BY KEVIN JACKSON—
Observer writer—
Bob Marley—
OVER the past 12 months, three albums and five songs from the Bob Marley and the Wailers catalogue have been certified gold, silver, or platinum in the United Kingdom. The certifications were issued by British Phonographic Industry.
Stir It Up was certified silver in September for sales of more than 200,000. It was released digitally in November 2004.
Stir it Up was composed by Marley, who, along with the Wailers, recorded and released it in 1967. American singer Johnny Nash covered the song on his 1972 album I Can See Clearly Now. The following year, Marley and the Wailers rerecorded the song for their album Catch a Fire.
In August , Legend was issued a 13-time platinum certification. The top-selling Marley title of all time, it has sold 3.3 million in the United Kingdom and more than 33 million worldwide.
Legend was first released in May 1984 by Island Records. It is a greatest hits collection of singles in its original vinyl format and is the best-selling reggae album of all time, with over 11 million sold in the US. In 2003, the album was ranked number 46 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list.
Legend is currently spending its 45th week at number one on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
The single One Love/People Get Ready was certified gold in May for sales of 400,000. The song was featured on the 1977 album Exodus. It contains an interpolation of The Impressions’ song People Get Ready written by Curtis Mayfield. The original recording of the song does not credit Mayfield’s song and is simply titled One Love -– this is because copyright law was not enforced for Jamaican recordings at this time. When the famous version was recorded for Island Records in 1977, it was titled One Love/People Get Ready and Mayfield was credited.
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