Linkin Park

Their first Collision Course hit single 'Numb/Encore' reached #1 at the Free Record Shop Download Charts in Holland. Rebel Music: The Bob Marley Story. In Holland Collision Course made it to a 7th place. Owl Books (NY), 1998. Collision Course debuted at #1 in the US, but only got to # 17 in the UK. Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley. On November 30, 2004, Linkin Park released Collision Course, a collaboration with rapper Jay-Z featuring rap-style remixes ("mash-ups") of songs from Meteora and Hybrid Theory using lyrics from Jay-Z's repertoire. Timothy White.

They also had a travelling DJ, Z-Trip with them, along with Irvin the Urban Action Figure. The birthday celebrations for what would have been his 60th birthday on February 6th 2005 were celebrated in Shashamane for the first time, having previously always been held in Jamaica. In 2004, Linkin Park was touring with Snoop Dogg, The Used, Korn, and Less Than Jake on the main stage, and No Warning, Ghostface, Funeral For A Friend, M.O.P., and Downset on the second stage as part of Projekt Revolution 2004. In announcing the decision to move Marley's remains to Ethiopia, Rita Marley said: "Bob's whole life is about Africa, it is not Jamaica." There is as lot of resistance to this proposal in Jamaica. This tour included Linkin Park, P.O.D., Hoobastank, and Story of the Year.
In January 2005, it was reported (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4168883.stm) that Rita Marley is planning to have her late husband's remains exhumed and reburied in Shashamane, Ethiopia. In 2004, Linkin Park created the Meteora World Tour. Bob Marley's music and legend have gone from strength to strength in the years since his early death and continues to produce a huge stream of revenue for his estate, and has brought him nearly mythic status in music history similar to that of Elvis Presley and John Lennon.He is enormously popular and well known all over the world, and particularly so in Africa.

This set contains tracks from their three previous records, and was filmed on location at their Summer Sanitarium performances in Dallas and Houston, Texas . He is buried in a crypt at Nine Miles, near his birthplace. From this tour, Linkin Park released a new CD/DVD set called Live in Texas. His funeral in Jamaica was a dignified affair with combined elements of Ethiopian Orthodoxy and Rastafarianism. Later in the year, they joined forces with fellow nu-metal band Limp Bizkit and Metallica for the Summer Sanitarium Tour 2003. He passed away at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami, Florida on May 11, 1981. In 2003 their new studio album was released, titled Meteora, which debuted at #1 in the US and UK, and #2 in Australia. It contained the singles, "Somewhere I Belong", "Faint", "Numb", "From The Inside" and "Breaking The Habit". He wanted to spend his final days in Jamaica but he became too ill on the flight home from Germany and had to land in Miami.

In 2002, they released a remix album of their Hybrid Theory album, called Reanimation, as well as releasing a remix version of their song, "Points Of Authority". A month before his death, he was awarded Jamaica's Order of Merit. Linkin Park were part of the Ozzfest in 2001, touring along side Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Crazy Town, Papa Roach, and Disturbed. Linkin Park have also created their own tour - Projekt: Revolution, and on it have toured with Cypress Hill, Adema, DJ Z-Trip, Xzibit, Mudvayne and Blindside. Marley sought help, and decided to go to Munich in order to receive treatment from controversial cancer specialist Josef Issels for several months, but it was to no avail. The album is notable for its absence of profanity, in contrast to many other nu metal bands' songs. The illness made him unable to continue with the large tour planned. It was the top-selling album in the United States and New Zealand in 2001, with the hit singles "One Step Closer", "Crawling", "Papercut", "In The End" and "Points of Authority". This was after a series of shows in England and at Madison Square Garden.

After being signed to Warner Brothers in 1999 their first album, Hybrid Theory, was released in 2000. While on tour in the summer of 1980 trying to break into the US market, he collapsed jogging in NYC's Central Park. Working with an independent label, the band recorded the album Hybrid Theory EP, which featured "Carousel", "Technique", "Step Up", "And One", "High Voltage", "Part of Me". The cancer spread to his brain, his lungs and his stomach. However, it has also been suggested that the name "Linkin Park" was suggested so that the band would appear right next to Limp Bizkit at record stores. The cancer was kept a secret from the wider public. However the domain "lincolnpark.com" cost more than the band could afford, so they changed the spelling to Linkin Park. I and I don't allow a mon ta be dismantled." [Catch a Fire, Timothy White] He did have surgery to try to excise the cancer cells.

