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Bob Marley biopic turns a complicated subject into the Messiah

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Bob Marley: One Love is bookended by two concerts, in 1976 and 1978, both intended to foster peace in a Jamaica that had long been polarised by political violence.

Such a narrow time frame for this story of the reggae pioneer, who died in 1981 at the age of 36 from skin cancer, is unusual.

Most doomed-pop-musician biopics follow the trajectory of self-invention over a longer span (see Bohemian Rhapsody, which introduced us to Freddie

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