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#1 2014-09-22 05:26:48
- 4F Hepcat
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Ali Campbell - A Financial Mess
There must have been a reason why the rest of the band, including his brothers did the dirty on him and ran off with all the money:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/fameandfortune/11109390/Ali-Campbell-My-anti-capitalist-dad-said-go-for-profits.html
Hmm...me thinks he must be a right caant!
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#2 2014-09-22 06:01:17
- Kingston1an
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Re: Ali Campbell - A Financial Mess
"Aaron-sweatered" ?
I wonder what they look like.
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#3 2014-09-22 09:40:49
- RobbieB
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Re: Ali Campbell - A Financial Mess
I read that article and was struck by how he seemed to blame everyone else for his personal misfortune. I went to the O2 arena a few years back to see UB40 (don't ask it was a friends birthday celebration) without Ali and they really missed him as a front man. It was a full arena so they could still pull in an audience.
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#4 2014-09-25 13:33:33
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Re: Ali Campbell - A Financial Mess
UB40 had a history of shoddy management and bad investments.
They went 'mainstream' with Labour of Love, an album of cover versions which mean't they got sod all publishing money from it, Selling millions of records worldwide but making less money than when they shifted 200,000 copies of their debut album on their own DEP International label.
Ali's solo album (which UB40 ended up paying for out of their royalties) cost a fortune to produce, he tried recording it how UB40 had previously recorded, but with session musicians 'on-the-clock' instead of his band-mates his all-night jams ended up costing tens of thousands of pounds.
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