BBC Wants To Interview Bob Marley

AmsterdamdreamN · #1 (**permalink**) 04-01-2005, 10:17 PM

BBC asks long-dead Bob Marley for interview

Fri Apr 1,11:57 AM ET Offbeat - AFP

LONDON (AFP) - A red-faced BBC apologised for requesting an interview with Bob Marley, the Jamaican reggae legend who died 24 years ago.

BBC Three, one of the public broadcaster's digital TV channels, sent an e-mail to the Bob Marley Foundation saying it wanted to do a documentary about his hit song "No Woman No Cry".

It said the project would involve Marley -- who died of cancer in May 1981 at the age of 36 -- "spending one or two days with us", and that "it would only work with some participation from Bob Marley himself".

In a statement, the BBC said: "We are obviously very embarrassed that we didn't realise that the letter to the Marley Foundation did not acknowledge that Mr Marley is no longer with us." ( So they are saying they KNEW he was dead, and they wanted him on the show anyway? )

Marley would have been 60 last February 6, a date that was celebrated with great fanfare by his legion of fans worldwide.

A BBC press officer, contacted by AFP in London on Friday, confirmed that the gaffe was not an April Fool's joke.
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I guess some of our great American investigating techniques are starting to rub off of the Brits! I can't wait til they interview Elvis!

dreamN

some_might_say · #2 (**permalink**) 04-01-2005, 10:22 PM

Sounds like they've been on the herb to me

mike59271 · #3 (**permalink**) 04-01-2005, 11:08 PM

morons

el-producto · #4 (**permalink**) 04-02-2005, 12:34 AM

LOL STUPID ASS

Natural Mystic · #5 (**permalink**) 04-04-2005, 02:48 AM

Haha.. idiots.

I still love you Marley! lol

JGarrison · #6 (**permalink**) 04-05-2005, 01:41 AM

hey at least bob's getting some recognition...

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#1 (permalink) 04-01-2005, 10:17 PM
AmsterdamdreamN Slow MoFo Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: 22 Acacia Avenue Posts: 336	BBC Wants To Interview Bob Marley BBC asks long-dead Bob Marley for interview Fri Apr 1,11:57 AM ET Offbeat - AFP LONDON (AFP) - A red-faced BBC apologised for requesting an interview with Bob Marley, the Jamaican reggae legend who died 24 years ago. BBC Three, one of the public broadcaster's digital TV channels, sent an e-mail to the Bob Marley Foundation saying it wanted to do a documentary about his hit song "No Woman No Cry". It said the project would involve Marley -- who died of cancer in May 1981 at the age of 36 -- "spending one or two days with us", and that "it would only work with some participation from Bob Marley himself". In a statement, the BBC said: "We are obviously very embarrassed that we didn't realise that the letter to the Marley Foundation did not acknowledge that Mr Marley is no longer with us." ( So they are saying they KNEW he was dead, and they wanted him on the show anyway? ) Marley would have been 60 last February 6, a date that was celebrated with great fanfare by his legion of fans worldwide. A BBC press officer, contacted by AFP in London on Friday, confirmed that the gaffe was not an April Fool's joke. __________________________________________________ ________ I guess some of our great American investigating techniques are starting to rub off of the Brits! I can't wait til they interview Elvis! dreamN __________________ "The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living" - U.S General Omar Bradley, 1948

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el-producto Banned Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Texas, home of Screw and lean sippers Posts: 1,671	LOL STUPID ASS

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Natural Mystic Master Jedi Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: a world with no invisible boarders Posts: 1,057	Haha.. idiots. I still love you Marley! lol __________________ It won’t take too long when you’re short of time to point out some good left about mankind. You can learn to love what you can destroy. That’s what I call sacrificing what you’ve got for freedom -Over It Try not. Do or do not, there is no try... -Yoda What is the _Matrix?_ Don't worry, be happy. If you want to be productive, be creative. We love the all the all of you. Our lands are green and skies are blue

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JGarrison Registered User Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Sunnyvale, CA Posts: 75	hey at least bob's getting some recognition... __________________ "If You Don't Like My Fire, Then Don't Come Around, Cause I'm Gonna Burn One Down!" Ben Harper - Burn On Down

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