He doesn’t get boozed up every night!” Ali still performs live under the banner ‘UB40 Featuring Ali Campbell’. Astro, who died in 2021, also performed as part of the group (then called ...

and he went on to form a breakaway group UB40 Featuring Ali & Astro, much to the distaste of the original group. What ensued was years of bitter back and forth between the Campbell brothers ...

Since 2008 he has performed in a splinter group, UB40 featuring Ali Campbell, which previously included the late rapper and trumpet player Astro until his death in 2021. Robin’s comments echo ...

With global record sales of over 70 million, British reggae band UB40 is so popular they have performed in over a third of ...

Co-founder Mickey Virtue quit shortly after Campbell, while Astro also left the band in 2013 before his death in 2021. In a new interview with The Trawl podcast, UB40 members Robin Campbell and ...

Co-founders Mickey Virtue and Astro joined Ali in the years that followed, with the trio naming their new group UB40 prompting a bitter dispute. And it seems the ill-feeling remains with Robin and ...

UB40's Robin Campbell and Jimmy Brown have stated ... Co-founders Mickey Virtue and Astro followed Ali. In an interview with The Trawl podcast, Robin and Jimmy expressed their reluctance to ...

UB40’s story begins in Birmingham in the late ... we’ve also got Gilly G as our MC doing what Astro used to do. We just think that with this influx of youth into the band we’re firing ...

He has since toured as part of the breakaway group UB40 Featuring Ali, Astro & Mickey, and the two groups regularly hit out at each other in public. Duncan sang in a harmony group with his ...