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Bob Marley Songwriter Dies Aged 68

In hospital in Jamaica...

Bob Marley Songwriter Dies Aged 68

Vincent Ford, the songwriter responsible for Bob Marley’s ‘No Woman, No Cry’, has died at the age of 68.

Ford died in a Jamaican hospital from complications caused by diabetes. The songwriter had lost both his legs to the disease.

Ford’s greatest song, ‘No Woman, No Cry’, was inspired by the ghetto in Kingston where the pair lived.

Some have claimed that Marley actually wrote the hit and credited it to Ford some that he could claim the royalties.

Ford also wrote three songs on Marley’s 1976 LP, ‘Rastaman Vibration’.

Marley died of cancer in 1981.


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