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Today, Tamworth is a market town in Staffordshire with an old castle and an indoor snow dome. It's also famous...
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80s popstar draws himself Dave Wakeling was front man of ska combo The Beat alongside the late and great Ranking...
Aged fourteen, I went on the huge Anti-Nazi League carnival in east London in 1978. Pictured above is me in...
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Punk was born in 1976. Punk died in 1977. Or so it kind of felt at the time. Apart from...
Two big reasons I chose Liverpool for university in 1981 and they were: politics and music. The city was bubbling...
1979 and 1980 were the glory years of the so-called "second wave" of ska music - first wave in Jamaica...
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Ranking Roger of The Beat in Record Mirror Terry Hall of The Specials in Record Mirror
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Ten years ago I co-wrote the biography of Neville Staple - vocalist in The Specials. An entire generation came of...
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Neville Staple is still touring with The Neville Staple Band and I filmed this gig on my iPhone in Chelsea...
Well, for most of the time it was adulation in the 70s and 80s but Bowie wasn't immune to criticism...
