UB40 Signing Off Fine Art Limited Edition Album Cover Print Signed By Bob Lamb and Geoff Tristram

Description

Signing Off is the debut album by UB40, released in 1980. It reached #2 on the UK Albums Chart.

Signing Off was UB40’s first album and it features a mix of reggae and dub material which was lyrically politically charged and socially conscious, while musically was reverb-heavy, doom-laden yet mellifluous, best exemplified in the hits “King” and “Food For Thought” as well as the searing “Burden of Shame”.

“King” was a song written about the late Martin Luther King, questioning the lost direction of the deceased leader’s followers and the state of mourning of a nation after his death. Perhaps the biggest success of the album was the song “Food For Thought”, which charted high in the UK and subsequently was also a prominent feature of UB40’s 2005 Live 8 appearance in Hyde Park, London – 25 years after the song had been first released. The original vinyl album included an additional 12-inch record with the tracks “Madam Medusa”, “Strange Fruit” and “Reefer Madness”.

As an indication that Signing Off is considered by many to be by far UB40’s best album, as well as one of the finest reggae albums by a British group, in 2000 Q magazine placed it at number 83 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.