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Bob Marley Birthday! Reggae Singer Would Have Turned 70 Today

Happy Birthday Bob Marley!
Sara C Nelson
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Happy Birthday Bob!

Friday would have been the 70th birthday of Reggae legend Bob Marley.

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Bob Marley would have been 70 on 6 February

Marley died of cancer in 1981, but his notoriety continues unabated.

He is regularly cited as a global icon and musical prophet, whose art changed the world forever. He is also credited with bringing reggae music and the Rastafarian movement to a worldwide audience.

Happy Birthday Bob Marley
Bob Marley(01 of13)
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(credit:Warner Music Group / AP)
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Photo of Bob Marley and the Wailers. (credit:Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images)
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(credit:Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images)
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(credit:Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images)
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Bob Marley performs on stage with the Wailers in Voorburg, Holland, in 1976. (credit:Gijsbert Hanekroot, Redferns / Getty Images)
Bob Marley(06 of13)
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Bob Marley performing at the Rainbow Theater in the United Kingdom in 1977. (credit:Graham Wiltshire, Redferns / Getty Images)
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Bob Marley performs on stage with the Wailers at Houtrust Hallen on May 13, 1977, in The Hague, Netherlands. (credit:Gijsbert Hanekroot, Redferns / Getty Images)
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Bob Marley, Mick Jagger and Peter Tosh pose backstage at a Rolling Stones concert at the Palladium in New York on June 19, 1978. (credit:Michael Putland, Getty Images)
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Sugar Ray Robinson, former boxing champion, and Bob Marley at the Benefit Concert for the Sugar Ray Robinson Youth Foundation in 1979. (credit:Gregg Cobarr, WireImage / Getty Images)
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Bob Marley and the Wailers perform in front of an audience of 40,000 during a festival concert in Paris on July 4, 1980. (credit:AP)
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Bob Marley at Hollywood Tower Records, California, in 1979. (credit:Chris Walter, WireImage / Getty Images)
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A Jamaican honor guard carries the casket bearing the body of Reggae music star Bob Marley into the National Arena in Kingston, Jamaica, on May 20, 1981. (credit:Ray Fairall, AP)
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Clergy from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, who officiated at Bob Marley's funeral, stand over his coffin in Kingston's National Arena on May 22,1981. Marley died of cancer in a Miami hospital at the age of 36. (credit:Fairall / AP)
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