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| Born | March 19, 1959 |
| Hometown | Coventry, England |
| Spouse | Lindy Heymann , Jeanette Hall |
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‘We were all as mad as hatters’: the long-lost documentary telling the story of 2 Tone
- Back in the Eighties, Rotters nightclub in Liverpool was never the sort of place to threaten the nearby Cavern Club when it came to cultural significance. While the site of the subterranean Cavern attracted Beatles fans from around the world, Rotters – located above a city centre multi-storey car park – was best known for holding the world record for the largest ever champagne fountain. But on the evening of Tuesday October 14 1980, as ska revival band The Specials launched into a vigorous rendi
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Terry Hall death: Damon Albarn posts beautiful piano tribute to The Specials
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Plenty of rock stars open up about mental health – but Terry Hall made skinheads cry
As well as being lead singer in The Specials, Terry Hall – who has died aged 63 – was a staunch campaigner around mental health issues in the music industry. As a sufferer of a bipolar disorder himself, the Coventry-born musician knew all about the highs, the lows, the burnout and the pressure that can affect artists, particularly when they hit the road for months-long tours.
- EntertainmentRolling Stone
Damon Albarn Remembers Late Terry Hall With Heartfelt Piano Cover
The Blur frontman played the Specials' "Friday Night, Saturday Morning" in a sweet tribute
- EntertainmentNY Daily News
The Specials singer Terry Hall dead at 63
Terry Hall, the lead singer of the influential English band The Specials, died at age 63 following a battle with a brief, undisclosed illness, the group announced. Hall joined The Specials shortly after the band’s debut in 1977 and proved to be a pioneering figure in the era’s popular ska genre. “His music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life… the joy, the pain, the ...
- EntertainmentThe Week
Terry Hall, lead singer of the Specials, dies at 63
Terry Hall, lead singer of the Specials, dies at 63
- EntertainmentEntertainment Weekly
Terry Hall, lead singer of British ska band the Specials, dies at 63
The Specials remembered Hall as a "beautiful friend, brother and one of the most brilliant singers, songwriters and lyricists this country has ever produced."
- EntertainmentBillboard
Terry Hall, Lead Singer of British Ska Revivalists The Specials, Dies at 63
The band said Hall passed after a "brief illness."
- EntertainmentThe Telegraph
How The Specials’ Ghost Town became the anthem of ‘a country falling apart’
The Coventry-formed ska band The Specials wrote their greatest single, Ghost Town, in a pressure cooker. The 1981 hit is widely seen as the group’s greatest achievement – yet it also led their lead singer Terry Hall, who died this week aged 63, to quit the band at just 22.
- EntertainmentThe Telegraph
Terry Hall: ‘Why should I go on stage and smile like Marti Pellow?’
NB. This interview has been republished following the death of Terry Hall, aged 63
- EntertainmentHuffPost
The Specials Lead Singer Terry Hall Dies Aged 63
The British band paid tribute to "our beautiful friend, brother and one of the most brilliant singers, songwriters and lyricists this country has ever produced."
- EntertainmentAssociated Press
Terry Hall, singer with ska icons The Specials, dies at 63
Musician Terry Hall, who helped create some of the defining sounds of post-punk Britain as lead singer of The Specials, has died. The band announced late Monday that Hall had died after a brief illness. 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.
