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UB40 are a popular reggae and ska band who formed in 1978 in Birmingham, England.

The band is multiracial and are named after the former U.K. Social Security form for unemployment benefits[?].

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 recieved after a bar fight, and have had a number of hits, most notably, "Red Red Wine" (a cover version of a Neil Diamond song).

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[?] (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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