Quote Originally Posted by ezjim
bob marley died of skin cancer not lung cancer... dude that whole lung cancer thing was a rumor started [ prob by the fed's] to scare young white boys away from weed kinda like in the 20's and 30' when they said if your duaghter smokes weed she will sleep with jazz musician's it's sad how we keep allowing bad history to repeat it's self
Actually, if my memory serves me tonight....Bob broke a toe while playing soccer. It wasn't treated correctly, and eventually became cancerous.

He kept touring and not getting traditional treatments. I saw him in concert in either 1980 or 1981, and he was looking horrible, from the spreading cancer, which had overtaken his body.

He died in 1981, I believe, from that cancer. It wasn't actually skin cancer from what I remember, but it certainly wasn't lung cancer.

That was about the time I was winding down my music contacts and radio contacts, and I remember how sad everyone was. Just like when Stevie Ray Vaughn died.