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“Redemption Song" is considered to be Bob Marley's seminal work. The lyrics are from a speech given by the Pan-Africanist orator Marcus Garvey. It is the last track on Bob Marley and the Wailers' ninth Island music album, Uprising.
Marley wrote the song in 1979. At the time, he was diagnosed with the cancer that eventually took his life. According to Rita Marley, "he was already secretly in a lot of pain and dealt with his own mortality, a feature that is clearly apparent in the album, particularly in this song."
Unlike most of Bob Marley's tracks, it is a solo recording, consisting of Marley singing and playing an acoustic guitar. However, he employs a full band In subsequent live performances. A full band rendition of "Redemption Song" is available on the 2001 reissue of Uprising and the 2001 compilation, One Love: The Very Best of Bob Marley & the Wailers.
Nonetheless, the solo performance remains the take most familiar to listeners.
In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine placed the song at #66 among The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
The song lyrics include, "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery," because "None but ourselves can free our minds." These lines are from a speech given by Marcus Garvey in Nova Scotia in1937 and published in his Black Man magazine:
We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind ..
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