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2 Tone Records began in a Coventry flat in 1979 and peaked two years later, when the Specialsâ era-defining Ghost Town went to No 1 as riots blazed around a UK in recession. The label launched the Specials and the Selecter from the current City of Culture, plus Londoners Madness, Birminghamâs the Beat and others, all to chart success, but also ended up naming an entire movement: dance crazy, sharp-suited, political, multi-racial ska-pop that reverberates to this day.
As a major two-tone exhibition comes to the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry, the Guardian spoke to the people who were at the centre of a multicultural revolution.
Of Cities and Songs: Urban History and Theory Through Music
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The E Street Band was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2014, not long after the deaths of two key members, Danny Federici and Clarence Clemons. Stevie and Springsteen debated whether the band should carry on.
However, they decided that the band s legacy is now bigger than the band itself with music composed by Springsteen and the band s backing producing albums such as Born to Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, Born in the USA and
The River. So we decided it needs to continue . it s something we felt was useful in continuing.
He first met Springsteen 55 years ago at the Hullaballoo club in Middle Town in New York. First impressions weren t favourable with the singer looking at the floor a lot and a long way away from a rock god, Stevie says.
This was the project, begun 35 years ago in February, that resulted in the release of
Graceland, the album that saved Simon’s flagging career but also brought world acclaim for music from South Africa.
By no means ignorant of the horrors of apartheid, Simon appreciated the reasoning behind the cultural boycott, and had turned down invitations to perform at Sun City in what was then the Bophuthatswana “independent homeland”. Other famous musicians took up the invitation and came to play to white South African audiences who would never otherwise see world-class acts because of the cultural boycott. Many of these were blacklisted, including Queen, Rod Stewart, the Beach Boys, Frank Sinatra, Elton John and, crucially, Linda Ronstadt.
Died: January 16, 2021. CHARLOTTE Cornwell, who has died aged 71, was an actress of fearlessness and class, who combined tenures with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre with a TV career that tapped into a more contemporary grit. Beyond acting, as a political activist and champion of justice, she was, as fellow actor Ian McKellen described her in a tribute on Twitter, ‘indomitable’. She found fame in Rock Follies (1976), Howard Schuman’s Fringe theatre-styled musical drama that charted the fortunes of the girl group, The Little Ladies. She played Anna, the most strident and driven of the group, alongside Julie Covington as the punky Dee and Rula Lenska as the aristocratic Q.
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