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==Background== Bob Marley, without Peter Tosh or Bunny Wailer, moved to Sweden to work with Johnny Nash, writing and composing songs for the soundtrack to the film ''[[Want So Much to Believe]].''<ref name="DT163">{{cite book|author=Dave Thompson|year=2002|title= Reggae & Caribbean Music|publisher= Backbeat Books|isbn= 0-87930-655-6|page=163}}</ref> From November to December 1971, Marley toured Great Britain with Nash. Under their CBS international arm, [[Columbia Records]] released the Nash-produced "Reggae on Broadway" as a single, which was intended to break Marley as a solo artist; the single instead "sank like a stone".<ref name="DT163"/><ref name=White213>{{cite book|author=Timothy White|date=2 May 2006|title= Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley|publisher= Henry Holt| isbn= 9780805080865|page=213}}</ref> After this solo tour, Marley returned to Jamaica, reuniting with Peter and Bunny. They came back to the UK to complete the tour and continue recording with CBS as a group. The sessions were abandoned because of clashes with Johnny Nash and Danny Sims about the process, causing the band to not have the funds to return to Jamaica, nor could they earn money due to work-permit restrictions.<ref name="DT164">{{cite book|author=Dave Thompson|year=2002|title= Reggae & Caribbean Music|publisher= Backbeat Books|isbn= 0-87930-655-6|page=164}}</ref> The group's London road manager, Brent Clarke, recommended they get in contact with [[Chris Blackwell]] from [[Island Records]], who had released licensed singles by The Wailers from [[Studio One (record label)|Studio One]] in Great Britain. Blackwell gave the group an advance of Β£4000 to help them get home to [[Jamaica]], and to complete the recording of their next album.<ref name=blac>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lN9IEAAAQBAJ|pages=161β162|title=The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond|author=Chris Blackwell |publisher=Gallery Books|date= 2022|isbn=9781982172718}}</ref>
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