Jerry Dammers The Specials. The Specials' founder Jerry Dammers pays tribute to Rico Rodriguez "He taught me so much" The Specials, also known as The Special AKA, were an English 2 tone and ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry Jerry Dammers may be revered for leading ska legends The Specials, but after a devastating dispute with his former bandmates, he is trying to forget them and make a fresh start.
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Following the dissolution of the Coventry 2-Tone group's first incarnation in 1982, principal creative force Jerry Dammers opted to persist with The Specials while Terry Hall, Neville Staple, and Lynval Golding saw chart success with the new wave-tinged Fun Boy Three [4] After some early changes, the first stable lineup of the group consisted of Terry Hall and Neville Staple on vocals, Jerry Dammers on keyboards, Lynval Golding and Roddy Radiation on guitars, Horace Panter on bass, John Bradbury on drums, and Dick Cuthell and Rico Rodriguez.
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After the original Specials split up (in a Top of the Pops dressing room in 1981), Dammers carried on as The Special AKA before dedicating himself to running the. Before too long, The Automatics renamed themselves The Specials, and leader Jerry Dammers quickly set about orchestrating a cultural revolution.Built upon the idea of blending white working-class culture with Jamaican music and style, The Specials (and their own independent label, 2-Tone) presented black and white musicians onstage together for the first time in Britain. The Specials, also known as The Special AKA, were an English 2 tone and ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry
NPG x201356; The Specials (Roddy Radiation; Jerry Dammers; Terry Hall; John Bradbury; Neville. They made a model of me," says Jerry Dammers, picking up a plastic figurine from a shelf beneath his vinyl record collection Jerry Dammers may be revered for leading ska legends The Specials, but after a devastating dispute with his former bandmates, he is trying to forget them and make a fresh start.
Jerry Dammers English musician and songwriter Jerry Dammers, leader of ska revival band the. The Specials' recording career came to a violent end when the ska-punk wizards' guitarist, Roddy "Radiation" Byers, was unable to play the haunting chords in their swansong hit Ghost Town, according to band founder Jerry Dammers.MOJO 258, with Blur cover, available in the UK from Tuesday, March 31. Signalling the 'mark two' of the band as The Special AKA, Dammers, along with labelmates The Bodysnatchers' Rhoda Dakar.