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Dammers Specials Reunion Will Be Shortlived

5705 days ago

ContactMusic — Ska icon JERRY DAMMERS fears the new SPECIALS reunion won't last long - because key members won't be able to resolve their differences during a summer (09) tour of ... more info

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Label of love: 2 Tone Records

5708 days ago

Guardian Music — 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 b... more info

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The Specials - Specials Reunion Battle Continues

5733 days ago

ContactMusic — THE SPECIALS' comeback tour is becoming overshadowed by a feud between frontman TERRY HALL and songwriter JERRY DAMMERS. The pair has been bickering since the reunion ... more info

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Jerry Dammers: 'I could still rejoin The Specials'

5734 days ago

NME — The Specials' founding member and songwriter Jerry Dammers has said that he has not given up hope of rejoining the band - despite not being part of their reformation line-up. more info

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I founded the Specials, and now they've excluded me

5735 days ago

Guardian Music — I wanted to be a part of the reunion tour, but my former bandmates cut me out, says Jerry DammersAlexis Petridis interviewed my former bandmates John Bradbury, Lynval Golding and Terry Hall, who are intending to take part in what they claim to be "Th... more info

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The rude boys return

5747 days ago

Guardian Music — There is something slightly disconcerting about seeing Terry Hall laugh - at least the first time it happens. This is, after all, a man whose permanently gloomy expression was once the stuff of urban myth: at the height of the Specials' fame, a playg... more info

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EVENT: Jerry Dammers Presents Cosmic Engineering - A Tribute to Sun Ra at London's Barbican on March 10

5750 days ago

All About Jazz — A very special concert at London's Barbican on Tuesday March 10th at 7:30pm Jerry Dammers Spatial A.K.A. Orchestra present Cosmic Engineering a Tribute to Sun Ra and other musical mavericks The spirit of intergalactic jazz traveller {{Sun Ra = 1... more info

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