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Jul 2, 2007 · One of the most important ska bands of all time, The English Beat helped revive the genre in the early '80s. Influenced by pop, punk and reggae, the group tackled political themes such as poverty ...
Ska ( / skɑː /; Jamaican: [skjæ]) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. [1] It combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues. Ska is characterized by a walking bass line accented with rhythms on the off beat.
- Late 1950s, Jamaica
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Dave 'Blockhead' Wright. Ranking Roger and Everett Morton's reformation of the Beat in London in 2006. The Beat (known in the United States and Canada as the English Beat and in Australia as the British Beat [1]) are a British band formed in Birmingham, England, in 1978. [2] Their music fuses Latin, ska, pop, soul, reggae and punk rock.
- The English Beat, the British Beat
- Birmingham, England
- 1978–1983, 2003, 2006–present
Ska has had several international waves. The first began in the early 1960s and is remembered for “ My Boy Lollipop ” by Millie Small, a Jamaican singer based in London, and for hits by Prince Buster and by Desmond Dekker and the Aces. In the 1970s ska was a significant influence on British pop culture, and so-called groups (whose name ...
Oct 1, 2012 · Not everything they played was ska — which, ironically, was how Ranking Roger got into the band. I say ironically because he was a black punk, playing drums with another group, and his other ...
- Ed Ward
Nov 23, 2022 · And here are the 10 finest albums ever to represent the genre. 10. Voodoo Glow Skulls – Firme (1995) Almost 35 years as a going concern, Voodoo Glow Skulls are geared at the chunky riff-heavy end of ska punk and were originally influenced by Fishbone and Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as their hardcore punk peers.
Mar 22, 1998 · The history of ska-punk actually begins in the United Kingdom in 1979. A group of bands, notably the Specials, English Beat and Madness, developed the "two-tone" sound, named after the musicians ...
