Ub40

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About the Greatest British Reggae Band Ever



The Way you Do The Things You do :rolleyes:

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UB40 Are:

James Brown

Jimmy has been described as a talkative anarchist. He's also the bands readiest and most radical commentator on social and political matters.

Born on November 20th 1957, he attended Marlborough Road Primary School, and Mosely School Of Art, where he became friends with Ali, Earl and Brian. He was Employed in one of his many cushy jobs (he had a talent for talking himself into jobs he wasn't qualified for) when the idea of UB40 was formed.

He has since become one of the best reggae drummers in Britain. Sly Dunbar has been his biggest single musical influence.


Ali Campbell
Vocals / Guitar

Ali is an unrelenting crusader for reggae. He's the bands outspoken champion of DUB. Although his soulful singing is such an obvious asset to the band, he'd rather play instrumental dub reggae; in spite of being an excellent guitarist he is most interested in drums and bass.

Born on February 15th 1959, he went to St. Luke's Junior School and Moseley Road School of Art. He'd been unemloyed for most of the three years when he joined his schoolfriends to form UB40.

Robin Campbell
Guitar / Vocals

A lifelong aficionado of reggae, he has many influences, and is not so exclusively a partisan of dub as his brother Ali, to whose voice he adds the rich and sensitive harmonies of the band's sound




Earl Falconer
Bass / Vocals

Earl is not an extrovert. He causes problems for T.V. and lighting crews, because of a tendency to retire into the shadows onstage.

He was born on January 23rd, 1959, and attended St. Benedict's junior school and Mosely Road School Of Art, when UB40 was formed, he was an unemployed plasterer.

Like the rest of the band, he had no previous experience but, one of the world's natural musicians, he soon became an outstanding bassplayer.

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5.Norman Hassan
Percussion / Vocals

Norman Lamont Hassan plays percussion, trombone and sings. He is one of the band's most visible members (and most impressive dancer) onstage.

A childhood friend of the Campbells, he was born on January 26th 1958, and went to school at Tindall Street, Clifton Road, Park Hill and Queensbridge Road.

He gave up work as a carpet fitter to join the band, starting off as percussionist, he learned the trombone in 1981, when the band decided to add a brass section, and sang his first lead vocal on "Labour Of Love".


6.Brian Travers
Saxaphones / Horn Arrangements

Brian Travers plays saxophone. He also takes a keen interest in the visual side of the band's work, and is largely responsible for their video's.

Born on February 7th, he went to Cape Hill and Lakey Lane primary schools, and Moseley School Of Art. He was an electrician when he started playing. Many people find it hard to believe that the man responsible for UB40's exciting and highly distinctive sax sound couldn't play at all before the band started working together.

7.Michael Virtue
Keyboards

Michael Virtue plays keyboards. He was born on January 19th 1957, and attended Clifton Road primary school and Golden Hillock comprehensive. He was working in an office when he joined UB40.



He's interested in music other than reggae, and has been influenced, like Brian by jazz and jazz-funk. A specialist in highly innovative lead lines on the synthesizer, he also frequently suprises the rest of the band with his unorthodox chord sequences.

8.Astro
Vocals / Trumpet

Astro toasts and plays trumpet. He is also the show's M.C. Born June 24th 1957, he attended Greet and Golden Hillock Schools, and was unemployed when he joined UB40.

He met the band at one of their Moseley pub shows, and promptly appointed himself their toaster and dance master. He continued joining them onstage until he became a full and indispensable member.

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History:

UB40's fortunes changed at the beginning of 1980. They had spent many years performing live and developing a name for themselves when they were asked to join 'The Pretenders' as their support act on a national tour.

The first single with Graduate, their initial label, was a double-A coupling of "Food For Thought" about third-world poverty, and "King", an expression of grief for Dr. Martin Luther King. "King" had seemed to be the favourite with live audiences, but it was "Food For Thought", that got the airplay and became the first hit. The single was released during the tour, without the benefit of major-label marketing or promotion, and headed straight for the top five. The band made a huge impact on their first major live audiences.


UB40's first album was released in September 1980. The album cover was a reproduction of the unemployment benefit card, with the title "Signing Off" rubber-stamped in red. It referred to "signing off" the dole, i.e. getting a job. It was both an acknowledgement of the launch of the band, and a celebration of their new status.

Because they were from the West Midlands, and because they were a large multi cultural group playing music of Jamaican origin, UB40 were initially thought to be part of the Two-Tone phenomenon which had burst out of nearby Coventry. Two tone music took its roots from Caribbean Ska, Rock Steady and Reggae. It was honed into the multi-racial sound of 2-Tone by bands such as The Specials and The Selecter - both of which came from Coventry.

