,
yu get polluted.
We used to talk about dis
and everything else
when you only had one shirt!
I give yu everything
yu ask me fa.
Everything!
Yu so naive.
I remember
When we used to sit
In the government yard
In Trench Town
Observing the hypocrites
As they would
Mingle with
The good people we meet
Good friends we have
Oh, good friends we've lost
Come.
Along the way
In this great future
You can't forget your past
So dry your tears, I say
Everything is gonna
Be all right
Everything is gonna
Be all right
Everything is gonna
Be all right, Jah
Everything is gonna
Be all right
Everything is gonna
Be all right
Everything is gonna
Be all right
Everything is gonna
Be all right, Jah
Everything is gonna
Be all right
So woman, no cry
Oh, no, no
Don't shed no tears
No, no, woman!
No woman, no cry
Ey, ey
Oh, my little sister
Don't shed no tears
No, no, woman!
No woman, no cry
Little sister
Don't shed no tears
No woman, no cry
Thank you, London.
Yay, Skipper!
Hey, guys, Bob.
Wicked show, Skip.
That was amazing.
That was amazing.
What do you want?
Champagne and wine,
no worries.
Coming right up.
Don!
Don, come.
Don Taylor, come here!
Don!
Bob.
What di one thing
mi tell you from day one?
What di one thing
mi tell you from day one?
Didn't I tell you don't lie
to mi? Don't lie to mi!
I don't know what
you're talking about.
Didn't I tell you that?
Don't lie to mi!
Skip!
Yu don't lie to mi!
Don't lie to mi!
Don't lie to mi!
You'll kill him, Skip.
Dat's cool, dat's cool.
Yu charge di African promoter
extra and yu pocket it?
Is a bloodclaat thief.
What you think,
mi wouldn't find out?
Mi tell you,
Africa is not a money thing!
Everyone say Bob Marley
is a hero!
I took six bullets for you!
This is what I get in return?
No. No. Bob! Bob! Bob.
Don't, stop it! Stop it!
Put it down.
You're lucky.
Lift up, man. Come on.
All right, cool now, man.
Get up, Don. Come on.
Pray to Jah-Jah.
Yu all right?
Bob, you okay?
Yeah, man.
Oh, God.
Nobody create
no excitement, Chris.
Bob, you need to see a doctor.
Two sevens clash.
I'm sorry?
Two sevens clash.
Marcus Garvey say on the day
the two sevens clash,
di ruled will rise up
'gainst di rulers.
Seventh of July 1977.
Huh.
Mr. Marley,
did you understand
what I've said?
Uh-huh.
You said it's cancer.
Acral Lentiginous Melanoma.
It's a skin cancer.
Mi can't get skin cancer
from a man stepping on mi toe.
Well, the injury to your foot
isn't the cause.
But the fact that it won't heal
is the result of the illness.
It's very rare.
Do you know
if it runs in your family?
No. My faada
was a white man.
I never know him, Doc.
But my hand
Was made strong
By di hand of di Almighty
We forward in dis generation
Triumphantly
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
Dem say mi have cancer.
I and I all right, man.
Dem can't raas kill me.
What's the treatment?
Dem say if mi cut off mi toe,
might stop it from spread.
But mi nuh inna dat.
Bob, you have to
listen to the doctors.
This is your health.
And look,
if it heals quick enough,
then we can make
the American tour.
You won't have to
miss any of it.
Leave mi, man. Mi hafi work.
Well, Bob--
Leave mi, man!
Okay.
Looking
for chances to counterattack,
George Best being
their brightest hope there.
But Germany in control.
Food is ready!
Now a tremendous scuffle
down on the right.
Now it's Flohe,
and he's done it!
And the fans celebrate
yet another goal!
Oh.
Sister Rita, greetings.
What's going on?
What yu mean?
Where's Bob?
Mi knock, but him
no come down from mornin'.
From mornin'?
Oh, God. Him can't do nothing.
