by Rob Kenner
In late 1979, a mustachioed "60 Minutes" correspondent named George Negus asked Bob Marley if he was a rich man.
"When you say 'rich,' what you mean?" the reggae superstar replied with a poker face.
Do you have a lot of possessions? Lots of money in the bank?
"Possessions make you rich?" Marley asked skeptically. "I don't have that type of richness. My richness is life, forever."
Though he would succumb to cancer two years later, Marley's words still ring true. The Rasta soul rebel's songs of freedom are more relevant than ever three decades after his death at age 36. "Bob Marley's in every new day," his widow, Rita Marley, says by telephone from her home in Ghana, where she's sponsoring the Africa Unite Youth Symposium at the Institute of African Studies to mark what would have been his 66th birthday on Feb. 6. "There's not one day that his music is not played all over the world."
