I love Reggae and I love Bob Marley and I love this song of his best of all.
I had this song on a single, which I bought in 1984 round about the time the ‘Legend’ Album (which was a retrospective of Bob Marley’s music) was released and resulted in a number of his songs (such as ‘One Love’ and ‘Waiting In Vain’) hitting the charts. I had taken an interest in Bob’s music previously and remember when ‘Could You Be Loved’ was in the charts and on ‘Top Of The Pops’, but like many others was not really fully aware of what a talent and truly great musician he was until after he had gone and Island Records released ‘Legend’ which is well deservedly the best selling Reggae Album of all time.
I remember watching Jools Holland on ‘The Tube’ visiting Trench Town and doing a feature on Bob Marley for the show where I learned more about the man and his music and it was during that segment that they played a section of this song. ‘No Woman, No Cry’ is a very emotional and very powerful song which had changed significantly from the time Bob originally wrote it as a much faster number to the version we hear in his final recordings. The most famous recording of the song is the one recorded during Bob’s live concert at the Lyceum in 1975, however as the song was always evolving and changing up until Bob’s final performance I have a later version for you to enjoy now…
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