UB40 is a British reggae band formed in Birmingham in 1978. Since then they have sold over 70 million albums worldwide, with three UK #1s and five US top ten hits.

UB40’s first album Signing Off| was released in 1980 through local independent record company Graduate Records, then run by David Virr. At variance with the band’s later more commercial efforts, Signing Off was a mixture of reggae and dub, most memorable for lyrics that were charged with social and political comment. It reached #2 on the UK album charts and has been awarded platinum status by the BPI, with double A-sides Food for Thought FOOD FOR THOUGHT by JAMES BROWN,ALI CAMPBELL,ROBIN CAMPBELL,EARL FALCONER,NORMAN HASSAN,BRIAN TRAVERS,MICHAEL VIRTUE|/King KING by JAMES BROWN,ALI CAMPBELL,ROBIN CAMPBELL,EARL FALCONER,NORMAN HASSAN,BRIAN TRAVERS,MICHAEL VIRTUE| and My Way of Thinking MY WAY OF THINKING by JAMES BROWN,ALI CAMPBELL,ROBIN CAMPBELL,EARL FALCONER,NORMAN HASSAN,BRIAN TRAVERS,MICHAEL VIRTUE|/I Think Its Going to Rain Today hitting #4 and #6 on the UK single charts respectively. Food for Thought FOOD FOR THOUGHT by JAMES BROWN,ALI CAMPBELL,ROBIN CAMPBELL,EARL FALCONER,NORMAN HASSAN,BRIAN TRAVERS,MICHAEL VIRTUE| was particularly notable for its views on the Ethiopian famine five years before Live Aid brought it to the general public consciousness.

The Kassner group has represented the songs contained in Signing Off together with the single releases The Earth Dies Screaming THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING by JAMES BROWN,ALI CAMPBELL,ROBIN CAMPBELL,EARL FALCONER,NORMAN HASSAN,BRIAN TRAVERS,MICHAEL VIRTUE|, Dream A Lie DREAM A LIE by JAMES BROWN,ALI CAMPBELL,ROBIN CAMPBELL,EARL FALCONER,NORMAN HASSAN,BRIAN TRAVERS,MICHAEL VIRTUE| and My Way of Thinking MY WAY OF THINKING by JAMES BROWN,ALI CAMPBELL,ROBIN CAMPBELL,EARL FALCONER,NORMAN HASSAN,BRIAN TRAVERS,MICHAEL VIRTUE| since signing an administration agreement with Graduate Records’ publishing division, Graduate Music, in 2005.