Rastaman Vibration  by Bob Marley & The Wailers

In 1976, Bob Marley and his band, the Wailers, released their eighth studio album. Rastaman Vibration – recorded in late 1975 and early 1976 – went gold in both the United Kingdom and the United States, where it entered the Top-10 of the Billboard chart, reaching No. 8, something that had never happened before and never happened again with any other album by the Jamaicans.

Rastaman Vibration consists of ten compositions, which are written by Bob Marley, but his name only appears among the composers on the song Night Shift. The rest of the songs are “credited” according to the album to various others, such as Rita Marley, Vincent Ford, among others. The reason Marley chose to do this was that at the time he did not want his name associated with Cayman Music, the company responsible for the rights to his songs.

This particular album contains some of Bob Marley's most famous and characteristic songs, such as Roots, Rock, Reggae, War, Who The Cap Fit, and Johnny Was, which was successfully covered three years later by the punk band Stiff Little Fingers (!). The total global sales of the album have exceeded 4,500,000 copies.