RIP Terry Hall

[pesh]

 

[bmd]

Thanks for the memories, Mr Hall.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Really, really sad news

 

[deeyo]

rip.

 

[seeformiles]

Wow - a big part of my youth gone way too soon

 

[seeformiles]

 

[rubbershoes]

Anyone who doesn't know it should check out The Hour of Two Lights, the one off album he did with Mushtaq of Fun-da-Mental.

Lots of great tracks including this one

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Gutted

 

[trashpony]

I am so sad about this. He was a brilliant man

 

[starfish]

Sad news indeed.

 

[fucthest8]

That is awful news , an iconic figure from my youth (and only a few years older than me) , shocked at this . RIP Terry , thank you for the music.

As a kid growing up Terry Hall’s West Midlands voice and the words he sang about dying places, broken communities, shit nights out, deindustrialisation, young people trapped and without hope, anti-racism and working class life was inspirational and massively influential.

Gut wrenchingly sad to learn of his passing. Fucking horrible news.

The weird thing is, is they were not my favourite......but they/ Terry Hall in particular were a staple, a constant in my life....always there. I'm not even that keen on ska....but for me they stood out were really different to the other two tone bands and like me they grew, developed and diversified. I loved that Terry did stuff and then moved on.

I loved the Colourfield at the time, but think it sounds weirdly dated now in a way funboy three and the specials didn’t.

All of the above. His music is a thread through my teens and early twenties and it was tragic and funny and bittersweet and warm and spoke to me about things that I did not experience but needed to know about and things that I did experience where I could nod my head because it was good to know that someone knew and all in that immediately identifiable voice.

I've been a bit taken back at how upset I am about him going, but the above is why I guess. What a fucking shame.

 

[Cloo]

Sorry to hear this, a real legend who had a big impact on the UK music scene

 

[ruffneck23]

I heard this news about 5 mins after hearing one of my oldest mates passed away yesterday.

RIP Terry Hall you legend.

Yesterday was shit.

 

[cesare]

I heard this news about 5 mins after hearing one of my oldest mates passed away yesterday.

RIP Terry Hall you legend.

Yesterday was shit.

Sorry for the loss of your friend.

 

[Voley]

A songwriter who could sum up a moment in time and express things I couldn't articulate.

Mate of mine did me a C90 with The Specials on one side and The Beat on the other when I was a kid. I played it until snapped.

Genuinely shocked by this. RIP Terry. You were ace.

 

[Plumdaff]

Other people have written eloquently about why he was so important, but growing up in a town just outside Coventry, and playing in a ska band in my late teens, this one cuts pretty deep.

You were fucking amazing Terry. Thanks for it all. RIP.

It's later than we think

 

[Red Cat]

The Specials headlined a festival in Brum last summer, we didn't go as we were in the midst of a crisis. A real shame.

I'm off to Cov this morning, as that's where I work.

 

[May Kasahara]

Such a completely distinctive songwriter. I always come away from his lyrics feeling more awake.

 

[May Kasahara]

Really sorry for the loss of your friend also ruffneck23

 

[Glitter]

Really sad about this one. The Specials played the Piece Hall last year (and were amazing from what I heard) and I deliberated a lot but didn’t go. Wish I had now.

 

[Griff]

Pretty shocking news to wake up to.

RiP

 

[ElizabethofYork]

Really upsetting news.

 

[Idris2002]

Enough said.

 

[Idris2002]

RTE just played "A message to you, Rudy".

 

[Voley]

The Specials played the Piece Hall last year (and were amazing from what I heard) and I deliberated a lot but didn’t go. Wish I had now.

We had tickets to see them in Plymouth but it was just after lockdown and the idea of being inside with 3000 people was a bit too soon. I'm wishing I'd risked it now too.

Really saddened by this. Those first two Specials albums are amazing.

 

[maomao]

The first two albums I ever bought were The Specials and More Specials with my Christmas money when I was nine or ten. Was a big Fun Boy Three fan at that age too. RIP Terry.


But two o'clock has come again
It's time to leave this paradise
Hope the chip shop isn't closed
Cos' their pies are really nice
I'll eat in the taxi queue
Standing in someone else's spew
Wish I had lipstick on my shirt
Instead of piss stains on my shoes

 

[Pickman's model]

awful news

rip th, thank you for the music

 

[brogdale]

Really appropriate way to pay respect:

 

[Plumdaff]

This later album was pretty great too

 

[sojourner]

Petridis mentions this live version of Nite Club in his obit - it's wonderful

That was the one I was looking for. It's fucking immense.

Gutted by this news. I'll just put what I just posted on FB:

Fucks sake. RIP Terry Hall

Getting older has many attractive qualities about it. But it also means the skeleton of your youth gets laid out, and bone by bone, disappears in front of your eyes. At a time of intense racism, 2 Tone was a tower of strength, a proper Fuck You and a collective to pin your ribbon to.

I pretended not to like it in school, cos I was a 'trog', into heavy rock and metal, and back then music was tribal; you could only really (publicly) like one type of music. But I secretly bloody loved all the 2 Tone stuff. At least it's still out there eh? This is why making music, poetry, all forms of art, is crucial. Capture that zeitgeist forever, show it to people later, and then they'll know what it was really like.