BOB MARLEY - AS MELHORES MUSICAS - THE GREATEST HITS BOB MARLEY

"Smokey Robinson was like God in our eyes," Paul McCartney once said. The melodic and lyrical genius behind Motown's greatest hits is the most influential and innovative R&B tunesmith of all time. Robinson was an elegant, delicate singer and poetic writer whose songs brought new levels of nuance to the Top 40. The son of a truck driver raised in what he called "the suave part of the slums," Robinson had his first hit in 1960 with the Miracles' "Shop Around" and went onto pen the Temptations' "My Girl" and "Get Ready," Mary Wells' "My Guy," the Marvelettes' "Don't Mess With Bill," Marvin Gaye's "Ain't That Peculiar" and many more.

BOB MARLEY - AS MELHORES MUSICAS - THE GREATEST HITS BOB MARLEY

With the Miracles, he had his hand in more than a dozen Top 20 hits (including "The Tracks of My Tears" and "I Second That Emotion"), songs that describe heartbreak with stunning turns of phrase: "Sweetness was only heartache's camouflage/The love I saw in you was just a mirage," he rhymed in 1967. Though Bob Dylan's famous quote calling Smokey "the greatest living poet" might actually be apocryphal, everyone believed it for decades because the songs backed it up perfectly. "My theory of writing is to write a song that has a complete idea and tells a story in the time allotted for a record," he told Rolling Stone in 1968. "It has to be something that really means something, not just a bunch of words on music." 041b061a72