UB40 are a popular reggae and ska band who formed in 1978 in Birmingham, England.
The band is multiracial and are named after the former U.K. Social Security form for unemployment benefits[?].
Its members include:
- Jim Brown (drums)
- Ali Campbell (guitar, lead vocals)
- Robin Campbell (lead guitar, vocals)
- Earl Falconer (Bass guitar, vocals)
- Norman Hassan (percussion)
- Brian Travers (saxophone)
- Mickey Virtue (keyboards)
- Terence Wilson (percussion, trumpet)
The band purchased its first instruments with compensation money Ali Campbell recieved after a bar fight, and have had a number of hits, most notably, "Red Red Wine" (a cover version of a Neil Diamond song).
Discography by UB40
- Signing Off[?] (1980); debut
- Present Arms[?] (1981)
- Present Arms in Dub[?] (1981)
- UB44[?] (1982)
- UB40 Live[?] (1983)
- Labour of Love[?] (1983)
- Geffery Morgan[?] (1984)
- Baggariddim[?] (1985)
- Rat in the Kitchen[?] (1986)
- UB40 CCCP: Live in Moscow[?] (1987); Live in Moscow, Russia 1986
- The Best of UB40 - Volume One[?] (1987)
- UB40[?] (1988)
- Labour of Love II[?] (1989)
- Promises and Lies[?] (1993)
- The Best of UB40 - Volume Two[?] (1995)
- Guns in the Ghetto[?] (1997)
- UB40 Present the Dancehall Album[?] (1998)
- Labour of Love III[?] (1998)
- The Very Best of UB40[?] (2000)
- Cover Up[?] (2001)
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