UB40
In France!!
UB40 are without doubt the world’s biggest, most popular, well loved reggae band and one of the UK’s finest musical exports.
Formed in 1978, the Birmingham band found world-wide success with the massive number 1 hits ‘Red Red Wine’, ‘Can’t Help Falling In Love’ and ‘I Got You Babe’. Thirty years on and 54 UK hit singles later, the band is still going strong with Duncan Campbell taking over from brother Ali on vocals. More recently the album ‘Love Songs’ (a compilation of 20 of the band’s best loved tracks) reached no. 3 in the UK album chart.
Lead guitarist Robin Campbell said, “UB40 are really excited about performing in Europe this year, as we always get an incredible welcome from the fans.” Last year’s shows in Europe, USA, Bermuda and Canada with the new line up proved a great success, one of the many highlights being a sold-out show to 18,000 people at the Hollywood Bowl. The audience’s acceptance of the new line up was overwhelmingly supportive and we can’t wait to play in France again.”
Not many bands can boast seventy million records sold; from their debut ‘Signing Off” to the forthcoming album ‘Labour Of Love IV’. UB40 have brought their unique reggae sound to the masses. As live performers, UB40 are second to none, having toured the world and sold out arenas on every continent.
The initial line-up was formed in a suburb of Birmingham during the summer of 1978 and comprised of Robin and Ali Campbell on guitar and vocals, Earl Falconer on bass, Brian Travers on sax, James Brown on drums, Norman Hassan on percussion and Michael Virtue on keyboards, together with MC Terence ‘Astro’ Wilson. Another of the Campbell brothers, Duncan, declined to join the band, thinking they wouldn’t get too far, but would seamlessly replace Ali on lead vocals thirty years later!
Their combined single and album sales are in excess of 70 million with a staggering 41 Top 40 singles! A list of UB40’s best-known songs reads like a litany of alternative national anthems: “One In Ten”, “King”, “Tyler”, “Many Rivers To Cross”, “Cherry Oh Baby”, “If It Happens Again”, “I Got You Babe”, “Don’t Break My Heart”, “Rat In Mi Kitchen”, “Homely Girl”, “Kingston Town”, “Higher Ground”, “Red Red Wine” “Can’t Help Falling In Love.
Their phenomenal success has earned them a rightful place alongside such great British artists as the BEATLES, the ROLLING STONES, LED ZEPPELIN and Irish supergroup U2. They’ve had Number 1 smash hits in virtually every chart on the planet, including the notoriously hard-to-crack American market,
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