Marley's 'No Woman, No Cry' songwriter dies
Vincent Ford, a Jamaican credited with writing the Bob Marley classic 'No Woman, No Cry', has died, the late reggae singer’s foundation said today.
Paul Kelly, a spokesman for the Kingston-based Bob Marley Foundation, said Ford died of complications from diabetes at a hospital on Sunday. He was 68.
The song, which appeared on Marley’s 1974 'Natty Dread' album, was inspired by the Kingston ghetto of Trench Town where he and Ford lived in the 1960s.
Some critics argue that Marley wrote the song himself but gave Ford the credit to help his friend support himself with the royalties.
Ford, who ran a soup kitchen and had lost both his legs to diabetes, was also credited with writing three songs on Marley’s 1976 album 'Rastaman Vibration'.
He is survived by two children.
