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Sharon Stone’s Sliver movie was a box-office flop, but UB40’s version of “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” the single from the movie’s soundtrack, soared to the top … ...
Ali, who performs with a backing band under the title UB40 featuring Ali Campbell, is known for his vocals on songs such as ...
Many of UB40 ’s best-known songs and biggest hits have been covers — often coming from some seemingly unlikely sources. There’s Sonny and Cher (“I Got You Babe”) and Elvis Presley (“Falling in Love ...
Not many bands can claim to have been spied on by the British secret service, but UB40, the eight-piece reggae band from Birmingham who have been popularising the sound across the world since 1979 ...
UB40 first made their mark on the music scene in the 1980s, a decade defined by the despair of the jobless in the group’s own country and famine in Africa. They brought a British brand of reggae ...
If reggae is to make a comeback, and there are many encouraging signs that it, in fact, already is beginning to, it will be because of the infectious new form it has adopted. To the traditional pow… ...
It might be easier to ask Robin Campbell to name the places he hasn't heard his band UB40's version of "Red, Red Wine." "I've heard it everywhere," Campbell, the English reggae-pop band's co ...
Almost a decade after leaving UB40, the band's long-time lead vocalist, Ali Campbell, has reunited with original band members Astro and Mickey Virtue to tour the world and reclaim the band's ...
Reggae Greats Reinterpret UB40 Reversing what it has done with the three albums in its "Labour of Love" series of covers, veteran U.K.-based pop reggae act UB40 has assembled a who's who of reggae ...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- English reggae band UB40 brought bouncing Jamaican beats to Chevy Court on Monday, for the final afternoon show at the 2017 New York State Fair. Founding members Ali Campbell ...
UB40 saxophonist and founding member Brian Travers died Sunday, August 22nd, after a lengthy battle with cancer, according to a statement from the band. He was 62. “It is with great sadness that ...