The Specials

Terry Hall, lead singer of The Specials, has died. With its mix of Black and white members and Jamaica-influenced fashion style, the band became leaders of ...

Hall's bandmates said he was "a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls. Most of the original Specials reunited in 2008, staged a 30th-anniversary tour in 2009 and in 2019 released an album of new material, "Encore," which became the band's first U.K. Terry often left the stage at the end of The Specials' life-affirming shows with three words... Hall joined the band that would become The Specials in the English Midlands city of Coventry in the late 1970s, a time of racial tension, economic gloom and urban unrest. music charts in the summer of 1981 as Britain's cities were erupting in riots. The band announced late Monday that Hall had died after a brief illness.

The pioneering ska singer “encapsulated the very essence of life” with his music, the band said as they announced the news on Monday. Hall rose to fame as part ...

I grew up aligned to a party, the Labour Party, quite strongly. “Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls. Terry often left the stage at the end of The Specials’ life-affirming shows with three words… “He will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him and leaves behind the gift of his remarkable music and profound humanity. His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… Until Tony Blair made Noel Gallagher prime minister I knew exactly where I stood.”

Taking to social media, the ska icons confirmed that the influential singer had passed away from a “brief illness,” honouring him as “a beautiful friend, ...

[See a host of tributes to Terry Hall here](https://www.nme.com/news/music/the-specials-terry-hall-dies-aged-63-cause-tributes-3369212). Hall remained active with The Specials into this year, with their last show together at Beautiful Days. We had only just confirmed some 2023 joint music agreements together. [Christine ‘Sugary’ Staple] was called as we arrived in Egypt. “His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… Mary in Devon on August 20 this year.

LONDON — Terry Hall, the British musician and lead singer in the late 1970s' ska-punk band the Specials, has died at the age of 63, the group announced ...

[“Well Fancy That!,”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=IxLmxZixVXk&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&feature=emb_logo) recorded in 1983 by Fun Boy Three. It was heartbreaking, the last thing we wanted to see.” “We were playing with Madness in a university town somewhere, we walked offstage and there were casualties all over the dressing room. The trauma left him in a state of depression and addicted to Valium, which he had been prescribed. He held odd jobs, including apprentice hairdresser, before deciding to pursue music after seeing the Sex Pistols in concert. “It got really extreme,” Mr. “Our country’s in a mess, do you like my gold record? Hall performed with bands Fun Boy Three, the Colourfield and Vegas. It was a haunting soundtrack to the summer of riotous unrest that gripped the country’s inner cities one month after its release. “We were expected to get a gold disc for that record, but I found that pretty horrible. It felt like the perfect moment to stop.” Why do we need that reward?” Mr.

Go-Gos guitarist Jane Wiedlin — who sang backing vocals on the Specials' 1980 album More Specials — paid tribute to her friend in a touching tweet. “Gutted to ...

Though The Specials formed and reformed a number of times over the years with a wide variety of lineups, Hall will be remembered for the indelible mark he left on the band’s first two albums and the long tail of influence in its music, message and style, which was carried on in spirit by everyone from Fishbone to The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, No Doubt, Blur, Sublime and Operation Ivy/Rancid. at the time, the band members made a statement in their rude boy two-tone suits and porkpie hats and blasted out of the gate on their Elvis Costello-produced self-titled debut on their 2 Tone label, which featured their signature cover of Dandy Livingstone’s 1967 single “A Message to You Rudy.” Hall then formed the group The Colourfield in 1984, releasing two albums with that project before pivoting to release an album with his trio featuring actress Blair Booth and jeweler Anouchka Grose: Terry, Blair & Anouchka. He will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him and leaves behind the gift of his remarkable music and profound humanity.” His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… “Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls.

Terry Hall, singer of the ska revival band the Specials, has died at 63, his band announced. The Specials found hits in the U.K. by bringing back ska in the ...

In 2008, he reunited the Specials with a lineup including Golding and Panter. While Hall went on to form other bands, including the Colourfield in the mid-1980s and Vegas with Eurythmics musician Dave Stewart, he also had a solo career. The band released another album, More Specials, in 1980, and had a U.K. That album featured covers of Jamaican artists like Toots and the Maytals and Dandy Livingstone, along with political messages about racism and violence, and it became a key album in the ska revival in the U.K. The band soon opened for the Clash on tour after Joe Strummer went to one of their gigs and released their self-titled debut album, produced by Elvis Costello, in 1979. After dropping out of school at 14, Hall eventually joined a band called the Coventry Automatics in his late teens.

Terry Hall, the lead singer of English ska band the Specials, has died at the age of 63, the band announced on social media.

“’Love Love Love’,” the band’s statement concluded. The band’s final record with Hall, “Protest Songs 1924-2012,” was released in 2021. Their other notable songs included the cover “A Message to You, Rudy” and “Doesn’t Make it Alright.”

Terry Hall, singer and songwriter of the British ska and 2 tone band, The Specials, died on Dec. 18. He was 63. The singer died after a brief illness, ...

Born in Coventry, England on March 19, 1959, Hall jumped into the early music scene joining the band Squad in the early 1970s before linking up with The Specials later in the decade. The band released their eighth album, Encore, in 2019, followed by their final album with Hall, Protest Songs 1924-2012, in 2021. “Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls. Terry often left the stage at the end of The Specials’ life-affirming shows with three words: ‘love, love, love.’” His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… Terry Hall, singer and songwriter of the British ska and 2 tone band, The Specials, died on Dec.

Terry Hall, lead singer of British ska-punk band the specials, died following a brief illness in December 2022. He was 63.

1 in the United Kingdom. Their popularity throughout the period even led to an April 19, 1980, appearance as the musical guest on "He will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him and leaves behind the gift of his remarkable music and profound humanity," the statement continued.

The band's albums were landmarks of the interracial '2-tone' scene that swept England and beyond in the late '70s and early '80s.

“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… Terry Hall, frontman for the English ska-punk band the Specials, has died.

Hall died “after a brief illness,” according to The Specials. Band members remembered him as “our beautiful friend, brother and one of the most brilliant ...

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… “Terrible news to hear this.” His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… “Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls,” the group said. Hall died “after a brief illness,” according to The Specials.