73rd birthday of Bob Marley

(Born 6 February 1945, Nine Mile, Jamaica)

ICONIC musician who with fellow Jamaican artists Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailers and others, beginning in the 1960s, transform reggae into a driving global music genre of social justice and change – “Exodus”  classic composition (link below) is the freedom anthem worldwide including, particularly, the great people of Biafra whose own subjugating monster “Babylon” registered in the lyrics is the lair of annihilative savagery called genocidist Nigeria: “.../Uh! Open your eyes and look within,/Are you satisfied (with the life you’re living)? Uh!/We know where we’re going, uh!/We know where we’re from./We’re leaving Babylon,/We’re going to our ... land/.../Move! Move! Move! Move! Move! Move! Move!/...” 

(Bob Marley & the Wailers, “Exodus” [musicians and performers: Marley, lead vocal, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, percussion; Aston “Family Man” Barrett, fender bass, guitar, percussion; Carlton Barrett,  drums, percussion; Tyrone Downie, keyboards, percussion, backing vocals; Alvin “Seeco” Paterson, percussion; Julian (Junior) Marvin, lead guitar; I Threes (Rita Marley, Marcia Griffiths, Judy Mowatt), backing vocals; recorded: Harry J studio, Kingston, Jamaica, 1976 & Island Studio, London, England, January-April 1977]) 

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105th birthday of Rosa Parks

(Born 4 February 1913, Tuskegee, Ala, US)

EMINENT African American freedom movement exponent – appositely reminds the world, including the great people of Biafra currently resisting the expansive stretch of annihilative savagery from genocidist Nigeria: “You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right”

(Thelonious Monk Quartet, “Bolivar blues” [personnel: Monk, piano; Charlie Rouse, tenor saxophone; John Ore, bass; Frankie Dunlop, drums; recorded: Columbia 30th Street Studio, New York, US, 31 October 1962])

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