Too much shopping and remembering Astro from UB40

A marathon shopping session over five hours - the third day running I'd gone into town trying to buy some replacement IT equipment. It took a good hour to sort out the finance, what with their technology and my technology not co-operating. Finally, everything was sent for approval and I went for a coffee, before heading down to the ground floor for some other purchases (which, I am pleased to report, were at a 25% discount). Back up to the top floor to collect my IT wares and out into the shopping centre in the picture.

I was very sorry to learn on the way into town that Astro, one of the original line-up of UB40, had died at 64 after a short illness. There's been lots of videos of different UB40 songs posted in reggaejahm in the past - I'll add one of my favourite songs later where you can see Astro and UB40 in their heyday.

UB40 formed in Birmingham, England in the late 1970s, when reggae was becoming an outlet for the country's working class youth to express their feelings about issues including racism and poverty. UB40 took their name from the British unemployment benefits card, a form they replicated as the cover of their 1980 debut album Signing Off.
The four time Grammy-nominated band topped the U.K. singles chart with the cover "Red Red Wine," a crossover American favorite, as well as a cover of the Elvis Presley classic "(I Can't Help) Falling In Love With You" and "I Got You Babe" featuring The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde. (Source)

The song is "The Way You Do The Things You Do", originally a chart topper for The Temptations early in their career. They recorded it without thinking too much about it, and were on tour when the record hit the charts.

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