Bob Marley: A Day Out At The Gun Court
Chris Salewicz, NME, 17 March 1979
SET IN maybe half an acre of ground, 56 Hope Road, Kingston 6 is a sprawling, wood-fronted, two-storey detached house, its flaking cream paint seeming to symbolise the decayed colonial gentry for whom it was originally built and who are now mostly long gone from Jamaica.
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