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The greatest hits album Legend was released in 1984 and became the best-selling reggae album of all time. [17] Marley also ranks as one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with estimated sales of more than 75 million records worldwide. [18]
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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.
Legend is a compilation album by Bob Marley and the Wailers.It was released on 7 May 1984 by Island Records. [2] It is a greatest hits collection of singles in its original vinyl format and is the best-selling reggae album of all-time, with more than 18 million copies sold in the US, more than 3.3 million in the UK (where it is the 17th best-selling album [3]) and an estimated 25 million ...
— Bob Marley and the Wailers, “Redemption Song” “So, come with me, to a land of liberty, / Where we can live, live our lives and be free.” — Bob Marley and the Wailers, “400 years”
It was followed by Burnin', which included the song "I Shot the Sheriff". Eric Clapton's cover of the song became a hit in 1974. Bob Marley proceeded with Bob Marley and the Wailers, which included the Wailers Band and the I Threes. In 1975, he had his first own hit outside Jamaica with "No Woman, No Cry", from the Live! album.
In a review of the song on AllMusic, Thomas Ward stated that it "has an almost hymnal quality to it" and that "everything about the song is ethereal and inspired" while going on to say that "Although the lyrics are vague, they’re no less effective than, say, Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" and “Natural Mystic” has become one of Bob Marley’s signature songs, and one of his greatest ...
In 2004, Rolling Stone placed the song at number 66 among "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". In 2010, the New Statesman listed it as one of the Top 20 Political Songs. [6] On 5 February 2020 (on the eve of what would have been his 75th birthday), Marley's estate released an official animated video for the song. [7]