Introduction: the people speak / by Linton Kwesi Johnson

Where is my mother?

Trench town rocks

The Wailers at Studio One

Good good rudies

Love and affection

Rasta shook them up

Wailers a go wail

Nine Mile exile

The JAD years

Leslie Kong meets the Tuff Gang

Lee Perry and Jamaican politricks

Cold cold winters in Sweden and London

Island's kinky reggae

Burnin' out in London

The end of the beginning

Natty Dread

Hope Road runnings

Cindy Breakspeare and the 1975 tour

Rastaman vibration and fatal reissue

Ambush in the night

The CIA and the assassination attempt

Smile, you're in Jamaica

Who shot Bob Marley?

Exodus to London

Blackwell, Bob and business

The bloody toe in the Paris match

The One Love Peace concert

Babylon by bus from the U.N. to Ethiopia

Charity and survival

From the Apollo to Gabon

Natty mash it inna Zimbabwe

Uprising

Madison Square Garden then everything crash

Dr. Issels and the final days

Marley's legacy and the Wailers' favorite songs.