8 A Legend and His Legacy

CHAPTER 8 A Legend and His Legacy In June 1980, the album Uprising was released. The album was a hit in the UK and was rising up the US charts. In September, Bob and the Wailers performed at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The shows were packed. Bob had reached a new level of success and had many fans in the US. Sometimes, when Bob and Rita were in New York City, they went to church together on Sundays,

1980年6月，专辑《起义》发行。 这张专辑在英国大受欢迎，在美国的排行榜上也节节攀升。 9月，鲍勃和威勒乐队在纽约麦迪逊广场花园演出。 演出座无虚席。鲍勃的成功达到了一个新的高度，在美国有很多粉丝。 有时候，鲍勃和丽塔在纽约的时候，他们会在星期天一起去教堂，

especially the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. The morning after the shows at Madison Square Garden, Rita called Bob to invite him to go along with her. Bob sounded strange on the phone. "What happened? You didn't sleep last night?" Rita asked. Bob said he felt nauseous. Rita stopped by his room to check on him. He seemed like he just needed rest, so Rita went to church without him. To get some air, Bob went jogging in Central Park with a couple of friends. Before they got very far, Bob

尤其是埃塞俄比亚东正教。 麦迪逊广场花园演出结束后的第二天早上，丽塔打电话给鲍勃，邀请他和她一起去。 鲍勃在电话里听起来怪怪的。 “发生了什么事?你昨晚没睡？”丽塔问。 鲍勃说他觉得恶心。 丽塔路过他的房间去看他。 他看起来只是需要休息，所以丽塔自己去教堂了。 为了呼吸新鲜空气，鲍勃和几个朋友去中央公园慢跑。 在他们走远之前，鲍勃

collapsed. His friends helped him to his feet. They took Bob to the hospital. The cancer from years before had spread to Bob's brain. The doctors said Bob was very sick. But they advised him to continue performing until he couldn't anymore. Rita was worried. She wanted to believe that there was something else they could do for Bob. A few nights later, Bob gave his last performance in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For ninety minutes, the band played and the crowd cheered, and no one could tell Bob was sick. When the show ended, the audience called the band back onstage to play some more. It was as great a show as ever.

崩溃了。他的朋友帮他站了起来。 他们带鲍勃去了医院。 几年前的癌症已经扩散到鲍勃的大脑。 医生说鲍勃病得很重。 但他们建议他继续表演，直到他不能再表演为止。 丽塔很担心。她愿意相信他们还能为鲍勃做点什么。 几天后，鲍勃在宾夕法尼亚州的匹兹堡进行了他的最后一场演出。 乐队演奏了90分钟，人群欢呼起来，没有人能看出鲍勃病了。 演出结束后，观众把乐队叫回舞台继续演奏。 这是一场一如既往的精彩演出。

Bob's doctors told him that he had only three weeks left to live. But he was going to fight. Bob and his family traveled to Germany. There Bob received chemotherapy, a strong treatment for cancer that makes the body very weak. Bob had always been thin. But the chemotherapy had made him skinny. He lost his hair. His dreadlocks had always been an important link to his Rastafari beliefs. Then, in a move that surprised his fans, Bob was baptized in the Orthodox Christian Church. On February 6, 1981, Bob celebrated his thirty-sixth birthday in the hospital with friends and family. He wanted to travel back to Jamaica one last time. He had also just received the Jamaican Order of Merit, an honor reserved for two people each year. He left Germany and traveled to Florida so that he could see his mother. On May 11, 1981, Bob died at a hospital in Miami with family by his side. He didn't live long enough to

鲍勃的医生告诉他，他只剩下三个星期的生命了。 但他要去战斗。 鲍勃和他的家人去了德国。 在那里，鲍勃接受了化疗，这是一种治疗癌症的强效疗法，会使身体变得非常虚弱。 鲍勃一直很瘦。但化疗使他变得瘦骨嶙峋。 他掉了头发。他的脏辫一直是他的拉斯塔法里信仰的重要纽带。 然后，鲍勃在东正教教堂接受了洗礼，这让他的粉丝们大吃一惊。 1981年2月6日，鲍勃在医院与朋友和家人一起庆祝了他的36岁生日。 他想最后一次回牙买加旅行。 他还刚刚获得了牙买加功绩勋章，这是一项每年只授予两个人的荣誉。 他离开德国，前往佛罗里达，以便见到他的母亲。 1981年5月11日，鲍勃在家人的陪伴下在迈阿密的一家医院去世。 他活得不够长

see Jamaica again. Three days later, one hundred thousand people passed by Bob's coffin in Kingston to have their last look at the reggae superstar—as many people as had greeted Emperor Selassie years earlier. The Jamaican government paid for Bob's funeral. And on May 21, he was buried with his guitar on the tallest hill in his hometown of Nine Mile.

再看看牙买加。三天后，十万人经过鲍勃在金斯顿的灵柩，向这位雷鬼巨星看最后一眼——就像几年前迎接塞拉西皇帝一样。 牙买加政府支付了鲍勃的葬礼费用。 5月21日，他和他的吉他一起被埋葬在他家乡九英里最高的山上。