{"id":803994,"date":"2020-02-09T09:12:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T16:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=948789"},"modified":"2020-02-09T09:12:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T16:12:42","slug":"bob-marley-at-75-a-legend-in-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/bob-marley-at-75-a-legend-in-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Marley at 75: A Legend in Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/RBML_INT_2005_G.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Dennis Morris first met <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bob-marley\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bob-marley\" data-tag=\"bob-marley\">Bob Marley<\/a> at the Speakeasy Club in London in 1973. \u201cDuring soundcheck, he asked me what life was like as a young black British kid,\u201d recalls the photographer, who was a high school student in Eng\u00adland at the time. Marley was impressed enough to spontaneously ask him to come along for the rest of the tour. \u201cThe next day, I met Bob and the rest of the Wailers at their hotel and climbed in their transit tour van,\u201d Morris continues. \u201cBob then turned around and said to me, \u2018Are you ready, Dennis?\u2019 and my life-changing adventure began.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Morris became a friend to the reggae superstar for the next eight years, capturing candid, soon-to-be-iconic images of Marley strumming a guitar, dancing, and playing ping-pong \u2014 a collaboration that lasted until Marley\u2019s death from melanoma in 1981. This month, Morris\u2019 photographs from those unforgettable days will be on display in Los Angeles, at a gallery show organized to mark what would have been Marley\u2019s 75th birthday. \u201cHe gave me confidence, he gave me hope, he gave me identity, he made my dreams possible,\u201d Morris said in a statement. \u201cAnd for millions of others worldwide, he did the same. Live up Bob, the Rebel lives on.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/bob-marley-75-birthday-photographs-dennis-morris-948789\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Morris first met Bob Marley at the Speakeasy Club in London in 1973. \u201cDuring soundcheck, he asked me what life was like as a young black British kid,\u201d recalls the photographer, who was a high school student in Eng\u00adland at the time. Marley was impressed enough to spontaneously ask him to come along for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 07:20:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}