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Bob Marley: from reggae icon to Marlboro Man of marijuana

A new line for the world’s ninth most lucrative dead celebrity

29 November 2014

9:00 AM

29 November 2014

9:00 AM

A kind of political correctness dictates that one should not be too hard on Bob Marley, who died of cancer in 1981 aged 36. His loping, mid-tempo reggae sounds slightly vapid to my ears, but for many non-Jamaicans, Bob Marley is reggae; he remains an international Rasta celebrity, honoured with a waxwork at Madame Tussaud’s as well as a Jamaican Order of Merit (the third-highest honour in the Jamaican honours system).

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