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"No Woman, No Cry" is a reggae song performed by Bob Marley and the Wailers. The song was recorded in 1974 and released on the studio album Natty Dread. [2]The live recording of this song from the 1975 album Live! was released as a single and is the best-known version; it was later included on several compilation albums, including the greatest hits compilation Legend.
Vincent Ford (10 November 1940 – 28 December 2008), known as "Tata" or "Tartar", was a Jamaican songwriter best known for receiving writing credit for "No Woman, No Cry", the reggae song made famous by Bob Marley & The Wailers, as well as three other Bob Marley songs. However, controversy persisted as to whether the compositions had actually ...
Sting said he based the song on Bob Marley's "No Woman, No Cry": "People thrashing out three chords didn't really interest us musically. Reggae was accepted in punk circles and musically more sophisticated, and we could play it, so we veered off in that direction. I mean let's be honest here, 'So Lonely' was unabashedly culled from 'No Woman No ...
The song has been performed by artists as diverse as Boney M. (sung by Liz Mitchell), The Fugees, Pearl Jam, Jimmy Buffett, Rancid and Gilberto Gil. Songwriting credit for "No Woman, No Cry" went to V. Ford. Vincent Ford, better known as "Tartar" to his friends and neighbors, had been a kind friend of Marley as a child in Trenchtown.
According to the german Wikipedia the exact song title is not "No woman, no cry" (meaning if there is no woman, there is no reason to cry) but "No, woman, no cry" (i.e. an request to a woman not to cry). So the comma after the first "no" is really important. It is probably a song written by Marley as an apology to his wife.
Rita Marley was born in Santiago de Cuba, to Leroy Anderson and Cynthia "Beda" Jarrett.Her parents moved to Kingston, Jamaica, when she was three months old. [2] In her memoir, No Woman No Cry: My Life with Bob Marley, Rita describes how she was raised by her Aunt Viola after her parents separated. [3]
It has inspired songs such as Rob Paravonian's "Pachelbel Rant" and the Axis of Awesome's "Four Chords", which comment on the number of popular songs borrowing the same tune or harmonic structure. [1] [2] "Four Chords" does not directly focus on the chords from Pachelbel's Canon, instead focusing on the I–V–vi–IV progression. [3]
The chorus of "Don't Matter" is partially based on the 1979 Bob Marley and the Wailers song "Zimbabwe", [5] with Bob Marley receiving an additional songwriting credit on the Akon track. [6] According to Akon, "Don't Matter" was also influenced by Marley's 1974 song "No Woman, No Cry". [7] "The topic matter, lyrically, is sad, but the song just ...