Question: Which artists claimed success first, Poe or UB40?

Context articles: Dallas Taylor (drummer)
Simon M. Woods
UB40
Poe (singer)
Second Chance Program
La maschera e il volto
Rockin' Dopsie
The Conchologist's First Book
Tuber oregonense
Jozsef Gregor

Dallas Woodrow Taylor Jr. (April 7, 1948 – January 18, 2015) was an American session drummer who played on several rock records of the 1960s and 1970s.
 He achieved some success first with 1960s band Clear Light, but is best known as the drummer on Crosby, Stills and Nash's debut album , "Crosby, Stills & Nash" (1969) and their follow-up with Neil Young, "Déjà Vu" (1970) and was given a front-sleeve credit along with Motown bassist Greg Reeves.
Simon M. Woods is a British entrepreneur and former record producer.
 Woods was the manager for the band UB40 after having seen them play at a pub, and turned down two offers on their behalf to release under 2 Tone Records, opting to release "Food For Thought" through another label, Graduate, before setting up Dep International that recorded and released UB40 internationally with enormous success.
 Woods left the band in 1983 and started his own label, to which he signed Swans Way.
 Woods ran his own marketing company before being hired on by the Birmingham School of Acting, and founded the European Drama Network, a film production company which makes movies based on classic plays.
 Their first movie was "The Mandrake Root"; it was directed by Malachi Bogdanov and is based on a comedy written in 1512 by Niccolò Machiavelli.
 In a co-production with Warwick Business School he wrote and directed "The Inferno Show presents Machiavelli The Prince of Comedy", a short comedy to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the writing of "The Prince".
 Currently he is developing a movie, "From Ithaca With Love The Odyssey", a modern version of Homer's "The Odyssey" set in the modern day but made in Ancient Greek and Latin, loosely based on a play of the same name he produced in 2006 with director Malachi Bogdanov as part of the New Generation Arts Festival.
UB40 are an English reggae and pop band, formed in December 1978 in Birmingham, England.
 The band has had more than 50 singles in the UK Singles Chart, and has also achieved considerable international success.
 They have been nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album four times, and in 1984 were nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Group.
 UB40 have sold over 70 million records worldwide.
 The ethnic make-up of the band's original line-up was diverse, with musicians of English, Irish, Jamaican, Scottish and Yemeni parentage.
Poe (born Anne Decatur Danielewski) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.
 Poe's musical style is a blend of rock, jazz, electronica, folk, and hip hop elements combined with intimate lyrical compositions.
 Many of Poe's songs have been featured in films and on television.
 Poe first hit the modern rock charts in 1995.
The Second Chance Program is a controversial detoxification and rehabilitation program based on the ideas of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Church of Scientology.
 It focuses on individuals convicted of substance abuse offenses.
 The program utilizes a combination of saunas, vitamins, minerals and oils to tackle the effects of drug addiction.
 Other elements of the program aim to improve the educational and social abilities of inmates, and to instil a moral code for them to live by.
 First established in Baja California in 1995, it has attracted controversy over its methods and claimed success rates.
La maschera e il volto is a comedy of grotesque genre by Luigi Chiarelli.
 Written in 1913 and first presented in 1916, it is historically significant for starting the contemporary grotesque theatre.
 It had a great success first in Italy and then internationally, and continues to be represented.
 Several movies have been adapted from the play.
Alton Jay Rubin (February 10, 1932 – August 26, 1993), who performed as Rockin' Dopsie (sometimes Rockin' Dupsee), was an American zydeco singer and accordion player who enjoyed popular success first in Europe and later in the United States.
The Conchologist's First Book (sometimes subtitled with "Or, A System of Testaceous Malacology") is an illustrated textbook on conchology issued in 1839, 1840, and 1845.
 The book was originally printed under Edgar Allan Poe's name.
 Poe never claimed, however, that he was the author.
 Poe's condensed version was based on the textbook by Thomas Wyatt, an English author and lecturer.
 Wyatt wrote the original, longer textbook, "Manual of Conchology", upon which Poe based his shorter, condensed version.
 Poe was the editor or compiler of the work.
Tuber oregonense, commonly known as the Oregon white truffle, is a species of edible truffle in the genus "Tuber".
 Described as new to science in 2010, the North American species is found on the western coast of the United States, from northern California to southern British Columbia west of the Cascade Range.
 A mycorrhizal fungus, it grows in a symbiotic association with Douglas fir.
 It overlaps in distribution with the closely related "T. gibbosum", but they have different growing seasons: "T. oregonense" typically appears from October through March, while "T. gibbosum" grows from January to June.
 The fruit bodies of the fungus are roughly spherical to irregular in shape, and resemble small potatoes up to 5 cm in diameter.
 Inside the truffle is the gleba, which is initially white before it becomes a marbled tan color.
 The large, often thick-walled, and strongly ornamented spores are produced in large spherical asci.
 The truffle is highly prized for its taste and aroma.
 Some individuals have claimed success in cultivating the truffles in Christmas tree farms.
József Gregor (August 8, 1940 - October 27, 2006) was a renowned Hungarian bass-baritone/basso buffo who enjoyed success first in Hungary, then in France, Belgium and Canada, and finally in the United States.
 József Gregor was born in Rákosliget, a small town that is now part of Budapest.
 He studied violin for ten years and then, voice at the Liszt Academy in Budapest for one year but did not graduate.
 He started singing with the Hungarian Army chorus in 1958 before becoming a soloist in National Theatre of Szeged in Hungary.
 In Europe he sang in many opera houses, including Vlaamse Opera and La Scala in Milan.
 Beginning in 1989, József Gregor appeared in the US with the Portland Opera and later with the Houston Grand Opera (with Cecilia Bartoli at her American debut) and the Metropolitan Opera (with Bryn Terfel).
 His most famous roles included Sarastro, Osmin, Falstaff, Don Pasquale, Dulcamara, Don Basilio, Don Bartolo, Don Magnifico, Boris Godunov, Varlaam, Philip II, Bluebeard etc., roles in masses and oratorios, musicals (Tevye, Caiaphas), and songs.
 He died in Szeged of gastric cancer.