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"Stir It Up" was the first Marley-written song to be successful outside Jamaica. Another tune written by Bob Marley, " I Shot The Sheriff ", was covered by Eric Clapton on the album 461 Ocean Boulevard , July 1974.
Most of Bob Marley's early music was recorded with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, who together with Marley were the most prominent members of the Wailers.In 1972, the Wailers had their first hit outside Jamaica when Johnny Nash covered their song "Stir It Up", which became a UK hit.
In 2012, Marley's former girlfriend Esther Anderson claimed that the lyrics, "Sheriff John Brown always hated me / For what, I don't know / Every time I plant a seed / He said, 'Kill it before it grow'" are actually about Marley being very opposed to her use of birth control pills; Marley supposedly replaced the word "doctor" with sheriff.
However, politics are not the only theme; "Stir It Up", for example, is a love song. [1] "Stir It Up", along with other Marley songs, was later covered by Johnny Nash on the I Can See Clearly Now album, peaking at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. [6]
Bob Marley was born in 1945, the son of an 18-year-old mother and a much older white man who had nothing to do with his son. Five years after moving to Kingston’s Trench Town, he made his first ...
A Bob Marley & the Wailers album, Confrontation, was released in May 1983, two year's after Bob Marley's death. It contained unreleased and demo songs recorded during Marley's lifetime. Backing vocals by the I-Threes were added to several of the songs to give the album some consistency.
Grooving Kingston 12 is a 3 disc box set of Bob Marley and the Wailers material from the 1967-1972 period released in 2004 by Universal and JAD Records. [1] An update of the Complete Wailers series along with Fy-Ah Fy-Ah and "Man To Man", it contains remastered versions of almost everything released during that period.
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