So for all intents and purposes, and indeed appearances, it looked like this was a benefit for the People’s National Party, which was Michael Manley’s party. So there was politics involved from the beginning. To do a large concert like Bob wanted to do, it all had to be done almost directly through the prime minister’s office. Because even to mount a small concert in Kingston, you had to have approval of the government. Now obviously, to do a concert like that, it might be a bit naive to say that there was no politics involved in this in the beginning. Then Manley called for elections right after the concert was announced, so it would look like, at the height of the battle for Jamaica, that Bob Marley and the Wailers would appear to support the PNP. It had no political overtones, except, of course, the fact that there was a huge battle for the soul of the nation it was an election year. It was set up for the National Heroes Park. Bob wanted to do something like that, a benefit concert. Stephen Davis: Stevie Wonder had done a concert the previous year in aid of blind children in Jamaica. Author Stephen Davis wrote one of the first, and best, biographies of Marley and studied the shooting extensively.
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