Enjoyed every minute of the 2Tone era, still watch tribute bands and regularly listen to the music. It was short n sweet but worth it.
@sylviekins6 ай бұрын
Same👍
@phillipecook32279 ай бұрын
44 years ago. Lordy. All of them young, earnest and hugely talented. Kids producing an art form which was as English as HP Sauce. Wonderful .
@marknewbold25839 ай бұрын
But it wasn't English
@sooperheep2 ай бұрын
whut😄
@theroadahead60339 ай бұрын
Jerry Dammers....LEGEND!
@geoffjoffy9 ай бұрын
Gerry is a very clever, unassuming man. So much respect for these guys.
@argopunk9 ай бұрын
Fun! It came and went so fast, but it reverberated around the world through the 80s and still does to some degree.
@JammyGit9 ай бұрын
I still remember being a 10 year old with my crew cut and wearing my monkey boots, plus a badge with 'Don't Call Me Ska Face' on the black and white background with a silhouette of a rude boy.....man I was so proud of that badge 😆✌️ Being a kid growing up in the midlands during the early 80s, bands like the Specials and UB40 were a big deal 👍
@eduardo07969 ай бұрын
This is why I follow this channel. Long live ska!
@seanlanigan65209 ай бұрын
Terry hall was a legend
@BillyJango8 ай бұрын
"was" a legend????
@vinie34655 ай бұрын
@@BillyJango yes, Terry Hall has died in 2022
@BillyJango5 ай бұрын
@@vinie3465 What is your point? Does that mean he is no longer a legend then?
@vinie34655 ай бұрын
@@BillyJango He's still a legend but he's dead. I think, you misunderstood what I said.
@BillyJango5 ай бұрын
@@vinie3465 A lot of legends are dead.
@rb70072 ай бұрын
Neville was the epitome of Cool. Loved the Red Jacket and Shades combo. 😎
@Dealingwithidiotsonadailybasis9 ай бұрын
There will never be anything greater than 2 -Tone music, it's influence is still out there today, it will never die, most of the 2 Tone bands are still going/touring in some shape or another. RIP Terry and Roger
@dodgydruid9 ай бұрын
Some of us never gave it up, still listen to me two tone, ska which is a genre of its own not incorrectly stated in the film as fusion of punk and reggae and northern soul... chasing 60 now and still the tunes are fresh to my ears :) A year later than this I myself ended up in a borstal in Redhill, 2 years Made in Britain was shown which was written on much of my casework as a rebel without a clue and in 84 a full documentary by Channel 4 was shown showing me in my skinheady punk glory that never gave up :D
@davidpayne39389 ай бұрын
Great music, 🎶 hands up if you had both The Specials and The Selector Albums when they were released back in the day..🤚😁✋❤
@hopebgood9 ай бұрын
👍 and Madness too 😀
@SharonMakepeace9 ай бұрын
Even though I was born in 1984, I grew up listening to all these groups, as my dad was a mod. But he also loved Punk, Ska, R&B.
@blueabattoir9 ай бұрын
Good grief, you are so beautiful!
@SharonMakepeace9 ай бұрын
@@blueabattoir Thank you, not bad for 40.
@aotctd6 ай бұрын
My parent's mates were the OG Mods
@CashelOConnolly9 ай бұрын
I’m 23 and love Two Tone❤️
@NilsLange8 ай бұрын
Enjoy your life
@aotctd6 ай бұрын
Fascinating
@aotctd6 ай бұрын
I was a Kid
@AKandfriends-yt2yz9 ай бұрын
beennwaiting for this since os missed the re run on the telly in 92
@RolandoRatas9 ай бұрын
I played that 'The Specials' album so many times it got worn down digitally on Spotify. I'm going to check out the TV series 'This Town' as it's got decent reviews. 5:05 just bumping into him in the street and chatting with him normally, you would never guess he's got those amazing piano skills.
@philtaylor30989 ай бұрын
Ska will never die.
@IAMPLEDGE9 ай бұрын
Fantastic.
@jasonayres9 ай бұрын
I bought The Special's album, on the strength of the infectious A Message to you, Rudy. Some of it was quite... dour(?) Unhappy. Whatever, it was an introduction to old Jamaican music, none of which I'd ever heard before, and some of which I still have a great interest in. *Poor Terry Hall. I hope he is at peace, after what appears to have been a tough life.
@andywatts86549 ай бұрын
He was always deadpan - that was him image
@Mraquanetchris6 ай бұрын
" dour ". It was for real, mate.
@Ashfaq19999 ай бұрын
Classic two tone records.
@syedalamgir58389 ай бұрын
Nice two tone
@hopebgood9 ай бұрын
I'm off to search the "Ghost Town" and "Stereotype" Special vids. See ya there😀
@katoness9 ай бұрын
Will never understand why Jerry never continued being a musician and making records, such a shame.
@mdbergfeld9 ай бұрын
I once saw him play a DJ set at a Love Music Hate Racism gig in Victoria Park. Must have been in 2008 if I am not mistaken. Yeah, but shame that he didn't continue making new music
@BillyJango8 ай бұрын
He did do that Sun Ra stuff.
@Mraquanetchris6 ай бұрын
Making art to make a difference. When the change doesn't happen it's tough to take.
@willowbrooke12159 ай бұрын
See Terry Hall there. RIP
@marciabaldwin25069 ай бұрын
Terry maybe no longer with us. His legacy will live with us forever. I absolutely love my ska from 79 till now it always sounds so fresh, never get tired of hearing all the iconic bands ❤
@oxouk9 ай бұрын
“Okay Fred, now you’re a yaga yaga” it least that’s what I used to sing over 40 years ago.
@andywatts86549 ай бұрын
Yes they are the lyrics
@oxouk9 ай бұрын
@@andywatts8654 Cheers! Glad to know I wasn’t butchering a great song.
@cyberridz4 күн бұрын
With rising racial and religious tensions amid this Trump era, the world sorely needs a revival of music and culture that can make diversity great again.
@JamieFurlong9 ай бұрын
Thatcher had barely been in power before this exploded so the nod to her felt a little disingenuous. Wouldn't this all have happened anyway? I often wonder how different the UK's music scene would have been under alternative political circumstances. Could Ghost Town have been written a few years later and have had the same initial impact, its legacy notwithstanding? All rhetorical questions!
@andywatts86549 ай бұрын
It was a nod to thatchers newfound push for running your own business whereas labour was running the country into the ground
@huehuehuehuehue9 ай бұрын
@@andywatts8654 Funded by your cathedral dean daddy of course. We've all got those, right? Just ask nicely for a little gift of a whole recording studio. That's the conservative way!
@matthewpayton9 ай бұрын
Jerry is very clever.
@GlenBoyle-w7v6 ай бұрын
Rip Arthur gaps from the selecter 😢
@joelwing14338 ай бұрын
Did he say that The Specials represent Thatcher's England?!?!?!?!
@OlafProt9 ай бұрын
The benefits of immigration, folks. And still quintessentially British. An up yours message to you, the haters and brexiteers. From the rude boys.
@patbash57189 ай бұрын
Great comment. From ireland
@McRocking9 ай бұрын
Managed by Fred Perry.
@mindblast39019 ай бұрын
Great Period to be a live 2024 is crap
@BillyJango8 ай бұрын
Isn't it just. I honestly can't cope will modern life. I live in the past.