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UB40
Birmingham, GB
* 1979

Line-Up:

Matt Doyle - voc
Robin Campbell - g,voc
Earl Falconer - bg
Jim Brown - ds
Brian Travers - sax
Norman Lamount Hassan - perc

Former Members:

Ali Campbell (voc,g, 1979-2/08); Duncan Campbell (voc, 5/08-6/21)
Terrence 'Astro' Wilson (g,tr, 1979-11/13)
Larry Bushell (bg, 7-11/88)
Jimmy Lynn (kb, 1979); Michael Virtue (kb, 1979-2008)

Albums Discography:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Signing Off produced by: Bob Lamb	05.09.1980	Graduate		2
2.	Present Arms	05.06.1981	DEP Int.		2
3.	Present Arms In Dub	02.10.1981	DEP Int.		38
4.	The Singles Album	8/1982	Graduate		17
5.	UB44	27.09.1982	DEP Int.		4
6.	Live	18.02.1983	DEP Int.		44
7.	Labour Of Love	12.09.1983	DEP Int.		1	14
8.	Geffery Morgan	08.10.1984	DEP Int.		3	60
9.	The UB40 File	3/1985	Graduate
10.	Little Baggariddim (mini LP, in the USA)	8/1985	A&M			40
11.	Baggariddim	9/1985	DEP Int.		14
12.	The Singles File	1985	Virgin
13.	Rat In The Kitchen	7/1986	DEP Int.		8	53
14.	CCCP - Live In Moscow	8/1987	DEP Int.			121
15.	The Very Best Of UB40, Vol. 1	10/1987	Virgin		3
16.	UB 40	7/1988	DEP Int.		12	44
17.	Labour Of Love II	12/1989	DEP Int.		3	30
18.	Promises And Lies	12.07.1993	DEP Int.		1	6
19.	The Best Of UB40	05.09.1994
20.	The Compact Collection (3CD box set)	10/1994	Virgin
21.	Labour Of Love 1 & 2	07.11.1994	DEP Int.		5
22.	The Best Of UB40 Vol II	30.10.1995	DEP Int.		12
23.	Guns In The Ghetto	11.08.1997	Dep Int.		7	176
24.	Dancehall	4/1998	EMI
25.	3 Fathers	1998
26.	Labour Of Love III	12.10.1998			8
27.	The Best Of UB40 - 1980-2000	10/2000	Virgin		7
28.	Cover Up	10/2001	Virgin		29
29.	The Fathers Of Reggae	19.11.2002	Virgin
30.	Labour Of Love - Vol I II & III	6/2003	Virgin		7
31.	Home Grown	03.11.2003	DEP Int.		49
32.	Homegrown In Holland - Live	6/2004	Warner Music
33.	Who You Fighting For (in the USA 24.1.2006, Rhino)	6/2005	EMI		20
34.	Best Of UB 40: Volumes 1 & 2	15.11.2005			47
35.	Under The Influence	26.02.2007
36.	Live at Montreux 2002	15.05.2007	Eagle
37.	Twentyfourseven	16.06.2008	Reflex Muzic		81
38.	The Lost Tapes	15.09.2008	EMI
39.	Greatest Hits	30.09.2008	Virgin
40.	Love Songs	2/2009	Virgin		3
41.	Best Of Labour Of Love	19.11.2009	Virgin		29
42.	Labour Of Love 4	04.02.2010	Virgin		24
43.	Live at the London O2 Arena	15.06.2010	Ais
44.	Live at Birmingham LG Arena	15.06.2010	Ais
45.	10 Great Songs	03.04.2012	Virgin
46.	All the Best	05.03.2013	EMI
47.	Collected	25.06.2013	Universal
48.	Getting Over The Storm	8/2013	Virgin		29
49.	Classic Album Selection (5CD)	21.11.2013	Virgin
50.	Icon	03.06.2014	Vigin
51.	Red Red Wine: The Collection	26.06.2014	Spectrum
52.	Live 2009, Vol. 1	03.06.2016	Let Them Eat Vinyl
53.	Live 2009, Vol. 2	03.06.2016	Relativity Entertainment
54.	Red Red Wine - The Essential UB 40	30.09.2016	Spectrum Music		51
55.	Unplugged feat. Ali/Astro/Mickey	18.11.2016	UMC		17
56.	Many Rivers to Cross	04.11.2016	Universal
57.	A Real Labour Of Love & Ali/Astro/Mickey	3/2018	UMC		2
58.	For The Many	3/2019	Shoestring		29
59.	Triple Best Of	4/2020	EMI		98
60.	Essential	10/2020	Spectrum Music		30
61.	Unprecedented feat. Ali Campbell & Astro	6/2022	UMC		8
62.	UB45	4/2024	Sono Recording Group		5

