Bob Marley assassination attempt at National Heroes Park, Kingston, Jamaica. Bob Marley & The Wailers agreed to headline the peace concert. Bob Marley claimed to not be involved in Jamaican politics and had originally agreed to play one song at the concert on the condition that the concert wasn’t political. However, after Manley moved the elections up to within ten days of the concert, those loyal to both parties considered Marley’s “Smile Jamaica” song and concert to be an endorsement for the PNP. At 830 pm, on December 3, 1976, two days before the Smile Jamaica concert, seven men with guns raided Marley’s house
Pat Kelly (musician) Pat Kelly (musician) Pat Kelly (born 1944, Kingston, Jamaica) is a reggae singer whose career began in the late 1960s. Kelly was born in Kingston in 1944. After leaving school, he spent a year studying electronics in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States during 1966, before returning to Jamaica. In 1967, when Slim Smith left The Techniques, Kelly was brought in to replace him, recording for Duke Reid in the rocksteady era when Reid's Treasure Isle studio/label was dominating Jamaican music. Kelly's falsetto voice, strongly influenced by the American soul singer Sam Cooke, in combination with Winston Riley and Bruce Ruffin, maintained