"Is This Love" is a

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Bob Marley and the Wailers Bob Marley and the Wailers (previously known as The Wailers, and prior to that The Wailing Rudeboys, The Wailing Wailers and The Teenagers) were a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae band. The founding members, in 1963, were Bob Marley (Robert ...

, released on their 1978 album ''

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''. The song became one of the best-known Marley songs and was part of the ''

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'' compilation. It peaked at number 9 in the UK charts upon its release in 1978. A live rendition of the song can be found on the ''

Babylon by Bus ''Babylon by Bus'' is a live album released by Bob Marley and the Wailers in 1978. The tracks on this album are considered, with two exceptions, to be from the Pavillon de Paris concerts over 3 nights, 25–27 June 1978, during the Kaya Tour, ...

'' live album from Paris in 1978.

Music video

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was also produced, shot at the

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; in the video, future supermodel

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, then seven years old, made her first appearance in the public eye.

Lvndscape and Bolier remix

In June 2016, the song was remixed by Dutch electronic music collaborators

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and Bolier, and the remix version reached #16 single in the UK. The music video was released via Spinnin' Records YouTube channel on 17 June 2016.

Notable covers

The following artists have covered the song: *The

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Band, on their 1980 album '' Crash and Burn'' *

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, on her 1983 album ''

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an reggae music group Three Plus, on their 2003 album ''3+ 4 U''. That album won the 2003

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for Reggae Album of the Year. Their version of "Is This Love" is also included on the 2010 compilation album ''Putamayo Presents: Tribute To A Reggae Legend:

Bob Marley Robert Nesta Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981; baptised in 1980 as Berhane Selassie) was a Jamaican singer, musician, and songwriter. Considered one of the pioneers of reggae, his musical career was marked by fusing elements o ...

''. *

Scott Matthews Scott Matthews is an English singer-songwriter from Wolverhampton, England.

, as a bonus track on his 2009 album '' Elsewhere'' *

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, on the 2011 EP '' The Love EP''. This version was released as a single and won the

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at the

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Live covers

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covered the song during her first worldwide

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(2007—09). The performance is included in her DVD album ''

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''. *

Adam Lambert Adam Mitchel Lambert (born January 29, 1982) is an American singer and songwriter. Since 2009, he has sold over 3 million albums and 5 million singles worldwide. Lambert is known for his dynamic vocal performances that fuse his theatrical tra ...

covered the song in an acoustic set in

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, in the summer of 2012, as well as in his 2013 "We Are Glamily" world tour. *

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performed the Corinne Bailey Rae version of this song on the tour of his self-titled album, ''Allen Stone''.

In popular culture

*The song is played in the movies ''

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'' (1993), ''

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'' (1998), '' Lake Placid'' (1999), ''

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'' (2004) and ''

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'' (2011). *The song is featured as the theme for the ending credits of ''

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'' as well as its sequel, ''

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''. *In the book ''Marley and Me'', author

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says that he and his wife Jenny came up with the name Marley for their dog when, during an argument about what to name him, Jenny walked to the tape deck and pushed play, and the song started playing. * A reference to the song is made in the lyrics "Just like the song on our radio set / We’ll share the shelter of my single bed" from

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's song " Stay the Night", the first single of the 2010 album '' Some Kind of Trouble''. *

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's song "

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" opens with the lyrics "you're ready, I'm willing, and able. Help me lay my cards down on the table", which bears a clear similarity to the lyrics of "Is This Love".

Charts

"Is This Love"

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

"Is This Love" featuring LVNDSCAPE and Bolier

Certifications

References

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