When Bob Came

On a wet Easter weekend in 1979, Bob Marley arrived in New Zealand to play a gif at Western Springs Stadium in Auckland. James Rolleston looks back at the day.

James Rolleston will guide is through the musical legacy Bob has had on Aotearoa with extended footage of Bob and his band onstage entertaining 22,000 kiwis and changing the face of our nation.

James Rolleston explores how a Bob Marley's music and message of rights, justice, resistance and liberation became a soundtrack to many movements.

Bob Marley is still known as the Marijuana Messiah to many and his influence on the use of cannabis is almost immeasurable. This episode looks at drug culture in New Zealand.

After Bob Marley's concert, there was a large sell in the number of Me Zealanders converting to the Rastafari Culture and this episode takes a look at the culture in New Zealand.

James Rolleston looks back at New Zealand's conflicted history and how Bob Marley's concert contributed to the growing movement within New Zealand at the time of language revitalization, land reclamation and cultural pride