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...born in Jamaica in 1945 and died in Miami in 1981, would have turned 60 years old on February 6th. Like the island on which he was born, he was man of many names and many identities. When Bono, the lead singer of the Irish rock band U2, inducted Marley into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, he said this about the Tuff Gong: "He wanted everything at the same time and was everything at the same time: prophet, soul rebel, Rastaman, herbsman, wild man, a natural mystic man, ladies man, island man, family man, Rita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remembering Bob Marley | 2/4/2005 | See Source »

...rock star and activist is to loudly applaud when politicians get it right and to make their lives a misery when they do not." BONO, lead singer of U2, urging political and business leaders to do more to fight poverty in Africa, during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 1/31/2005 | See Source »

...Nissan Sentra left her underwhelmed. Then she spotted the Mazda3, a sporty four-cylinder hatchback launched in 2003. You might think of hatchbacks as wheezy econoboxes from the 1970s. But Dekat, 22, a loan processor from Dallas, liked the Mazda's svelte style and pep; she pictured herself blasting U2 out the windows and impressing her friends. "I fell in love with it at first sight," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Small the Next Big Thing? | 1/10/2005 | See Source »

...world's biggest band and everyone's favorite MP3 player teamed up for a Technicolor promotion hyping U2's special-edition iPod and new album. Sales? They're high enough to induce Vertigo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing 2004 Hot Spots | 12/30/2004 | See Source »

Geldof and other Africa activists, like U2 front man Bono, are wonderful advocates for the push to cancel the continent's debt and open up Western markets to Africa's farmers. But I suggest they change their tune and come up with a hit demanding that the West drop its agricultural subsidies, cancel more debt and urge Africa's worst leaders to go. How about something like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do They Know It's Simplistic | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

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