A powerful song which has stood the test of time and continues to be as relevant today as ever, a song which makes you feel forever youthful and delivers an important message, a song which everyone knows through one way or another. Thank you Terry, RIP 🙏
Takes me right back to my early foolish teens. Great times great music .... buying single records on a Saturday afternoon from WH Smiths ;-) then listening to the UK TOP 40 on a Sunday afternoon. Happy days ... and now alas RIP Terry .... passing of an Era ...
RIP Terry Hall. I was a Motorhead fan back then (still am) but The Specials were important, their music had a message, just as relevant today as it was then. A real loss. His music and his message will live on.
I f you ever go to a ska show.. which i don't think will happen again. You'll Have A lot Of Fun Dancing And Bopping ... yes I'm 58 and loved this period
If you are too young to never have been to a Specials concert (especially back in the early 80's) then you missed out on the best live band ever and being part of the audience at a Specials concert is something you never forget... :-) To really get a feel for just how great these concerts and the atmosphere at them was, try and get a hold of the movie "Dance Craze", it's 90 mins of live concert footage of all the great Ska bands of the era and is simply magic... :-)
@@rjjcms1 😢😢😢nooo........same here. Can’t seem to shake off the sadness. He was clearly carrying around the burden of the evil that took place in his life that he didn’t invite. I sometimes wonder if that stress makes a person sick because the pain is just too much to bear. May he rest in eternal peace and power🙏❣️❣️
@@debsn7772 I didn't know about that until the news reports this week. It's sad,and all this time I'd thought it was just the Coventry (concrete jungle) effect that was behind his appearing moody.
A spokesman for the generation of that time and a serious part of my Senior School days especially the discos.. Now reunited with fellow Special John Cunningham who left us far too soon as well.✝✝✝✝✝👼👼👼
😢R.I.P Mr Hall Thank you for being such a big part of my teenage years and beyond them. The pioneers of the 2 TONE movement 🏁 Truly special you left us Much too young 🍻
Back in the late 70's / early 80's, UK radio would regularly play this live version. When I later found out there was also a studio version, I had to hear it and felt a little disappointed if I'm honest as my memory of this song is 100% this version down to every bass walk, snare pop, organ chop and audience cheer. Still bloody brilliant 40+ years later.
My dad's first gig was The Specials at the Lyceum and it was the same one that eventually became part of the no.1 EP in 1980. RIP Terry Hall, Coventry's favourite son.
I still have their first album as an original on vinyl. At the time, as a poor, working class school boy, I thought their music was just relevant to me. Now with the advent of TH-cam I can see it affected many people. The Specials were "Special". They were/are the only group that talk about every day problems affecting people, especially the youth: loneliness, apathy, meaning of life, boredom, the rat race, racism, urban decline, etc. What no one mentions is the genius of Jerry Dammers. I was gutted when they broke up. I was initially very excited when they reformed but then realised that maybe they were trying to recreate the past but then 40+ years later, it was too late. In addition without Dammers, it didn't feel right. The group abruptly disbanded after he spent a year composing Ghost Town, their biggest track to date. I greatly respected the fact that he did not join out of principle. He could have done so, earned good money, etc but he did not forget what happened and out of principle as he probably felt he was wronged he did not rejoin. Lynval Golding actually states that it was only after he and the other two left that they realised how much of a genius Jerry Dammers was! He was/is the genius behind The Specials. He was the creative influence behind the music, the composition, the lyrics and song writing. He is an out and out legend! RIP Terry Hall.
Punk/Ska music always reminds me of my parents. I been an orphan since i was 8 but damn my parents both had good taste music. I'm more of a hiphop head but i get all "nostalgic" over stuff like this, reminds me of living at my parents house as a child. Some of the music theyd have on the stereo, i hear it now and it clicks and brings back so many memories
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More music from The Specials: TheSpecials.lnk.to/Listen
Met Roddy Radiation.
