UB40

The band is multiracial and named after the former U.K. Social Security form for claiming unemployment benefit.

Its members include:

• Jim Brown (drums)
• Ali Campbell (guitar, lead vocals)
• Robin Campbell (lead guitar, vocals)
• Earl Falconer (Bass guitar, vocals)
• Norman Hassan (percussion)
• Brian Travers (saxophone)
• Mickey Virtue (keyboards)
• Terence Wilson (percussion, trumpet)

The band purchased its first instruments with compensation money Ali Campbell received after a bar fight, and have had a number of hits, most notably, "Red Red Wine" (a cover version of a Neil Diamond song).

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

Discography by UB40

• Signing Off (1980); debut
• Present Arms (1981)
• Present Arms in Dub (1981)
• UB44 (1982)
• UB40 Live (1983)
• Labour of Love (1983)
• Geffery Morgan (1984)
• Baggariddim (1985)
• Rat in the Kitchen (1986)
• UB40 CCCP: Live in Moscow (1987); Live in Moscow, Russia 1986
• The Best of UB40 - Volume One (1987)
• UB40 (album)|UB40 (1988)
• Labour of Love II (1989)
• Promises and Lies (1993)
• The Best of UB40 - Volume Two (1995)
• Guns in the Ghetto (1997)
• UB40 Present the Dancehall Album (1998)
• Labour of Love III (1998)
• The Very Best of UB40 (2000)
• Cover Up (2001)

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