THE trouble with Marley's best-known stuff is over-familiarity and the iconification of the singer's image which has gone on since his death in 1981.
It makes it impossible to separate his place in popular culture from the music he made.
That said, these are the songs that took reggae from the hands of the cherished underground and forced it into mainstream.
This bread and butter compilation boasts all his best known tunes plus a new one called Slogans which Eric Clapton completed from a 1979 Marley demo - it's not much more than a revisit of No Woman No Cry but with tuffer lyrics - and a bolt-on bonus called And Be Loved featuring Bob's boy Damian rapping over breaks culled from his dad's Could You Be Loved.
Nick Churchill
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