A host of musical admirers and former bandmates gathered last night at a private Los Angeles home to celebrate Specials frontman Terry Hall.
A host of musical admirers and former bandmates gathered last night at a private Los Angeles residence to celebrate, Specials members Horace Panter and Lynval Golding, the non-singing members of No Doubt , Rancid’s Tim Armstrong, the Go-Go’s Jane Wiedlin, and members of L7, Operation Ivy, and Fisbbone.
It was organized by Musack, an organization which “gives kids and teens a voice through music by providing guitars, drums and support to music teachers wherever the need arises.” Morello, who had not been announced as a performer beforehand, covered Bruce Springsteen’s “The Ghost of Tom Joad” with No Doubt, while Fishbone’s Angelo Moore sang on No Doubt’s “Sunday Morning.” Wiedlin closed the night by performing “Do the Dog” and the Go-Go’s’ “Our Lips Are Sealed,” which Hall co-wrote.
At the age of 17, Hall joined an early version of the Specials named the Coventry Automatics in 1977. “Terry was very striking. Whereas all the other punks were wearing leather jackets, he would be wearing a patent leather jacket. And he looked kind of psychotic,” Specials songwriter/keyboardist Jerry Dammers of Hall in an oral history about the 2 tone ska sound, which the group rendered while decked out in short hair, Wayfarers, sharp suits, skinny ties, porkpie hats, and checkerboard socks.
The Specials quickly broke ground with a youth-driven, never-before-heard blend of punk, Jamaican music, pop hooks, and social and political commentary. From 1979-81, the group racked up seven straight top 10 U.K. singles, including the chart-toppers “Ghost Town” and “Too Much Too Young,” plus the future classic “A Message to You Rudy.”In the fall of 1979, the 2 Tone tour, featuring the Specials, Madness, and the Selecter, sold out venues across the U.K.
Minus Dammers, the Specials reunited for the first time in 28 years for a U.K. tour in May 2009. In April 2010, the group returned to U.S. soil for the first time in decades as part of an appearance on NBC’s , the Specials had been planning to record their first album since 2019 last year before Hall’s health took a turn for the worse. The status of the project is unknown.
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