The Specials frontman Terry Hall died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, according to a new Facebook post from the seminal British ska outfit’s bassist Horace Panter.
In a note on Facebook, Panter explained how quickly Hall’s health deteriorated over just a few months this fall. His diagnosis also came just as the Specials were gearing up to to record the reggae album they’d originally planned to cut in 2020 before the pandemic.
According to Panter, the plan was to record the LP in Los Angeles in November.
In a note on Facebook, Panter explained how quickly Hall’s health deteriorated over just a few months this fall. His diagnosis also came just as the Specials were gearing up to to record the reggae album they’d originally planned to cut in 2020 before the pandemic.
According to Panter, the plan was to record the LP in Los Angeles in November.
- 12/21/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The Specials frontman Terry Hall was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer just a few months before he died, according to bandmate Horace Panter.
Hall died on Sunday (18 December) after a short battle with the disease, aged 63.
On Tuesday (20 December) bassist Horace Panter wrote a lengthy statement on Facebook detailing his version of events.
Panter recalled how the band had been ready to fly out to the US back in September to record a new album, when Hall had emailed to say he was unwell with a stomach bug.
“We had it all planned out,” began the bass player, explaining that Hall already had the “framework for 8 tunes” and that “confidence was high”.
“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...
Hall died on Sunday (18 December) after a short battle with the disease, aged 63.
On Tuesday (20 December) bassist Horace Panter wrote a lengthy statement on Facebook detailing his version of events.
Panter recalled how the band had been ready to fly out to the US back in September to record a new album, when Hall had emailed to say he was unwell with a stomach bug.
“We had it all planned out,” began the bass player, explaining that Hall already had the “framework for 8 tunes” and that “confidence was high”.
“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...
- 12/21/2022
- by Megan Graye
- The Independent - Music
Terry Hall, the longtime voice of legendary ska group The Specials has died after what the band termed a brief illness. He was 63.
Hall and the Specials reached their widest appeal with the haunting, socially conscious “Ghost Town,” which spent three weeks at No. 1 on the U.K. singles charts in 1981. The song was a commentary on economic strife in Margaret Thatcher’s England and the social unrest of the era, including riots that year in Britain. It was named “Single of the Year” by all three of the major UK music magazines.
The Specials were formed in the late ’70s by songwriter/keyboardist Dammers, vocalist Tim Strickland, guitarist/vocalist Lynval Golding, drummer Silverton Hutchinson and bassist Horace Panter (a.k.a. Sir Horace Gentleman). Strickland was replaced by Hall shortly after the band’s formation. They were at the vanguard of the the 2 Tone ska revival of the late 1970s in Britain,...
Hall and the Specials reached their widest appeal with the haunting, socially conscious “Ghost Town,” which spent three weeks at No. 1 on the U.K. singles charts in 1981. The song was a commentary on economic strife in Margaret Thatcher’s England and the social unrest of the era, including riots that year in Britain. It was named “Single of the Year” by all three of the major UK music magazines.
The Specials were formed in the late ’70s by songwriter/keyboardist Dammers, vocalist Tim Strickland, guitarist/vocalist Lynval Golding, drummer Silverton Hutchinson and bassist Horace Panter (a.k.a. Sir Horace Gentleman). Strickland was replaced by Hall shortly after the band’s formation. They were at the vanguard of the the 2 Tone ska revival of the late 1970s in Britain,...
- 12/20/2022
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Terry Hall, the lead singer of The Specials, has died aged 63, his bandmates said.
Hall, who was also a former member of Fun Boy Three and the Colourfield, died folllowing a brief illness.
The band tweeted: “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing, following a brief illness, of Terry, our beautiful friend, brother and one of the most brilliant singers, songwriters and lyricists this country has ever produced.
“Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls. His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… the joy, the pain, the humour, the fight for justice, but mostly the love.
“He will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him and leaves behind the gift of his remarkable music and profound humanity. Terry often left the stage at the end of The Specials’ life-affirming shows with three words…...
Hall, who was also a former member of Fun Boy Three and the Colourfield, died folllowing a brief illness.
The band tweeted: “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing, following a brief illness, of Terry, our beautiful friend, brother and one of the most brilliant singers, songwriters and lyricists this country has ever produced.
“Terry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls. His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… the joy, the pain, the humour, the fight for justice, but mostly the love.
“He will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him and leaves behind the gift of his remarkable music and profound humanity. Terry often left the stage at the end of The Specials’ life-affirming shows with three words…...
- 12/20/2022
- by Joe Middleton
- The Independent - Music
Following the release of their long-awaited eighth studio album Encore in February, the Specials delivered a three-song performance on Saturday’s edition of CBS This Morning.
The British ska-punk icons ran through renditions of their latest album’s “Vote for Me” and “Blam Blam Fever,” which is a cover by The Valentines, as well as their own 1979 hit “A Message to You, Rudy.” Encore is the first album of original songs by the Specials since 1998’s Guilty ’til Proved Innocent!
Formed in Coventry in the late 1970s, the Specials created a fusion of ska,...
The British ska-punk icons ran through renditions of their latest album’s “Vote for Me” and “Blam Blam Fever,” which is a cover by The Valentines, as well as their own 1979 hit “A Message to You, Rudy.” Encore is the first album of original songs by the Specials since 1998’s Guilty ’til Proved Innocent!
Formed in Coventry in the late 1970s, the Specials created a fusion of ska,...
- 6/29/2019
- by Ilana Kaplan
- Rollingstone.com
When the Specials’ Jerry Dammers’ launched the 2 Tone label in Britain in 1979, his group was more than just a ska revival band with good taste in covers — they were a multi-racial spearhead of a post-punk movement combatting skinhead racism (fueled by far-right groups like the National Front) and the craven business-first classism of the Thatcher government. Now, with racist nationalism on the rise amidst the Brexit debacle, the Special’s third album — 38 years since the last one, More Specials — is well timed. As frontman Terry Hall puts it, the band remain “horribly relevant.
- 2/2/2019
- by Will Hermes
- Rollingstone.com
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