Bob Marley at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. In October 2015, Jamaican author Marlon James' novel "A Brief History of Seven Killings", a fictional account of the attempted assassination of Marley, won the 2015 Man Booker Prize at a ceremony in London. Bob Marley was a member for some years of the Rastafari movement, whose culture was a key element in the development of reggae. Bob Marley became an ardent proponent of Rastafari, taking its music out of the socially deprived areas of Jamaica and onto the international music scene. He once gave the following response, which was typical, to a question
Legend (Bob Marley and the Wailers album) Legend (Bob Marley and the Wailers album) Legend is a compilation album by Bob Marley and the Wailers. It was 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 15 million copies sold in the United States and an estimated 28 million copies sold globally. In 2003, the album was ranked number 46 on "Rolling Stone" magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. , it had spent a total of 500 nonconsecutive weeks on the "Billboard"