You talk to mi madda?
Mm-hmm.
Di band know?
Why yu never tell mi, Bob?
Never wanna burden yu, Rita.
All I ever wanted to do
was to help yu
carry di weight.
Dis no different
than any other time.
Mi sorry 'bout what happen
in di club, yu know.
Cho.
Dat all water
under di bridge, Bob.
We have more serious things
to think 'bout now.
What is that?
Some sistren drop it off.
Dem say is a gift
from di Ethiopian Crown Prince.
Nuh really inna
no jewelry thing, yu know?
But...
mi feel dis mean somethin'.
Ooh.
Then why you nuh put it on?
Mm.
Bwoy...
I never know so much struggle
from the day I born.
Everything just happened.
Yu know?
What dem think
mi can bring peace
if mi can't even get
a little peace fi myself?
And yu can't see di reason?
Mm?
All dat struggle.
That's the source
of your power.
Yu nuh see?
The stone
that the builder refuse
become di head cornerstone.
Listen.
Who Jah bless
no man curse, Bob.
Just like Joseph.
Mm. Yu remember his story?
Dem attack him?
And him hand was made strong
by di hands
of di Mighty God of Jacob.
Rastafari!
Rasta.
That is you, Bob:
Joseph.
The Most High always protect
his anointed ones.
You have
plenty life to live...
and nuff work to do.
Haile Selassie is the Chapel
Yu know, sometime...
Power of the Trinity
...di messenger has to
become di message.
Time to go back to Jamaica.
Build your mind
In this direction
Don't be afraid.
Serve the livin' God
And live
Take your troubles
To Selassie
He's the only King of Kings
Conquering Lion of Judah
Triumphantly
We all must sing
Well, I've searched
And I've searched
This great book of Man
And in Revelation
See what I find there
Haile Selassie is the Chapel
And all the world
Should know
That man is the Angel
And our God
The King of Kings
Conquering Lion of Judah
Triumphantly
We all must sing
Mm.
Yeah, man.
Yeah.
Don't worry
About a thing
'Cause every little thing
Is gonna be all right
Singin', don't worry
About a thing
Watch it, watch it!
Daddy, Daddy!
'Cause every little thing
Slow down! Hey!
Gonna be all right
Come here.
Rise up this morning
What are you doing?
I smile with the rising sun
Where you come from?
Three little birds
Sit by my doorstep
Singin' sweet songs
Of melodies pure and true
Sayin', "This is my message
To you-ou-ou"
Singin', "Don't worry
About a thing
'Cause every little thing
Gonna be all right"
Singin', "Don't worry
About a thing
'Cause every little thing
Gonna be all right"
Greetings.
Daddy!
"This is my message
To you-ou-ou"
Mi miss you, too.
Don't worry
Welcome back home, Rasta.
About a thing
Welcome.
'Cause every little thing
Gonna be all right
Singin' "Don't worry
About a thing"
I-man come fi forgiveness.
I no carry no vengeance.
Rastafari
is a seed planted
in di heart.
Only you can redeem yu'self.
Old pirates, yes, they rob I
Sold I to the merchant ships
Minutes after they took I
Daddy.
From the bottomless pit
Who was that man?
Oh, him?
But my hand was made strong
Just a man come see yu faada.
By the hand of the Almighty
We forward
In this generation
Triumphantly
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever have
Redemption songs
Redemption songs
Emancipate yourselves
From mental slavery
None but ourselves
Can free our mind
Whoa, have no fear
For atomic energy
'Cause none of dem
Can stop di time
How long shall they
Kill our prophets
While we stand aside
And look?
Some say
It's just a part of it
We've got to fulfill di book
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever have
Redemption songs
All I ever have
Redemption songs
These songs of freedom
Songs of freedom
When yu write dat?
All my life.
Yeah.
That mean yu ready.
That mean yu ready.
So what's changed, Bob?
What's made you return
to Jamaica
to play a peace concert now?
Don't you fear for your life?
