Bob Marley & The Wailers – Legend (1984) CD Album
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Bob Marley & The Wailers – Legend (1984)
Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and the Wailers is the definitive greatest hits compilation by Bob Marley & The Wailers, originally released in May 1984 on Island Records — three years after Marley's death in May 1981. It is the best-selling reggae album of all time, having sold over 28 million copies worldwide, and one of the best-selling albums in any genre in history. It has spent more weeks on the UK Albums Chart than any other album ever released, and continues to chart regularly more than four decades after its original release. This expanded edition presents 16 tracks — including the original 14-track compilation plus Easy Skanking and Punky Reggae Party — and spans Marley's career from his early Island recordings through to his final albums. Produced across his career by Chris Blackwell and The Wailers, the recordings capture one of the most important and influential artists of the twentieth century at the peak of his creative powers. Redemption Song — recorded alone with an acoustic guitar in 1980 — remains one of the most moving and politically resonant recordings in popular music history.
Highlights
- Redemption Song — Marley's final masterpiece and one of the great recordings in popular music; recorded alone with an acoustic guitar, the song draws on a speech by Marcus Garvey and delivers a message of spiritual and political liberation with a simplicity and directness that is completely overwhelming. Its power has only grown in the decades since Marley's death.
- No Woman, No Cry — The live version from the Lyceum, London (1975) and one of the most emotionally affecting live recordings ever released; Marley's vocal is warm and completely present, the crowd's response is palpable and the song's message of comfort and solidarity is delivered with a generosity and love that is impossible to resist.
- One Love / People Get Ready — Marley's most universally beloved song and his most explicit statement of spiritual unity; the Curtis Mayfield interpolation gives the track an additional gospel dimension and the performance is one of the most joyful and life-affirming moments in the reggae canon.
- Exodus — The album's most musically expansive track at over seven minutes; a driving, hypnotic reggae song that builds with real force and gives the compilation one of its most viscerally exciting and rhythmically compelling moments, demonstrating the full power of The Wailers as a band.
- Three Little Birds — One of the most perfectly constructed songs in Marley's catalogue; a simple, unhurried message of reassurance delivered with complete sincerity and warmth, and one of the most immediately recognisable and universally loved recordings in popular music.
CD Details
- Title: Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and the Wailers
- Artist: Bob Marley & The Wailers
- Year: 1984 (this pressing later)
- Label: Island Records / Universal Music
- Producer: Chris Blackwell, The Wailers
- Format: CD Compilation (Expanded Edition – 16 tracks)
- Barcode: 4007196102552
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