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Post by stu77 on Dec 21, 2022 3:22:53 GMT
Three songs from a quality LP
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Post by stu77 on Dec 21, 2022 5:11:58 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Dec 21, 2022 10:18:32 GMT
RIP. One of my favourites ( amongst many ). Yeah, great song wardance Missing also by Terry, Blair & Anouchka was another wonderful tune Terry, Blair & Anouchka - Missing
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Post by andyloneshark on Dec 21, 2022 12:04:02 GMT
A message from Horace Panter...
The Specials. Terry. This is what happened. We had it all planned out. Make the album we were going to do in 2020 – a reggae album. Record in Los Angeles in November. We had the studio booked, flights paid for, accommodation sorted. Roger Rivas from The Agrolites was going to co-produce. Shepard Fairey was going to do the cover. Lynval, still recovering from his spinal surgery earlier in the year, was over in the UK and raring to go. Terry had the framework for 8 tunes. Confidence was high. We were set to meet up with Nikolaj and make magic. This was in September. Terry e-mails everyone and says he’s in bed with a stomach bug and can’t do the first week of pre-production sessions. No big deal, we can knock everything back a week. We’re not due to fly out until November 4th. The next week, Terry is no better and is in hospital. There’s not much we can do except wait for him to get better. Sunday October 2nd and I get a phone call from Manager Steve. And everything turns to shit. Terry’s illness is a lot worse than we thought. He has been diagnosed with cancer of the pancreas which has spread to his liver. This is serious. Like life-threatening serious. He has developed diabetes due to his pancreas being attacked. This has to be treated first, then it’s a regime of chemotherapy. There is nothing anyone can do. Everything is put on hold. Terry is emphatic that no-one be told about this. If anyone asks, he’s managing his diabetes. The chemo treatment starts favourably but it seems that it would be March 2023 at the earliest before we’d be in any position to work. He is in and out of hospital to stabilise the diabetes issue and also to manage pain. It then goes quiet. Beginning of December and reports are not good. Terry has lost a lot of weight and is very frail. His friend Ian Broudie visits and phones Manager Steve. He fears that Terry is slipping away. 15th December and Manager Steve drives up to London to visit. He calls me on his return journey and says things are not looking promising. Terry is dying. The next day he is put on morphine and is more-or-less unconscious for most of the time. I thought it would be best for me to go and visit but Lindy, his wife, advises against it. She has held her phone to Terry’s ear so that his sisters and Lynval can say their goodbyes. She suggests I do the same. So, I did. It was tough. Terry died around half past 5 the next evening, Sunday 18th December. The world has lost a unique voice and I have lost a good friend. Horace.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Dec 21, 2022 12:47:15 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Dec 21, 2022 16:16:51 GMT
Remeber that Terry Hall & Mushtaq LP?
Another interesting and successful collaboration
Ten Eleven
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Post by stu77 on Dec 21, 2022 21:34:42 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Dec 22, 2022 4:45:33 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Dec 22, 2022 6:55:17 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Dec 22, 2022 9:11:53 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Dec 22, 2022 9:12:09 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Dec 24, 2022 8:24:03 GMT
Terry's response post-9/11
Beautiful song
Terry Hall & Mushtaq - Stand Together
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2022 18:32:35 GMT
I posted this on my Facebook page as a tribute to Terry and John Bradbury... I remember back in 1979, music and the youth culture and fashion that went with it was very, VERY tribal... when i first heard "Gangsters" by The Specials, it confused and excited me at the same time. Were they some kind of weird mutated Punk band? i knew so little about Ska music and it's history. I was getting more heavily into Punk/Post-Punk at that time and so anything associated with the Mod Revival i was rather snooty about admitting, i liked it. But i used to catch myself out singing "A Message to You Rudy" all the time. The Specials got progressively more inventive with their sound too and when i heard songs like "Stereotype" i had to concede that they were indeed 'Special' ...and Terry Hall's world weary vocal style was a BIG part of that - unmistakeable and utterly unique. View AttachmentRIP Terry. I always considered the Two-Tone movement as an extention of the Punk zeitgeist and it's roots were partly in Punk itself. The crucial difference was the involvement of black working class kids predominately from a West Indian background. It went beyond the white tribal, mostly middle class roots of the so called metropolitan punk 'elite'. I remember we were hanging around Listen Records in Renfield St when it was getting really big and a lot of punk's were jumping ship and getting into the whole Two-tone/Mod Revival bandwagon but we kept the faith and to be fair to a lot of the schemie punks, it was a lot safer to look smarter than risk getting a kicking off the young teams. We were just kids ourselves but I always had an affinity with Terry, Dammers, Pauline Black and the rest of Two-Tone even though our world's couldn't have been more different.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2023 18:58:09 GMT
Really good obituary/feature on Terry in the latest VLR.
Well worth getting.👍
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