The New York Times for Monday, January 3,2000, listed the 25 albums of the century that "represent turning points and pinnacles in 20th-century popular music." They included works by Caruso, Louis Armstrong, Robert Johnson, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Elvis Presley, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and - of course - Bob Marley. Choosing "Legend," the Times wrote: "Around the world Bob Marley may be the most influential musician of the second half of the century. Though reggae fans may prefer the Wailers' earlier recordings with Lee (Scratch) Perry, it was the songs on this posthumous album that proved Marley to be the greatest ambassador any island has produced. His lyrics are a one-world sermon, championing Rastafarianism [sic], marijuana, pacifism, equal rights and all degrees of love, physical and spiritual. With prophetic fervor, Marley's melting tenor broadcast hope and redemption from the third world to the first."