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We Shot Bob Marley!
Carl Colby Jr. has been the object of rumor and speculation ever since it was
revealed thta he was one of the cameramen who filmed the Smile Jamaica concert,
held in Kingston two nights after Bob Marley and his colleagues were the object
of an assassination attempt in December 1976. What was the son of William Colby,
the controversial former head of the Central Intelligence Agency, doing in Kingston?
Here for the first time anywhere, Colby, a documentary filmmaker living in
Los Angeles, answers the charges...
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On The Air: Neville Willoughby's Encounters with Bob Marley
Neville Willoughby is one of the grand old men of Jamaican broadcasting. A
graduate of Kingston College and the University of Toronto, he first worked for
RJR and then for the Jamaican Broadcasting Company on radio and in the earliest
stages of its tv operatons. Beginning in the pre-ska era, he was witness to
Marley's auspicious meeting with American soul-pop star Johnny Nash at a Kingston
grounation in 1967; was an MC at the historic 1978 One Love Peace concert; and
conducted two of the most famous interviews with Bob Marley, widely released on
record and cd. The first took place in 1973 in the final moments before the singer
broke internationally, the second on the eve of the Peace concert. Here Neville
shares previously unseen glimpses into the private life of Bob Marley, in an
interview conducted in Kingston on Oct. 19, 2001...
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Back In the Day
Kingston photographer Ossie Hamilton was one of the only people in Jamaica in the
1960s to gain access to the protected world of the Wailers. The most notable
appearance of his pictures is in Dermot Hussey and Malika Lee Whitney's book,
Bob Marley, Reggae King of the World. Here, fellow Jamaican photographer
and longtime Wailers aficionado Roy A. Sweetland, speaks with Hamilton in an
interview conducted especially for The Beat in March 2002...
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