Aug 26 2019. Club owners, club runners, DJs, bands, doormen, barmen, waitresses, bouncers and obviously the drug dealers. Recently, someone asked what Terry Hall was like. Motivated by racial tension, a perception of inner city deprivation and heat, the defining factor was the ongoing war of attrition between the black community and the police. The riots themselves felt contemporary and weirdly particular. And no, I couldn't come up with an answer. [2] The song spent three weeks at number one and 11 weeks in total in the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart. As the Economist pointed out at the time, this was largely due to black flight. Jerry Dammers was born on 22 May, 1955 in Ooty, India, is a Keyboardist, songwriter, DJ. Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old? [24], In 2022, it was included in the list "The story of NME in 70 (mostly) seminal songs" at number 19, for "Lacing ska and reggae with the amphetamine edge of new wave". [Terry] Halls chirpy memories of the good old days, Rico Rodriguezs long elegiac trombone solo and that ghastly chorus of taunting wraiths. He also founded 2 Tone Records. Dammers recalls: "Terry was given to performing with his back to the audience. You could see that frustration and anger in the audience. Subscribe to our mag by Mojo Staff | Posted on 20 12 2022 [15][16] "Friday Night, Saturday Morning" was written by lead singer Terry Hall and describes a mundane night out in Coventry. 197952 . [2] Jerry Dammers attended King Henry VIII School, Coventry. It seems fitting that Dammers should receive an award named after Oliver Tambo, who was president of the African National Congress while in exile from South Africa. Now I was attuned to everything, including the sound of looters breaking in through the front door of our building. This situation was particularly fraught in the London borough of Lambeth, where over a quarter of the population were black, while 40 per cent of those were under 19. You got to free. Apart from penning the song, Dammers also stopped seeing this "friend" - an approach echoed in the song's chorus: "If you have a racist friend/ Now is the time, now is the time/ For your friendship to end." But for Dammers, who confesses he is "not a confrontational person", the song was substitute for a . [13], The three songs for the single were recorded over ten days in April 1981 in two separate sessions at Woodbine Street: seven days from 3 to 9 April and then a further three days from 15 to 17 April. Fascinated by the record's sound, Dammers telephoned the song's co-writer and producer John Collins a few days later, although as Dammers first phone call was in the middle of the night, Collins initially took it to be a joke. Please enjoy your records. After becoming overwhelmed with the multitude of choices available in the 24-track studio used during the recording of More Specials, Dammers had decided that he wanted to return a more basic set-up, and after a recommendation from bass player Horace Panter who was familiar with the place, the band chose the small 8-track studio in the house owned by John Rivers in Woodbine Street in Royal Leamington Spa. Ghost Town. [3], The song's sparse lyric alludes to urban decay, unemployment and violence in inner cities. Jerry Dammers has launched a blistering attack on the Specials reunion and planned gigs, called them "a takeover, rather than a proper reunion" on the part of Terry Hall and his manager, Lynval Golding. They felt they had been absolved in advance. She was criticised for this outburst, but she wasnt entirely wrong. Jeremy David Hounsell Dammers GCOT (born 22 May 1955) is a British musician who is a founder, keyboard player and primary songwriter of the Coventry, England, based ska revival band The Specials, The Special A.K.A. Some thought this was progress, although what was rarely advertised in the Sunday Times Home section was the fact that most of these new developments were nothing less than gated communities. At which point, the only honourable thing to do is shut up and move away., Massive Attack wrote, "The protest soundtrack to our youth & the blueprint of our band. [12][13] Following further conversations with Dammers, Collins travelled up from his home in London to meet the Specials at their rehearsal studio and agreed to produce their new single. However, the song was hailed by the contemporary UK music press as a major piece of popular social commentary,[3][4] and all three of the major UK music magazines of the time awarded "Ghost Town" the accolade of "Single of the Year" for 1981. This Sunday at the Union Buildings, the official seat of the South African government in Pretoria, he will receive one of the country's highest awards, the Order of the Companions of OR Tambo, for outstanding work benefiting the country. Jerry Dammers also brought along several items as a gift to the 2-Tone museum. He also founded 2 Tone Records. I knew the enemy was out there, just as it had been nearly 40 years ago. Once and for all. I spoke to him for this article a few days ago and he is as disconcerted by the current crisis as all of us. All along Hall has claimed that the door remained open to his former bandmate. Back in 2009 I wrote sleevenotes for the rerelease of his solo album Laugh. We were 1970s bands in a time of two-man synth bands. 