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Adrian Boot

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Adrian Boot is a British music photographer who first went to Jamaica to teach physics in the early 1970s and became one of the best-known documentarians of reggae. Working for NME, Melody Maker and later Island Records, he became an official photographer of Bob Marley, and co-authored (with Chris Salewicz) the authorized photo biography 'Bob Marley: Songs of Freedom' and 'Reggae Explosion: The Story of Jamaican Music'.

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