UB40

Released: March 15, 2019

Songwriter: James Stephen Brown Brian Travers Duncan Campbell Earl Falconer Laurence Parry Martin Meredith Norman Hassan Robin Campbell Tony Mulings

Producer: Jamie Travers UB40

I've been thinking about you
And what you can do
Whispering words to me
Though we're miles apart
I feel you start
Going to work on me

I'm in a hotel room alone
Staring at the phone
I smoke another cigarette
You haven't called me yet

The night turns away
The sun sends the day
Creeping into the gloom
I've wasted the hours
Counting wallpaper flowers
Thinking you'd call me soon

I'm in a hotel room alone
Staring at the phone
I smoke another cigarette
You haven't called me yet

The night turns away
The sun sends the day
Creeping into the gloom
I've wasted the hours
Counting wallpaper flowers
Thinking you'd call me soon

I'm in a hotel room alone
Staring at the phone
I smoke another cigarette
You haven't called me yet

I'm in a hotel room alone
Staring at the phone
I smoke another cigarette
You haven't called me yet

Another hotel room alone
Staring at the phone
I haven't got a light
Maybe you'll call tonight

I've been thinking about you
And what you can do

The night turns away
The sun sends the day
Creeping into the gloom

UB40 are an English reggae and pop band, formed in December 1978 in Birmingham. The band has had more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart. They have been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album four times, and in 1984 were nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Group. UB40 have sold over 70 million records. The ethnic make-up of the band’s original line-up was diverse, with musicians of English, Irish, Jamaican, Scottish and Yemeni parentage.

Their hit singles include their debut “Food for Thought”, “Red Red Wine” and “Can’t Help Falling in Love”. Both of these also topped the UK Singles Chart, as did the band’s version of “I Got You Babe”. Their two most successful albums, Labour of Love (1983) and Promises and Lies (1993), reached number one on the UK Albums Chart.

On January 24, 2008, it was announced that Ali Campbell would be leaving the group after 30 years. It was reported by some Birmingham newspapers on 13 March 2008, that Maxi Priest would be the new lead singer of UB40 and had recorded a cover of Bob Marley’s “I Shot the Sheriff” with the band.

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