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UB40 - UB40 Greatest Hits - full album stream - Free Music Download, MP3, ARTISTdirect Network

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TwentyFourSeven by UB40

2009-06-28T09:31:00.000-07:00

TwentyFourSeven

by UB40

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01. End Of War
02. Lost And Found
03. Dance Until The Morning Light
04. This Is How It Is
05. Rainbow Nation
06. Here We Go Again
07. I Shot The Sheriff
08. Oh America! (Extended Version)
09. Once Around
10. Slow Down
11. I'll Be Back
12. Instant Radical Change Of Perception
13. It's All In The Game
14. I'll Be There
15. Middle Of The Night
16. Securing The Peace
17. The Road

UB40 News

2009-02-13T02:50:00.000-08:00

UB40 News

2009 Update

2009 certainly started on a high for UB40, headlining a concert in Albufeira, Portugal in front of a capacity crowd of 70,000. To put everyone in the party mood the concert kicked off with a magnificent fireworks display to signal the start of the New Year. The crowd danced and partied on the beach to the band’s infectious rhythms until the early hours of the morning.

This year the hectic schedule continues. The band are back in the recording studios busy working on the new album ‘Labour of Love IV’ There is a new compilation called UB40 Love Song (via Virgin Records) which will be released on 2nd February as you are all aware the UK/European dates for November/December 2009 are already on sale and further tour dates will be announced very shortly so watch this space!

Love Songs from UB40, the perfect gift for Valentines Day... 13th february 2009

love songs

Love Songs is UB40's new album released on February 2nd which beautifully brings together 20 of their best loved tracks showcasing the bands softer more romantic side. Featuring the huge number 1 singles Red Red Wine, I Got You Babe and Can't Help Falling In Love, Love Songs also features many more UB40 favourites including Bring Me Your Cup, Homely Girl, Breakfast In Bed, Don't Break My Heart and,I'll Be Your Baby Tonight.

UB40 Love Songs, the essential album for this year's Valentine’s Day...

Top UB40 Albums

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Top UB40 Albums

Baby

Released: 1991
Label: Alex

UB40 CCCP: Live in Moscow

Released: 1987
13 tracks
Label: A&M

The Best of UB40 (1980-1983)

Released: 1990
10 tracks
Label: A&M

Little Baggariddim

Released: 1985
13 tracks
Label: A&M

Geffery Morgan

Released: 1984
10 tracks
Label: A&M

Cover Up

Released: 2002
14 tracks
Label: Dep International

Greatest Hits

Released: 2008
21 tracks
Label: Virgin

Live

Released: 2005
10 tracks
Label: Disky

Rat in the Kitchen

Released: 1986
9 tracks
Label: A&M

Labour of Love

10 tracks
Label: A&M

Higher Ground

Released: 1993
5 tracks
Label: Virgin

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Video UB40 tribute Show

2008-11-20T03:20:00.000-08:00

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2008-11-19T22:40:00.000-08:00

History UB40

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History

From Wikipedia

The band members began as friends who knew each other from various colleges and schools across Birmingham. The name "UB40" was selected in reference to a paper form issued by the UK government's Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) at the time of the band's formation for claiming unemployment benefit. The designation UB40 stood for Unemployment Benefit, Form 40.

Before any of them could play their instruments, Ali Campbell and Brian Travers travelled around Birmingham promoting the band, putting up UB40 posters. The band purchased its first instruments from Woodroffe's Musical Instruments with £4,000 in compensation money that Campbell, who would become the lead singer, received after a bar fight during his 17th birthday celebration.

Their first gig took place on February 9, 1979 at The Hare & Hounds Pub in Kings Heath, Birmingham for a friend's birthday party.

UB40 caught their first break when Chrissie Hynde noticed them at a pub and gave them an opportunity as a support act to her band, The Pretenders. UB40's first single, "King"/"Food for Thought" was released on Graduate Records, a local independent label run by David Virr. It reached No. 4 on the UK Singles Chart.

Their first album was titled Signing Off, as the band were signing off from or closing their claim on the unemployment benefit. It was recorded in a bedsit in Birmingham and was produced by Bob Lamb. Norman Hassan said of the recording: "if you stripped my track down, you could hear the birds in the background." This is because his tracks were recorded outside in the garden. Signing Off was released on September 6, 1980, and entered the UK Albums Chart on October 2, 1980. It reached as high as No. 2 in the UK and spent 72 weeks in total on the chart. Signing Off is now a Platinum album.

Despite great success in the UK, UB40's popularity in the United States was only established after they released Labour of Love, an album of cover songs, in 1983. The album reached No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart and No. 8 on the Billboard Top 200 in the US. The album featured the song, "Red Red Wine", a cover version of a Neil Diamond song (in an arrangement similar to that of Tony Tribe's version).

Their most successful worldwide single release is the cover of the Elvis Presley ballad "(I Can't Help) Falling In Love With You" which was the main title to the 1993 Sharon Stone movie Sliver and was a number one hit across Europe and in the U.S..
UB40 live in Wellington, New Zealand in 2004

In June 2007, Sparta Florida Music Group started legal action against heiress Paris Hilton and Warner Chappell Music for plagiarism due to similarities between the song "Stars Are Blind" and the song "Kingston Town", originally by Lord Creator. It was frequently misreported that UB40 was the instigator of the action, and that it centered on their 1990 cover of the song. However, according to a statement UB40's site, they are not involved, and "Any speculated legal action taking place against Ms. Hilton would be entirely at the instigation of the original songwriter’s music publisher...who ultimately own the copyright to the song."

