10 tracks · 45 min
TwentyFourSeven is the sixteenth studio album by UB40. It is the last UB40 album to feature the classic line-up as vocalist/guitarist Ali Campbell and keyboardist Mickey Virtue departed the band in 2008. Twentyfourseven was released as a free insert in The Mail on Sunday's 4 May 2008 issue, which sold nearly three million copies. This however, led to a backlash when the full 17 track version was released 21 June 2008, and most of the big retailers refused to stock it. It failed to go top 75 in the UK. This was a first for UB40, as all the official albums had previously gone Top 50 on the UK Albums Chart. The track "Rainbow Nation" refers to Gary Tyler once again, originally the subject of "Tyler", the first song on their first album, "Signing Off". The original saxophone part from "Tyler" is played over the closing bars of the track. UB40's next release (On EMI), was a collection called "Love Songs". This reached number 3 in the UK Charts. Its low chart-position (#81) in the UK Albums Chart is due to the covermount release previously in The Mail on Sunday, as fans had already owned the album because of this covermount release. The follow-up album Labour of Love IV did not featu…
