Getting Over the Storm is the eighteenth studio album by English reggae band UB40. It was released on 2 September 2013. It is the final UB40 album to feature trumpet player and vocalist Astro, due to his departure in late 2013.
Getting Over the Storm
UB40 are an English reggae and pop band, formed in December 1978 in Birmingham, England. The band has had more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart, and has also achieved considerable international success. They have been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album four times, and in 1984 were nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Group. UB40 have sold more than 70 million records worldwide. The ethnic make-up of the band's original line-up was diverse, with musicians of English, Welsh, Irish, Jamaican, Scottish, and Yemeni parentage.
UB40 on stage in their home city of Birmingham, England, in 2010
A plaque commemorating UB40's first concert at the Hare & Hounds in Kings Heath, Birmingham
Vocalist Ali Campbell
UB40 at the Rock am Ring, Nürburgring, Germany in 1987