Effects on the world

Bob Marley and the Wailers were much more than just a rock phenomenon.  Their music began to concern itself with social issues on the island of Jamaica.  No one in Jamaica was prepared for the impact the music of Marley and company would eventually have worldwide. One night when Bob was playing a concert some police started tossing tear gas into the crowd and beating people. Marley was escorted off the stage to safety. He later came back on the stage and started performing again but without the same strong vibe and message as before. Marley insisted for years, that he was born in Africa and that his parents were as well.  He traveled to Africa because he thought it would be alot more peaceful and better than Jamaica, but instead it was the same slums and hungry faces that he'd left behind. 

He went to war-torn Ethiopia from Kenya to discover that the man he worshipped as god, Haile Selassie, had died in disgrace and been burried in an unmarked grave.