Bob Marley his worldwide reputation and elevated his status as one of the world's best-selling artists of all time, with sales of more than 75 million records. "Exodus" stayed on the British album charts for 56 consecutive weeks and included the UK hit singles "Exodus", "Waiting in Vain", "Jamming", and "One Love". In 1978, he released the album "Kaya", which included the hit singles "Is This Love" and "Satisfy My Soul". The greatest hits album "Legend" was released in 1984, three years after Marley died. It subsequently became the best-selling reggae album of all time. Marley died on 11 May 1981 in
Bob Marley assassination attempt a JLP gunman, was contracted by the CIA to organize the Marley shooting and that Lester Coke, aka Jim Brown, led the charge on Hope Road. Don Taylor, Marley’s manager, claimed that both he and Marley were present at a ghetto court in which the gunmen who shot Marley were tried and executed. According to Taylor, before one of the shooters was killed, he admitted the job was done for the CIA in exchange for cocaine and guns. Bob Marley assassination attempt Michael Manley, son of former Prime Minister Norman Manley, was elected Prime Minister of Jamaica in 1972. To