Bob had not gone anywhere – he was still among us. The Rastafarians told the mourning people that there was no reason to grieve as death meant nothing. Marley’s long locks had been replaced with a wig as his own hair had been lost during cancer treatment in New York, Miami, Mexico, and finally the Bavarian clinic of Dr Josef Issels, following the diagnosis of a malignant melanoma four years earlier. On the day before the funeral, the coffin was placed on lit de parade allowing the public, an estimate 100,000 people to file past and get a final glance of The Gong. In his casket was his red Gibson Les Paul guitar, a football, a Bible opened at Psalm 23, and a stalk of ganja placed there by Rita Marley. On 21 May, 1981 BOB MARLEY was laid to rest in the village of Nine Mile.
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