Album Review: UB40 featuring Ali, Astro & Mickey – A Real Labour Of Love

UB40 featuring Ali, Astro & Mickey, “A Real Labour Of Love” (UMC)- The latest offering from the incarnation of pop-reggae outfit UB40 fronted by vocalist and founder member Ali Campbell is dominated by covers of some of the decade defining songs that the group would have been exposed to during their frequent visits to Jamaica in the eighties, along with a few earlier gems such as Culture’s “International Herb” and Stevie Wonder’s Motown classic, “A Place in the Sun.” Ali and fellow UB40 stalwarts Astro and Mickey are in particularly fine fettle throughout this solidly entertaining jaunt down memory lane – By Kevin Bryan.