(Vocal/instrumental group, 1978–81, 2009) As frontrunners of the ska revival, this superb Coventry band released the genre’s finest single, ‘Ghost Town’ (1981), on their own 2Tone label. Terry Hall and Neville Staples (both vocals), Lynval Golding and Roddy Radiation (both guitar), Jerry Dammers (keyboards), Horace ‘Gentleman’ Panter (bass) and John Bradbury (drums) also had hits with ‘Rat ...
series of records that were always respectable if not as staggering as his masterpieces of the 1940s and 1950s. He became the subject of innumerable books, films and television specials, and was a favourite of the folk festivals that arose in the late 1950s and of the bluegrass festivals that flourished in the late 1960s; he even founded his ...
Indie guitarist Graham Coxon (b. 1969) was born in West Berlin, the son of an army bandsman. His early years were characterized by the itinerant army life until the family settled in Colchester in the late 1970s. The young Coxon was a Beatles fan and possessed a talent for art. He began to learn saxophone and then at 12, ...
band, their sole Top 20 hit arrived in 1987 with ‘Never Take Me Alive’. Brandon tours to this day. Styles & Forms | Eighties | Rock Personalities | The Specials | Eighties | Rock ...
.’s first single, ‘Gangsters’, promptly reached No. 6. This surprise hit led to a licensing deal with the major label Chrysalis, a name change to the catchier The Specials and an almost instantaneous skinhead/mod revival among Britain’s punk-and disco-fatigued youth. Tales Of Everyday Madness By the end of 1979, 2-Tone had released Top 10 singles by all the ...
has had a great influence on the pop scene on both sides of the Atlantic. Beyond 10cc and The Police are the British 2-Tone bands – The Selector, The Specials, The Beat and Madness – all punkified ska revivalists, while in the US ska bands like Bim Skala Bim, Dancehall Crashers and The Toasters have taken 2-Tone ...
you.’ Impact Of American Idiot When examining the Green Day phenomenon, the media left no stone unturned, with features ranging from early Gilman Street days, punk specials and instrumental preferences to a four-page spread on the customized 1968 Mercury Monterey classic car that featured in the ‘Boulevard Of Broken Dreams’ and ‘Holiday’ promotional videos. ‘It’s been such ...
pop songs climbed the charts one after another, shifting millions of units. Rock’s conscience, meanwhile, was safe in the hands of the British 2-Tone bands like The Specials whose music drew on bluebeat and ska but whose vision was informed by inner-city decay, racism and the anti working-class policies of the incoming Thatcher government. As the Tory ...
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