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Bob Marley: I and Unity

Lenny Kaye, Hit Parader, April 1980

THE APOLLO Theatre sits astride 125th St like a beacon, sparkling between the long rows of steel-shuttered shops like a diamond in a ring. But once inside, the bare functionalism and lack of ornamentation on a reality that lends direct attention to the stage, where dream and fantasy and future hope have always had their play before the black community in this ghetto.

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