The Best Of The Specials

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The Specials announce new album and tour". Totalntertainment.com. 17 August 2021 . Retrieved 4 October 2021. The Specials confirm more 2009 UK dates". Thespecials.com. 8 June 2009. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011 . Retrieved 29 April 2010. John Bradbury, Drummer for the Specials, Dies at 62". The New York Times. 2 January 2016 . Retrieved 23 April 2018. More…Or Less. The Specials Live': Live compilation of the legendary band's 2011 tour. Release date: 6th August, 2012". Thespecials.com. 16 August 2012. Archived from the original on 23 August 2012 . Retrieved 13 August 2012. Since the break-up of the original line-up, various members of the band performed in other bands and have reformed several times to tour and record in Specials-related projects. However, there has never been a complete reunion of the original line-up.

CD-2 Single released 27th October, 1979 on 2 Tone catalogue number CHS TT 5 Digital remaster ℗ 2002 You're Wondering Now – The Specials from Conception to Reunion, by Paul Willams; Part Two: More Specials – Horace Panter In August 2012, the Specials released a new live album, More... Or Less. – The Specials Live, featuring "the best of the best" performances from their 2011 European tour, selected by the band themselves on a double-disc CD and double-vinyl LP. [36] Departures of Neville Staple and Roddy Radiation [ edit ] Sutherland, Mark (13 August 2013). "The Specials join Blur for London 2012 Olympics closing ceremony". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 23 April 2018.Muso's Guide Interview with the Specials". Mymusos.com. 13 May 2009 . Retrieved 29 April 2010. [ permanent dead link] Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1sted.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p.201. ISBN 0-85112-250-7. In 2017, the band invited 20-year-old Birmingham native Saffiyah Khan to a show after a photo of her confronting an " English Defence League goon" in a Specials t-shirt at a counter-demonstration went viral. Less than two years later, Khan had performed on stage for the first time, recorded a song and toured North America with the band. [41] [42] On 29 October 2018, the Specials announced a UK tour in 2019 to coincide with the release of a new album, Encore. [43]

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Chambers, Pete (7 February 2014). "Specials lead guitarist Roddy 'Radiation' Byers leaves the band". Coventry Telegraph . Retrieved 23 April 2018. The Specials – The Best Of The Specials. Released via Chrysalis Records. Available on Double Vinyl LP, CD+Bonus DVD. Williams, Paul (1995) You're Wondering Now – A History of the Specials, ST Publishing. ISBN 1-898927-25-1A 1994 single credited to "X Specials" featured Staple, Golding, Radiation, and Panter. A cover of the Slade song "Coz I Love You", the project was produced by Slade's Jim Lea. Sterling Chandler joins The Specials on tour". Yahoo News. 11 February 2021 . Retrieved 13 May 2021. The Specials reunion all down to Lily Allen". Coventry Telegraph. 15 May 2009. Archived from the original on 3 July 2009 . Retrieved 29 April 2010. Williams, Paul (2009) You're Wondering Now-The Specials From Conception to Reunion, Cherry Red Books. ISBN 978-1-901447-51-4 In 1990, Bradbury, Golding, Panter and Staple teamed up with members of the Beat to form Special Beat, [10] performing the music of the two bands and other ska and Two Tone classics. The group, undergoing many line-up changes, toured and released several live recordings through the 1990s.