5th September 2015. Internal tensions within the band were also coming to a head when the single was being recorded, resulting in the song being the last single recorded by the original seven members of the group before splitting up. Not only was this one of the most important records of the early 1980s, it remains one of the most evocative, provocative singles of all time, a prime piece of agitprop that still has the power to shock. Musician and arranger Delia Derbyshire, who died in 2001 and musician Ray King were also honoured with plaques. Written by Specials keyboard player Jerry Dammers, "Gangsters" is a reworking of Prince Buster's 1964 ska classic "Al Capone." It samples the car sound effects that open the original song. [12] The studio, which consisted of a recording space in the cellar and a control room in the living room, was too small to accommodate all the members of the band, so rather than their normal recording method of playing all together, Collins recorded each band member playing one at a time and built up the songs track by track. Im not a perfectionist but I want this to be good. [12], As it had not been decided where exactly the backing vocals would be used, Terry Hall, Staple, Golding and Dammers sang a full backing vocal track throughout the song, which Collins used to his advantage as the lyric "this town is coming like a ghost town" had become like a "hypnotic chant" by the end of the song. Ghost Town was obviously referencing the situation. The New Rock Revolution what happened next? Dammers said: "I was watching the news one day and they showed a football match in South Africa where the song was being played on the loudspeakers. He was a lovely, sensitive, talented and unique person. A premiere will be held simultaneously in London at Bafta. It was hell to be around." We are going to get people blaming the economy and what happened last week but thats not the real reason this happened. Jerry Dammers Spatial AKA Orchestra. Fascinated by the record's sound, Dammers telephoned the song's co-writer and producer John Collins a few days later, although as Dammers first phone call was in the middle of the . In Glasgow, there were these little old ladies on the streets selling all their household goods, their cups and saucers. Especially as she was the one who had withdrawn them. A well-known musician, Jerry Dammers, is a founder and keyboardist who has been active in the musical world for over four decades. I think it is good, but I want to give it my best shot. The recording of Ghost Town, which was the last time the original band were in a studio together, was so fraught and so obviously frustrating, that the guitarist Roddy Byers tried to kick a hole in the wall. In South London, conflict gave an edge to every transaction in a corner shop, every late-night walk home. To escape crime and to buy bigger houses and to get their children into better schools, they fled to suburbia, specifically to the areas on the outskirts of South East London. [18][19] Although initial reviews of the single in the UK music press were lukewarm, by the end of the year the song had won over the critics to be named "Single of the Year" in Melody Maker, NME and Sounds, the UK's top three weekly music magazines at the time. I thought that was a bit of a Take That thing. Read those below. "I never expected anything like this when I wrote the song," Dammers said. But he wrote and produced an incredibly strong song and video in the last days that Nelson Mandela was still in captivity. Enigmatic, certainly. Anything for cash. Head to GQ's Vero channel for exclusive music content and commentary, all the latest music lifestyle news and insider access into the GQ world, from behind-the-scenes insight to recommendations from our editors and high-profile talent. However, Dammers issued a statement in December denying this, claiming that The Specials had driven him out of the planned reunion. From 2001 to 2012, the Afro-Caribbean population of Lambeth, the borough that houses Brixton, fell by eight per cent, even though the boroughs overall population rose by nine per cent. Spotify. [17] The original Ghost Town car can be seen (and sat in) at the Coventry Music Museum. With all his DJing work cancelled for the time being, he is wisely using this period to try to finalise output hes been tinkering with for years. Madness also paid tribute to Prince Buster by using the title of his single "Madness" for their name and on their first . Hall has now reacted to Dammers claims, saying he was involved in initial plans for the reunion and said he has no idea why he didnt want to be part of the band. I was blown to pieces, He was open about everything: inside a new documentary Willie Nelson & Family. Just over 30 years ago, in March 1984, Jerry Dammers released Free Nelson Mandela with his band the Special AKA, and this straightforward, cheerful but angry demand for the release of South. Glasgow were particularly bad. In Liverpool he saw shops closing down, more beggars on the streets, little old ladies selling their cups and saucers on tables outside their homes and he started to see the frustration and anger in the young faces of those who came out to see his band. We will try to find the right answer to this particular crossword clue. Jerry Dammers has paid tribute to John Bradbury, the drummer with The Specials, who has died aged 62. The mixed racial make-up of The Specials - and most of the other bands on the 2 Tone label - was a deliberate and provocative . What had the rioters got against carpet shops? And, unlike Orpheus, without looking back. Jerry Dammers attended Coventry's King Henry VIII School. and The Spatial AKA Orchestra.. But a wicked sense of humour. "He'd say, run the checkerboard pattern right across, move this figure . This was the time of Only Fools And Horses, of Minder, of Boys From The Blackstuff, of the nefarious and the naughty, the secondhand and the underhand. and The Spatial AKA Orchestra. Affiliation PRS Comments Keyboardist. They thought Groce was hiding in his mothers home, raided it and accidentally shot Mrs Groce, paralysing her from the waist down. 20th February 2009. Its quite spooky walking about at night. Back in 1981, walking around Electric Avenue and Atlantic Road after the first nights disturbance was nothing if not surreal. I even sat through some of the tortuous recording of the 1985 album In The Studio by The Special AKA (as The Specials morphed into), containing Jerrys defining moment, the monumentally influential Free Nelson Mandela. I was thinking about Jerry Dammers recently. It certainly didnt feel empowering, as the sensation of being alone was intensified by being in the city. Quotation Biography. He also suggested the two-handed shuffle rhythm played by Dammers on the Hammond organ throughout the song. Elected against a background of rotting refuse and unburied bodies following the Winter Of Discontent, she took her mandate for governing as a mandate for change. Led Zeppelin, David Crosby, Nina Simone, Paul Weller, Mark Eitzel and much more, The Public Enemy commander on the records that inspired him to bring the noise: It was scientific alchemy! Seriously, what have you got? Odd jobs were essential to supplement what you got from the government: film extra work, a spot of photography, retail conference stewarding, modelling for friends who couldnt find anyone else. In 2002 Dammers told The Guardian, "You travelled from town to town and what was happening was terrible. Jungle Music (Groove Tunnel Mix) by Urang Matang (2019) That he didnt turn into John Barry was a disappointment to me, but probably not to him. The first thing I felt was guilt, being outside when I probably should have been indoors, but as I was completely alone this was a pretty futile emotion. Jerry Dammers has paid tribute to John Bradbury, the drummer with The Specials, who has died aged 62. Nineteen-eighty-one was a desperate year in the UK. Hearing of Brads death has been a great shock to me and it is a very sad day indeed, said Dammers in a statement. Of course large-scale investments would have helped Brixton, although the more disquiet there was, the more unlikely any investment seemed. - Jerry Dammers/The Specials (1984) It was a simple song that packed a mighty punch, a masterstroke of music and politics, wrapped up in four glorious minutes of ska-infused beats from the pen of Jerry Dammers, of the UK group The Specials. One afternoon that autumn, a few months after the 1981 riots, I had walked from a squat in Peckham up to The Oval and was just about to enter the Underground when I was approached by a gang of about a dozen skinheads. Ill get there in the end, he says. However, overdubbing the flute nearly killed me because it was not on a free track. When he was examined later Blakelock had 42 different wounds. It does not seem like he is in a relationship either. Not funny peculiar, funny ha ha. Terrible news to hear this. Jerry Dammers. Thank you Jerry Dammers for bringing this to the world. To the outside world it looked as though rioting was what any youth cult worth their salt did when theyd grown tired of posing for style magazines or making bad pop records. . Hes missing out on being in this incredible band. Published Dec 10, 2008. He is a composer and writer, known for Mystery Men (1999), Natural Born Killers (1994) and Sixteen Candles (1984). I knew Dammers extremely well for about five years in the 1980s. They were gigs, after all. Simple Minds. Evoking themes of urban decay, deindustrialisation, unemployment and violence in inner cities, the song is remembered for being a hit at the same time as riots were occurring in British cities. Pride followed prosperity and in the summer of 2011, when opportunistic revellers attending