Ali Campbell:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Big Love (2LP)	15.06.1995	Kuff/Virgin		6
2.	Running Free	08.10.2007	Absolute		9
3.	Flying High	22.06.2009	Jacaranda		13
4.	Great British Songs	18.10.2010	Cooking Vinyl		15
5.	Silhouette: The Legendary Voice Of UB40 Reunited With Astro & Mickey	03.10.2014	Cooking Vinyl		18
6.	In the Studio, In Concert, On Tour: The Collection	29.04.2016	Shamrock Solutions
7.	Unprecedented & UB40 & Astro	6/2022	UMC		8

Singles Discography:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Food For Thought / King	22.02.1980	Graduate	2
2.	I Think It's Gonna Rain Today / My Way Of Thinking	6/1980	Graduate	1
3.	Earth Dies Screaming / Dream A Lie	10/1980	Graduate	8
4.	Don't Let It Pass You By / Don't Slow Down	15.05.1981	DEP Int.	10
5.	One In Ten / Present Arms In Dub	31.07.1981	DEP Int.	4
6.	I Won't Close My Eyes / Folitician	05.02.1982	DEP Int.	21
7.	Love Is All Is Alright / One A Penny	07.05.1982	DEP Int.	27
8.	So Here I Am / Silent Witness (live) 12" + Doctor X (live)	16.08.1982	DEP Int.	21
9.	I've Got Mine / Dubmobile 12" + Forget The Cost	28.01.1983	DEP Int.	21
10.	Tyler / Adella / Little By Little	2/1983	Graduate
11.	Red Red Wine / Suffering produced by: UB40/Mikey Dread	08.08.1983	DEP Int.	1	34
12.	Please Don't Make Me Cry / Suffering	30.09.1983	DEP Int.	7
13.	Tyler (reissue)	11/1983	Graduate
14.	Many Rivers to Cross / Food For Thought (live) 12" + Johnny Too Bad	28.11.1983	DEP Int.	15
15.	Cherry Oh Baby / Food For Thought (live) (v USA)	2/1984	A&M
16.	Cherry Oh Baby / Frilla 12" + Cherry Oh Baby (Dub mix)	27.02.1984	DEP Int.	10
17.	Please Don't Make Me Cry / Food For Thought (v USA)	4/1984	A&M
18.	If It Happens Again / Nikomo A Go-Go	21.09.1984	DEP Int.	7
19.	Riddle Me / D.U.B. (dub)	19.11.1984	DEP Int.	59
20.	I'm Not Fooled / The Pillow	3/1985	DEP Int.	79
21.	I Got You Babe / Theme From Labour Of Love 12" + Up And Coming MC & Chrissie Hynde	7/1985	Dep Int.	1
22.	I Got You Babe / Nikomo A Go-Go & Chrissie Hynde	7/1985	A&M	1	28
23.	Don't Break My Heart / Mek Ya Rok	10/1985	Dep Int.	3
24.	Sing Our Own Song / Sing Our Own Song (instrumental)	7/1986	DEP Int.	3
25.	All I Want To Do	9/1986	DEP Int.	41
26.	Rat In The Kitchen	1/1987	DEP Int.	9
27.	Watchdogs / Don't Blame Me	5/1987	DEP Int.	28
28.	Maybe Tomorrow / Dread Dread Time 12" + Anything Mi Chat	9/1987	DEP Int.	13
29.	Reckless	2/1988		12
30.	Breakfast In Bed & Chrissie Hynde	5/1988	DEP Int.	3
31.	Where Did I Go Wrong / Where Did I Go Wrong (instrum.) 12" + Contaminated Dub CD + Hit It (instrumental)	8/1988	DEP Int.	26
32.	Red Red Wine	8/1988	A&M		1
33.	Where Did I Go Wrong / Dance With The Devil	11/1988	A&M
