UB40

Released: November 17, 1998

Songwriter: Leonard Dillon

Producer: Dan Armstrong Danny Canaan UB40

I've spent eleven months and five days loving you
And all these times I've spent forgiving you
I don't want to be hurt
I don't want to be hurt
I don't want to be hurt
Not any more
I'm a man with a good ambition
And I will never let you drag me down
You better go home and leave me alone
I'm a man with a good ambition

And I will never let you drag me down
So baby go home
And leave me alone
I've got a good, good, good ambition
Tell you it's a good, good, good ambition
I've got a good, good, good ambition
Tell you it's a good, good, good ambition
I've got a good, good, good ambition
Tell you it's a good, good, good ambition

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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