One of few women in a musical movement dominated by men, Pauline Black helped lead the 1970s U.K. ska revival with her band The Selecter. She... How 'The Queen Of British Ska' Wrestled With Race The ...

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The band said Hall passed after a "brief illness." By Gil Kaufman Terry Hall, the charismatic lead vocalist of British ska revivalists The Specials, has died at 63. The band announced Hall’s death on ...

AS a montage of clips from his youth was projected on a screen above the stage at Brixton Academy here in February, Terry Hall, the lead singer of the late-1970s British ska band the Specials, kept ...

Ska emerged on the British music scene in 1964, when Prince Buster, the greatest of the Jamaican Blue Beat artists - who later inspired Madness - appeared on the British music TV programme "Ready ...

Terry Hall, frontman of the Specials, the British ska band that blended pub-fight energy with socially conscious lyrics that explored the political and racial tensions of Britain in the late 1970s and ...

Terry Hall, the longtime voice of legendary ska group The Specials has died after what the band termed a brief illness. He was 63. Hall and the Specials reached their widest appeal with the haunting, ...

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When the British ska movement launched in the late ‘70s, great ska/rocksteady acts such as the Skatalites, Prince Buster and Desmond Dekker were founding influences. Inspired by the rebellious nature ...

When the Specials’ Jerry Dammers’ launched the 2 Tone label in Britain in 1979, his group was more than just a ska revival band with good taste in covers — they were a multi-racial spearhead of a post ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Terry Hall, the charismatic lead vocalist of British ska revivalists The Specials has died at 63. The band announced Hall's ...