"Signing Off" made it clear that UB40 were not part of the Two Tone movement. They were part of the same social and political tendency, but their musical approach was quite different. Their sound was more relaxed, more sophisticated and sexier.

At the end of 1980, the contract with Graduate expired, and UB40 formed their own record company, DEP International.

Only nine months after their first album "Signing Off", while it was still in the chart, UB40 released their second album "Present Arms" featuring the song "One In Ten", an anthem to rival "Food For Thought".

Four months later, in October 1981, UB40 released a dub version of the album "Present Arms". The album wasn't expected to match the extraordinary po****rity of the first two albums, but it did resoundingly well for a dub album and went some way to establishing the band's credentials as serious students of reggae.

That commitment to innovation was further demonstrated by 1982's album, UB44 complete with it's historic hologram sleeve which was a limited edition, only released in the UK.

One year later, in September 1983, UB40 released the album 'Labour of Love.' It was their first direct tribute to the musicians who had inspired and influenced them, and the title "Labour Of Love" said it all.

'Red Red Wine' was the first single to be released from Labour of Love, it went straight to number one in the UK charts upon it's release. The phenomenally po****r single was in the British charts for two years. It gave UB40 their first truly worldwide hit and, eventually, their first American No.1.

"The Best Of UB40 - Volume One", released in November '87, stayed in the UK charts for 123 weeks. "Baggariddim", their adventurous 1985 collaboration with local DJ's also contained "Don't Break My Heart" and "I Got You Babe" (with Chrissie Hynde), both memorable hit singles. Chrissie Hynde joined the band again for "Breakfast In Bed", the hit of the 1988 album simply called "UB40".

1989 saw the release of a second helping of "Labour Of Love", from which "Kingston Town" and "Homely Girl" were hits throughout Europe, while "Here I Am" and "The Way You Do The Things You Do" were similarly successful in the United States.

Success continues throughout the Nineties with the release of "Promises and Lies" which becomes the group's biggest selling album worldwide, selling in excess of 9 million copies worldwide, and produces the hit single "Can' Help Falling In Love", giving the band their third UK No. 1. "Guns In the Ghetto", released in 1997, includes the single 'Tell Me Is It True', which is featured in the film "Speed II". The UB40's reaffirm their commitment to reggae with "UB40 Present The Dancehall Album", a collaboration with leading Jamaican dancehall artists, including Beenie Man and Lady Saw. The third volume of "Labour Of Love" is released in 1998.


The band release a new studio album "Cover Up" in 2001 and mark the 21st anniversary of their debut album "Signing Off" with a British tour and a celebratory birthday concert at the NEC in Birmingham in aid of the United Nations AIDS Awareness Campaign.

"The Fathers Album", a project that took three years in the making, sees the band working with a string of legendary reggae artists such as Toots Hibbert, Gregory Isaacs and John Holt, is released in 2002.

2003 - UB40 receive an Ivor Novello Award for International Achievement and secure a Top Ten album with the "Platinum Collection", a triple box set comprising the whole "Labour of Love" series. Their 22nd album, "Homegrown", includes "Swing Low", the official anthem for the England rugby team's triumphant 2003 World Cup campaign in Australia. The song becomes the group's 49th UK chart single. The only bands to have notched up more hits are The Shadows, Status Quo and Queen.


Two years later, on the 25th anniversary of their recording debut, the album "Who You Fighting For" is released. Like all memorable UB40 albums," Who You Fighting For" strikes the perfect balance between the personal and the universal. It features great love songs such as "Gotta Tell Someone" and the romantic ballad "One Woman Man". And, with the current political situation in various regions throughout the world providing a new source of inspiration, the title track and the hard-hitting "Plenty More" bring a renewed sense of purpose to UB40's political writing. Both songs are passionate and persuasive without resorting to hectoring. However political the subject matter, the listener never feels that he or she is being lectured to by a UB40 song.

In April 2005 UB40 unite with Roger Daltrey, Eric Clapton and John Mayer to play their first ever show at the Royal Albert Hall in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust. The band are then invited to perform at the Live8 event in London's Hyde Park, alongside U2, Pink Floyd, Coldplay, Madonna, Robbie Williams and The Who. A successful sell-out arena tour in the UK, Ireland and Europe completes the year.

Touring continues throughout 2006, visiting countries such as Mozambique, Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands (New Caledonia, Tahiti, Tonga, Fiji) Hawaii and continuing on to the US and Canada.

