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Two-tone or 2 tone, also known as ska-rock [citation needed] and ska revival, is a genre of British popular music of the late 1970s and early 1980s that fused traditional Jamaican ska, rocksteady, and reggae music with elements of punk rock and new wave music.
Mar 22, 2024 · 22 March 2024. By Miguel Roca-Terry,Visual Data Journalist, BBC England Data Unit. BBC. 2 Tone music started in Coventry in the 1970s. Here’s a quick guide introducing the style if you...
With its message of unity, 2 Tone burned bright as the embers of punk faded and offered hope to a generation lost. Forty years on from its inception, Classic Pop talks to its prime players: Jerry Dammers, Lynval Golding and Neville Staple of The Specials, The Selecter’s Pauline Black and the late Ranking Roger of the beat, to tell the true story of a label that morphed into a whole genre…
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2 Tone Records was an English independent record label that mostly released ska and reggae-influenced music with a punk rock and pop music overtone. It was founded by Jerry Dammers of the Specials and backed by Chrysalis Records .
Two-Tone Records (or 2 Tone Records ) was created in Coventry, UK in 1978 by Jerry Dammers who apart from being the songwriter and music director for bands ‘The Specials’ and ‘The Special A.K.A’ was also the Chief Executive of the label and responsible for signing artists such as Madness, The Selecter, The Beat and The Bodysnatchers.
May 26, 2015 · 4. THE SPECIALS – Stupid Marriage. It’s such a good lyric, and that was (The Specials and 2-Tone Records founding member) Jerry Dammer’s forte. He was always taking something and making a really great lyric around it; fitting it to music that was already there, but taking it and making something much more of it. 3.
May 25, 2016 · Jerry Dammers: the father of Two Tone records Two Tone was a specifically British, or more accurately English, musical genre that came out of punk and ska in the late 1970s. The roots of Two Tone can be traced back to the arrival of West Indians to England—the so-called “Windrush Generation”—under the British Nationality Act of 1948. This act gave British citizenship to all people ...
