Labour Of Love

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UB40 featuring Ali and Astro perform Signing Off in full in an online concert available to view from 16 June. In Melody Maker Colin Irwin expressed his irritation at his fellow journalists' insistence on bringing up the band's left-wing political views in articles about them, saying, "UB40's mode of escape from these glib cliches is to make their own highly specialised version of Bowie's Pin-Ups or Ferry's These Foolish Things. We jammed in a basement underneath where [bass player] Earl [Falconer] and [saxophonist] Brian [Travers] lived.

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As Ansell recounted to Classic Pop magazine in 2017, "We pitched the idea to Virgin of creating an illustration for each song so that as and when they were released as singles we would have ready-made images.The album contained two top-ten Billboard Hot 100 hits – " Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" peaked at No. Rather than foster an affinity with the Specials, another militant, multiracial collective from the Midlands, UB40 dismissed the two-tone bands as “revivalists”. The story followed a fictional version of the lives of the band members, their relationships with family and girlfriends, and their jobs in a junkyard, with all roles in the film played by the band and their friends.

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The entire album consists of cover versions of songs originally released by the group's musical idols. Despite being “the biggest party band of the 80s”, Ali Campbell acknowledges that they often came off as a dour, slightly intimidating bunch. It provided the rhythmic backdrop to their teenage years, a unifying sound in the youth clubs, cafes, blues parties and shebeens. Five years later, Astro joined him and they rebranded themselves as UB40, much to the annoyance of the original lineup.He was fairly disappointed in us starting a reggae band, but he was happy that we were writing lyrics that said something. It peaked at number 2 on the UK Albums Chart, making it the highest-charting UB40 album since Promises and Lies, which reached number-one in 1993. P) 2009 The copyright in this compilation is owned by Reflex Recordings Ltd under exclusive licence to Virgin Records Ltd. I watch the BBC programmes about 80s music, and it never ceases to amaze me how few times we’re on them,” says Robin. For those who remember UB40 primarily for lilting lite-reggae covers of Red Red Wine and (I Can’t Help) Falling in Love With You, the fact that they were considered a grave threat to national security might seem absurd.