American listeners know UB40 primarily from their pair of hit reggae-pop covers that topped the U.S. charts in the 1980s. Their covers of Elvis Presley’s “(I Can’t Help) Falling in Love With You” and Neil Diamond’s “Red Red Wine” are an integral part of any ’80s power hour on American radio stations. But as Variety notes, back home in the United Kingdom, Travers and UB40 weren’t relegated to the radio shows of hits from decades past. They continued to have success beyond those songs, and remained popular well into the 21st century.

In fact, their two popular songs in the United States pale in comparison to the 39 top 40 hits they have produced across the pond. UB40 (pictured above) first reached its home country’s top 10 in 1980 with the single “Food for Thought.” Other songs that ended up being pop-reggae gold over in the U.K. and elsewhere in Europe included “One in Ten,” I Think It’s Going to Rain Today,” and another cover: “I Got You Babe” by Sonny and Cher. As for Travers’ explanation for the success of UB40, a band he and the others started before they even knew how to play instruments: “I think it was more by luck that people caught on to what we were doing,” he told writer Malcolm Wyatt in 2014. “We were only the same as every other kid at the time.” Whatever it was, it worked, and Brian Travers will definitely be missed.