Two days before a peace concert in Kingston, gunmen burst into Bob Marley’s home and shot him, his wife, and his manager. He performed the concert anyway, lifting his shirt onstage to show the bandages. The smile never wavered, but the scars never healed.

This episode follows Marley from Trenchtown poverty through his transformation of reggae into a global movement, the assassination attempt that defined his courage, and the cancer that killed him at thirty-six.

• He was shot in 1976 during political violence in Jamaica and performed two days later
• He transformed reggae from a regional genre into an international cultural force
• He refused to amputate his cancerous toe for religious reasons, and the cancer spread fatally
• His funeral in Jamaica drew a crowd estimated at over 100,000 people