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Rob Walker

‘Bob wouldn’t be Bob without Rita’: Ziggy Marley on his mother and father

Ziggy Marley with his wife Orly and their children.
Ziggy Marley with his wife Orly and their children. Photograph: Kristin Burns/Kristin Burns / Courtesy of Tuff Gong Worldwide

Ziggy Marley was only eight years old when his mum and dad – the reggae great Bob Marley – were shot in an apparent assassination attempt inside their home in Kingston, Jamaica. But he remembers it like yesterday.

“Cops came for us children in the middle of the night and carried us away to a secret hideaway up in the hills – no one really knew what was happening. It was scary but it was kind of exciting,” he says.

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