Eventually, they settled on Lincoln Park, suggested by Bennington because after band practice he would have to drive past there to get home. Still, Marley based this refusal on his Rastafarian beliefs, saying, "Rasta no abide amputation. Some discarded ideas (serious or not) were Clear (the band's favorite), Probing Lagers (which they thought was the lamest), Ten PM Stocker (because they would record every night at 10 pm at a place on Stocker Street) and Platinum Lotus Foundation. He also was concerned about the impact the operation would have on his dancing; amputation would profoundly affect his career at a time when greater success was close at hand. The band called itself Hybrid Theory after the addition of Bennington (the idea being that they were a hybrid of rock and rap), however, due to a trademark issue with a band called Hybrid, they were forced to change their name. He was advised to get his toe amputated, but he refused because of the Rastafarian belief that doctors are samfai, confidence men who cheat the gullible by pretending to have the power of witchcraft. since I learned how to talk I've been telling everybody I was gonna grow up to be a singer." laughs Bennington. Marley actually had a form of skin cancer, malignant melanoma, which grew under his toenail.

"When I was two, I used to run around singing Foreigner songs - there's tapes of me doing that.. It was then that the correct diagnosis was made. They got Chester Bennington(in substitution of Mark Wakefield), a transplanted Arizona native who started making records when he was 16. The wound would not completely heal, and his toenail later fell off during a soccer game. Then Shinoda decided to hire a vocalist, and put out an ad. In July 1977, Marley was found to have a wound on his right big toe, which he thought was from a soccer injury. They never got signed, and the project floundered. He released "Africa Unite" on the Survival album in 1979, and was then invited to perform at the Zimbabwe Independence Day celebrations on April 17th 1980.

At this point, they named themselves Xero and recorded several demo tracks. Bob Marley left Jamaica at the end of 1976, and went to England, where he recorded both Exodus and Kaya, and where he was famously arrested for possession of a joint of marijuana. Meanwhile, attending UCLA, Delson shared an apartment with bassist Phoenix, who left the band after college and returned a year later. Though the police never caught the gunmen, Marley devotees later "caught up" with them on the streets of Kingston. Shinoda hooked up with DJ Joseph Hahn while studying illustration at Art Center College in Pasadena. However, there is little evidence to support this. The two had attended high school together, where they met the band's drummer, Rob Bourdon. It is widely held that he was shot by supporters of the conservative political party of Jamaica, the Jamaica Labour Party.

The band saw its and first beginings in emcee/vocalist Mike Shinoda's small bedroom studio, where he and Brad Delson recorded the band's first material in 1996. The concert was seen as being in support of the progressive prime minister of Jamaica, Michael Manley. Linkin Park is a six-piece California nu metal band in the vein of Korn and Limp Bizkit. Jamaican politics being somewhat violent at the time, especially when close to elections time as it was then. Won Artist of the Year — Rock Radio; 2004 Radio Music Awards. It is generally believed that this shooting was politically motivated. Won Song of the Year — Rock Alternative Radio (Numb); 2004 Radio Music Awards. Rita also recovered of the head wound she received that night.

Won Viewer's Choice Award (Breaking The Habit); 2004 MTV Video Music Awards. He was registered in serious condition after he was rushed to the hospital but fully recovered later. Nominated for Best Rock Video (Breaking The Habit); 2004 MTV Video Music Awards. Don Taylor took most of the bullets in his legs and torso as he accidentally walked in the line of fire. Won Best Rock Video (Somewhere I Belong); 2003 MTV Video Music Awards. Marley received minor injuries in the arm and chest. Nominated for Favorite Artist - Alternative Music; 30th Annual American Music Awards; Sept 1, 2002. In 1976, just two days before a scheduled free concert that Marley and the then Jamaican PM Michael Manley had organized in the run up to the general election, Marley, his wife Rita and manager Don Taylor, were shot inside the star's 56 Hope Road home.

Nominated for Best Video, Best Album, Best Band in the World. It was his 1975 hit No woman, no cry that first gained him fame on a wider level. Won Best International Newcomer; 2001 Kerrang Awards. Though many people believe that Blackwell interfered with what Marley wanted to do with his own music, others think that the knowledge this producer brought to the scene was critical in Marley's wish to bring reggae to the world. Won Best Foreigner Artist of The Year; Finland's 2001 Emma Awards. Island Records boasted a retinue of successful and diverse artists including Genesis, John Martyn and Nick Drake. Nominated for Best Rock Album, Best New Artist. He signed to Chris Blackwell's Island Records label in 1971, at the time a highly influential and innovative label.

