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UB40 featuring A, A and M to Wow us all this Weekend

02 March 2017

UB40 are an English reggae and pop band, formed in December 1978 in Birmingham. The band has had more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart, and has also achieved considerable international success.

Three of the founding members of the band, Ali, Astro and Mickey briefly went their separate ways but they reunited in 2013 to bring back the authentic sounds of UB40 to their fans.
Some favourites they kept us entranced with are: Can’t Help Falling in Love with You / Red, Red Wine / Don’t Break My Heart / The Way You Do the Things You Do / Every Breath You take / Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain / Kiss and Say Goodbye!!!!!!!
Ali Cambell set out to promote Dub - a genre of music that grew out of reggae in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre, though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae.
Ali Campbell was the voice and lead singer of UB40 and has written most of the melodies. Ali Campbell’s dad was a folk singer with a band and the biggest folk club in Europe in the 60’s,

A lot of songs from the 80’s had some serious lyrics though many probably did not really listen to the lyrics while they got lost in the fabulous beats, dancing till they dropped for UB40 music certainly makes one’s feet move.
"Food for Thought" is a song about starvation in a poor country - Ivory Madonna dying in the dust, waiting for the manna coming from the west. Barren is her bosom, empty as her eyes, Death a certain harvest scattered from the skies. Ivory Madonna dying in the dust means giving up all hope of the Virgin Mary.
"Sing Our Own Song" is a song and single. Released in 1986 Sing Our Own Song reached #5 on the UK charts where it stayed for nine weeks. It made #1 on the Dutch charts in 1986.The song was written as an anti-apartheid song and was censored in South Africa. Featuring the ANC rallying cry of "Amandla Awethu" it is considered a protest song of the time.

No – No Stay, Stay Please Stay - who will want the group UB40 to end their gig on Sunday night? Not many, for sure.

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