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Ali Campbell from UB40 chats to I Like Music
ILM: Please describe the Ali Campbell process of writing music - does it tend to be lyrics or melody first?
ALI: With UB40 what happens is, we jam the music, somebody writes lyrics (most of the band write lyrics) and then those lyrics are given to me, because I'm the tunesmith. I do write lyrics but only in couplets and one in ten is my idea. I can sort of start things and then I give them to more eloquent members of the band and better writers like my brother or Jimmy. But I'm the one who puts the melody. I'll choose a backing track that I think goes with the mitre of the lyric and then, once I've chosen which backing track to use, because I don't read or write music, I'll then keep going over it and over it in my head, and then I make a tune. Then I go and demo it, and then, if everybody likes it, we'll approach it again and rearrange it or add lines and verses.
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