roltrader
11:08 Tue Dec 20
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Long Shot kick di bucket
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riosleftsock
11:05 Tue Dec 20
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Not a fan, but it seems quite young.
RIP
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hammer205
10:45 Tue Dec 20
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Actually met him prior to our game v Man U at home last season. He was standing under the away supporters tent. He was happy to have a selfie
Life is too short enjoy yourself lyrics are very poignant
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Tony Gubba
8:49 Tue Dec 20
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Stood next to a very refreshed Suggs at a Terry Hall gig at the Jazz Cafe back in the late 90s. He (Suggs) spent half the concert shouting out ‘look at the forehead on that’ and other abuse which I took to be some kind of running banter between the two.
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Too Much Too Young
6:37 Tue Dec 20
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https://youtu.be/KQ4lvUJ39fE
Stereotype.
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solidbond
6:22 Tue Dec 20
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A talented singer/songwriter and a socialist, the specials were my first lesson on how not to be a racist I thank him for that.
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leer34
5:54 Tue Dec 20
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https://play.acast.com/s/rhlstp/retro-rhlstp-52-terry-hall
Hour long podcast with Terry a couple of years back,
Some cracking stories.
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joe royal
1:18 Tue Dec 20
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“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.”
― Hunter S. Thompson
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WHU(Exeter)
1:18 Tue Dec 20
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What a shocker.
Particularly loved their songs, that could only have been British in their making, Friday night, Saturday morning being my favourite.
Wasn’t just the lyrics, but how he could change the meaning of a sentence just by a change in tone with one of the words, the emotions of the lyrics really came across.
Clever, brilliant bloke and absolutely seminal band.
R.I.P.
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Takashi Miike
1:10 Tue Dec 20
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soldo, he (Jordan) wasn't on every morning back then but I do remember his chats with White about trying to get them to properly reform
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Bungo
1:06 Tue Dec 20
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Sad news.
Will give 'Think Fast Father Ted' a spin later featuring the DJ who only has one record for a gig, Ghost Town,
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bill green
1:00 Tue Dec 20
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Big part of our formative years. Ska still a big influence on my music tastes.
At a time when the NF and racism were taking hold, the Specials made it cooler to be a rude boy.
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smartypants
12:46 Tue Dec 20
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Ghost town was the first LP I ever bought, 1980 I think and I was 7 years old, think I just liked the cover and the ghost reference more than the music at that age. Can’t imagine my 8 year old son wanting me to buy him a record like that nowadays.
Didn’t realise he wrote our lips are sealed, always thought that was a great song and now I know why.
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Northern Sold
12:29 Tue Dec 20
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Swiss... the Go Go's were the support band when we saw them in 80... one of the better support bands I have seen over the years...
ray winstone 11:47 Tue Dec 20
Brilliant story that...
WFH today so got Talk Sport on in the back ground.. just had Simon Jordan on... pretty emotional... been great friends with Terry Hall for 20+ years... didn't realise it was him that engineered them reforming...
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OccupyGreenStreet
12:14 Tue Dec 20
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Remember at school a few of us being blown away by ‘Gangsters’ that was played a lot by John Peel. And that was just the start of a run of great songs that reshaped British pop history and that stand up across the decades. As you can see from this thread, whatever your general taste in music, Terry Hall’s contribution is acclaimed by people from all backgrounds.
RIP TH
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violator
12:07 Tue Dec 20
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Swiss. 12:02 Tue Dec 20
He co-wrote it with Jane Weidlin, the Go -Gos were supporting The Specials on a US tour and there were rumours in the camp that they were at it, and that spawned the song.
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martyboy
12:04 Tue Dec 20
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I rember Terry doing a cover of "Pure" by the lightning seeds. Great version. I think he went a bit mental at the end. Had many demons!!!
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Swiss.
12:02 Tue Dec 20
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Wrote “Our lips are sealed” for the Go Gos . Just recently found that out. Was shagging not Belinda Carlisle band member
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Alvin Martini
11:50 Tue Dec 20
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A truly creative guy who came to prominence in a creative and disruptive era of music and politics. But also a damned good entertainer responsible for commercially successful music. The Specials were a big part of the soundtrack of my schooldays and whilst I was a bit more taken with punk, I certainly appreciated that there was something "special" about two-tone and The Specials in particular. Seen them multiple times over the years, both in the young angry and more mature forms. Rest well Terry, you will be missed by many.
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ray winstone
11:47 Tue Dec 20
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Great story from John Niven on Twitter….
Me and some pals have an occasional covers band - weddings, parties, anything. Due to all of us having worked in 'the biz' we've brought in some powerful ringers to sing with us over the years, James Bradfield, Tim Burgess, Lila Moss, Suggs, The Magic Numbers, Edwyn Collins. Even - no shit - Chas & Dave. Anyway, some years back, maybe 2008, we wind up doing a Guilty Pleasures gig at Hackney Empire for our friend Sean Rowley. Suggs is doing 'Love is In The Air' and Terry Hall is doing 'Islands In The Stream' with Cerys Matthews. Suggs and Terry both come to rehearsals on the same day. Now this is quite a trip for us, watching these guys do their numbers in front of each other. Terry is lovely and sweet and vulnerable as he deadpans through the Kenny Rogers part while Cerys - as you'd imagine - gives it hell as Dolly. Suggs isn't one for over-rehearsing and contaminating our purity, so after a bit we go across the road to the pub. Suggs and Terry are hilarious together: constantly sniping and barbing at each other, ribbing over poor singles, bad chart positions etc. Not only can they both seemingly remember every commercial detail of each other's careers, they're not shy of taking the piss about it. Two heavyweights with very different styles obv: Suggs, as the pints do down, voluble, verbose, coming out swinging. Terry, much quieter, but deadly and sarky. But after a bit, Suggs makes quite a heartfelt wee speech about how, piss taking aside, he's always rated Terry and what a magical time they had in the late 70s and early 80s. And at least they both had a no 1 single back in the day eh? With this Suggs heads off to get another round in. Terry watches him go fondly. A beat of perfect comic timing and then Terry turns to the table, he holds out a cupped hand on either side of him, palms up in the traditional 'scales of justice' manner and, weighing them, says - 'mmm. 'Ghost Town...House of Fun...Ghost Town...House of Fun.'
We pissed ourselves.
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Northern Sold
11:32 Tue Dec 20
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaV9GYPSM94
Even David Letterman had time for them...
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