a street party used the excuse of the riot in Tottenham a few days earlier to loot and burn a string of shops in Brixton, local residents were incensed, calling the thugs pathetic Its just an excuse for the young ones to come and rob shops. One policeman said it looked like World War III. Billy Bragg paid tribute to Bradbury, writing on Twitter: A bad day for good music. Intelligent, observant and with a deadpan delivery second to none. Jeffrey - Hilversum, Netherlands. The keyboard player wrote to The Guardian to dispute comments from singer Terry Hall regarding the band's upcoming reunion shows. I said free Nelson Mandela. The camera was probably worth two grand, while the booze probably wasnt worth more than 100 tops. Our extremely brief romance resulted in the song Our Lips Are Sealed, which will forever tie us together in music history. Lonely Library feat. The flat was right behind the Ritzy cinema, just off Coldharbour Lane, a first-floor, two-bedroomed housing association flat that backed on to a small courtyard and faced Brixtons Front Line. Jun 26 2010. Who died out of The Specials? Contrary to some of what has been reported since, Terry and I got on well in the original Specials. In an interview in 2011, Dammers explained how witnessing this event inspired his composition: The overall sense I wanted to convey was impending doom. He left India at the age of 2, first living in Coventry, then moving to Sheffield at the age of 10. The Special AKA perform Racist Friend. Begging you, begging you please. We were touring, so we saw a lot of it. [23], In December 2021, a commemorative plaque was affixed to the house where the former Woodbine Street recording studio was located. The carpet shop always seemed to suffer, not that any of the stock was ever taken. But it's important to remember that I did what any decent person would do in my position. Their records defined a slice of a generation who werent sure they wanted to be defined in the first place. I spent the years between 1981 and 1987 knocking about in South London, living in various housing association flats in Brixton, Peckham, Herne Hill and The Oval. Your economy is destroyed and, to me, thats what Ghost Town is all about.. As they travelled around the country the band witnessed sights that summed up the depressed mood of a country gripped by recession. Surrounded by a burgeoning new romantic movement, two-tone felt very council estate, very rough and very monochromatic. "It's a fantastic honour and it's amazing that it's remembered in South Africa. Everywhere there was tension. However, I also thought he might turn out to be our generations John Barry, scoring important movies with solemn yet iconic orchestral themes, balancing Jacques Derrida with Francis Lai, Scott Walker with Dr John. / Friday Night, Saturday Morning. Turns out when he opened it up to do some repairs on the 1966 organ, he discovered service notes from 30+ years ago that led him to believe that he might indeed be in possession of Dammers iconic instrument. The news comes three months after the death of the bands trombonist, Rico Rodriguez. Well, I had to put a piece of tissue under my chin because sweat was dripping off my face due to it being so scary one mistake and that would have been it! It was Tambo's son Dali, the founder of Artists Against Apartheid, who asked Dammers to start a British branch of the movement, which demonstrated against Paul Simon at the Royal Albert Hall during his Graceland tour for breaking the cultural boycott. Although the exact cause remains unclear, in early April, a riot erupted, involving nearly 2,000 people. I can remember walking out of a rehearsal in total despair because Neville would not try the ideas. He also founded 2 Tone Records. The ska legends are touring this year to celebrate their 30th anniversary without their keyboard player and main songwriter. The Broadwater Farm riot in Tottenham, in North London, a week later, was dominated by two deaths. Dick Cuthell and Rico Rodriguez had already gone back to London, and I had to record that flute by actually dropping in. The kaleidoscopic Ghost Town didnt offer balm for a world-weary pop-culture; rather it was a political exhortation. For those of us who were not part of Thatcherisms good life, for those of us who were excluded, then Ghost Town spoke to our bruised hearts, says Tony Parsons, who was still writing for the NME at the time. [9] Jo-Ann Greene of Allmusic notes the lyric "only brush[es] on the causes for this apocalyptic vision the closed down clubs, the numerous fights on the dancefloor, the spiraling unemployment, the anger building to explosive levels. You've got to, you've got to. As I walked south, I may as well have been self-isolating, because I was completely, completely alone. There is a suggestion that his real name was Gerald Danki but this seems unsubstantiated. It was this event that started Dammers thinking of Ghost Town, a song that would go on to define him, his band, and two-tone in general. The first I knew something