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The origins of what would become UB40 can be traced back to mid-1978, when guitarist Ali Campbell, along with drummer Jimmy Brown and bassist Earl Falconer, began rehearsing a mix of popular reggae covers and their own original compositions.
Name Jimmy Brown Best known for Being the most important member of UB40, as well as the drummer. Current city Left the city years ago, now live out in the countryside. Replaced the sound of police ...
The album was the first of two by UB40 – alongside its follow-up, Homegrown (2003) – to use computer-generated rhythms as the foundation for its tracks. According to band members Ali and Robin Campbell, this idea was insisted on by bandmates Jimmy Brown and Earl Falconer. [3]
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 ...
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.
Promises and Lies is the tenth album by the British reggae band UB40, released in 1993. It includes the hit from the soundtrack of the 1993 movie Sliver, "Can't Help Falling in Love", originally sung by Elvis Presley. The album reached No. 1 in the UK and No. 6 in the United States.
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.
UB40's 22nd album overall, [9] Homegrown was released on 3 November 2003 by Virgin Records. [10] When preparing artwork for the album, the group were told by the label that they could not use a "weed-green" cover, as the cannabis connotation would discourage large retail chains, such as Woolworths , from stocking the record.