There is the song Cesta' la vie...U all remember the lyric There is brother killing brother, people living on their knees

Me too mate , I miss my brother every day . In tears writing this after reading your comment. All the best

@@scottallan1441 I'd give a like, but it's not appropriate. I shed a little tear for my lost sibling too! All the best back at ya!

​@@ronniemushiwokufa2508wtf does that have to do with anything? 🤷🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️

First and foremost; I'm sorry for your loss. Sounds to me that you had a good relationship and memories. Cherish them. There are plenty of brothers out there who are bad and you have no good memories of them. Sometimes, blood is not thicker than water.

God that is awful to read mate I'm so sorry to read of your loss and I totally understand u still being messed up over it. You can't right the wrongs when they are no longer there. Listen to a song called smoke & mirrors by erasure its a beautiful song about the loss of a loved one and not being able to make amends. I don't think you should harbour any guilt your brother may have had some serious mental health problems or issues he couldn't handle and thought that suicide was the only way out and that's a shame . I wish you peace and happiness my friend and I hope you find the inner peace you deserve take care my friend x jason x

@@jasonbarron3047I give you thanks and respect from the bottom of my heart Jason.Funny how you mentioned the song smoke and mirrors,we were both Erasure fans in our teens,and the Circus was one of my brothers favourite albums,Andy Bell was not only a great singer he was an amazing performer.I still have all their albums from the eighties.although I don’t listen to them myself my wife has a few compilation cds that she listens to very often.Cant remember what album smoke and mirrors is on.Anyway Jason thank you so much for your kind words,I wish you all the best my friend.Take care and stay safe !

@@waynekieft4952 you are so welcome wayne, i was and still am touched by your post mate, i was so sad reading you were still messed up about it but i guess you never truly get over these things you just try and bury them and try to get on with your life. but you mustnt let the past deny you a future mate you wasnt to know so you must forgive yourself as i know your brother would have done too i mean he was an erasure fan and we are all really really good people at heart, iv yet to meet a bad one haha! thanks for replying to me pal i really appreciate you taking the time. you stay blessed my friend, and im sending you and your wife my heartfelt love and best wishes for the future. much love xj p.s smoke and mirrors is on the violet flame album its a recent album they did and some of the best work they have made in years, give the album a listen its on youtube i promise you and your wife will both enjoy it xx all the best wayne xj

The fact you are so open, means you were probably less at fault, or not at all - the way i see it. My brother is a total a hole, and sometimes a brick wall can never be knocked down. I'm 52 also, and thought of suicide several times. Dont be consumed by your fall out, you worth so much more mate.x

@@fkthelefties lovely words mate hope you are doing well my friend x j

Im so sorry for your loss..I lost a brother in a car accident he was 15. You never get over it.

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You are right, my brother did 16 years in the penetentiary. And when he came out . He was very militant. We had an argument and we had be estranged and then he was killed on the streets . I wish he was still here so I can talk to him and tell him I love him

Robin Campbell saying he couldn't care if he never saw Ali Campbell again but if you look at earl Faulkner in robins band his brother died in the car accident and earl Faulkner was jailed for it because he was driving the car that caused his brother's death so he know what it's like to lose a brother and he was driving the car that killed him so think before you speak robin Campbell and how the hell do you get over that going to jail and driving the car that killed your brother so once again instead of point scoring with Ali Campbell think about what earl Faulkner must think when your coming out with a comment like that I bet he wishes he never drove the car that killed his brother and him ending up in the jail

WRONG !!!! UB40 is the band....which is Robin Ali's group

@@4youreyesonly884Please read my statement again. I never defined which UB40 was which or whose. I just said UB40 without Ali is not the same as Ali without UB40 is not either. So please tell me where I'm wrong?

Ali and Astro were more UB40 than UB40 itself, Robin knows that and everyone knows that. The fans want Ali, it's his voice and there's nothing like it. Respect to Robin for what he's trying

Well said 👍

Ali doesn’t talk to all the kids he’s left in the midlands, didn’t attend his Dads and then his mothers funeral. I wouldn’t hold your breath 😩

@@avfcdunc really? Sad to hear that. very sad! Think the drugs have went to his head!

@@colindavid2078Dirty viler scum

@@avfcdunc you sure? think i saw a pic of him with kaya and singing with her. if he didn't attend his parents' funeral they prob weren't good parents.

The boys are really fulfilling their words which they sang in the song Cest la vie....the lyric goes like "There is brother killing brother"

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Isn’t that true, life is very very short , and we all take nothing with us.

you said that so beautifully and a reminder to us all! you would think that this would wake these folks up!

omg ;/

Wow I had no idea that members had died. I hav by listed to UB40?in years but was a big fan as a kid.

You would think that, but keep in mind that Ali didn't even show up to their mother or father Ian Campbell's funeral because of the feud.