34.	Come Out To Play / Contaminated Minds 12" + Sing Our Own Song (live) CD + Dance With The Devil / Rat In Mi Kitchen	11/1988	DEP Int.	77
35.	I Would Die For You / Hit	5/1989	DEP Int.	45
36.	Homely Girl / Gator	11/1989	Virgin	4
37.	Here I Am (Come And Take Me) / Crisis	1/1990	Virgin	46	7
38.	Kingston Town / Lickwood	3/1990	Virgin	4
39.	Wear You To The Ball / Splugin	7/1990	Virgin	35
40.	The Way You Do The Things You Do / Misspent Youth	9/1990	Virgin	49	6
41.	I'll Be Your Baby Tonight & Robert Palmer	10/1990	EMI	5
42.	Impossible Love / First Shot 12",CD + Council House	11/1990	Dep Int.	47
43.	Tears From My Eyes	3/1991
44.	Baby / She Caught The Train 12",CD + Here I Am (Come And Take Me) (mix) / Dubmobile (live)	11/1991	Virgin
45.	Groovin'	11/1991	Virgin		90
46.	One In Ten & 808 State	23.11.1992	ZTT	15
47.	(I Can't Help) Falling In Love With You / Jungle Love 12",CD + Red Red Wine	10.05.1993	Dep Int/Virgin	1	1
48.	Higher Ground / Chronic 12",CD + Punjab Dub (mix)	09.08.1993	Dep Int/Virgin	8	45
49.	Bring Me Your Cup / Bad Ekko	29.11.1993	Dep Int	24
50.	C'est La Vie / Promises And Lies (live) 12",CD + Tyler	21.03.1994	Virgin	37
51.	Reggae Music / Matter Of Time CD + Things Ain't Like They Used To Be	8/1994	Virgin	28
52.	Until My Dying Day / Until My Dying Day (instrumental) CD1 + Sorry (live) / Brings Me Your Cup (live) CD2 + Until My Dying Day (C.J.'s closet mix)	10/1995	Dep Int	15
53.	Tell Me Is It True	23.06.1997	Dep Int/Virgin	14
54.	Always There	27.10.1997	Virgin	53
55.	Come Back Darling	21.09.1998	Virgin	10
56.	Holly Holy	07.12.1998		31
57.	Train Is Coming / Legalise It / Tyler / King	27.04.1999		30
58.	Light My Fire / King	27.11.2000	Virgin	63
59.	Since I Met You Lady / Sparkle Of My Eyes feat. Lady Saw	10/2001	Dep Int	40
60.	One In Ten 2001 & Runtime	05.11.2001
61.	Cover Up	2/2002	Dep International	54
62.	DJ Pezario vs UB40 & DJ Pezario	30.12.2002
63.	Swing Low & United Colours Of Sound	10/2003	DEP Int	15
64.	Kiss And Say Goodbye	06.06.2005		19
65.	Reasons / One Woman Man feat Hunterz And The Dhol Blasters	29.08.2005		75
66.	Food For Thought & Stylus Junkies	05.09.2005	Wicked Disco Diamonds
67.	Bling Bling	12/2005
68.	Club Cuts 290 (For Working DJ's Only) (Boogie Tonight (Tomcat remix) / Stand Up For Strings (two tracker) / Food For Thought) & Guitar A Rama & Tweet & Yomanda & Love Tribe	05.03.2007	DMC
69.	Red Wine To Gaze / Unfaithfull (reggaeton remix) & Missy Elliot & Buju Banton & Rihanna & Sizzla	04.06.2007	Jiggy Remix
70.	Red Red Wine	6/2013	Virgin	99
71.	The Earth Dies Screaming / Dream A Lie (reissue)	31.10.2013	Virgin
72.	One in Ten & Ali Campbell & Michael Virtue & Astro	14.10.2016	Universal
73.	Food for Thought & Ali Campbell & Michael Virtue & Astro	11.11.2016	Universal

