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UB40 founders face bankruptcy
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 14 February 2011
Five of the original members of UB40 are facing bankruptcy proceedings in the Birmingham High Court this week, according to the News Of The World, after an investigation into the affairs of their record label Dep International.
Details of that investigation are not clear, though when former frontman Ali Campbell quit the band in 2008 he claimed he did so because of concerns about the way the outfit’s financial affairs were being handled by the band’s management. At the time he said he had asked for the band’s finances to be investigated, which may have led to this week’s bankruptcy proceedings. Shortly after, the band’s keyboardist Michael Virtue also quit UB40 expressing similar concerns to those of his former bandmate.
The five UB40 men who face the bankruptcy proceedings are Ali’s brother Robin plus Brian Travers, Terence Wilson, Norman Hassan and James Brown.