Rip Terry you brought Ska into my life in 79.. Saw you live several times. Spoke for the average person in climatic times
So brilliant. What a legend Terry was. Amazing band
❤❤❤❤RI.P Terry Hall.XXXXXXX😢😢😢😢😢🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
Totally agree, I miss him too,
He was one in a million,
Jane Russell
RIP, Terry Hall. A genuine spokesperson for a generation. Legend.
R.I.P.😢😢
Yes just heard this :( really sad news .... gutted ... RIP Terry Hall
👍🇬🇧
For a lost generation
Absolute legend
44 years ago, this was the No. 1 tune in the UK, 1980, I was 17 years old and this was my time.
Can't have been.....I was 14 ....it was MY time 😂😂
❤❤❤❤
I was 17 too....The Specials came along at the right time for us!
@@GoaGary they sure did!
Mine as well, I was also 17….
May Terry Hall rest in peace. An outstanding musician with an outstanding group 👏🏿
VERY SAD, ANOTHER NICE PERSON GONE.
@@andymatthews7617 Indeed a great frontman and songwriter
@@sandrabrobbey6025 all the good ones are taken to early, thanks for reply.
Absolutely. Thoroughly decent bloke, awesome voice, totally on point with the times. A huge part of my youth just died with him.
❤ledgend
Another musical legend and pioneer gone. RIP Terry, you’ll live forever through your amazing songs.
And too soon!! 😢
Rip, amazing human.
RIP Terry Hall, absolute genius and superb vocalist, gutted 😪
A powerful song which has stood the test of time and continues to be as relevant today as ever, a song which makes you feel forever youthful and delivers an important message, a song which everyone knows through one way or another.
Thank you Terry, RIP 🙏
It is brilliantly written. It depicts a psycho who hates a woman who has chosen a better man. One who is married and who is a father.
@@scinformation7229 Jeebus
@@scinformation7229interesting read.
RIP Terry Hall.
So so sad.
Too Young
Takes me right back to my early foolish teens. Great times great music .... buying single records on a Saturday afternoon from WH Smiths ;-) then listening to the UK TOP 40 on a Sunday afternoon. Happy days ... and now alas RIP Terry .... passing of an Era ...
Best band of the era
same,but smiths? nah you posh we went to woolies lol
@@iamspartacus6713 ah yeah forgot about Woolies ;-)
@@dino575 lol
I thought I was a hardcore rebel listening to this at 13 years of age. Still had to be home by 8.30pm though lol )
A huge influence on a whole generation encapsulating the late 70’s early 80’s mood perfectly. Class act! RIP
Sadly missed , taken too young , R.I .P
Absolutely Timeless
On what would’ve been Terry’s 65th birthday, we salute you, The Specials and the whole 2-Tone movement for all you pioneers did for our country ❤❤
Gone to young much too young Terry Hall Rip 💔💔💔💔💔💔
Rip Terry hall. An icon for my generation
One of the greatest songs from one of the greatest bands ever. No hype! Listen to it...the words, the beat(s)...Look at the world now! - BRILLIANT!!
Good. The jam better
@@terrytownsend5583 its not a competition terry
@@harry_h2705 I’ll be the judge of that.
@@terrytownsend5583 Well you’re clearly a shit judge
Absolutely , just shows i remember kurt cobain complaining there was no generation gap , some people just missed out on there youth in all era's
RIP Terry Hall. I was a Motorhead fan back then (still am) but The Specials were important, their music had a message, just as relevant today as it was then. A real loss. His music and his message will live on.
Terry, you expressed my generation. Taken way too soon. You live on with your music.
I just heard the sad news 😢 RIP Terry, the voice of a generation. You will be sorely missed.
Thank you xx
Lived in Cov during the late 70's and early 80's up near coundon court. This was our voice. Voice of a generation.
Rest In Power Terry Hall.
