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Bob Marley To Live On Through Reggae Tour: Rita Marley talks about her late husband's legacy and U.S. tour

Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 13 September 1984

THREE YEARS AFTER Bob Marley succumbed to cancer, his old Wailers band and three backing vocalists — including his widow — are embarking on an American tour to carry the reggae master's legacy to a country that was only beginning to accept his music at the time of his death.

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