Musician Terry Hall, who helped create some of the defining sounds of post-punk Britain as lead singer of The Specials, has died. He was 63.
Horace, left, and Terry Hall, from The Specials perform during the filming for the Graham Norton Show at BBC Studioworks 6 Television Centre, Wood Lane, London on Sept. 25, 2019. Hall, the lead singer of The Specials, died at the age of 63 following a brief illness, the band announced late Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. Musician Terry Hall, who helped create of the defining sounds of post-punk Britain as lead singer of The Specials, has died. He was 63.
Hall joined the band that would become The Specials in the English Midlands city of Coventry in the late 1970s, a time of racial tension, economic gloom and urban unrest. With its mix of Black and white members and Jamaica-influenced style of sharp suits and porkpie hats, the band became leaders of the anti-racist 2 Tone ska revival movement.
The band's most iconic song is the melancholy, menacing “Ghost Town,” which topped the U.K. music charts in the summer of 1981 as Britain’s cities were erupting in riots. Hall later formed The Colourfield and other bands, and collaborated with artists including The Go-Go's – co-writing the group’s 1981 debut single, “Our Lips Are Sealed," which was also recorded by Fun Boy Three.“Our extremely brief romance resulted in the song Our Lips Are Sealed, which will forever tie us together in music history.
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