{"id":163163,"date":"2022-12-20T11:26:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T11:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rip-terry-hall-the-specials-lead-singer\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T11:26:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T11:26:58","slug":"rip-terry-hall-the-specials-lead-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rip-terry-hall-the-specials-lead-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Terry Hall, The Specials lead singer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Terry Hall, the singer of the influential English ska band The Specials, has died. As confirmed by the band, Hall’s death followed a brief illness. He was 63. <\/p>\n

\u201cTerry was a wonderful husband and father and one of the kindest, funniest, and most genuine of souls,\u201d the band’s statement reads<\/span>. \u201cHis music and his performances encapsulated the very essence of life\u2026 the joy, the pain, the humor, the fight for justice, but mostly the love.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him and leaves behind the gift of his remarkable music and profound humanity. Terry often left the stage at the end of The Specials’ life-affirming shows with three words\u2026 ‘Love Love Love’\u201d<\/p>\n

Born in Coventry, England, on March 19, 1959, Hall was abducted by a sex trafficking ring when he was a child. \u201cHorse 12, I got abducted by a pedophile ring in France, and that was a real eye-opener,\u201d he told Richard Herring on a podcast in 2019<\/span>. \u201cI was sort of drugged up then on Valium for about a year and I didn’t go to school.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hall dropped out of school at 14 and found himself in the English punk scene, joining a band called the Squad. But in 1977, he joined The Coventry Automatic, the first incarnation of The Specials. Melding the British punk of the late-70s and Jamaican ska of the 60s<\/span>, the band broke through, inspiring a new wave of bands to pick up horns. The band released their debut self-titled album, The Specials<\/em>in October 1979. <\/p>\n

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The record peaked at number 4 in the UK Hall remained with the band through their subsequent two releases, including the More Specials<\/em> LP and the “Ghost Town” single. Released in 1981, \u201cGhost Town\u201d spent three weeks at No. 1 on the UK chart and would become one of the band’s signature songs. <\/p>\n

The band broke up shortly after the success of \u201cGhost Town,\u201d and Hall formed Fun Ball Three and, later, The Colourfield. Though Hall did not parttake in the first Specials reunion between 1993 and 1998, he rejoined the group in 2008. The band would release two more records with Hall as frontman: 2019’s encore<\/em> and 2021’s Protest Songs 1924\u20132012<\/em>. encore<\/em> hit No. 1 in the UK <\/p>\n