I’m a 27 year-old girl, with ginger hair and a penchant for Hanson (Come on, who didn’t love MMMbop?!). So when the Empire folk asked me to travel to Jamaica to interview Bob Marley’s family ahead of the DVD release of Kevin Macdonald's Marley I was a little concerned. The only three things I knew, or thought I knew, about Bob Marley were these: he smoked lots of weed, he had dreadlocks, and he sang that song about the woman who couldn't cry.

Although the trip involved three planes and I’m terrified of flying (I also managed to get arrested en route, but that’s another blog), I jumped at the chance and immediately started cramming on Marley's music. Three days (and four valium) later, we touched down in Kingston. Arriving in the dead of night, we drove to the hotel through pitch-black streets that had motifs of Bob Marley adorning their walls.

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