Too Much Too Young
Remembering Terry Hall, the lead singer of the Specials and a former member of Fun Boy Three and the Colourfield, who has died aged 63.
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he was inspired to write “ghost town” after driving through Glasgow and seeong Thatcher’s destruction of industry and communities there – which he felt represented what Thatcher was doing to the whole country
I’m not sure that Glasgow can take _all_ the credit. There were lots of other places that they travelled through on tour that had the same problems and “feel” at the time.
Gerry Dammers wrote ‘Ghost Town’ as he did most of the Specials’ hits. Hall was a great interpreter and made the songs his own, but wrote very few of them.
Always liked the Specials version of “Rudy, a message to you” better than the Dandy Livingstone original.
Shame Terry has passed, Rip.
The entire two-tone movement was needed then and is still needed now. The Specials and the other bands were the soundtrack of the Thatcher years and summed up the struggle perfectly. I only wish today’s youth had similar artists to speak up for them