Record On is a major brand-new 3-part series exploring the context of the times around the making of a ground-breaking album by the world's most prominent artists.
Each episode looks at the motivations of the artists to write and record the album they did at that particular moment in time and how that album came to reflect those times, becoming a cultural icon in itself. The series takes its tone from the social, cultural and political focus of what was happening around the time each album was written and recorded and how this is reflected in the artists' music and the performance.
Record On: The Specials - A Message To You
The Specials emerged in the late 1970s during a time of great social, political, and economic upheaval in England. These deep subjects have heavily influenced their music right up to the present day.
The band's songs Ghost Town, Gangsters, Too Much Too Young have bravely tackled issues of racism, unemployment, and social inequality, unafraid to re
I was in band inspiring BBC This Town and spat at by racists until I did one thing
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The Specials inspired BBC s This Town but band star faced constant racist abuse
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