Not True. they are now a Great band again with Robin at the Helm.

Yeah the others were backing singers

@@sdafc888 gosh!! As a percentage how many was Ali lead singer.... I'd say easily 98%

@@sdafc888 I think you mean most rather than none. It's allowed and they made a lot of people rich. But the comment was on Ali's voice please stay in context. His voice was unique. Once you heard it, you knew it was UB40. That was the sound of UB40.

@@sdafc888 Who cares?

@@sdafc888 ,, 1 in 10 they wrote and a few others

Says who?

Your only listening to robin on face culture about there mum and dad's funerals to which it should never have been brought up things like that are private but yet again robin and his camp at the point scoring again robin you need to keep private things private after all when UB40 original band members first started out if yous had a problem you kept it between yourselves to quote the band members it had fuck all to do with anyone else so try to do the same when your point scoring and telling everyone that Ali didn't attend your parents funerals

Not really he's just telling the facts

@@wherestheexit5572 what the Frick has it got to do with anyone else why Ali Campbell didn't attend his parents funerals to me that is a private matter and robin Campbell your on faceculture letting every man and his dog that Ali Campbell wasn't there in saying that was your big brother David there ?since he met his partner when he got a job with yous when he got out the jail and moved to Australia with her you don't really talk about him do you so for fuck sake stop the scoring points crap and move on you also said that you see more of his kids than he does well reality check robin Campbell your there uncle and when I was younger I used to spend a lot of time with my aunties and uncles and my nana and my papa so get over yourself and move on

​@Billy.Nomates any normal person

have know ali have say not reunion with my brother robin and new reunion sorry robin as have reasonwhy not possible ali

Robin is disingenuous he knows why Ali left but continues to peddle his stories. Rest in peace ast we will all miss you, we are devastated God bless you kid 🙏

In nterviews Ali has said he left because of management issues that he felt he had no say in, and that he felt the band should had listened to him and not ignored the situation. I expect he does feel hurt because of this and has probably said some hurtful things back. UB40 is not the same without Ali however, even though he was replaced by another brother. I hope they can resolve their differences. Life is too short.

@@jeddward9464 Yes, we know the True reasons why Britain and Astro have left so early

If you all do not speak to one another every family will start dying. It's an omen every family don't want that. Different from abuses and crimes and kidnaps,etc but THIS BITTERNESS is amongst you families. It don't matter how hard or who start, the new relationship is YOU, anybody. Never blame your past. That's YOURS IF YOU LIKE CLINGING TO IT! It's sad I love UB40 I DON'T CARE what problem it is but this is small problem. Brothers or sisters start talking bring back love because songs won't! BRING BACK FAMILY OTHERWISE YOU NEED WD40 YEA😁 Peace love is what we need! God bless UB40 FAMILIES!🕵️‍♀️👻

Not old ...older...not attending your parents funeral n losing touch with your children is too sad. Inw shit happens but this is so sad. Life is short! X🤗♥️🙏😭😇

They have never really ;ived 'their own" lives....the grass always looks greener the other side of the fence. Ali wanted a break most likely and be himself

@@shininglightstar843 children is bad yeh, parents not so much.

Robin's done nothing wrong. Ali is the angry and bitter one, but sadly even if he were to come to his senses after all this time too much damage has been done now.

Agree with OP. It's no use talking it out, all the bile will come up again. It takes strength to say bygones are bygones, but family is more important. But it takes more energy to maintain grudges...

You've nailed it! Money & ego has seen much of their personal wealth transferred to lawyers. Even today, with band members dying around them, they remain defiant. Idiots!

Yep, couldn't agree more.

I didn't know ASTRO died, how sad.

@@aaronweiser5421 Yes. Really sad 😔

I was there.....went after school with a mate. 14 years old.

...and then theres the TRUTH

If you tell the truth, there is only one side

@@jackiesmith3684 that is where you are absolutely incorrect, there is never two sides to a story. If both parties tell the truth and nothing but the truth the truth will be one side of the story, end of story

Sometimes differences cannot be solved. Face it people, we all have family problems and if you didn't know these guys, you wouldn't care less, just like you couldn't care less about my family issues. This a family matter that involves their family, so if they choose to do this or that it's none of your business

@@weneedsaving515 you are correct in that I çome from a big family and my family have not spoken to each other just certain ones since we lost my mum 14yrs ago and as you said it's nooñes business why we fell out just like Ali and robin that kind of thing is private between us the only thing I would say robin was wrong iñtelling the person who was doing a interview with him saying Ali wasn't at his mum and dad funeral that is bloody private and should be kept that way like the rift in my own family is private

Agreed!

Their brummies and I'm proud of them, but you clearly aren't listening to enough Reggae.

This comment killed me! 😂😂😂

have you ever tuned in 2jamaican reggae ? thort not .

