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Duncan Campbell (born 3 April 1958 in Birmingham) is an English musician and former lead singer of UB40. He joined the band in 2008 after the departure of his brother Ali Campbell , [ 60 ] the former UB40 lead singer.
For the Many is the nineteenth studio album by English reggae band UB40.It was released on 15 March 2019 on the Shoestring record label. [1] The album cover was designed by the band's saxophonist Brian Travers and depicts a silhouette of tower blocks, following the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire.
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Getting Over the Storm is the eighteenth studio album by English reggae band UB40. It was released on 2 September 2013. [ 4 ] It is the final UB40 album to feature trumpet player and vocalist Astro , due to his departure in late 2013.
He said of his brother Duncan's singing, "I sat back for five years and watched my brother Duncan murdering my songs. We're saving the legacy". [8] They initially toured under the name 'UB40 featuring Ali, Astro and Mickey', leading to legal action brought by the other UB40. [9] [10] Their first release was The Hits of UB40 Live in 2015.
In August 2014, Campbell announced that the trio had reunited to record a new album, Silhouette, under the name "The Legendary Voice of UB40 Ali Campbell reunited with Astro & Mickey". [4] He said of his brother Duncan 's singing, "I sat back for five years and watched my brother Duncan murdering my songs.
"Food for Thought" was released as a double A-side single with "King" on local independent label Graduate Records. [A] The single lists "King" as the first A-side and Bob Lamb has explained that "Food for Thought" was originally the B-side and that "King" "was always gonna be the main song".
The song was inspired and named after the 1964 science-fiction horror film.The lyrics were written by drummer Jimmy Brown, who in an interview prior to the release of the song said that when writing a song he liked to use "genre forms… using something popular to get our ideas across" and that in "The Earth Dies Screaming", "the story has a science-fiction setting to say what I want about now ...