Sleeve Notes1980
Could You Be Loved
Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1980Recording
Recorded in 1980 at Tuff Gong Studios in Kingston, Jamaica, for the Uprising sessions. Bob Marley & The Wailers worked with Chris Blackwell on the album, with Errol Brown engineering the recording. Released as the lead single from Uprising, it became one of Marley’s biggest crossover hits. In the UK it reached the Top 5 and helped define the album’s commercially successful run. It remains one of Bob Marley & The Wailers’ signature songs and a fixture of the Legend-era canon. The track has stayed in constant circulation through reissues, compilations, live recordings, and later covers.
ArtistBob Marley & The Wailers
Year1980
GenreCaribbean · Reggae
StudioTuff Gong Studios
LabelIsland
ProducersBob Marley & The Wailers · Chris Blackwell
How curators tag this
Reggae100%
Sound check
Same ArtistFig. A
400 Years
Bob Marley & The Wailers · 1966
SamplesFig. B
Keepin' the Faith
De La Soul · 1991 · sampled-by
I Make Love to You
Eddie Murphy · 1987 · sampled-by
And Be Loved
Damian Marley · 2002 · sampled-by
Safaera
Bad Bunny feat. Jowell & Randy and Ñengo Flow · 2020 · sampled-by
Year · 1980Fig. C
Artist · Bob Marley & The WailersIn the Sleeve Notes
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