"RPM Top Singles number-one singles" . "Island Records" . "1997 singles" . . . "Island Records singles" . . . . . "Def Jam Recordings" . "NLF059590046" . "-0.785598"^^ . "eng" . "Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles" . . . "Bob Marley and the Wailers" . . "1a838100-d5b6-4bfa-b616-5e6b8bffa979" . "Tom Dowd" . "false"^^ . "-13.6"^^ . "0.163793"^^ . "1996-03-25"^^ . "," . "RSO Records singles" . "Songs written by Bob Marley" . "Eric Clapton songs" . "Cassette single" . "Gold" . "true"^^ . . "true"^^ . "616000.0"^^ . "12-inch single" . "3010052" . "Gramophone record" . . "Song recordings produced by Tom Dowd" . "248558"^^ . "english" . "0"^^ . "Protest songs" . "1974 singles" . "Warren G songs" . . . "186.0"^^ . "5714decf25ac0d8aee4138ad" . "1996" . "Criteria Studios" . "1997-02-10"^^ . "%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\u2026 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." . "Bob Marley" . "I Shot The Sheriff" . "I Shot The Sheriff" . "April 1973, Harry J. Studios, Kingston, Jamaica" . "Bob Marley songs" . . . "Chris Blackwell" . "CD single" . "TRZHSEC128E079132B" . "11"^^ . "April\u2013May 1974," . "Number-one singles in New Zealand" . "Songs about death" . "192" . "1973 songs" . "1973 singles" . "RSO Records" . "Warren G" . "original studio master" . "Miami" . "Tuff Gong" .