by Howard Campbell
SOUTH FLORIDA – “Legend”, the best-of album by Bob Marley and The Wailers, has notched yet one more milestone practically 40 years after its launch.
The compilation clocked its 800th week on the Billboard 200 (album) chart, solely the second album to perform that outstanding feat. Darkish Aspect of The Moon by British band Pink Floyd is first to attain the standing, and is closing in on 1,000 weeks in that chart.
Legend is presently quantity 106 on the Billboard 200. Reissued and repackaged a number of occasions, it has offered over 25 million copies globally.
Launched by Island Data in 1984, three years after Marley’s loss of life, it incorporates among the reggae king’s greatest hits together with the ever-present One Love, Exodus, Ready in Useless, Three Little Birds, Redemption Tune and Jamming.
These songs helped make the Jamaican Rastafarian world-famous. Earlier than occurring a solo profession in 1974, Marley was a member of The Wailers with Peter Tosh and Bunny Livingston (later Bunny Wailer), with whom he recorded two critically-acclaimed albums (Catch A Fireplace and Burnin’) in 1973.
Natty Dread, his first album for Island Data, was launched in 1974. Marley died in Could, 1981 in Miami at age 36.
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