Before achieving global icon status, Bob Marley , Peter Tosh , and Bunny Wailer recorded energetic, fast-paced ska and soulful rocksteady music. Working alongside legendary producers like Coxsone Dodd and Lee "Scratch" Perry, these foundational albums captured the raw energy of urban Kingston.

No discussion of Bob Marley's discography is complete without his live performances. The studio albums gave him structure, but the stage gave him his legendary, hypnotic power.

Following his death in 1981, his legacy was cemented by the 1984 compilation

: The first album credited as "Bob Marley & The Wailers" after Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer left; includes "No Woman, No Cry."