"Bob Marley was coming over to do his first tour of England and I decided I wanted to photograph him, so I bunked off school to go to the club where he was doing the first date in London. As he walked towards me, I said 'can I take your picture?' and he said 'yeah man, come in'."
"And then he told me about the tour and he asked me if I'd like to come along. So next morning I packed my bag, as if I was doing sports, went to the hotel and we were off."
"There was a darkroom in the vicarage and I saw one of the older boys printing a photograph and I just knew that was going to be my life, really,"
"I took some great shots of him because I'd seen them perform from that first tour, so I knew exactly how he performed and I ended up with a cover for NME, Melody Maker and"
Dennis Morris bunked off school in 1973 to photograph Bob Marley during Marley's first England tour and was invited to join the tour. During soundchecks Marley and Morris exchanged stories about growing up in England and life in Jamaica. The tour ended early when band members insisted on returning at the first sight of snow. Morris was born in Jamaica in 1960, moved to London's East End at age five, and developed an interest in photography at nine as a choirboy with access to a vicarage darkroom. Later photographs of Marley included images from the Lyceum gig that became covers for NME and Melody Maker.
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