UB40 Maintain Ali Campbell Left For Solo Career

The remaining members of UB40 have maintained that former frontman Ali Campbell left the band last week in order to pursue his solo career.

Following the release of a band statement last Thursday, Campbell hit back blaming his departure on “intolerable management differences”.

He also stressed that he hadn’t left in order to concentrate on promoting his latest solo album, insisting that he planned to continue "to balance my solo career with my commitment to the band".

In a new statement released today, however, UB40 claim that “they do not have artist management” and that all band decisions “have always been by a democratic process of all eight members." 

The statement concluded: "Ali made a very simple decision, he chose to pursue and put his solo career over and above continuing to work with UB40." 

Campbell, who spent nearly thirty years with the group, apologised to fans in an open letter on his website for the manner in which the news of his departure broke.