Bob Marley: Better Off Dread
Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 7 August 1980
IF THE first time you heard Bob Marley and the Wailers was when Could You Be Loved came skanking out of the radio, you probably thought something undramatic like, "Thats nice". And probably quite appropriate too in those relaxed circumstances.
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