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Coventry in 1981 was a tinderbox of a city primed to explode. Youth unemployment was skyrocketing as factories shut. The...
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1980 is often seen as the high point of the late 70s skinhead revival and there were plenty of Irish...
1979 and 1980 were the glory years of the so-called "second wave" of ska music - first wave in Jamaica...
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Neville Staple is still touring with The Neville Staple Band and I filmed this gig on my iPhone in Chelsea...
The Beat recorded the song 'Stand Down Margaret', which caused quite a stir at the time - a spirited call...
In 2010, the hardback version of Neville Staple's biography was published by Aurum Press - co-written with yours truly. The...
Walk down Oxford Street today and it's impossible to avoid glimpsing the ever present influence of 2Tone whether it's the...
The start of the 1980s was dominated by the sound of 2Tone - a new take on the Jamaican ska...
When I was writing Neville Staple's biography - 'Original Rude Boy' - I was given a hold-all full of photos...
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Riots rocked the UK in the summer of 1981 but one of the forgotten disturbances is Coventry - and yet...
