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Bob Weir, the U.S. guitarist and songwriter who co-founded the Grateful Dead and helped redefine American rock through six decades on the road, has died at 78, his family announced. Weir was diagnosed with cancer in July and had beaten the disease but “succumbed to underlying lung issues,” his family said in a statement posted on his personal website. The statement did not specify where or when he died. “For over sixty years, Bobby took to the road,” the family said. “Bobby will forever be a guiding force whose unique…

The picture is taken on the foot of the Lion of Judah monument in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital. Within the foreground, Bob Marley, carrying a green-yellow-red jacket, his dreadlocks hidden beneath one in every of the big caps that Rastafarians love. Behind him, excessive up on the pedestal, is the statue of the lion carrying a crown and holding a spire in its entrance left paw. The picture, stuffed with which means, is a focus of reggae symbolism. And one in every of the few images that testifies to the…