Reversing what it has done with the three albums in its "Labour of Love" series of covers, veteran U.K.-based pop reggae act UB40 has assembled a who's who of reggae greats to reinterpret 14 of the… ...
One of the United Kingdom’s most popular reggae groups is coming to Elgin’s MacMoray Festival in 2026. UB40, who have sold ...
The popular British reggae band UB40 featuring Ali Campbell will perform Feb. 15 at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center. Courtesy photo With global record sales of over 70 million, British reggae band ...
UB40 Headlines Reggae Night at the Bowl: It’s reggae night at the Hollywood Bowl, and not in that awful “new reggae” fashion (Soja, etc). Birmingham veterans UB40 are joined by the Original Wailers ...
Not many bands can claim to have been spied on by the British secret service, but UB40, the eight-piece reggae band from Birmingham who have been popularising the sound across the world since 1979, ...
UB40 toaster Astro, who helped launch the group in the late ’70s in Birmingham, England, passed after a “short illness.” One of the founders of the veteran British reggae band UB40 has died. Terence ...
If reggae is to make a comeback, and there are many encouraging signs that it, in fact, already is beginning to, it will be because of the infectious new form it has adopted. To the traditional ...
Terence Wilson, a founding member of UB40 who was known by fans of the pioneering reggae band as Astro, has died following a short illness. He was 64. Wilson's death was confirmed Saturday on the ...
Former chart toppers UB40, who notched up more than 50 chart hits in Britain, have been declared bankrupt. Despite their glittering 33-year career, four leading members of the reggae band have been ...
It’s Sept. 25, 1985 at the Palace Theatre in downtown New Haven, Connecticut, and the buoyant staccato guitar rhythm, breezy sax and distinctly ’80s synth-pop has the crowd footloose. UB40, which has ...
After 30 years and more than 70 million records sold worldwide, UB40 vocalist Ali Campbell left the band in 2008. In 2014, though, he reunited with band mates Astro and Mickey Virtue for the album ...
One of the founders of the veteran British reggae band UB40 has died. Terence “Astro” Wilson helped launch the group in the late 1970s in Birmingham, England. He reportedly suffered a “short illness,” ...