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UB40 | Red Red Wine (1983)

UB40 recorded a version of "Red Red Wine" for their album of cover versions, Labour of Love.

According to UB40 member Astro, the group's former vocalist and trumpet player, the band were only familiar with Tony Tribe's version and did not realize that the writer and original singer was Neil Diamond.


Astro told the Financial Times, "Even when we saw the writing credit which said 'N Diamond,' we thought it was a Jamaican artist called Negus Diamond."



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