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Most of Bob Marley's early music was recorded with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, who together with Marley were the most prominent members of The Wailers. In 1972, Bob Marley had his first hit outside Jamaica when Johnny Nash covered his song \\\\\\\"Stir It Up\\\\\\\", which became a U.K. hit. The 1973 album, Catch a Fire, was released worldwide, and sold well. It was followed by Burnin\\\\\\\' which included the song \\\\\\\"I Shot the Sheriff\\\\\\\", of which a cover version by Eric Clapton became a hit in 1974./nPeter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left The Wailers in 1974. Bob Marley proceeded with \\\\\\\"Bob Marley & the Wailers\\\\\\\", which included the Wailers Band and the I Threes. In 1975, he had his first own hit outside Jamaica with \\\\\\\"No Woman, No Cry,\\\\\\\" from the Natty Dread album. His subsequent albums, including Rastaman Vibration, Exodus, Kaya, Survival and Uprising, were big international sellers. Bob Marley has sold between 100 and 250 million records worldwide. Between 1991 and 2007 Bob Marley and The Wailers have sold in excess of 21 million records. These statistics did not begin to be collected until ten years after his death./nBob Marley & The Wailers was a reggae band created by Bob Marley in 1974, after Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left the precursor band, The Wailers. The brothers Carlton (drums) and Aston \\\\\\\"Family Man\\\\\\\" Barrett (bass) – who had joined The Wailers four years earlier – chose to stay with Marley./nThe Barret brothers originally played with the Wailers while still in Lee \\\\\\\"Scratch\\\\\\\" Perry\\\\\\\'s studio band The Upsetters /nBob Marley & The Wailers consisted of Bob Marley himself as guitarist, songwriter and lead singer, the Wailers Band as the backing band, and the I Threes as backup vocalists. The Wailers Band included the brothers Carlton and Aston \\\\\\\"Family Man\\\\\\\" Barrett on drums and bass respectively, Junior Marvin and Al Anderson on lead guitar, Tyrone Downie and Earl \\\\\\\"Wya\\\\\\\" Lindo on keyboards, and Alvin \\\\\\\"Seeco\\\\\\\" Patterson on percussion. The I Threes, consisted of Bob Marley\\\\\\\'s wife Rita Marley, Judy Mowatt and Marcia Griffiths./nSometimes, usually for marketing purposes, recordings are indiscriminately attributed to either \\\"Bob Marley\\\", \\\"The Wailers\\\", or \\\"Bob Marley & the Wailers\\\".

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