For 15 years Marley has been singing of a benighted people caught up in the octopal tentacles of an inept and often corrupt government.

a tearing great giant of a man

Nor let the supposition of matrimonial differences frighten you: honey-moon lasts not now-a-days above a fortnight; and Dunmow flitch, as I have been informed, was never claimed; though some say once it was.

Unlike Basie's increasingly repetitious piano noodlings, Young's melodic gestures had a way of staying fresh and inventive.