Is This Love (Bob Marley and the Wailers song)

A music video was also produced, shot at the Keskidee Arts Centre in London; in the video, future supermodel Naomi Campbell, then seven years old, made her first appearance in the public eye.^[2][3][4][5]

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"Is This Love"
Single by Bob Marley featuring Lvndscape and Bolier
Released	10 June 2016[6]
Genre	Tropical house
Length	3:20
Label	Spinnin' Records
Songwriter	Bob Marley
Bob Marley singles chronology
"Stand Up Jamrock" (2005) "Is This Love" (2016)
Lvndscape singles chronology
"Fed Up" (2016) "Is This Love" (2016) "Everyday My Life" (2016)
Bolier singles chronology
"Sweet Love (Calling Out Your Name)" (2016) "Is This Love" (2016) "Ipanema" (2016)
Music video
"Is This Love" (Remix) on YouTube

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In June 2016, the song was remixed by Dutch electronic music collaborators Lvndscape and Bolier, and the remix version reached #16 single in the UK.^[7] The music video was released via Spinnin' Records YouTube channel on 17 June 2016.^[8]

The following artists have covered the song:

• The Pat Travers Band, on their 1980 album Crash and Burn.
• Carly Simon, on her 1983 album Hello Big Man.
• Hawaiian reggae music group Three Plus, on their 2003 album 3+ 4 U. That album won the 2003 Na Hoku Hanohano Award for Reggae Album of the Year. Their version of "Is This Love" is also included on the 2010 compilation album Putamayo Presents: Tribute To A Reggae Legend: Bob Marley.
• Scott Matthews, as a bonus track on his 2009 album Elsewhere.
• Corinne Bailey Rae, on the 2011 EP The Love EP. This version was released as a single and won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance at the 54th Grammy Awards.

• The song is played in the movies In the Name of the Father (1993), Six Days Seven Nights (1998), Lake Placid (1999), 50 First Dates (2004) and Just Go With It (2011).
• The song is featured as the theme for the ending credits of Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball as well as its sequel, Dead or Alive Xtreme 2.
• In the book Marley & Me, author John Grogan says that he and his wife Jenny came up with the name Marley for their dog when, during an argument about what to name him, Jenny walked to the tape deck and pushed play, and the song started playing.
• A reference to the song is made in the lyrics "Just like the song on our radio set / We'll share the shelter of my single bed" from James Blunt's song "Stay the Night", the first single of the 2010 album Some Kind of Trouble.
• Bon Jovi's song "Lay Your Hands on Me" opens with the lyrics "You're ready, I'm willing and able / Help me lay my cards down on the table", which bears a clear similarity to the lyrics of "Is This Love".