1Xtra - Bob Marley Day

Radio review * Elisabeth Mahoney * The Guardian, * Friday February 8 2008 This week, IXtra dedicated a whole day to Bob Marley. Its documentary strand, which targets its mostly young, urban listeners well with news and features, was also involved in the tribute. The programme knew that the station's listeners would probably know who Marley was, but might not be quite so sure why they knew who he was. Or, just as important, for a youthful, music-minded audience, how Marley compares to contemporary black artists. That's why we heard from Shaggy, talking about the problems Marley faced, not from the mainstream, but from black music radio stations in his day. "For us to get on mainstream radio," he explained, "we somewhat have to dilute. I had to put Marvin Gaye on to Boombastic to get it played. It's what you have to do to survive." Rita Marley rather stole the show with her twinkly comments about life with Bob. She recalled how, in their early days together, her aunt gave them a small shop to run. "In the daytime it was a shop, in the night it was a bedroom. It had a dual ... " she broke off, laughing to herself at how saucy that sounded. "Amazing to think, until then we didn't have a bed." see more here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/tx/documentaries/bobmarley_2008.shtml The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original