They were a good cover band.

Agree

Agree. It's like cutting off your nose to spite your face.

dont think them 2 count.

Mickey and Astro left the band so he means he didn't speak to Robin, Brian, etc

Earl Falconer is still in the band. He's the bass player. Robin is the Ali's brother not sure who Roy is. Astro vocals. Norman Hassan pervs and horns. Brian Travers sax. Jimmy brown Drums. Mickey Virtue keys.

Roy and Astral !!??!! Oh this did make me chuckle 🤣🤣🤣 I think you meant Robin and Astro!!

Very sad, maybe two sides to this story??

Earl Faulkner didn't leave in the 80s he was sent to prison for the death of his brother he was driving the car that killed his brother and when he got out of the jail UB40 original band members took him back into the fold very sad time as his brother died and he went to jail and has had to live with that fact he was driving the car that killed his brother

Yeah exactly, I mean some people have said maybe Robin was making up these things that Ali supposed to have said about them, but I really don’t think a grown man would sit infront of a camera and say “my brother didn’t turn up to our parents funeral” when in actual fact he did, I highly doubt he would lie about something like that. That’s what makes you think he’s telling the truth

I think it has to do with a woman

Yes, not even his Mom's and she was the epitome of love and kindness. 😪

Don't forget to Denver johnjohnson jjand his sweet horn he played rip JJ and astro legend and Brian Travers you all rest in peacexx

There’s 3 sides to this story, Alis, Robins and then the truth

Ali has a real drug problem though, so his actions may not be his intentions. Sad story though.

Ali has a real drug problem bollocks and I take it that's came from his brother robin Campbell none of them were sqweeky clean they all smoked hash like a joint and a bit speed and that is all of them not just Ali Campbell plus robin Campbell still likes his wine and now his son Matt Campbell has to have the wine as well so are you going to say that robin Campbell is a alcoholic doubt it and if Ali Campbell had a drug habit im sure his wife would notice don't you and you can feel the pain from robin Campbell with what he went through with Ali Campbell well if you believe everything that comes out of robin Campbells mouth that's up to you but robin Campbell is good at telling fans things that will score him points Frick even Matt Campbell and Jamie Travers are bumping there gums about things that happened before they were born get a grip and start listening to both sides and 2024 Ali Campbell has just sold out Birmingham again and Glasgow armadillo sold out as well so if he had a drug problem then I don't think he would be selling out his hits tour do you robin Campbell couldn't even fill Birmingham city's ground with the appearance they made there half the seats were empty and there was not one of the original band members who didn't take drugs and if they say they didn't then they're lying

maybe not but ppl only want to see one band and it isnt ally campbells

@@yamahajog04 and they’ll be disappointed cause Ali’s voice made the band

Didn't Duncan have a stroke?

@@afton1955 Yes he did & he retired. Now UB40 have another unrelated singer...still nowhere near as good as Ali.

@@yamahajog04 Ali Campbell is ub40

Ali is the best singer of UB40. Although you probably think the Ali and Astro show you left was "okay" because that band just isn't UB40. They sound nothing like UB40. Both UB40s have put out albums. I have to say, For the Many sounds like a UB40 album. And Real Labour of Love doesnt. I guess you can't just round up a bunch of random people and call it UB40.

he is a great singer but sounds like he became a nightmare to work with.

It was the other way around for me. I saw Ali and Astro and loved it! They and their band had great energy, whereas this brother's band's energy was not so great... I was disappointed...

Why not after 86?

Yes mate I totally agree with you Maybe they can get in a singer called Don Campbell That will confuse the public a little bit 🇬🇧👍

@@pauleveritt7176 I agree.My god it’s he said this he said that bollocks! UB4O was all of them splitting in two different bands was the worst way they could’ve of gone they should’ve left it and spit.Robin bringing children into it is disgusting.His side of the story is different but we will never no.Brian passed yes and now Astro.The members of the band …. Ill feeling on both sides…I’ve seen UB40 ( sorry so so bad) and Ali and Astros last gig before he passed it was outstanding Im so glad I got to see Astro before he passed.I hope Ali has as much support around him as possible at the moment.No bad feeling but let the others carry on they will never draw in the 5000 fans who were there on the day A&A performed in September.But Blood is thicker then water if they can work it out ❤️💔🥲 RIP Astro xxx

Tricky. If I had a choice, I would see the band. The real sadness is that a band reunion now cant happen with Brian and Astro's passing. Lets hope the brothers can reconcile especially after the last two years

Greed

I'm sad after all that's happened ,there great Robin Duncan ,and the rest of band but alli wanted to go so now let sleeping dogs lie.To Robin and Duncan and band members a three big Cheers from me .Alli your miss that great man astro beside you always make up to your brother's someday life is to short .xc