The Specials Return With New Album, "Encore" and Announce North American Tour". Music News Net . Retrieved 1 February 2019.

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It's human nature to feel like the problems we are dealing with right now are unique and unprecedented but we usually have more in common with previous generations than we think. The urge to rail against what is wrong with the world and suggest how it could be better is as old as song. Protest Songs 1924-2012 is an idiosyncratic version of that history, born out of extreme circumstances and guided by the personalities of Terry, Horace and Lynval. The story continues.a b c d e f g h i j k l "British certifications – Specials". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 3 December 2022. Type Specials in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter. On 30 March 2008, Hall stated that the Specials would be reforming for tour dates in autumn 2008, and possibly for some recording. [21] This was officially confirmed on 7 April 2008. [22] On 6 September 2008, six members of the band performed on the main stage at the Bestival, billed as the "Surprise Act". By December 2008, the band had announced 2009 tour dates to celebrate their 30th anniversary, although founder member Dammers was not joining the band on the tour. Walters, Barry (6 October 2005). "The Specials: The Specials". Rolling Stone. New York. Archived from the original on 24 February 2010 . Retrieved 1 September 2016. Muso's Guide Interview with the Specials". Mymusos.com. 13 May 2009 . Retrieved 29 April 2010. [ permanent dead link] Neville Staple with Tony McMahon, Original Rude Boy: From Borstal to the Specials, Chapter 9: "Bhangra House".

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Sutherland, Mark (13 August 2013). "The Specials join Blur for London 2012 Olympics closing ceremony". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 23 April 2018. English ska revival band the Specials recorded nine studio albums, one collaboration album, five live albums, eleven compilation albums, four extended plays, twenty-three singles, and filmed five videos. Panter went on to join with members of the Beat and Dexys Midnight Runners to form General Public, and then Special Beat. He joined the 1990s Specials before training as a primary school teacher at the University of Central England in Birmingham. He continued to play with latter-day Special Neol Davies in the blues outfit Box of Blues. However, he rejoined the band for their 2009 reunion and continues as a member.Gallagher, Alex (20 December 2022). "The Specials' Horace Panter on Terry Hall's final days and cause of death". nme.com. The Specials secure first Number 1 album with Encore". Officialcharts.com . Retrieved 8 February 2019. In a retrospective review, AllMusic described the record as "a perfect moment in time captured on vinyl forever... It was an utter revelation—except for anyone who had seen the band on-stage, for the album was at its core a studio recording of their live set, and at times even masquerades as a gig". It felt the album captured the feeling of "Britain in late 1979, an unhappy island about to explode", and that "The Specials managed to distill all the anger, disenchantment, and bitterness of the day straight into their music". [3] In 2008, BBC Music agreed that the economic and political conditions of the day had heightened the record's impact, saying, "To understand the impact of this spearhead of the ska revival on early Thatcherite Britain you have to imagine something so left field and yet so apt occurring today. It was as if depression-era dustbowl ballads suddenly became hip again in this era of global economic meltdown. Hardly anyone would have predicted that a musical form so tied to its Afro-Caribbean heritage (as well as its less cool skinhead connections) could, almost overnight, become the trendiest thing across the nation". It concluded that The Specials "was a classic example of a band making an almost perfect first album, acting as both a mission statement (the rise of right wing groups opposed by the message of Two Tone equality) and as an alternative way to have fun without having to pogo or spit... The Specials remains a snapshot of a bleaker time, and a wrily comical antidote to political and cultural indifference anywhere". [16] However, Mojo 's David Hutcheon, reviewing the reissue, felt that " Specials doesn't feel quite as exciting as it did 23 years ago". [17] The seminal British two-tone band have inspired generations of artists. Here are the ten songs that defined their career