Danny Sims - Telegraph Their association continued in London, where Sims and Nash worked on Nash's album I Can See Clearly Now, which included Marley's Comma Comma, Guava Jelly and Stir It Up, as well as You Poured Sugar on Me, which Marley co-wrote with Nash. But while Nash's cover of Stir It Up became a transatlantic Top 20 hit in 1972, Marley in his lifetime met with limited chart success in America. Unlike Britain, "America never got the Jamaican rhythm," Sims explained. After Sims and Nash left London on a record promotion tour, Bob Marley and the Wailers struck a deal with Chris Blackwell's Island Records in 1972. Sims published Marley's songs from 1967 until 1977, and in 1981 Marley (then in the advanced stages of cancer) stayed with him for several months before his death. In the 1990s, after a spell living in South Africa, Sims set up a project to document Marley's pre-Island catalogue of more than 300 tracks. In 1996 he worked with Marley's children, Cedella and Stephen, and the producer Junior Gong on the No 1 euro hit What Goes Around Comes Around. Sims subsequently returned to music management, representing artists such as the British R&B singer Mark Morrison, Brian Harvey and the Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean. In recent years, having lived in obscurity in Balham, south-west London, he worked with a new generation of New York rappers and musicians. In 2004 Sims became involved in a major American biopic about his life with Marley, due to be released in 2014. Danny Sims married, in 1977, Beverley Johnson, the first African-American model to appear on the cover of Vogue; they had a daughter. He also had two sons from two previous marriages. Danny Sims, born November 9 1936, died October 3 2012