The Specials
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Specials Singer Terry Hall Died After Pancreatic Cancer Battle, Bassist Says
Horace Panter explained how quickly Hall's health deteriorated this fall, just as the ska band was about to record a new album
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Damon Albarn Remembers Late Terry Hall With Heartfelt Piano Cover
The Blur frontman played the Specials' "Friday Night, Saturday Morning" in a sweet tribute
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Terry Hall, Lead Singer of the Specials, Dead at 63
"His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life," the band said in a statement
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The Specials Preview Covers Album With 'Freedom Highway'
Release will feature new takes on 12 protest songs
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Watch the Specials Perform, Discuss Career on 'CBS This Morning'
Ska-punk legends performed "Vote for Me" and Valentines cover "Blam Blam Fever" from their latest album, along with 1979 classic "A Message to You, Rudy"
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See Parkland Victim's Father Deliver Powerful Speech at the Specials' Brooklyn Concert
"Now, it's a little too late for us to protect our kid, but now our duty and our job is to protect your kids," activist Manuel Oliver tells Brooklyn Steel crowd
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Los Angeles Proclaims 'The Specials Day'
U.K. ska legends will be officially celebrated on May 29th
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British Ska-Punk Legends the Specials Return in Top Form on 'Encore'
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-punk movement combatting skinhead racism (fueled by far-right groups like the National Front) and the craven business-first classism […]
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Song You Need to Know: The Specials, Featuring Saffiyah Khan, "10 Commandments"
Legendary ska revivalists team up with 21-year-old Birmingham activist to overhaul sexist mid-Sixties classic
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Rolling Stones Tap Florence and the Machine, Liam Gallagher as Tour Openers
Band also recruits James Bay, Richard Ashcroft, Elbow, the Vaccines, the Specials for support on summer U.K. trek
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