He never had the global reach of Bob Marley ... with coining the term “natty dread,” he’s still arguably his country’s most respected deejay and his classic 70s albums, Screaming Target ...

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Bob Dylan is still alive. But it was in 1965 — essentially a whole other epoch — that Dylan released “Ballad of a Thin Man,” a simple song that speaks more directly, insinuatingly and ...

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Bob Marley was born on Feb 6., and although many are familiar with the reggae legend as a Rastafarian, others may be surprised to hear that he was baptized as an Orthodox Christian before his death.