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Specials albums featuring John Avila
Specials Music Videos (2)
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| | Ska's Greatest Stars CDs (2002)
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Additional personnel includes: Jane Wiedlin (vocals); Jennifer Avita, Leila Avila, John Avila (background vocals).
Additional personnel includes: Dave Blazer (trumpet); James Debrose (keyboards); Derek Breakfield (bass).
This confusing release packages two minor ska releases together, offers two remix tracks, and misspells "millennium" ...
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| Greatest Hits CD (2006)
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Who ever heard of a Specials Greatest Hits collection that didn't include "Concrete Jungle" or "Rat Race"? It's not like the music that is here isn't wonderful -- it is, and the choices made are righteous insofar as they go. ...
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 Specials Lyrics and Songs
Popular or famous Specials songs: Ghost Town, Too Much Too Young, Message to You Rudy, Gangsters, Nite Klub, Too Hot, Do Nothing, Little Bitch. More music songs Concrete Jungle, Rat Race, You're Wondering Now, Blank Expression, International Jet Set, Racist Friend, Rude Boys Outta Jail. More music songs Our Lips Are Sealed, Monkey Man Lyrics, Do the Dog Lyrics, I Want to Go Home Lyrics, You Don't Know Like I Know Lyrics.
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Specials Biography
Leaders of ska music's second wave in England during the late 1970s and early '80s, the Specials founded the 2 Tone record label, and added like-minded bands such as the Selecter, the English Beat, and Madness to the roster. Combining socially conscious messages with jaunty, danceable melodies, the Specials (later known as the Special AKA) toured with the Clash, had their first album produced by Elvis Costello, and topped the British singles charts with ska anthems "Gangsters" and "Rudi, A Message to You." At the peak of their success in 1981, internal tensions led to the group fragmenting, with members departing to form the Fun Boy Three and, later, the Special Beat.
Key Personnel
| Member Name | Worked With | | Neville Staples | Fun Boy Three, Rancid | | Roddy "Radiation" Byers | | Lynval Golding | Desmond Dekker, Fun Boy Three, Rancid, Void Union | | Terry Hall | Lightning Seeds, Toots & The Maytals, Fun Boy Three, Leila, Terry, Blair & Anouchka, Tricky, Gorillaz, Dub Pistols, Junkie Xl | | Horace Gentleman | | Jerry Dammers | | John "Brad" Bradbury | | Horace Panter |
Contemporaries
Elvis Costello, The Clash, XTC, The Jam, The Police, Joe Jackson, Blur, UB40, Rancid, Madness, Dexys Midnight Runners, The Selecter, Bad Manners, The English Beat, Members, General Public, Operation Ivy, The Untouchables, Rhoda Dakar, Belle Stars
Followers
Blur, Sublime (Rock), No Doubt, Less Than Jake, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Fishbone, Reel Big Fish, Hepcat, Dance Hall Crashers, The Pietasters, Bim Skala Bim, Operation Ivy, The Scofflaws
Influences
Jimmy Cliff, Peter Tosh, Toots & the Maytals, The Skatalites, Desmond Dekker, The Wailers, Laurel Aitken, Derrick Morgan, Prince Buster, Roland Alphonso
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