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This Week in Music History May: 6 - 12 -- Bob Marley Died, the Go-Gos Left Left and Neil Young Became a Spider

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Back in 1999 Time Magazine selected Bob Marley & the Wailers' Exodus as the greatest album of the 20th century. It was a fitting honor for a man whose music arguably defines a whole genre.

But Bob Marley's influence extends beyond one album and musical genre. Marley-ism is a cultural phenomenon and Marley events -- like Toronto's Mayor-declaring "Bob Marley Day" -- are a thing.

This week people all around the world, be they dreadlock rasta, buffalo soldier or soul rebel, will gather together to celebrate the 31st anniversary of the singer's untimely death.

Click on the gallery below to read more about Marley as well as what Neil Young, Andrew W.K. and Robert Johnson did to make music history this week.

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