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 ...

Spending an hour with UB40 singer Ali Campbell is like being lashed to the front of a particularly wild rollercoaster. 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” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Birmingham reggae stars UB40 have asked five Midland musicians to support them on their UK tour. Mile Wide Stride, who hail from Nuneaton and Bedworth, are set to open the tour with a gig at the ...

Former vocalist and founding member of British reggae group UB40 — which rose to fame in the 1980s with hits like Red, Red Wine and Can't Help Falling In Love — has died at the age of 64, his band ...

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,” ...