Four Coventry heroes in the Ghost Town
Four Coventry black British heroes of the late 1970s and early 1980s should be immortalised argues author Tony McMahon
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Neville Staple – new musical venture!
The front man from The Specials has been in touch to tell me about a new musical venture – I’m allowed to publish this press release now, for your edification! And hopefully, you might spare a few pennies for this!FLIPRON release their brand new single The Comet Returns on 10 September. The song is a…
Neville Staple at a book signing in 2009 for Original Rude Boy
Neville Staple at book signing in 2009 for Original Rude Boy
Neville Staple joins The Specials
Tony McMahon co-wrote the biography of Neville Staple of The Specials titled Original Rude Boy published by Aurum Press in 2009
Neville Staple biography reviewed in the Huffington Post
Original Rude Boy is the biography of Neville Staple front man in The Specials and the book was co-authored with Tony McMahon
Young, black and British in 1970s Coventry
Being young, black and British in 1970s Coventry was tough but Neville Staple and Errol Christie escaped from the Ghost Town
Ghost Town – my ska 2tone optioned drama
Ghost Town is a ska 2Tone drama set in Coventry and optioned by author Tony McMahon based on real-life stories from the 1980s
Neville Staple – the Original Rude Boy
The biography of Neville Staple – Original Rude Boy – was co-written with Tony McMahon and published by Aurum Press
Pop groups that crashed in 1983
1983 was the year that many pop groups bit the dust with Yazoo, Roxy Music and Scritti Politti calling it a day and hanging up their microphone
Ghost Town – The Specials and the 1981 riots
The Specials number one song Ghost Town brilliantly summed up the mood of Britain as it embarked on a summer of riots in 1981