When I listen to the songs my children play I realise just how far apart we are musically. Ok there are some of 'the greats' they have come to appreciate, like Michael Jackson, Madonna and….. Michael Sembello (who?). But my children are still quite young and if they follow the pattern that I and most of my friends followed, there will come a time when they will choose their rebel anthems, the songs that will define their coming of age, their zits, their longing to be heard; their anger with the rigid and uncaring, unjust world they have been plunged…

I think I'm being haunted. I have always loved Bob Marley songs, especially some of the older tracks done with the Wailers. But in the last week or so something has been urging me to play him non-stop. I first started listening to Bob Marley as a child growing up in the West Indian majority town of Brixton, London - England in the 1970s. It was nice enough, but it was my parent's music. I fell in love with breakdance and Hip-Hop like the rest of my generation. It was not until my first year of University that I got…