was up was around five oclock in the afternoon, when I started to hear screaming, windows being smashed and the sound of accelerated running past the window. A notable recording artist, Jerry Dammers is a pioneer and keyboardist who has been dynamic in the melodic world for over forty years. They didnt play Ghost Town, but then how could they? She gives the civil servants hell, said one observer soon after she became prime minister. Et alors que les 95 annes vcues par Nelson Mandela ont inspir de nombreux scnaristes et fait l'objet. The Specials are due to play a series of 30th anniversary gigs in the spring of 2009, with the tour being billed as a full reunion. She was, though, when she claimed that money couldnt buy either trust or racial harmony. Coventry, The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum. Apr 07 2010. 00073107204 15 works 00073107302 17 works. Founder of 2 Tone Records. . Using just eight tracks limited Collins' recording possibilities, but as a reggae producer he decided to use the common reggae method of recording everything in mono: "As we were recording eight-track, I did go with a track plan. Bradbury was also a member of soul group JBs Allstars and ska band, Selecter. [22], The song experienced a thematic resurgence on music streaming platforms in 2020, after lockdown orders were placed following the COVID-19 pandemic. Inspired by Live Aid, this song ultimately led to the Mandela Seventieth Birthday Tribute concert at Wembley Stadium in 1988 and helped add to the groundswell of support that led to Mandelas release from prison in February 1990. Works . London, Clapham Common. and The Spatial AKA Orchestra. ", Fellow 2 Tone band Madness wrote, "A terrible loss to all of us, way too young," while The English Beat's Dave Wakeling wrote, "Sad to hear that Terry will not be joining us for another season. She writes these brusque, caustic notes accusing them of woolly thinking and they are absolutely terrified of her. The cabinet were terrified too, as her treatment of her colleagues was appalling. Today's crossword puzzle clue is a general knowledge one: The ____, English ska revival band founded in 1977 by Jerry Dammers. I would regularly hitch up to Coventry to sit in sullen working mens clubs with him and his extraordinary circle of friends and acquaintances, discussing socialism (we differed), the provenance of Prince Buster and the validity of Heaven 17. In our world, the economy was driven by nightclubs, as this was a completely cash economy. And so you started treating the place with the same disdain; what was the point of throwing an empty cigarette packet in a bin if the bin was going to be thrown through the off-licence window later in the day? The overall sense I wanted to convey was impending doom. And I was thinking why doesn't anyone produce something equally as strong for Assange today? Always a proper gent to The Beat, our condolences to family and friends.". View the profiles of people named Jerry Dammers. English Ska musician Jerry Dammers, of the group the Specials, during the Red Wedge Re-launch at Ronnie Scott's, London, 7/6/1987. The four main riots occurred in Brixton in London, Handsworth in Birmingham, Chapeltown in Leeds and Toxteth in Liverpool, although there were disturbances in at least 20 other towns and cities, including Derby, Bristol and, almost unbelievably, High Wycombe. Ils se sont mme parls ! Whatcha Talking 'Bout by Musical Youth (1983) Fine Style by Dr. Echo and DJ Reverend (1994) was covered in. Glastonbury, Worthy Farm. Jeremy David Hounsell "Jerry" Dammers, (born 22 May 1955) is a British musician who is a founder, keyboard player and primary songwriter of the Coventry, England based ska revival band The Specials, The Special A.K.A. "[10] The club referred to in the song was the Locarno (run by the Mecca Leisure Group and later renamed Tiffanys), a regular haunt of Neville Staple and Lynval Golding,[3] and which is also named as the club in "Friday Night, Saturday Morning", one of the songs on the B-side. Just over 30 years ago, in March 1984, Jerry Dammers released Free Nelson Mandela with his band the Special AKA, and this straightforward, cheerful but angry demand for the release of South Africa's most celebrated political prisoner became a top 10 hit in the UK, a bestseller across Europe and a no 1 in New Zealand. My condolences to his family and friends. RICO RODRIGUEZ Deceased 4th September 2015. Dammers was the creative genius behind The Specials, the man who gave them their idiosyncratic musical tropes and who set them apart from the likes of The Selector, The Beat or Bad Manners. Accustomed to low-level civil unrest, nothing had prepared the police for confrontations involving rioters using axes, sledgehammers and even cars as weapons. Bristol Beacon. And who could blame them? Photograph: David Corio/Redferns The lead singer, Stan Campbell, was very young. The ska . The forgotten riot is the one in Brixton that started on 28 September 1985. 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