UB40 toured South Africa in July 2007 and headlined the Live Earth concert at the Cradle of Humankind, near Johannesburg. They performed one of the longest sets for the event at approximately 54 minutes.

On 21 August 2007, they performed with Cas Haley on the America's Got Talent Season Finale. In 2007 UB40 were signed by Ingenious Media PLC, a boutique London investment bank that finances comeback albums.

On 24 January 2008 it was announced that Ali Campbell would be leaving the group after 30 years. It was originally stated that this was in order for Campbell to concentrate on solo projects, but Campbell later said he was leaving due to "management difficulties". The remaining seven members released a statement saying: “Ali made a very simple decision, he chose to pursue and put his solo career over and above continuing to work with UB40 after February 2008, it’s as simple as that". The news that a second original member was leaving the band as a result of "management trouble" came on 19 March 2008. Keyboard player Michael Virtue followed Campbell, and also launched an investigation, with Campbell's legal company, into the financial dealings of the group.

It was reported by some Birmingham newspapers on 13 March 2008, that Maxi Priest would be the new lead singer of UB40 and had recorded a cover of Bob Marley’s "I Shot the Sheriff" with the band, based on information from an unnamed "source close to the band." Priest had joined UB40 on tour in 2007, culminating in sell out shows at the NEC in December. Another local newspaper reporting that Maxi Priest would be the new UB40 frontman, also included a statement from band spokesman Gerard Franklyn which contradicted this claim: "Maxi is collaborating with the band to record material but there is no decision been made to replace Ali Campbell with one definitive singer. The reports are half correct he will be appearing with them for this new recording." In April 2008, the BBC reported that Campbell was to be replaced in the band by his brother Duncan, with reggae singer Maxi Priest also bolstering the line-up on tour.

The band's new album, Twentyfourseven, UB40's last with the original lineup, was a free insert in The Mail on Sunday's 4 May 2008 issue.[11]. The full 17 track version was released on 21 June 2008, but failed to go top 75 in the UK. This is a first for UB40, as all the official albums have previously gone Top 50 on the UK Albums Chart.

The band completed a UK Tour in July 2008, and are already recording Labour of Love IV. In August 2008 they toured America, but Astro was not granted a visa.

Influences

UB40 were influenced by the many Blues Parties they attended as teenagers in the multiracial Balsall Heath area of Birmingham. Their love of ska and reggae inspired such original tracks as "King", "Madam Medusa", "Food for Thought", "Signing Off" and "One in Ten".

Their early musical style was unique, with a heavy influence of analogue synthesisers, psychedelic rock guitar, saxophone and dub producer techniques which were later perfected by the late Pablo Falconer.

Ali and Robin Campbell have a musical heritage, being sons of Ian Campbell, a folk musician.

Many of UB40's recordings were inspired by 1960s ska and early lovers rock.

Achievements

UB40 is one of the most successful reggae acts of all time in terms of record sales (over 70 million), chart positions and touring schedule. During their three-decade long career, they have been performing sell-out shows worldwide and headlining the Reggae Sunsplash music festival in Jamaica, as well as spreading reggae to Russia and South America, among others. They have performed twice at the Night of the Proms, in 2000 and in 2006. In 2006 UB40 were also nominated for a Grammy Award (Reggae category) for their album Who You Fighting For.

Much of UB40's commercial appeal came from their releases of classic cover songs. In fact, all three of their UK number one hits and four of their five U.S. top ten hits were cover versions.

UB40's early music has often tackled social issues such as racism and unemployment.

Other artists that UB40 have collaborated with include: Pato Banton, Madness, Bitty McLean, Chrissie Hynde, Maxi Priest, Robert Palmer, Hunterz, Japanese artist Mikidozan, French artist Nuttea, Lady Saw, Afrika Bambaataa, 808 State.

Band Members

The ethnic makeup of the band is diverse, with musicians of English, Scottish, Irish, Yemeni and Jamaican parentage. From the band's 1978 inception through early 2008, UB40's line-up was constant:
Astro live in Wellington, New Zealand in 2004

* James (Jimmy) Brown - born 20 November 1957, Birmingham - drums
* Ali Campbell - born Alistair Campbell, 15 February 1959, Birmingham - guitar, lead vocals (left 2008)
* Robin Campbell - born 25 December 1954, Birmingham - lead guitar, vocals
* Earl Falconer - born 23 January 1957, Birmingham - bass guitar, vocals
* Norman Hassan - born 26 January 1958, Birmingham - percussion, trombone, vocals
* Brian Travers - born 7 February 1959, Birmingham - saxophone
* Mickey Virtue - born Michael Virtue, 19 January 1957, Birmingham - keyboards (left 2008)
* Astro - born Terence Wilson, 24 June 1957, Birmingham - toasting vocals, percussion, trumpet

In 2008 Ali Campbell left the band, followed shortly thereafter by Mickey Virtue. Two new members joined the group:

* Duncan Campbell - vocals
* Tony Mullings - keyboards

Guest members include:

* Patrick Tenyue (trumpet) (1983–94)
* Henry Tenyue (trombone) (1983–94)
* Martin Meredith (saxophone) (1997— )
* Laurence Parry (trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone) (1995— )
* Maxi Priest - vocals (2008- )

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TwentyFourSeven by UB40

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