Label of love: 2 Tone Records

With the Specials and Madness, the Coventry label launched a musical movement that soundtracked a summer of riots with reggae and ska-influenced popThink we've got it bad now? Thirty years ago, Jim Callaghan's useless Labour government was trounced by a certified snatcher of children's milk. And while leftwing politicians licked their wounds, fascists were busy indoctrinating disenfranchised white youth with racist ideas.But there was a tonic for collective despair: from the decaying motor town ...

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