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It all happened by chance.
Chris Blackwell (far right), with (from left) Junior Marvin, Bob Marley & Jacob Miller, en route to Brazil in 1980.
Isnt that always how legendary careers startwith someone chasing their own shambolic unicorn to wherever it might lead?
And he saw that, and he got that.
Ive lived there since 1995, and I just love it, he says.
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Its primalits the earliest jot down of building, really.
But I wanted people here to mixdo you know what I mean?
Thats the most important thing.
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Its like living life, in a way.
After a nap, I even squeezed in the odd private yoga session.
What I didnt expect him to tell me was how it almost caused him to be murdered.
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It was coming up to election time, and I knew it could be warfare.
And I said, That sounds really good, Scratchhow long will it take to mix it?
He said, About an hour and a half.
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I would have been there, Blackwell is telling me now, still dumbfounded more than four decades later.
If Lee Perry would have been on time, I would have been thereand Id be an easy target.
Id heard hed collapsed in Central Park, but I didnt know his condition.
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And then he said, Lets take a picture.
Id told Bob years earlier that wed never have a picture of just the two of us taken together.
But Bob, for the first time, insisted: Lets take a picture.
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Im just happy we got on so well.
