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The world will never be the same without him.
In the U.K., UB40 first came to prominence for their more politically inflected music.
We thought, Havent they got criminals to catch?
We were just a bunch of potheads, smoking weed and playing music.
Shock of all shocks, this law was enforced in a racially biased manner.
It was a weekly occurrence, he said.
It seemed natural to us.
Songs like the anti-Thatcher Madame Medusa snuck politics into a dance beat.
The band won an early fan in the Pretenders Chrissie Hynde, who had UB40 open for them.
The bands biggest Stateside hits were covers.
SlatesHit Paradepodcasts inaugural episode was about how the Neil Diamond song became a hit for the Brummie band.
UB40 split into two bands in 2013, both of which laid claim to being the one true UB40.
The other UB40 also announced Wilsons passing viasocial media, writing Our sincere condolences to his family.