The band announce they will be working with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre to stage a new musical 'Promises and Lies'. The musical will open on the 20th March and run until the 15th April.

UB40 will return to the UK at the end of April to perform a series of out-door shows at various forest locations throughout the country.

For over twenty five years, UB40 have continued the job of po****rising reggae around the globe. In the process, they continue to give enormous pleasure to a public too vast to be defined by age, generation tribe or fashion.

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Albume: (in ordine alfabetica))

1Who You Fighting For
2 Homegrown
3 The Platinum Collection
4 UB40 present The Fathers of Reggae
5 Cover Up
6 The Very Best of UB40
7 Baggariddim
8 Geffery Morgan...
9 Guns In The Ghetto
10 Labour Of Love
11 Labour Of Love II
12 Labour Of Love III
13 Live
14 Present Arms
15 Present Arms In Dub
16 Promises And Lies
17 Rat In The Kitchen
18 Signing Off
19 The Best Of UB40 - Volume One
20 The Best Of UB40 - Volume Two
21 The UB40 File
22 UB40
23 UB40 CCCP - Live In Moscow
24 UB40 Present The Dancehall Album
25 UB44

Singles( Maxi Cd's)

Reasons
Kiss And Say Goodbye
Swing Low
Light My Fire
All I Want To Do
Always There
Baby
Baby Come Back
Breakfast In Bed
Bring Me Your Cup
C'est La Vie
Cherry Oh Baby
Come Back Darling
Come Out To Play
Don't Break My Heart
Don't Slow Down / Don't Let It Pass You By
Here I Am (Come And Take Me)
Higher Ground
Holly Holy
Homely Girl
(I Can't Help) Falling In Love With You
I Got You Babe
I Won't Close My Eyes
I Would Do For You
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
I'm Not Fooled / The Pillow
I've Got Mine
If It Happens Again
Impossible Love
King / Food For Thought
Kingston Town
Love Is All Is Alright
Many Rivers To Cross
Maybe Tomorrow
My Way Of Thinking
One In Ten
Please Don't Make Me Cry
Rat In Mi Kitchen
Reckless
Red Red Wine
Reggae Music
Riddle Me
Sing Our Own Song
So Here I Am
Starvation
Tell Me Is It True
The Earth Dies Screaming / Dream A Lie
The Train Is Coming
The Way You Do The Things You Do
Until My Dying Day
Watchdogs
Wear You To The Ball
Where Did I Go Wrong

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Cele mai mari hit-uri:(Partea I)


(I) Can't help falling in love with you 1993 - album : Promises and lies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MxmthbKZYU

Kingston Town- album: Labour of love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvneOtIK38w&mode=related&search=

Rat in my kitchen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG51Z_RLwT0&mode=related&search=

Kiss and say Goodbye ( 2005)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTJ6Qt1PXR4&mode=related&search=

[whisper]

:ok: Imi plac foarte mult Ub40,au melodii frumoase.Mai ales Kingston Town si mai e unul da nu il vad aici :) Am gasit-o:P http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiKVfobfsc Nu sunt singuri:D
Couvre-la (Cover Up-Nuttea feat. UB40)


UB40 & Nuttea:
J'ai le coeur meurtri
Je n'ai plus de patrie
Sinon celle d'un peuple banni
D'un système où l'amour est un luxe
Seen ?

[Refrain - UB40]
Cover up
With loving protection
Guard your love
In every direction
Don't give up
For fear of rejection
Stand your ground and voice an objection

Run away my sister and brother
Be afraid of love when the lover
Tries to read the book by the cover
Wrapped up in the arms of another

[Au refrain - UB40]

Cover up prolonging the yearning
Just ahead the fires are burning
Swim for shore the tides are now turning
Love the ones you love with your learning

[Au refrain - Nuttea]

Couvre la de toute ton affection
Protège-la dans toutes les directions
Garde-la dans ses grandes ambitions
Ecoute-la de toute ton attention

Les chants s'élévent tels des oriflammes
Comme un message qui toucherait les âmes
La presse est là pour couvrir le drame
Mais qui se doute du piège qui se trame

[Au refrain - Nuttea]

UB40: Got to be safe if you want to be free
Nuttea: Got to be safe if you want to be free
UB40: To sit in the shade of the family tree
Nuttea: To sit in the shade of the family tree

Je vois partir mes frères et mes soeurs
Et c'est comme toute une nation qui meurt
Que ma voix se fasse l'écho des pleurs
Ne laissons pas dominer nos peurs

[Au refrain - Nuttea]

UB40: Got to be safe if you want to be free
Nuttea: Got to be safe if you want to be free
UB40: To sit in the shade of the family tree
Nuttea: To sit in the shade of the family tree

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Eu sincer ii ador din 1993.....de cand eram copil...

