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I Got You Babe
Legends Live proudly presents
a series of concerts by classic groups from the 70s, 80s
and 90s that will take place
every month in the south of
Tenerife.
As part of this project, organisers are pleased to announce
the arrival of legendary British reggae/pop act UB40 on
March 18 to the auditorium
of the Pirámide de Arona in
Playa de Las Américas. Tickets to see UB40 are on sale
now and available from www.
ticketbell.com.
During 2016, Legends Live
will organise a series of
seven exclusive concerts by
bands and solo artists popular in the decades before the
turn of the millennium. The
venue seats 1,500 people and
spectators will enjoy a unique
opportunity to see acts that
were enormously popular in
the recent past and now perform nostalgia tours to audi-
ences that continue to love
their music.
Legends Live begins in March
and will continue in April, May,
July, September, October and
November. The UB40 concert kicks off the proceedings
and organisers are expecting
huge interest from tourists and
foreign residents who fondly
remember the group’s success,
particularly during the 1980s
and 90s. However, Legends
Live also expects that many
Canarians will be excited by the
announcement of the group’s
arrival.
Information about the concerts, news and where to buy
tickets can be found on Legend Live’s social media pages:
www.legendslive.es; Facebook
(Legends Live TF); and Twitter
(legendslivetf).
UB40 come to Spain with
three of their key original
band members; their distinctive lead vocalist and frontman
Photo: Stuart Sevastos CC 2.0
UB40 concert in March
UB40’s distinctive frontman Ali Campbell arrives in Tenerife with other
band members in March
Ali Campbell , Astro on percussions and vocals, and Mickey
Virtue on keyboards.
The band formed in December
1978 in Birmingham, England.
The ethnic makeup of the origi-
nal line-up was diverse, with
musicians of English, Scottish,
Irish, Yemeni and Jamaican
parentage. The eight original
band members (Ali Campbell,
Robin Campbell, James Brown,
Earl Falconer, Norman Hassan,
Brian Travers, Michael Virtue
and Astro) knew each other
from various schools across
Birmingham and their name
was selected in reference to the
signing-on document issued to
people claiming unemployment
benefit at the time of their formation (Unemployment Benefit, Form 40).
Chrissie Hynde, lead singer of
The Pretenders, saw them play
after recording their first demo
and offered them to support
her on The Pretenders’ 1979
tour. The following year they
released their first album, Signing Off, and created their own
record company: DEP International. The band rose to fame
in 1983 with their cover of
Neil Diamond’s Red Red Wine,
which hit the number one spot
in the UK and US. The album
of cover versions it featured on,
Labour of Love, also went to
number one in the UK album
charts, and number eight in
the US.
Over the subsequent decades
the band has continued to
enjoy success through classic
albums such as Baggariddim
in 1985, Rat in the Kitchen
in 1986, and their first live
album, CCCP: Live in Moscow
in1987.
Notable hit singles include:
Many Rivers to Cross, I Got
You Babe (featuring Chrissie
Hynde), Rat in Mi Kitchen,
Homely Girl, Kingston Town,
and I Can’t Help Falling in Love
With You.
UB40 have had more than 50
UK chart singles and achieved
considerable international success, selling over 70 million
n
records.
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