Heartland Reggae presents a DVD music documentary about the formative time of Rock Roots Reggae in the late 1970s and its interplay with the political situation at that time. The film centres around the One Love Peace Concert held to try to bring together the factional political parties of the time. Just 60 miles from Cuba Jamaica caught the attention of the American Intelligence (an oxymoron if ever there was one) Agencies in the late Seventies when the JLP (Jamaican Labour Party) leader and Prime Minister Michael Manley expressed a desire for Jamaica to be strategically aligned with other Third World nations. Fearing that Jamaica would go the same way as Cuba the CIA started pouring money and weapons into the country to support the opposing Peoples National Party whilst the Cuban intelligence agencies did the same for the JLP. Blood ran on the streets for several years and even Bob Marley was caught up in the violence when gunmen burst into his studio in Kingston shooting his manager and grazing Bob on the chest whilst the remaining Wailers fled upstairs and hid in a tin bath! After his near-death experience Bob Marley fled Jamaica to London for 15 months until persuaded to return to feature in the One Love Concert held in Kingston in Spring 1978 with other main-line reggae artists of the day. Against all the odds Bob whilst in a seemingly transcendental state manages to entice opposing factional leaders Michael Manley and Edward Seaga on stage and unite them in handshake accompanied by a flash of lighting and clap of thunder from the heavens (fair dinkum!). Apparently following the concert the opposing factions having seen that their leaders werent hell bent on killing each other cooled down the conflict. Manley and Seaga never met again for three years until the time of Marleys death in May 1981. Sadly last year saw a flare-up of the factional violence to mark the 20th anniversary of his death from cancer.   The Heartland Reggae film features muc...