Won Best Hard Rock Performance (Crawling); 2001 Grammys. Marley's work was largely responsible for the mainstream cultural acceptance of reggae music outside of Jamaica. Won Best International Nu-Metal/Alternative Artist; ECHO 2002 awards in Germany. They did work together again in London, though, and remained friends until Marley's death. Nominated for Best Video of the Year (In The End), Best Group Video (In The End). This pair also split apart, this time over the assignment of recording rights. Won Best Rock Video; 2002 MTV Video Music Awards (In The End). That relationship later deteriorated due to financial pressure, and in the early 1970s he produced what is believed by many to be his finest work with Lee Perry.

Won Best Foreign Rock; Swedish Hit Music Awards; November 17th, 2002. Much of Marley's early work was produced by Coxsone Dodd at Studio One. Nominated for Best Website. Livingstone and Tosh later left the group and went on to become successful solo artists. Won Best Group, Best Hard Rock; 2002 MTV Europe Music Awards. Marley is perhaps best-known for work with his reggae group "The Wailers", which included two other celebrated reggae musicians, Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh. Won Favorite Artist - Alternative Music; 31st Annual American Music Awards; Sept 16, 2003. Marley started his musical experimentation in ska and gravitated towards reggae as the music evolved, playing, teaching and singing for a long period in the 1970s and 1980s.

Points of Authority/99 Problems/One Step Closer (live). As a person of mixed race, Bob Marley may have been rejected and even the object of bitter ridicule by both white and black Jamaicans for his mixed heritage. Numb/Encore (live). Norval never really knew his son because of the white upper class' disdain for mixed race relationships. Breaking The Habit, traditional anime. Approximately a week before the wedding, however, Norval informed Cedella that his chronic hernia had begun to trouble him and as a result he would be changing jobs and moving to Kingston. From The Inside (International). Cedella and Norval were to be married on June 9th, 1944.

Numb. Bob Marley was born on February 6, 1945 in Jamaica to Norval Marley, a middle-aged white plantation overseer from England, and Cedella Booker, a black teenager from the north country. Lying From You (Live in Texas). Marley also makes many references to Judah and his tribe, in reference to Haile Selassie, God incarnate of the Rastafarians. Faint - monochrome concert-like footage, directed by Mark Romanek. The tribe of Joseph is Aquarius. This video for features some surrealistic creatures moving from a painting that may have been inspired by Salvador Dalí's works - possibly The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1946) or The Elephants (1948). Marley was known to have connections with the Twelve Tribes of Israel sect of Rastafari, and he expressed this with a biblical quote about Joseph, son of Jacob on the album cover of Rastaman Vibration.

Somewhere I Belong - live-action plus CGI. On the cover of Catch a Fire he is seen smoking a big spliff, and the spiritual use of cannabis is mentioned in many of his songs. Wth>You (With You Remix), photographic animation. As a Rasta, Bob Marley was a great defender of cannabis which he used as a sacrament. FRGT/10 (Forgotten Remix), CGI. Towards the end of his life he was also baptised into the Ethiopian Orthodox Church with the name Berhane Selassie. P5hng Me A*wy (Pushing Me Away Remix). Through his music he preached brotherhood and peace for all of mankind.

Enth E Nd (In The End Remix). He served as a de facto missionary for the faith (his actions and lyrics suggest that this was intentional) and brought it to global attention. Pts.OF.Athrty (Points Of Authority Remix), CGI. It was his wife Rita who first inspired him in his faith, and he then received teachings from Mortimer Planner. Points Of Authority Live footage (International). Marley was well known for his devotion to the Rastafarian religion. In The End. Another of his sons Damien Marley (aka "Jr Gong") has also started a career in music.

Papercut (International). She had 4 of his 9 children, including David Ziggy Marley and Stephen Marley who continue their father's musical legacy in their band the Melody Makers. Crawling (The Brothers Straus). He was the husband of Rita Anderson Marley (who was one of the I Threes, who acted as the Wailers' back up singers after they became a global act). Crawling (at the Dragon Festival). He has been called the Charles Wesley of the Rastafarian faith for the way he spread Rastafari through his music. One Step Closer. Much of his work deals with the struggles of the impoverished and/or powerless.

2004 "Numb/Encore" (with Jay-Z) #1 US, #14 UK. He is the best known reggae musician of all time, famous for popularising the genre outside of Jamaica. from "Collision Course"