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Charting protest pop: How music can bring about change

The 1980s was a period of profound popularity for political pop. Now, 40 years later, it’s what we desperately need again

The National (Scotland)

The Selecter's Pauline Black reveals her remarkable story, including why she changed her name to Black by deed poll as her feature-length rockumentary airs

In a feature-length rockumentary on Sky Arts, The Selecter's Pauline Black looks back on her life and music career

WhatToWatch

Sleaford Mods, the 1975, Fred Again: the songs that sum up each year of Tory government

Dave’s lament for the Grenfell atrocity, Dua Lipa’s bedroom disco for a locked-down nation, Kneecap’s Badenoch-riling rap, Elbow’s hymn for asylum seekers … here are the tracks that defined 14 years of Conservative rule

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"I told my wife, 'When I die, bury me in those shoes.'": The Specials' Lynval Golding's emotional tribute to Terry Hall

Golding paid tribute to his old bandmate, who died a year ago this month.

Louder

‘Forty years on, nothing’s changed’: Fun Boy Three on The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum

‘Terry Hall was writing about nuclear war and Ronald Reagan, then the US president, the idea being that the world was being run by lunatics’

The Guardian - UK

‘I had to move my tent for Janis Joplin’s helicopter!’ Glastonbury stars on their most surprising festival moments

Debbie Harry, Alison Goldfrapp, Candi Staton, Billy Bragg and others look back at festival experiences they’ll never forget – including getting stuck in the mud and yearning to take off their clothes

The Guardian - UK

The songs of the Specials’ Terry Hall taught me about vulnerability – and that’s why I will always miss him

The singer showed me that burning bridges can be extraordinarily beautiful, from any vantage point – which is a good note on which to end my Name and Shame series

The Guardian - UK

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Dance Craze review – thrilling documentary captures the explosive energy of 2 Tone

Joe Massot’s vivid 1981 film about the British ska scene brims with life, sweat and the faces of ecstatic fans

The Guardian - UK

‘I never got a chance to say goodbye’: Damon Albarn remembers The Specials frontman Terry Hall

The Gorillaz frontman recalled seeing the late singer perform for the first time when he was 14

The Independent UK

The Specials frontman Terry Hall laid to rest as music icons unite to attend funeral

The Specials frontman Terry Hall's funeral took place on Tuesday with some huge stars in attendance, after the music world was left devastated over the legendary singer's death at the age of 63 last month

Daily Mirror

UB40 guitarist hits out at Tories and says country is like it was in the 1970s

Singer and guitarist Robin Campbell has hit out at the Conservative Government, claiming the country is in the same bad state it was when the band formed decades ago

Daily Mirror

Terry Hall died from pancreatic cancer – what is the disease and what are the early symptoms?

The disease is the fifth-most common cancer in the UK and was initially thought to be just a stomach bug in the late The Specials’ frontman’s case

Evening Standard

Terry Hall's bandmate reveals cancer diagnosis after his death aged 63

Bassist Horace Panter described how 'everything turned to s**t' as Terry's health took a turn

Manchester Evening News

The Specials singer Terry Hall died ‘after cancer diagnosis’, bandmate reveals

Bandmate Horace Panter emotionally recalled the moment he found out his friend was going to die

Evening Standard

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Wales Online

The Specials' Terry Hall was diagnosed with cancer shortly before death, says bandmate

Bassist Horace Panter said he wanted to keep it secret

The Independent UK

Terry Hall diagnosed with pancreatic cancer prior to death – Specials bassist

Horace Panter said the band had been due to record a new reggae album in Los Angeles in November this year.

Daily Mirror

Terry Hall's bandmate reveals his cancer battle as he recalls Specials' star's final days

The Specials' bassist Horace Panter has shared a moving and poignant tribute to his late bandmate, recalling Terry Halls' final weeks and the short cancer battle he faced prior to his death at the age of 63

The Independent UK

Terry Hall death: Damon Albarn posts touching piano tribute to The Specials

‘Terry, you meant the world to me. I love you,’ wrote the Blur frontman

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Chicago Sun-Times

Terry Hall, lead singer of ska band The Specials, dies at 63

British singer-songwriter was the voice of hits including ‘A Message to You, Rudy’ and ‘Ghost Town.’

The Conversation

How Terry Hall defined the sound of youth and disillusionment in Margaret Thatcher’s Britain

Terry Hall, who has died after a short illness at 63, was the voice of The Specials, an iconic band that bridged the youth sub-cultures and mainstream pop of the late 1970s and early 1980s, embodying the sound of disaffection in Thatcherite Britain.

Irish Mirror

The night the Specials and The Beat got trapped playing Stardust nightclub - weeks before fatal fire

Specials frontman Terry Hall died at the age of 63 on Monday

Irish Mirror

Shane MacGowan leads tributes after death of The Specials frontman Terry Hall

The death of the 63-year-old singer was announced on Monday on the band’s social media.

The Guardian - UK

Terry Hall: his 10 greatest recordings with the Specials and beyond

The singer’s musical free spirit scored him hits with everyone from the Specials and Fun Boy Three to collaborations with the Go-Go’s and Bananarama

The Independent UK

Terry Hall remembered as ‘an inspiration and a lovely fella’ by musical peers

Madness led tributes to Hall on Tuesday, alongside Ian Brown, The Proclaimers and Shane MacGowan.

Evening Standard

Who was Terry Hall? The Specials and Fun Boy Three singer dies after brief illness aged 63

Terry Hall was a defining voice of the 1970s and 1980s with hits including A Message to You Rudy, Ghost Town and It Ain’t What You Do It’s the Way That You Do It

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