Remembering Ranking Roger from The English Beat and General Public

(February 22, 1963-March 26, 2019)

#Music, #RankingRoger, #TheEnglishBeat, #TheBeat, #GeneralPublic

#TuneTuesday goes #HotHotHot, songs with "Hot" in the title.

"Bubblin' hot" - Pato Banton with Ranking Roger

Birmingham's finest toaster had been in The Beat, but drifted out of the hit parade afterwards. Then he made a big breakthrough, "Baby come back" hit number one.

"Bubblin' hot" came out a few months later, as catchy as anything. Here's the geezers promoting the tune on MTV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDYZjFZShBc

#PatoBanton #RankingRoger

#NowPlaying #RankingRoger #RIP https://open.spotify.com/track/6XGi8zmmGYohFSoVkGCIzJ?si=KLHxmAibTIyaET6J8xQq4g

Happy anniversary to General Public’s debut album, ‘All The Rage’. Released this week in 1984. #generalpublic #davewakeling #rankingroger #alltherage #tenderness #neveryoudonethat #hotyourecool

https://open.spotify.com/album/1tbMiM0wZgFdEVnJxwQGun?si=lf705mhtRv27SftDgsczLw

Revisiting my first Freedom Sounds Festival...

The Beat with legendary Ranking Roger - one of my favourite bands of all time, and probably the main reason I wanted to attend FSF. An added bonus was seeing both Ranking Jnr perform and Ocean Colour Scene's Oscar Harrison on drums.

Gebäude 9 - 21.April.2017

#thebeat #rankingroger #rankingjnr #oscarharrison #2tone #gofeet #ska #legends #fsf2017 #freedomsounds #festival #köln #cologne #livemusic #photography

Happy anniversary to General Public’s debut album, ‘All The Rage’. Released this week in 1984. #generalpublic #davewakeling #rankingroger #alltherage #tenderness #neveryoudonethat #hotyourecool

How does this just not put a smile on your face.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AMwyXUmtnI

#RankingRoger #Music #TheBeat

Ranking Roger toasting over "Rock The Casbah" is basically my favorite thing right now.

#RankingRoger #TheClash #RockTheCasbah #Toasting

The Clash- Rock The Casbah (featuring Ranking Roger)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69zglj8jYNA

I got record player hooked up to Bluetooth speaker with much better speakers than the built ins.

Now to find a place for the speaker.

#music #alternative #punk #Ska #TheClash #RankingRoger #vinyl #bluetoothspeakers

Happy anniversary to General public’s debut album, ‘All The Rage’. Released this week in 1984. #generalpublic #davewakeling #rankingroger #alltherage #tenderness #neveryoudonethat #hotyourecool

And now #RankingRoger and #RankingJnr pickin' it up a bit

#music #reggae #ska #twotone

I love this, and its so sweet to did father and son do it together.

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkC-vEQRN8w