How The Specials’ Ghost Town became the anthem of ‘a country falling apart’
Forty years ago, as violence and poverty menaced their hometown, The Specials set out to unite the races. Then the National Front arrived
The Specials in Coventry in 1980
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Coventry-formed ska band The Specials wrote Ghost Town in a pressure cooker – one that you could measure as barely six-foot-high. “I’m not going to say too much because I don’t want to upset anybody,” says the track’s producer, John Rivers, reflecting on the 11-day recording session that took place in his tiny basement studio in Leamington Spa.
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When Sally Bowles steps onto the Berlin stage in 1931 at the Kit Kat Klub and sings âMaybe This Time,â itâs hard not to think of the lives of Liza Minnelli and her mom, Judy Garland.
âMaybe this time, I ll be lucky.â
Neither Liza nor Judy lived particularly lucky lives. Judy, married five times, died at 47 of a drug overdose after a life filled with personal struggles, starting from her years as a child star.
Her daughter Liza also battled addiction and married four times. She was 23 when her mom died.
Both of these ladies lived tragedy-strewn lives that kept robbing them of the happiness they deserved.
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Pandemic gives rise to anti-Semitic zoom bombing attacks in Ohio It was only between 15 and 20 seconds but it felt devastating,” said the Pepper Pike Rabbi, as he described the zoom bombing incident. Author: Rachel Polansky (WKYC) Updated: 9:14 PM EDT May 6, 2021
PEPPER PIKE, Ohio In April 2020 as the country began functioning in a virtual world, Northeast Ohio synagogues were adjusting too.
“Our synagogue here in Pepper Pike still wanted to create community so we shifted and adapted and became a virtual online community,” said Rabbi Hal Rudin-Luria, B nai Jeshurun.
That meant Rabbi Rudin-Luria was using zoom for all of his services and classes.
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A university student allegedly wrote we did not finish the job in regard to the Holocaust on an extreme right-wing website, a court has heard.
Andrew Dymock, 23, wrote articles on the now banned group System Resistance Network s (SRN) website in 2017 and received donations for the organisation, the Old Bailey was told.
The defendant, from Bath in Somerset, is on trial on 15 charges, including 12 terrorism-related alleged offences, all of which he has denied.
Andrew Dymock (pictured) allegedly joined white supremacist groups Sonnenkrieg Division and System Resistance Network
The politics student denies all charges and says any connection to the far-right groups was in order to conduct research for his dissertation on the rise of nationalism.