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Duncan Campbell with UB40, Birmingham Symphony Hall, 2010. 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.
The discography of UB40, a British reggae band, consists of 21 studio albums, 19 compilation albums, six live albums, four remix albums, 65 singles and a number of appearances with other artists. The band has sold over 100 million records worldwide. [ 1 ]
Dep International was a British record label founded in 1980 by members of British group UB40. [1] It specialised in reggae and dub music. The label went into administration in October 2006 and into insolvent liquidation in April 2008. [2] [3] It was based in DEP International Studios in Digbeth, Birmingham.
Signing Off is the debut album by British reggae band UB40, released in the UK on 29 August 1980 by Dudley-based independent label Graduate Records.It was an immediate success in their home country, reaching number 2 on the UK albums chart, and made UB40 one of the many popular reggae bands in Britain, several years before the band found international fame.
Birmingham's culture of popular music first developed in the mid-1950s. [1] By the early 1960s the city's music scene had emerged as one of the largest and most vibrant in the country; a "seething cauldron of musical activity", [2] with over 500 bands constantly exchanging members and performing regularly across a well-developed network of venues and promoters. [3]
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Alistair Ian Campbell (born 15 February 1959) is an English singer and songwriter who was lead singer and co-founder of the British reggae band UB40.. UB40 sold more than 70 million records worldwide and toured for 30 years with the original line-up of the band.
Simon M. Woods is a British entrepreneur and former record producer. Woods was the manager for the band UB40 after having seen them play at a pub, and turned down two offers on their behalf to release under 2 Tone Records, opting instead to release "Food For Thought" through another label, Graduate, before setting up Dep International that recorded and released UB40 internationally with ...