Wilson was a part of British reggae band UB40 for greater than 30 years, earlier than leaving the band to hitch breakaway group UB40 that includes Ali Campbell and Astro in 2013.
UB40 fashioned in Birmingham within the late Seventies, and over the following three many years discovered success with hits together with “Pink Pink Wine” and “(I Cannot Assist) Falling In Love.”
The band handled social and political points head-on of their songs, giving voice to working class dissatisfaction with the established order of the time.
“We discovered it more durable to put in writing love songs than militant lyrics, as a result of it was quite a bit simpler to put in writing about stuff you had witnessed or examine. It appeared pure to us,” he mentioned.
The present iteration of UB40 additionally paid tribute to the musician, writing on Saturday: “We now have heard tonight, the unhappy information that ex-member of UB40, Terence Wilson, higher referred to as Astro, has handed away after a brief sickness. Our honest condolences to his household.”
One other of the band’s founding members, Brian Travers, died of most cancers in August on the age of 62.