This is a brilliant song and still relevant. It was a privilege to see them live.
R.I.P. Terry Legend
RIP Terry. Died much too young. So many great songs. So many great memories. Thanks so much…
I f you ever go to a ska show.. which i don't think will happen again. You'll Have A lot Of Fun Dancing And Bopping ... yes I'm 58 and loved this period
Still fantastic today. They packed so much into two minutes. Music, energy, lyrics, social commentary and wisdom.
R.I.P. Terry x
Damn but that's some great bass playing.
Terry Hall: Simply SPECIAL aka COOLEST DUDE
RIP Terry Hall.
rest in peace, Terry
RIP Terry Hall you will be sadly missed
RIP, Terry Hall. Much too young 😢
R.I.P Terry. One of the greatest bands of all time
My teenage icon, gone too soon, always remembered x
If you are too young to never have been to a Specials concert (especially back in the early 80's) then you missed out on the best live band ever and being part of the audience at a Specials concert is something you never forget... :-)
To really get a feel for just how great these concerts and the atmosphere at them was, try and get a hold of the movie "Dance Craze", it's 90 mins of live concert footage of all the great Ska bands of the era and is simply magic... :-)
I'm a Skinhead and always listen to the specials. Superb music
The best to do the Two Tone sound...RIP Terry Hall 😢🙏🏾💖
RIP Terry Hall. 🕯💔🕊
RIP Terry Hall, thanks for so many great musical memories.
Yep,there goes yet another of those who made the soundtrack of my youth. RIP.
@@rjjcms1 😢😢😢nooo........same here. Can’t seem to shake off the sadness. He was clearly carrying around the burden of the evil that took place in his life that he didn’t invite. I sometimes wonder if that stress makes a person sick because the pain is just too much to bear. May he rest in eternal peace and power🙏❣️❣️
@@debsn7772 I didn't know about that until the news reports this week. It's sad,and all this time I'd thought it was just the Coventry (concrete jungle) effect that was behind his appearing moody.
Rest in Peace Terry❤🌹
Such sad news 😪 x x x
My heart misses Terry Hall so much 😢he made it smile so much ❤❤❤❤
I can’t believe Terry has died. God bless you
Still fantastic, fresh and enthousiastic!
👍
R.I.P. Terry
A spokesman for the generation of that time and a serious part of my Senior School days especially the discos.. Now reunited with fellow Special John Cunningham who left us far too soon as well.✝✝✝✝✝👼👼👼
R.I.P. - Terry Hall 😢😢😢
Brings back such good fucking memories, truly great times.
Brilliant Never gets old
RIP Terry Hall another Legend gone .
RIP Terry Hall…..thanks for the tunes
RIP Terry and thank you .
What a loss to British music,no other like him,R.I.P Terry hall
RIP Terry, thanks for the amazing music...
RIP Terry. You gave me so many happy memories from my youth. Never forgotten 🥲
R I P Terry hall 😢
Can't believe it. Legendary. Rip xxxx
How can u not love the keyboardist with his shades and braces and his style in general...brilliant
Far too young what a performer RIP
Rip Terry Hall. The Specials were a very important part of my youth and the youth culture of the time. Happy memories… thank you!
Absolutely right,I feel exactly the same.......we must
be related!!😂😂😂
RIP Terry - LOVE LOVE LOVE
Thank you Terry Hall. A genuine original. You touched the lives of millions.
RIP. ❤❤❤
RIP Terry Hall-legend
😢R.I.P Mr Hall Thank you for being such a big part of my teenage years and beyond them.
The pioneers of the
2 TONE movement 🏁
Truly special you left us
Much too young 🍻
R.I.P Terry a true music legend.
RIP TERRY ❤️ GOD BLESS YA.
RIP Terry Hall. A true pioneer and a fighter. Rest in Power. 2 Tone was it.. UK 🇬🇧
Rip Terry Hall.
A pioneer of British Ska, a champion of racial equality.
