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Co-wrote and provided vocals on "Time To Blow" and "Why Should I?" on Leila's album Blood, Looms and Blooms On one level, 1983’s Waiting was lighter than their debut – produced by Talking Heads’ David Byrne, it featured the fantastic, poppy hit single Our Lips Are Sealed (on the US version), which Hall had written with Jane Wiedlin of the Go Gos about their clandestine relationship – but it also contained Well Fancy That!, a disturbing account of the abuse Hall had suffered as a child, after being abducted by a paedophile ring during a school trip to France. If you wanted evidence of Hall’s catholic music taste – not always apparent in The Specials – Waiting opened with a jaunty cover of the theme music from the 1960s film adaptations of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple mysteries. Hall was equally aware of the stigma when it came to talking about mental health in general, especially among the middle-aged men who made up the bulk of The Specials’ audience. So he confronted this head-on. In recent years, Specials concerts would have stalls in the foyer where audience members could go and talk about any struggles they may have been having. These stalls were branded Never Mind the Stigma, in a nod to the Sex Pistols’ album title. The result was astonishing, says Steph Langan, the founder and chief executive of Tonic Music For Mental Health, the charity which ran the stalls and of which Hall was a patron.‘ Hall struggled to write lyrics for a follow-up, he said. “The arrival of the pandemic affected me enormously. I spent around three months trying to figure out what was going on. I couldn’t write a single word. I spent the time trying to figure out how not to die.” Instead, they covered historic protest songs and released Protest Songs 1924-2012 in 2021, which peaked at No 2.

Next, he formed the trio Terry, Blair & Anouchka, who delved even deeper into 60s and 70s-inspired pop on their solitary album Ultra Modern Nursery Rhymes, a genuine lost classic. Improbable as it seemed, Hall had a genuine facility for sunshine pop; as if to underline where they were coming from, it concluded with a cover of Captain & Tennille’s corny-but-fantastic 1975 hit Love Will Keep Us Together. Just as the global influence of The Specials became readily apparent, thanks to a wave of American ska-punk bands, Hall had never seemed further from the music they were inspired by. I was honoured to play a gig for the charity @tonicmusicmh with @libertines where Terry Hall was a patron & campaigner recently. Not just a legendary musician but someone who cared deeply about helping people with mental health struggles. He’ll be very sadly missed.Filename G:\EAC What\Terry Hall - Laugh... Plus (1997)\02. Terry Hall - Laugh... plus - Sonny and His Sister.wav Filename G:\EAC What\Terry Hall - Laugh... Plus (1997)\08. Terry Hall - Laugh... plus - For the Girl.wav

The Official Charts Company – Dub Pistols Featuring Terry Hall". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 31 May 2009.We knew Terry had been unwell but didn’t realise how serious until recently,” he wrote. “We had only just confirmed some 2023 joint music agreements together. This has hit me hard and must be extremely difficult for Terry’s wife and family.” Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p.519. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. Hall was born in Coventry on 19 March 1959 to a family who predominantly worked in the car industry. He was an academically gifted child and also a noted footballer who was invited to try out for West Bromwich Albion – an opportunity his parents declined based on the inconvenience of travelling across the Midlands. After he sailed through the 11-plus exam, his parents also declined his place at a nearby grammar school. Filename G:\EAC What\Terry Hall - Laugh... Plus (1997)\04. Terry Hall - Laugh... plus - Take It Forever.wav Most of the songs on the album are co-written with guitarists Craig Gannon, although two were penned with Albarn (‘A Room Full Of Nothing’ and ‘For The Girl’) while ‘Sonny and his Sister’ is the one Terry wrote with Stephen Duffy.

Even their greatest achievement is mired in gloom: the 1981 No 1, Ghost Town, remarkable not just for its brilliantly original, impossibly bleak musical content but the way its tenure at No 1 coincided with some of the most serious urban rioting of the 20th century; and the fact that the band celebrated its success by splitting up in the dressing room at Top of the Pops. The one absence that still rankles with some fans is that of keyboard player Jerry Dammers, who formed the band and wrote most of their original songs. He was present at rehearsals when the full line up reunited in 2008 but soon dropped out, apparently because the group were unwilling to play his new songs. It has never been entirely clear if he jumped or was pushed. “Jerry was having trouble playing the way we played,” says Hall. “It was difficult, and he recognised that too. He came to me discreetly, and he told me how he’d like to see The Specials reform, and I really didn’t agree with it. So Jerry decided he didn’t want to do it. He definitely wasn’t pushed, and neither were Neville or Roddy.”Filename G:\EAC What\Terry Hall - Laugh... Plus (1997)\16. Terry Hall - Laugh... plus - Love to See You (Acoustic Version).wav Neville Staple, Hall’s bandmate in the Specials and Fun Boy Three, said he was “deeply saddened” by the news. Just reaching out, are you OK?” the song goes. It continues with what sounds like a mental health manifesto that Hall would wholeheartedly endorse. “Time is tight, life’s a fight/ Now’s the time, get it right/ People laughing, people crying/ Can’t you see we’re really trying?/ So goodbye to sorrow… Say hello to tomorrow.” The album spawned two singles, ‘Ballad of a Landlord’ and ‘I Saw The Light’ (a cover of the Todd Rundgren song) although as with previous singles (like 1994’s gorgeous Forever J) neither troubled the top 40 singles chart.

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