Ali Campbell:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	That Look In Your Eye / Drive It Home feat. Pamela Starks	5/1995	Virgin	5
2.	Let Your Yeah Be Yeah / You Could Meet Somebody	8/1995	Kuff	25
3.	Somethin' Stupid / Pay The Rent & Kibibi Campbell	06.11.1995	Kuff	30
4.	Hold Me Tight	24.09.2007
5.	Many Rivers To Cross with Ladysmith Black Mambazo	18.08.2008
6.	Out From Under	29.06.2009
7.	Everways / She's A Lady	31.08.2009
8.	One in Ten & UB40 & Michael Virtue & Astro	14.10.2016	Universal
9.	Food for Thought & UB40 & Michael Virtue & Astro	11.11.2016	Universal

Michael Virtue:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	One in Ten & Ali Campbell & UB40 & Astro	14.10.2016	Universal
2.	Food for Thought & Ali Campbell & UB40 & Astro	11.11.2016	Universal

Videos:

1. Live - 11/1983, live, 60 min
2. Labour Of Love - 27.9.1984, 31 min
3. USSR - 1987
4. Best Of UB40, Vol. 1 - 1987
5. Labour Of Love 2 - 1990, Virgin
6. Homegrown In Holland - Live - 7/2004, Warner Music, live, 160 min
7. Live At Montreux 2002 - 7/2007, Eagle Roc Entertainment, live, 97 min
8. Food For Thought - 31.10.2009, Eagle Vision

Awards:

1980 Top Single Artist No. 3
1981 Melody Maker Readers' Poll - Reggae Act

WWW Links:

http://www.ub40.co.uk

Various:

Compilation Appearances:

"Red Red Wine" on OST "Bringing Out The Dead" (19.10.99)

appeared on the LP:

Starvation: Starvation (2/85, Zarjazz)
Pato Banton: Baby Come Back (9/94, Virgin)

Ali Campbell:

since 1995 own label "Kuff"

appeared on the LP:

Sly & Robbie: Friends (29.9.97, east west)

Press References:

&musiQ
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
2002	9		37	Festivaly - Montreux Jazz Festiv	gig review
Bang!
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1995	22	28.11.1995	14	Bang!alerie	album review
Big Beng!
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1997	29	21.08.1997	23	Forum kritikum	album review
2001	22	22.11.2001	42	Forum kritikum	album review
Gramorevue
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1989	7		9		gig review
Melodie
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1983	6		182		profile
1989	6		170		profile
Melody Maker
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1979	47	15.12.1979	9	After Dark	profile
1980	8	23.02.1980	24	Singles	single review
1980	17	14.06.1980	18	Caught In The Act	gig review
1980	25	02.08.1980	10	Caught In The Act	gig review
1980	30	06.09.1980	18	Albums	album review
1980	39	08.11.1980	35	Caught In The Act	gig review
1981	19	09.05.1981	33	Datelines
1981	20	16.05.1981	24	Singles	single review
1981	23	05.06.1981	25	Albums	album review
1981	24	13.06.1981	31	Caught In The Act	gig review
1981	27	04.07.1981	25		interview
1981	31	01.08.1981	10	Singles	single review
1981	44	31.10.1981	19	Albums	album review
1982	5	30.01.1982	20		interview
1982	6	06.02.1982	19	Singles	single review
1982	6	06.02.1982	24	Caught In The Act	gig review
1982	19	08.05.1982	4	Fast Forward
1982	20	15.05.1982	16	Singles	single review
1982	30	24.07.1982	4	Fast Forward
1982	34	21.08.1982	3	Fast Forward
1982	34	21.08.1982	19	Singles	single review
1982	40	02.10.1982	20	Albums	album review
1982	40	02.10.1982	32	Caught In The Act	gig review
1983	4	22.01.1983	4	Fast Forward
1983	5	29.01.1983	4	Fast Forward
1983	8	19.02.1983	18	Albums	album review
1983	32	06.08.1983	4	Fast Forward - Record News
1983	33	13.08.1983	22	Singles	single review
1983	36	03.09.1983	15	It's Alive	gig review
1983	37	10.09.1983	8		interview
1983	38	17.09.1983	23	Albums	album review
1983	40	01.10.1983	4	Fast Forward - Record News
1983	40	01.10.1983	13		gig review
1983	41	08.10.1983	5	Fast Forward
1983	41	08.10.1983	22	Singles	single review
1983	43	22.10.1983	15	It's Alive	gig review
1983	46	12.11.1983	3	Fast Forward
1983	48	26.11.1983	4	Fast Forward - Record News
1983	50	10.12.1983	22	Singles	single review
1984	7	18.02.1984	4	Fast Forward - Record News
1984	9	03.03.1984	26	Singles	single review
1984	13	31.03.1984	18	It's Alive!	gig review
1984	17	28.04.1984	37	It's Alive	gig review
1984	32	22.09.1984	4	Fast Forward
1984	32	22.09.1984	27	Singles	single review
1984	33	29.09.1984	4	Fast Forward
1984	34	06.10.1984	14		interview
1984	40	17.11.1984	3	Fast Forward
1984	44	15.12.1984	20	It's Alive	gig review
1992	48	28.11.1992	5	News
1992	50	12.12.1992	31	Singles	single review
1993	20	15.05.1993	31	Singles	single review
1993	33	14.08.1993	29	Singles	single review
1995	9	04.03.1995	4	News
Rock & Pop
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1995	25	19.12.1995	28	Recenze	album review
2001	12		108	Recenze - Novinky	album review
2004	9		45	Profil	profile
2004	9		89	DVD
2007	3		93	Retro
2007	8		55	Recenze	album review
2008	9		62	Record	album review