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An Entity of Type : wsb:Song, within Data Space : covidontheweb.inria.fr associated with source document(s)

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has title
  • I Shot The Sheriff
has format
  • 12-inch single
  • CD single
  • Cassette single
  • Gramophone record
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  • eng
Subject
  • Number-one singles in New Zealand
  • Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles
  • 1973 songs
  • RPM Top Singles number-one singles
  • 1997 singles
  • 1973 singles
  • 1974 singles
  • Eric Clapton songs
  • Island Records singles
  • Protest songs
  • Songs about death
  • RSO Records singles
  • Song recordings produced by Tom Dowd
  • Songs written by Bob Marley
  • Bob Marley songs
  • Warren G songs
abstract
  • %22I Shot the Sheriff%22 is a song written by Bob Marley, told from the point of view of a narrator who admits to having killed the local sheriff, and claims to be falsely accused of having killed the deputy sheriff. The narrator also claims to have acted in self-defense when the sheriff tried to shoot him. The song was first released in 1973 on The Wailers' album Burnin'. Marley explained his intention as follows: %22I want to say 'I shot the police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I shot the sheriff' instead… but it's the same idea: justice.%22In 1992, with the controversy surrounding the Ice-T heavy metal song %22Cop Killer%22, Marley's song was often cited by Ice-T's supporters as evidence of his detractors' hypocrisy considering the older song was never similarly criticized despite having much the same theme.
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  • Bob Marley
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  • original studio master
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  • NLF057490008
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  • Warren G
  • Chris Blackwell
  • Bob Marley and the Wailers
  • Tom Dowd
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  • Gold
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  • 192
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  • 920186
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  • english
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wsb:record_label
  • Tuff Gong
  • Def Jam Recordings
  • Island Records
  • RSO Records
wsb:recording_description
  • 1996
  • Miami
  • ,
  • Criteria Studios
  • April 1973, Harry J. Studios, Kingston, Jamaica
  • April–May 1974,
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  • I Shot The Sheriff
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  • TRZHSEC128E079132B
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