UB40 can’t help falling in love with you, and they also can’t prevent fans from attacking others. The NME is reporting that a British woman has been sentenced for four years in prison for “biting a chunk off another woman’s ear because she turned off a UB40 record at a pub disco.”
I mean we’ve all been there done that, right?
According to the NME:
Sophia Blackburn pinned Stacey Wilkinson to the dancefloor after a fight at the DJ booth in the Horse And Groom pub in Bradford on May 25 last year.
Wilkinson told the Daily Mail: “My uncle was the DJ on the night and he’d asked me to sort out the last three songs for the night, which would take us up to 11pm.”
“UB40 had been playing and when I put the next track on she just went nuts and attacked me.’
Blackburn was convicted by a jury at Bradford Crown Court last month of wounding Miss Wilkinson with intent to cause her grievous bodily harm.
The court heard how Blackburn got angry when her choice of music was turned off. She punched Wilkinson to the floor, climbed on top of her and bit half her ear off before spitting it out and leaving the pub.
UB40 have more than 50 charting singles in their native United Kingdom. The reggae band is from Birmingham, and had a brief fling with stateside success with the hits “Can’t Help Falling In Love” and “Red Red Wine.”