Kaleidoscopic… [So Much Things to Say] delves deeply into Marley’s music and influences, including his politics and spirituality.”

Crucial to the understanding of [Marley] the artist and the man….If you think you know the story of Bob Marley’s life and career from existing biographies, you’ll be amazed at how much you learn reading this book….Highly recommended!

A landmark of reggae literature that's been 15 years in the making. …This book, together with his collection of photographs called Family
Acid is [Steffens’] defining masterpiece, and the jewel in his crown.”

So Much Things to Say is a major work that helps us better understand Marley’s tragic yet inspirational tale.”

Compulsively readable, exquisitely researched.

Marley is not a demigod here, but an unwanted boy who fell upon the gift of brightening the world… So Much Things to Say reveals a Marley of flesh and blood.”

I thought I’d read all there was to know about Bob Marley, but So Much Things To Say offers fresh insights into his life and times. Steffens allows the voices—often surprising, contentious, provocative—to speak for themselves. Riveting.”

A complete portrait… So Much Things to Say calls on many voices to recall the one iconic voice—Marley’s.”

Majestic.…So Much Things to Say offers a riveting portrait—drawn from four decades of interviews with friends, family, and fellow musicians—of the Jamaican music legend.”

If there’s such thing as a good addiction, this book is it. For anyone who has taken the time to dig even a little bit deeper into the meaning of Bob’s music and life, to get beyond the surface level and often times inaccurate and watered down portrayal of him by the mainstream today, these firsthand accounts will twist your head into a whole new landscape of understanding. Artfully guided by Roger Steffens’s expertise and insight, you will come away with a vision of Bob that is REAL, with all the earthly complexities, contradictions, struggle and transcendent truths that complete the multifaceted prism that was Marley’s life. For any musical artist, this book will reignite the inspiration and challenge that Marley left us with: to dig deep and recommit to ‘who you are and where you stand in the struggle.

Jamaican oral history is never simple. Testimony goes from re-collection to re-collective, which brings us as close to the original as nuance will allow. Roger Steffens has expertly navigated this diversity to bring us the journey of the incredible spirit of Bob Marley.

Indispensable… A captivating and unfiltered narrative of the man, his music and his world…[and] a trove for even the most dedicated aficionado. Absolutely crucial reading!

Roger Steffens uncorks with remarkable clarity many lifetimes of close personal memories on the evolution of reggae's biggest ambassador. Amazingly, there are few Rashomon-like differing points of view. So Much Things To Say perfectly ferrets out his inherent humanity and complexity while revealing much important information previous biographies were unaware of. Marley's parents bridged two worlds. Steffens' brilliant and concise magnum opus, interjected with his crucial contextualizing, does more than any other book on Bob Marley to showcase the intimate and confounding detail of that tough and troubled tightrope dance. Essential reading for all.”

A truly definitive interpretation of the life of Bob Marley. Roger Steffens’s immense knowledge and great love for his subject shines out of every page. “Who feels it knows it,” sang Marley. Reading So Much Things to Say, you feel no one knows it more than Roger Steffens. A magnificent achievement.”

So Much Things to Say. . . is a fitting tribute to the tumultuous life and complex character of the country’s favorite son.”

Roger Steffens was embedded on the road with Bob Marley and the Wailers in 1979, interviewing, photographing, witnessing as Bob morphed from a third world superstar to an international champion of human worth and dignity. So Much Things to Say is Steffens’s must-read/can’t-stop-reading account of Bob Marley’s historic career and his indelible achievements.”

All true gospels are shaped by the accounts of eyewitnesses. Roger Steffens has collected these accounts and has given us a book of truths complicated by the bending of memory, motive and mystery. The effect is a fresh and renewed affirmation of Marley’s genius, humanity and mystique. This book is a triumph of the storytelling virtuosity of Jamaican people and a testament to the care and glorious obsessions of Roger Steffens.

Eyewitness to history, Roger Steffens braids his voice with all the other major players from the Bob Marley story in So Much Things to Say for a gripping, detailed, and penetrating look at one of the 20th century's greatest musicians. Jah lives.”

So Much Things to Say is by far the most important and definitive book written about Bob Marley, therefore in my opinion the best book about Jamaican music. It ranks with Mezz Mezzrow's Really the Blues masterpiece, Mike Gerber's Jazz Jews and Keith Richards' Life. It's beyond a book about music, it's a major ethnology study. Just like the best Mandela or Gandhi or Lennon biographies, it's about mankind on an anthropologic level. It's about identity, culture, pride, spirituality — it helps us understand who we really are. That's what Bob Marley was all about, and as such his brilliant works stand unparalleled in the music business.”

If Bob Marley is Jesus in these times, Roger Steffens is Peter.

What emerges [from So Much Things to Say] isn’t a different Marley so much as one who feels a bit more human.”

[So Much Things to Say] narrates the life of Marley from cradle to grave… Steffens has been on the Marley case for decades, and he’s a crucial voice in this epic chorus….Illuminating.”

There has never been and will never be anything quite like this: Reggae's chief eyewitness, dropping testimony on Reggae's chief prophet with truth, blood, and fire.

This sprawling but gripping biography is a fitting tribute to Jamaica’s favourite son.

So Much Things to Say is a fascinating page-turner which leaves conclusions to the reader.”