From Rebel to Retail − Inside Bob Marley’s Posthumous Musical and Merchandising Empire

The long-awaited Bob Marley biopic “One Love” will highlight important moments in the musician’s life – his adolescence in Trench Town, his spiritual growth, the attempt on his life. But as a music industry scholar, I wonder if the film is yet another extension of the Marley marketing machine. Marley died in 1981 at the age of 36. He’d achieved [...]