Article: Lead singer of UB40 leaves band after argument over solo career

The lead singer of the British reggae group UB40 has quit the band amid a bitter row over "management difficulties" which have made his professional life "intolerable".

Ali Campbell wrote an open letter to fans on the group's website in which he said the decision to leave after nearly three decades had been "agonising".

The 48-year-old singer is leaving the Birmingham-based group after several years of acrimonious in-fighting over his alleged prioritising of a solo career.

In the letter he said he had been "deeply unhappy with administrative practices and with many decisions that have been made

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