Terry Hall, the Specials, RIP

[Teasing the Korean]

Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/19/entertainment/terry-hall-the-specials-dead/index.html

[mjazzg]

No! This is very sad indeed. The voiçe of so many great songs. The Specials arrived like a breath of fresh air, seemingly from nowhere and represented so much of what was, and still is, good about this country.

Dammers may have been the musical genius underpinning it all but Hall was an essential part. His vocal delivery so original.

the soundtrack to its time so accurately portraying the state of a nation and the legacy of political ideology

 

[Teasing the Korean]

I love those first two albums, but have not spun them in ages.  Ms. TTK routinely plays the Specials on her radio show, so I hear them there.

RIP Terry.

[Bluesnik]

11 hours ago, mjazzg said:

Dammers may have been the musical genius underpinning it all but Hall was an essential part.

Wasn't Hall also part of another band? Funboy 3 or something like that.

[mjazzg]

3 hours ago, Bluesnik said:

Wasn't Hall also part of another band? Funboy 3 or something like that.

Yes, Funboy 3 after he left The Specials then The Colourfield. 

[Bluesnik]

Ah, then that was pure intuition. I didn't research or anything. But I remembered.

[Late]

Just saw a BBC documentary (on YouTube) on The Specials and the Coventry Two Tone scene. Pretty good. I didn't know The Selecter were only together for 10 months. (Well, I barely know that band as it is.)