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A Real Labour of Love
A Real Labour Of Love is the new album from UB40 Featuring Ali, Astro & Mickey, to be released March 2nd on UMC. Lead single She Loves Me Now received its exclusive first play on BBC Radio 2.
As founding members of Britains biggest reggae band UB40, singer Ali Campbell, second vocalist Astro and keyboardist Mickey Virtue topped the UK singles chart on three occasions and sold 70 million records as they took their smooth yet rootsy musical blend to all corners of the globe. Now with A Real Labour Of Love the trio give us a fresh take on the legendary series of albums, putting the focus primarily on reggae tracks from the 1980s.
The first three albums featured the songs we grew up listening to, says Ali. This one is built around the records we were listening to once UB40 were on the road.
A Real Labour Of Love sees the group explore the songs that defined reggae in the Eighties. The concept isnt a rigid one: Stevie Wonders A Place In The Sun is a Motown classic from 1966, and there are numbers from the late Seventies in Dennis Browns sublime How Could I Leave and Cultures International Herb. But most of the tracks on A Real Labour Of Love are from the Eighties, a decade that saw dancehall reggae enter the mainstream.
The new album builds confidently on the momentum gathered in the five years since Astro rejoined singer Ali and keyboardist Mickey in 2013. They have released two acclaimed albums, Silhouette (2014) and Unplugged (2016), their first acoustic album and their first release with new label UMC.
