Filename G:\EAC What\Terry Hall - Laugh... Plus (1997)\15. Terry Hall - Laugh... plus - Bang Went Forever.wav Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls. His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… the joy, the pain, the humour, the fight for justice, but mostly the love. (2/4) a b c "The Official Charts Company – Fun Boy Three". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 10 March 2009.

Today, however, the three Specials' ebullience is such that it even seems to reflect on their history. "I've got to admit, this time around I feel a lot more at ease with the other people in the band, but I thought the first time around was absolutely brilliant," says Bradbury. "Needless to say, a lot of people look for the downside more than the fun side, in terms of journalism. A lot of the good side never got discussed."

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Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls. His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… the joy, the pain, the humour, the fight for justice, but mostly the love. Co-wrote and provided vocals on "Time To Blow" and "Why Should I?" on Leila's album Blood, Looms and Blooms

READ MORE: The Big Read – The Specials and Saffiyah Khan: “What we said has reached people – and that’s the only important thing” They embarked on a 30th anniversary tour in 2009 and performed at the 2012 London Olympics closing concert, but faced the death of drummer John Bradbury, and the departure of vocalist Neville Staple and guitarist Roddy Radiation over the next few years. At Specials gigs we would have older skinhead men crying and opening up, and that was quite incredible because we were able to reach people that we wouldn’t otherwise have been able to reach,” says Langan. “A lot of fans of The Specials are men of a certain age who probably have never really opened up about their mental health before.”Then came the Specials. The band released their self-titled debut album in October 1979 and received mass acclaim for blending a punk sensibility – and sharp lyrics about the degradation of modern Britain – with the traditional Jamaican ska sound, even explicitly updating hits by the likes of Toots and the Maytals, Prince Buster and Dandy Livingstone. Terry Hall and Neville Staple performing with The Specials in 1980. Photograph: David Corio/Redferns

Beyond our punky start on stage, it was in the studio with Elvis Costello producing, where Terry was able to sing quietly, that I think his hidden strength came out, a delivery which brought out the melancholy in some of The Specials’ songs, and which I think a lot of people could relate to. All my condolences and sympathies go out to his wife and family.” Terry Hall with Lynval Golding and Neville Staple of the Fun Boy Three in 1982. Photograph: Steve Rapport/Getty Images) Relations within the band became fraught, exacerbated by a punishing work schedule - "we played everywhere," says Bradbury, "including a caravan park in Crosshands, which, with all due respect to the people who live there, is a little out of the way" - and the kind of arguments that bands with a less determinedly political stance might never face: there was much heated discussion over the ideological correctness of travelling by limousine.Hall formed Fun Boy Three with his Specials bandmates Staple and Lynval Golding. They also enjoyed chart success for several years, collaborating twice with girl band Bananarama, on It Ain’t What You Do (It’s the Way That You Do It) and Really Saying Something. Hall would also land a Top 10 single with Our Lips Are Sealed, a song he co-wrote with US indie star – and then romantic partner – Jane Wiedlin for her band the Go-Go’s. Afterwards, you get these 17- or 18-year-olds coming to you and talking about the music and the effect it has on them. This one kid, he had a Specials tattoo on his arm and when I met him, he started crying. I thought I'd done something to upset him, but it was the songs, the multiracial thing, it had really touched a young generation. It's fantastic, but it's pretty strange. And that's when I started thinking, oh my God, perhaps the Specials should reform." Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls. His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… the joy, the pain, the humour, the fight for justice, but mostly the love.” The Specials are in a rehearsal studio in south London, preparing for a forthcoming tour. Only Hall, Golding and Panter remain from the original line up, and the rapport between them is relaxed and humorous. The 70-year-old Golding is rambling and loquacious, Horace (67) offers up thoughtful analysis, while Hall (62) chips in, slipping almost imperceptibly between grave seriousness and deadpan humour. He rarely breaks into a smile.

Lil' Dub Chefin' ". Gorillaz-Unofficial. Archived from the original on 20 December 2007 . Retrieved 7 December 2007. Everything that newspaper did wrong in diminishing him was erased by another young woman, 23 years later. The photo was endlessly shared of Saffiyah Khan, a Birmingham Asian girl wearing a Specials T-shirt, looking amused and calm in the shouting face of an EDF racist. I’m so glad he lived to see that. He was touched enough to call Khan and ask her to collaborate in a reworking of Prince Buster’s problematic 1963 song Ten Commandments Of Man – for the Specials’ first album of new material with Terry Hall in nearly 40 years [Encore]. The Specials have always been a protest band according to guitarist and vocalist Lynval Golding. “From day one, we were a multiracial line-up and that was a statement,” he says. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge.Almost 22 ago, Terry Hall followed up his debut solo album Home with 1997’s Laugh an album which featured collaborations with the likes of Stephen Duffy and Damon Albarn. It is released on vinyl for the first time next month. a b "The Official Charts Company – Terry Blair And Anouchka". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 10 March 2009. The last man I loved was a highly intelligent man from the Midlands whose childhood trauma had left him with an unreadable face. That’s how you take them with you, your first childhood idol, you carry them into middle-age love. I couldn’t explain to this boyfriend (who was younger than me) why Terry Hall’s premature passing at 63 made me cry so much because, to him at his age, Hall wasn’t that important. Just like the article I wrote, that wasn’t actually what I wrote, but did have my name beside it, that made Hall feel unimportant. Unfortunately, the band were possibly enjoying themselves too much, and a combination of drink and drugs with an intense work schedule made relationships fractious. “For the first album, we were all drunk, and we had a lot of fun,” says Golding. “By the second album, we were falling apart. It was very painful to make.” Featured Artist on "Was It Worth It?" from Shakespears Sister available on the album Songs from the Red Room