A Bob Marley superfan said listening to his music had "made him a better person" on what would have been the reggae legend's 80th birthday. Robert Flake, 59, from Driffield, East Yorkshire, said he had first discovered Marley's music in his sister's record collection when he was a teenager and had listened "all the time" ever since.

Now, a report by music licensing company Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL) has found that the 1980 track “Could You Be Loved”, by Bob Marley and The Wailers, has been played an average of 15 times a day in the UK since the turn of the century.