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Nu mai stiu din ce an..da cred ca tot de pe atunci..."Red,red wine"...e primul single al lor pe care l-am ascultat.

[flor]

:)merci UNI! mi-ai amintit de UB40!super playlistul!...KINGSTON TOWN a fost odata primul pe lista mea...acum multi ani...:)

[Prome]

and now i am king and my queen will come at dawn she'll be waiting in kingston town

formatia mea preferata ub40 :D orice melodie imi merge la suflet

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eu ascult cu mare placere dub, reggae, mai ales cu Chrissie H , Ali campbell a avut o prestaie perfecta.

Melodiosi, pusi uneori pe glume, simpatici, dar cel mai bun lucru: autentici,originali

Nu s-au schimbat deloc in aproape 30 de ani de existenta.

8 artisti :ok:


Maine - voi continua cu cele mai mari cantece :ok:

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Ub40 & Chrissie Hynde-I got u babe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xMhWd7mf0M&mode=related&search=)

Kim Wilde and UB40 singer Ali Campbell - I Got You Babe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoNm1HYbbIs&mode=related&search=)

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cantece romantice :)

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Pana ieri nu stiam de varianta cu Kim Wilde..dar suna foarte bine:) si la sfarsit zic ca nu au repetat deloc inainte:)

[irinaidu]

ub 40 e prima formatie pe a caror melodie am dansat cand am iesit prima data in viata mea la discoteca. tineretile mele!!!! prin urmare sunt mereu nostalgica cand ascult ub40 si ma amuz cand vb cu ceva copii care cand aud de reggae cred ca e vb de sean paul.

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videos 1 Red Red Wine http://youtube.com/watch?v=6TLYioRY4i4

2 Rat in my kitchen http://youtube.com/watch?v=tG51Z_RLwT0&mode=related&search=

3.Groovin' http://youtube.com/watch?v=dWkSpmcsANU&mode=related&search=

4.LIve Since i met you lady http://youtube.com/watch?v=BMT3jk67-rA&mode=related&search=

5.Swing Low http://youtube.com/watch?v=xAskZ1hoM30&mode=related&search=

6.Cover Up http://youtube.com/watch?v=oq9ypomzfsI&mode=related&search=

7.Here I am http://youtube.com/watch?v=sL845bt663I&mode=related&search=

8.LIve Don't break my heart http://youtube.com/watch?v=jb0XYUv72Cw&mode=related&search=

9.Please don't make my cry http://youtube.com/watch?v=CrH3YNvlSt0&mode=related&search=

10.Alaways There http://youtube.com/watch?v=lgquEXNqccU&mode=related&search=

11. Until my Dying Day http://youtube.com/watch?v=r1hVb3EkPzA&mode=related&search=

12.Sweet Sensation http://youtube.com/watch?v=dgGMBDCU_IU&mode=related&search=

13.The since of the father http://youtube.com/watch?v=o6dMVGFunPE&mode=related&search=

14 Bring me your cup http://youtube.com/watch?v=WEpeylfxInQ&mode=related&search=

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Cantece mai recente:

Kiss and say goodbye

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTJ6Qt1PXR4


Every breath you take

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP0BgWW3wmE

Come Back Darling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egRoOM6Okwc

Guns in the Ghetto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEruQRxTWsE

Swing Low

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU091YLgC9Q&feature=related

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Playlist :cool:

The Train is coming

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3o2HG1GmsE&feature=related


Always There

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqmUxU17rb0&feature=related


Dream a Lie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfNbhAPmNa8&feature=related

Food For Thought

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiMo9u-EkPY&feature=related

King

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2CHP071rnQ&feature=related


Light my fire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2CHP071rnQ&feature=related

[relansat]

UB 40=Dj Project : versuri schimbate, aceeasi linie melodica la absolut toate pesele. acelasi stil.

[Prome]

UB 40=Dj Project : versuri schimbate, aceeasi linie melodica la absolut toate pesele. acelasi stil.

Domnule relansat oricat ti-as aprecia gusturile muzicale, UB40 ramane o formatie de referinta, ce nu se poate compara cu Dj Project.
Este formatia reprezentativa a reggaeului britanic totusi.

[relansat]

Da` cine`o zis ca nu`mi place UB40? :D

Aia era doar o mica observatie si nimic mai mult. O parte din UB40 a fost de revelion la Iasi, mi`o placut :)