<p>Listen to this February 5, 2020 flashback episode about Bob Marley, homeless at age 20 in one of the poorest cities of the Third World, he became a popular music phenomenon and 20th century icon.</p> <figure id="attachment_3209" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3209" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Bob-Marley-Best-Performance-photo.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3209 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Bob-Marley-Best-Performance-photo.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="437" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Bob-Marley-Best-Performance-photo.jpg 640w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Bob-Marley-Best-Performance-photo-300x205.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3209" class="wp-caption-text">Bob Marley performing in July of 1980</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_3213" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-3213" style="width: 570px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Bob-Marley-Mothers-house.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-3213 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Bob-Marley-Mothers-house.jpg" alt="" width="570" height="428" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Bob-Marley-Mothers-house.jpg 570w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Bob-Marley-Mothers-house-300x225.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-3213" class="wp-caption-text">Bob Marley&#8217;s mother&#8217;s home, Trench Town, Kingston, Jamaica</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_733" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-733" style="width: 360px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-Bunny-Wailer.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-733 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-Bunny-Wailer.jpg" alt="" width="360" height="480" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-Bunny-Wailer.jpg 360w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-Bunny-Wailer-225x300.jpg 225w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-733" class="wp-caption-text">Bunny Wailer, one of Marley&#8217;s earliest collaborators</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_732" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-732" style="width: 249px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-Peter-Tosh.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-732 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-Peter-Tosh.jpg" alt="" width="249" height="377" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-Peter-Tosh.jpg 249w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-Peter-Tosh-198x300.jpg 198w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-732" class="wp-caption-text">Peter Tosh, another Marley associate, performing in 1978</figcaption></figure> <figure id="attachment_726" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-726" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-IThrees.jpg"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-726 size-full" src="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-IThrees.jpg" alt="" width="640" height="426" srcset="https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-IThrees.jpg 640w, https://bytesizedbiographies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Bob-Marley-IThrees-300x200.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-726" class="wp-caption-text">The I Threes, performing with Marley, Rita, his wife, center</figcaption></figure>