Rita Marley [[I Three, Bob Marley & the Wailers recorded the fine "Natty Dread" album in 1974 and many more, first rising to international superstardom in 1975 with "No Woman No Cry". It was followed up by the 1976 smash hit album "Rastaman Vibration". On 3 December 1976 two days before "[[Smile Jamaica Concert|Smile Jamaica]]", a large free concert organized by Bob Marley with the support of [[Prime Minister of Jamaica|Jamaican Prime Minister]] [[Michael Manley]], Rita, Bob, and manager Don Taylor were wounded in an assault by gunmen affiliated to Marley's opponents inside the Marley home. Rita survived a shot to the
Bob Marley claimed to have been a captain in the Royal Marines; at the time of his marriage to Cedella Booker, an Afro-Jamaican then 18 years old, he was employed as a plantation overseer. Bob Marley's full name is Robert Nesta Marley, though some sources give his birth name as Nesta Robert Marley, with a story that when Marley was still a boy a Jamaican passport official reversed his first and middle names because Nesta sounded like a girl's name. Norval provided financial support for his wife and child but seldom saw them as he was often away. Bob Marley attended Stepney