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The Specials, also known as The Special AKA, were an English 2 tone and ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry. After some early changes, the first stable lineup of the group consisted of Terry Hall and Neville Staple on vocals, Jerry Dammers on keyboards, Lynval Golding and Roddy Radiation on guitars, Horace Panter on bass, John Bradbury on drums, and Dick Cuthell and Rico Rodriguez on ...
- The Specials
The Specials is the debut album by British ska revival band...
- Terry Hall
Terence Edward Hall (19 March 1959 – 18 December 2022) was a...
- Encore
Encore is the eighth studio album by the English ska revival...
- The Specials Discography
1. English ska revival band the Specials have released a...
- The Specials
The Specials, headed by Golding, Panter, and Hall, released Encore -- their first album of new material since their reunion -- in early 2019. A planned reggae album was put on hold when the COVID-19 pandemic interfered with the group's recording schedule. Instead, a stripped-down edition of the Specials recorded Protest Songs 1924-2012, a set ...
The Specials are back with ten songs on a brand new album. Influential, important and exhilarating live, they are a band embedded in this country's DNA. It is impossible to envisage the musical landscape without them, from the startling, angular Gangsters in 1979 to their swan song, the epoch-making Ghost Town in 1981.
Profile: The Specials (originally known as The Coventry Automatics, then later named The Special AKA) were the first band of the 2-Tone era in the late '70s and early '80s in Britain. Led musically by keyboardist Jerry Dammers, the band also comprised Terry Hall (lead vox), Neville Staple (vox/percussion), Lynval Golding (rhythm gtr/vox), Roddy ...
The Specials were an English new wave / ska band. They were originally from Coventry, England and formed in 1977. They were part of the ska revival in Britain in the late 1970s and early 1980s. During the ska revival, bands began playing 1960s -style Jamaican ska music. The Specials often mixed other popular music styles from the 1970s and ...
