In the pre-internet-as-weʻve-come-to-know-it days, there were actual YEARS of on/off debate between my best friend and I over who first sang "I Shot the Sheriff." He was convinced that Bob Marley was covering Clapton. I told him repeatedly that this was nonsense. I happened to be in a record store, looking at vinyl (this was in the days of CDs; I owned no turntable but I like flipping through the bins) and I came across the Clapton album that had his cover of "I Shot the Sheriff" on it. Sure enough, in plain English, underneath the song title were the words "written by R. Marley." So I bought the record for the sole purpose of laying it in front of him to prove to him that Clapton was covering Marley.

"Whatever bro, Iʻve seen the Cream album where it says Clapton wrote it."

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