British reggae legends UB40 featuring Ali Campbell are continuing their 2024 tour and heading to the music capital of the world, Liverpool. Rightly regarded as one of the most important and influential British bands of the last 50 years, UB40 will perform their impressive back catalogue interspersed with new tracks.
Since their split, other members of the original line-up are also touring. However, only with Ali Campbell, the legendary voice of UB40, can audiences experience the closest thing to the sound of the hugely successful original line-up of UB40 as all the hits are played.
Ali was a founding member and lead singer of UB40, who achieved three UK Number Ones: “Red, Red Wine,” “Kingston Town,” “I Got You Babe” (featuring Chrissie Hynde), and “I Can’t Help Falling In Love with You,” plus 17 Top 10 singles.
UB40, Britain’s greatest reggae artists, have survived more than 30 years in the music business and have clocked up more than 40 million record sales worldwide. They started in the summer of 1978 when eight members of another Birmingham band, soon to become UB40, were drawn together by their love of Jamaican reggae. Taking their name from a notorious British unemployment form, the band played their first local gig in Birmingham in 1979 and spent the rest of the year performing at pubs and clubs around the UK.
British radio legend John Peel was so impressed with the group’s first demo tape that he invited them to perform on his Radio One show in 1980. At the same time, the band was also asked to support The Pretenders on their triumphant national tour. They released a Top 5 single in the UK in February 1980 and, in 1981, released a brace of albums, “Present Arms” and “Present Arms in Dub.” Their breakthrough came with the hit single “Red, Red Wine.” The song topped the British singles charts in 1983 and, after renewed promotion following the 1988 Nelson Mandela Concert at Wembley, the single reached the number one spot in the US.
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