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Labour of Love

"Labour of Love" is the fourth studio album by British reggae band UB40, and their first album of cover versions. Released in the U.K. on September 12, 1983, the album is best known for containing the song "Red Red Wine", a worldwide number-one single, but it also includes three further U.K. top 20 hits, "Please Don't Make Me Cry," "Many Rivers to Cross" and "Cherry Oh Baby."
"Labour of Love" is the fourth studio album by British reggae band UB40, and their first album of cover versions. Released in the U.K. on September 12, 1983, the album is best known for containing the song "Red Red Wine", a worldwide number-one single, but it also includes three further U.K. top 20 hits, "Please Don't Make Me Cry," "Many Rivers to Cross" and "Cherry Oh Baby." Virgin Records/A&M Records
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by Jessica Paxton

September 30, 2023

This week Teenage Kicks is revisiting Labour of Love, the fourth studio album from British reggae & pop band, UB40. Released forty years ago in September 1983, Labour of Love is UB40’s first of four albums featuring all covers, with the band paying tribute to some of their favorite reggae songs released between 1969 and 1972, including the song that became UB40’s first world-wide number one single. But unbeknownst to the band at the time the album was being recorded, what became their most famous track was not originally released as a reggae song – and in fact, was penned and first recorded by American balladeer, Neil Diamond. 

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