Bob Marley: Talkin' Blues
Charles Shaar Murray, Q, March 1991
IT IS A popular truism that the obsessiveness with which popular culture picks through the bones of its most illustrious dead is the sign of a strong, morbid, necrophobic streak in our society.
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