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Sense

from the sorely missed Terry Hall . . . . . . . 

Le Ramasseur De Mégots

SONG OF THE DAY : All Kinds Of Everything - Dana (Eurovision Winner 1970) | Sinead O’Connor and Terry Hall!

Go on click on it anyway!

 From EUROTRASH!

Cover song of the year! | Found on a clip on Facebook and reposted here from YouTube

There are versions from Eurotrash with an interview that explains but I couldn’t get them to play!

I couldn’t quite tell if this was a pisstake at first !

It is done straight and wow what voices! Beautifully done

The thing that makes it for me is the deadpan delivery but jeepers the voice on them both! 

All Kinds Of Everything

By Dana (Eurovision Winner 1970) covered here by Sinead O’Connor and Terry Hall!

Sorely missed this two interstellar voices!

The Specials: The Best Of The Specials 2008 | TERRY HALL | URBANASPIRINES

Death of Terry Hall

                          A nice tribute to Terry Hall who we lost last year and the SPECIALS hold a special place in UK Music history and were  totally unique and a benchmark in music largely and predominately thanks to the work, singing and songwriting of Terry Hall

On 19 December 2022, the Specials announced on social media that Hall had died at age 63 after a brief 

illness which was later revealed to be pancreatic cancer. They had planned to record a new album in the United States before Hall's health deteriorated.
                     

Again as ever Kostas does these things so well and this is well worth collecting, reading and enjoying!

The Best of The Specials (22008) - URBANASPIRINES

The Specials, also known as The Special AKA, are an English 2 tone and ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry. 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 on horns. The band wore mod-style "1960s period rude boy outfits (pork pie hats, tonic and mohair suits and loafers)". Their music combines the danceable rhythms of ska and rocksteady with the energy and attitude of punk. Lyrically, their work (often written by primary songwriter Dammers) presented overt political and social commentary.

More of Terry Hall . . . . . . Well Fancy That & Forever J

• Track Name

  Forever J

• Artist

  Terry Hall

Terry Hall - Forever J (1994)

"I’m not sure why Terry Hall’s death seems to have hit me harder than I would have anticipated. Something about his deadpan, detached, and melancholy vocals always struck a nerve with me, whether it was the Specials, Fun Boy Three, Colourfield  or solo. Here’s a shoulda been a hit from his first solo LP Home."

• Track Name

  Well Fancy That

• Artist

  Fun Boy Three

Fun Boy Three - Well Fancy That (1983)

"I woke up this morning thinking about this song - it was honest, brave, and absolutely heartbreaking. "

There’s no excuse
For child abuse
And the scars that it leaves
Where do you draw the line?

from the superb . . . . . Guess I’m Dumb

I agree with the sentiment above and I don’t think many fans were expecting how hard Terry’s death was to strike but its something about the damaged and the abused, the survivors of abuse have paid such dues to bring their songs to us we dearly wish them never to die

It don’t work that way sadly and we feel the loss of this highly sensitive soul and creative writer and singer all the more keenly . . . . .  Rest easy now the pain is over

TERRY HALL - [19 March 1959 – 18 December 2022]

TERRY HALL

Dead at 63

Gangsters - The Specials

Terry Hall of the The Specials, Fun Boy Three, and Colourfield amongst others has died news came in yesterday

Terry Hall - Sense

Terrible loss and worth reading the excellently written obituary from The Guardian

Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed

The singer died after a brief illness, The Specials said in a statement.

"Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls," they wrote.

Terry Hall - The Guardian obituary

VEGAS : Terry and Dave Stewart (Charles Aznavour)  - SHE