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… ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UB40 toaster Astro, who helped launch the group in the late ’70s in Birmingham, England, passed after a “short illness.” One of ...

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Neil Diamond's somber country ballad about liquid solace flopped in the '60s, but you'll definitely recognize a British ...

The top of the Reggae Albums chart greets some familiar faces, as UB40 featuring Ali, Astro & Mickey debut atop the list dated March 17 with "A Real Labour of Love." By Keith Caulfield The top of the ...

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 ...

“It was such an iconic venue,” drummer Jimmy Brown tells me. “I’d grown up watching the boxing from there. I thought, this is about as good as it gets.” Six years later, it got better. “We got asked ...

Controversy remains king in the land of UB40 – or, to put it more accurately – the UB40s. In January, three founding members from the veteran British reggae band (lead singer Ali Campbell, trumpeter ...

On a Wednesday night in the autumn of 1985, UB40 played a concert in New Haven, Connecticut. After the show, Brett Kavanaugh, an undergraduate at Yale at the time, retired to a local bar, beloved for ...

Astro, a reggae toaster and singer who helped anchor the British band UB40 for more than 30 years, dancing across the stage in frenetic live shows, singing lead on songs such as “Rat in Mi Kitchen” ...

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,” ...