Bob Marley – Biography

Bob Marley was born 6th February 1945 in a small village called Nine Miles in the parish of St. Ann, Jamaica. His father was a white British Naval Officer named Norval Marley. Bob had only a scant recollection of his father. This was largely due to the fact that the ‘well to do’ Marley family [...]

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Jim Morrision – Biography

Born James Douglas Morrison in 1943, the future rock star grew up in Melbourne, Florida. Jim Morrison’s upbringing was strict and conservative as the son of a Navy Admiral. In fact, it was not until college that Morrison even showed an interest in the arts.
His genuinely shy manner and soft, quiet voice was in direct [...]

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Kurt Cobain – Biography

Kurt Donald Cobain was born on the 20th of February 1967 in Hoquaim, a small town 140 kilometres south-west of Seattle. His mother was a cocktail waitress and his father was an auto mechanic. Cobain soon moved to nearby Aberdeen, a depressed and dying logging town
Cobain was for most his childhood a sickly bronchitic child. [...]

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Jimi Hendrix – Biography

James Marshal Hendrix was born in Seattle, Washington, on November 27, 1942; an American of African, European, Cherokee Indian and Mexican descent. An unsettled home environment made Jimi spend much of his early years staying with his grandmother, a full-blooded Cherokee Indian, in Canada.
His mother died when Jimi was 15 about the same time as [...]

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