Well, my life
is not important to mi.
If my life is only for mi,
my own security,
den mi no want it.
My life is for people.
Dat's di only consciousness
I have in myself,
dat I can be beneficial
to a people.
You don't have anger?
One time I feel like I shoulda
take up my arms and do a thing.
But Jah say, "No, you, cool."
We can't think 'bout vengeance
and do di work dat must be done.
Do you really think
this world can make it?
Make it?
Yeah.
We must make it. Yu know?
We must make it. Yeah.
It must be made.
There's no other way.
Yu know?
Are you ready?
Are you ready,
National Stadium?
Selah.
Yeah.
Are you ready, Jamaica?
Are you ready
for Bob Marley & The Wailers?
Nesta.
Greetings in the name
of His Imperial Majesty,
Emperor Haile I Selassie I.
Jah!
Rastafari!
One love
One heart
Let's get together
And feel all right
Hear the children crying
One love
Hear the children crying
One heart
Are you a rich man?
Possession make you rich?
I don't have dat type of riches.
My riches is life, forever.
Let's get together
And feel all right
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Let them all pass
All their dirty remarks
One love
There is one question
I'd really love to ask
One heart
Is there a place
For the hopeless sinners
Who has hurt all mankind
Just to save
His own beliefs?
One love
What about one heart?
One heart
Yeah, mi see myself
as a revolutionary.
Let's get together
And feel all right
As it was in the beginning
One love
So shall it be in the end
One heart
Give thanks
And praise to the Lord
And I will feel all right
Let's get together
And feel all right
One more thing
Let's get together
To fight this holy Armageddon
One love
So when the Man come
There will be no, no doom
One song
Have pity on those
Whose chances grow thinner
There ain't no hiding place
From the Father of Creation
Sayin'
One love
What about the one heart?
One heart
Let's get together
And feel all right
One love
One heart
Give thanks
And praise to the Lord
And I will feel all right
Let's get together
And feel all right
Give thanks and praise
To the Lord
And I will feel all right
Yes, let's get together
And feel all right
I want to love you
And treat you right
I want to love you
Every day and every night
We'll be together
With a roof
Right over our heads
We'll share the shelter
Of my single bed
We'll share
The same room, yeah
For Jah provide the bread
Is this love, is this love
Is this love
Is this love
That I'm feeling?
Is this love, is this love
Is this love
Is this love
That I'm feeling?
I want to know, want to know
Want to know now
I've got to know, got to know
Got to know now
I'm willing and able
So I throw my cards
On your table
I want to love you
I want to love and treat
Love and treat you right
I want to love you every day
And every night
We'll be together, yeah
With a roof
Right over our heads
We'll share
The shelter, yeah
Of my single bed
We'll share
The same room, yeah
For Jah provides the bread
Is this love, is this love
Is this love
Is this love
That I'm feeling?
Is this love, is this love
Is this love
Is this love
That I'm feeling?
Oh, yes, I know
Yes, I know, yes, I know now
Oh, yes, I know
Yes, I know, yes, I know now
I'm willing and able
So I throw my cards
On your table
You'll see
I want to love you
I want to love and treat you
Love and treat you right
I want to love you
Every day and every night
We'll be together
With the roof
Right over our heads
We'll share the shelter
Of my single bed
We'll share
The same room, yeah
Jah provides the bread
We'll share the shelter
Of my single bed
We'll share the same room
I want to love you
Love and treat you
Love and treat you right
Hear the words
Of the Rastaman say
Babylon, your throne
Gone down, gone down
Babylon, your throne
Gone down
I hear the words
Of the Iyaman say
Babylon, your throne
Gone down, gone down
Babylon, your throne
Gone down
And I hear the angel
With the seven seals saying
Babylon throne
Gone down, gone down
Babylon throne
Gone down
I say fly away home to Zion
Fly away home
I say fly away home to Zion
Fly away home
One bright morning
When my work is over
Man will fly away home