Back in the late 70's / early 80's, UK radio would regularly play this live version. When I later found out there was also a studio version, I had to hear it and felt a little disappointed if I'm honest as my memory of this song is 100% this version down to every bass walk, snare pop, organ chop and audience cheer. Still bloody brilliant 40+ years later.
13 YEARS OLD, TWO TONE WAS GOD SENT
RIP Terry Hall 🙏🕯️💔🎶✌️
RIP Terry Hall, gone too young x
My dad's first gig was The Specials at the Lyceum and it was the same one that eventually became part of the no.1 EP in 1980.
RIP Terry Hall, Coventry's favourite son.
R.I.P. Terry Hall. You may be gone but you will never be forgotten.
A legend sadly gone R I P terry hall,your music will be forever playing.
Terry.. thanks for the Liverpool gig. Rest now x
Rest in peace Terry Hall 🙏 😔
Died much too young 😢
But your music touched hearts and souls and will live on forever.
Bless you Terry Hall. xxx
Terry Hall's " Eclectic Brilliance " Will Continue 2 Be Celebrated By " Many " I'm Certain!! RIP Terry !!! From Adrian Browne 1965
Thankyou 4 Your Support!!
I still have their first album as an original on vinyl. At the time, as a poor, working class school boy, I thought their music was just relevant to me. Now with the advent of TH-cam I can see it affected many people. The Specials were "Special". They were/are the only group that talk about every day problems affecting people, especially the youth: loneliness, apathy, meaning of life, boredom, the rat race, racism, urban decline, etc. What no one mentions is the genius of Jerry Dammers. I was gutted when they broke up. I was initially very excited when they reformed but then realised that maybe they were trying to recreate the past but then 40+ years later, it was too late. In addition without Dammers, it didn't feel right. The group abruptly disbanded after he spent a year composing Ghost Town, their biggest track to date. I greatly respected the fact that he did not join out of principle. He could have done so, earned good money, etc but he did not forget what happened and out of principle as he probably felt he was wronged he did not rejoin. Lynval Golding actually states that it was only after he and the other two left that they realised how much of a genius Jerry Dammers was! He was/is the genius behind The Specials. He was the creative influence behind the music, the composition, the lyrics and song writing. He is an out and out legend! RIP Terry Hall.
Never underestimate the drummer in this!
Absolutely, mate. Brad (RIP) was a phenomenal drummer.
RIP Terry 💔
Jerry and Terry at their prime. R.I.P. Terry.
RIP TERRY HALL 🙏🏻😢🖤
God bless you Terry R.I.P one of the legends of AKA.
RIP Terry Hall. You made the last year of High School tolerable.
RIP Terry Hall, much too young
A beautiful band that loved their fans as much they loved them. LEGENDS
Terry Hall was my idol when I was a school kid. Coolest man on the planet and a red ❤
Rip Terry thanks for the music 🎶
RIP Terry
Rest easy Terry Hall, one of the greats. Peace and love.
You was the man!! So sorry for your family: rest in ska
RIP Terry you will be greatly missed, but your music will live on x
Terry u legend
Soundtrack of our youth and better days, RIP Terry Hall
Rest easy Terry Hall, you gave so much fun and love, ❤️ way too young 💔
So shocked and sad. RIP Terry, you absolute legend!
Nuff respect Terry Hall - The Specials were the soundtrack to my teenage years, now and beyond. Rest in Paradise
Punk/Ska music always reminds me of my parents. I been an orphan since i was 8 but damn my parents both had good taste music. I'm more of a hiphop head but i get all "nostalgic" over stuff like this, reminds me of living at my parents house as a child. Some of the music theyd have on the stereo, i hear it now and it clicks and brings back so many memories
Ayo. Your pfp pic is the weathermen logo... My man!
That's the power of great music 🎶 I love the Specials! Happy days, watching top of the pops and reading smash hits!