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80s popstar draws himself Dave Wakeling was front man of ska combo The Beat alongside the late and great Ranking...
Ranking Roger
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I wrote two biographies set in Coventry that exposed the racism and violence in that city back in the 1980s...
After finding that front cover of Ranking Roger in Record Mirror (see my last post), I've just had Beat songs...
The Beat recorded the song 'Stand Down Margaret', which caused quite a stir at the time - a spirited call...
The start of the 1980s was dominated by the sound of 2Tone - a new take on the Jamaican ska...
The C120 cassette tape held out so much promise but was a terrible disappointment. The idea you could hold two...
