How UB40 wrote their worldwide hits in leaky basement: ‘It was mad but fun. I lived and breathed reggae and roots’

Singer Ali Campbell on ‘One in Ten’ and how nothing much has changed since they wrote it UB40 in 1983, from left, Astro Norman Hassan, Brian Travers, Ali Campbell, Earl Falconer, Jimmy Brown, Robin Campbell, Mickey Virtue. Photo: Getty When Margaret Thatcher died on April 8, 2013, the poet Janine Booth wrote Respect for the Dead . It began: ‘Today I mourn the passing of those who deserve our tears/ The many many victims of Margaret Thatcher’s years/ The teenage generation, hopes destroyed without a care/ Like jobless Sean and Raffy, who ended lives filled with despair/ Derelict inner cities where hopelessness was rife/ Miners who lost their jobs, their communities and some their life.

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