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Jerry Dammers of the ska revival band the Specials started the record label in 1979. [1] [2] Chrysalis had wanted to sign the Specials, but Dammers arranged a label deal, for Chrysalis to fund 15 singles a year and release at least ten of those. [3] Madness formed in London and were originally known as the North London Invaders. Their ska inspired sound led Jerry Dammers to invite Madness to sign with 2 Tone. Only their first single, The Prince, was released on the label. Madness went on to enjoy chart success, reaching number 1 in 1982 with House of Fun. I sketched my own 2 Tone man on the school walls, imagined myself at the Nite Klub and blushed at the thought of p*** stains on my shoes . I learnt about the imprisoned Nelson Mandela, the horror of rape and bombs dropping on Beirut. 2 Tone carved a deep groove in my soul and thanks to the oxygen of airplay on Radio 1, the mind-blowing visuals of

As unemployment steadily rose, Thatcher and the Conservative opposition campaigned against the rudderless government under the slogan ‘Labour Isn’t Working’ - only to implement, after a landslide election victory in May ’79, economic policies that ultimately tripled the jobless figures, accelerated the deindustrialisation of Britain, and condemned a generation of youth to hopelessness. CHS TT12 17 The Specials — "Ghost Town" (Extended) / "Why?" (Extended) / "Friday Night, Saturday Morning" 12" The migrants who arrived in Britain from the Caribbean in the 1950s and ‘60s brought with them music from their homeland, including reggae and ska. This was often played on homemade sound systems at house parties and clubs. In Coventry the Police Ballroom and the Railway Club at Holbrooks became popular venues for Caribbean music events. The music soon became popular with British music fans, especially mods and skinheads. I was born in 1978 just before the launch of the record label founded by the legendaryJerry Dammers. Growing up, music was always around the house - soul, Motown and reggae were my family’s music of choice. It wasn’t until later, in the 1990s, when I fully appreciated the sound and movement of the cultural phenomenon that is 2 Tone.

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I first met Jerry when I was playing in soul bands around Coventry,” remembers Golding when Classic Pop catches up with him separately. “I was born in Jamaica and exposed to all the early roots-reggae. My father was from the generation who came to England on the Windrush and settled in Gloucester where he found a job in manufacturing. After he was laid off, he followed the work to Coventry and its thriving motor industry. I think we realised something big was happening when we set out on that first 2 Tone tour,” says Lynval. “It was then I realised just how much we were bringing people together.” Chambers, Pete (2009). Coventry Market in a Round About Way. Tencton Planet Publications. ISBN 9780954412579. Dakar: I’d written The Boiler for the Bodysnatchers. A friend had been raped in different circumstances to the song, but the lyrics reflected her fear and terror. Some idiot on Capitol Radio played it at 9am on a Saturday. Complaints flooded in. It was taken out of shops but reached No 35. Jerry fiddled with The Boiler for a year, and he did the same thing with Ghost Town. It was more than perfectionism – I think it was performance anxiety. He was worried about failing, not being the best, but to his credit, he had much more of a sense of posterity than anyone else. One day Jerry came into the rehearsal room with a chorus, “Free Nelson Mandela …” I phoned Artists Against Apartheid to get information about Mandela and came up with: “Shoes too small to fit his feet, he pleaded the cause of the ANC.” There was nothing like our early shows,” reflected Roger. “We attracted some of the disenchanted punks and those shows allowed them to let off steam.”

The film ends with the dam bursting: during a Specials performance of Nite Klub (filmed in Leicester) there is a full-on stage invasion by fans. Be-harnessed Dunton found it both “frightening” and “pretty spectacular”. For Panter, these invasions became so regular that they eventually become an irritation. “It was fantastic for an encore. But it was getting to the point where after five songs there’d be 50 of Swansea’s finest clambering up on stage. It wasn’t that they were nasty – they were generally just drunk,” the bass player says. The Specials would withdraw to an extra drum riser at the stage’s rear – “a second line of retreat” ­– while roadies formed a protective line in front of them. Dammers adds: “I was pleased Neol formed The Selecter, because I felt a bit bad about having replaced him.” It was a strange time in Birmingham,” Roger told us, shortly before his death in March. “Everyone was in a band or wanted to be in a band. It was a time of high unemployment and music offered a way out.”Costello: After one gig on the south coast we ended up on a beach with a bonfire and their fans, like a kinder version of Lord of the Flies. We recorded [the Specials] debut in a little place under a launderette. Cramped. Fetid. Ideal. There was just enough space outside the control room to jam the band and all their friends together with a beer and the lights off to do the crowd noise for Nite Klub. When Chrissie Hynde did the heavy breathing for Stupid Marriage the band were cheering like kids. We’d been at the vodka gimlets. We had to stop one session when Neville fired a blank round at me and the engineer – our ears were ringing all day. Tone: The Sound of Coventry has been commissioned by BBC England and is a co-production between Coventry UK City of Culture Trust and Full Fat Television, as part of the BBC’s commitment to the cultural celebrations in Coventry this year.

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