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Our Lips Are Sealed
Originally posted on August 11, 2021
On this day 40 years ago, #belindacarlisle left The Go Gos.
“Can you see them?
See right through them
They have no shield
No secrets to reveal”
#thegogos #janewiedlin #terryhall #funboythree #thespecials #HilaryDuff #HaylieDuff #matthewsweet #SusannaHoffs
Fun Boy Three - The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum (Official Music Video)
#FunBoyThree #TerryHall (RIP) #DownTempo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on-y9Pv-CJA
Happy anniversary to Fun Boy Three's single (their version of The Go-Go’s single co-written by Terry Hall), “Our Lips Are Sealed”. Released this week in 1983. #funboythree #terryhall #ourlipsaresealed #janewiedlin #thegogos
Happy anniversary to Bananarama & Fun Boy Three’s single, “Really Saying Something”. Released this week in 1982. #bananarama #funboythree #reallysayingsomething #deepseaskiving #siobhanfahey #saradallin #kerenwoodward #faheydallinandwoodward #terryhall 🍌🍌🍌
Remembering the legacy of Terry Hall on his birthday. #terryhall #thespecials #funboythree #thecolourfield
"The Specials have always been about protest"
Remembering Terry Hall on what would have been his 66th birthday, he was born today 19th March 1959
#terryhall #photography #music
📸 Steve Rapport
Remembering Terry Hall, English musician and lead singer of The Specials 🖤
March 19, 1959 - December 18, 2022
The Specials - Too Much Too Young
#punkrock #ska #skalegends #skabands #skamusic #terryhall #thespecials #2tone #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Remembering Terence Edward Hall, English musician and lead singer of The Specials, born on this day in 1959, Coventry, England.
Photo by David Corio
#punkrock #ska #skalegend #thespecials #2tone #terryhall #history #skahistory #otd
Specials, Specials, 1979 on Two-Tone
Ska greats The Specials (later renamed The Special AKA) in their debut full length on Coventry label Two-Tone, started by Jerry Dammers (of the Specials).
The Specials included Terry Hall, Neville Staple, Dammers, Lynval Golding, Roddy Radiation, Horace Panter, John Bradbury, Dick Cuthell and Rico Rodriguez.
This album was produced by Elvis Costello, and features some covers: “Monkey Man”, “Too Hot”, and “A Message To You, Rudy” had all been done by Jamaican artists. (Rico Rodriguez had planned on the original 15 years earlier as well!)
My copy is a 2017 pressing of the 2014 “digital remaster” – sounds great.
#1970s #1979 #2Tone #HoracePanter #JerryDammers #JohnBradbury #LynvalGolding #NevilleStaple #RicoRodriguez #RoddyRadiation #Specials #SpecialsAKA #TerryHall #TheSpecials #TwoTone #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds
Moin.
Ich freue mich schon darauf, diese Doku über The Specials heute Abend zu Ende zu schauen. Fängt in der aktuelleren Zeit an, geht aber auch in die Anfänge zurück und zur Produktion des ersten Albums mit Elvis Costello.
English with German Subtitles:
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/120615-000-A/the-specials-a-message-to-you/
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"Our Lips Are Sealed" is a song co-written by #JaneWiedlin, guitarist of #theGoGos, and #TerryHall, singer of #theSpecials and #FunBoyThree. It was first recorded by the Go-Go's as the opening track on their album #BeautyAndTheBeat (1981) and was their debut American single in June 1981. The single eventually reached the top 5 in Australia and Canada, and the top 20 in the United States. Originally written and performed with three verses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luxX5DNFKMc
"Thinking of you" - The Colour Field
Performed on a luscious pink stage - it is Valentine's Day, after all. The female co-vocalist is Katrina Phillips, she puts in a more assertive performance, just about stealing the show from Terry Hall.
But it's Terry Hall's song, calm and reflective, and hopeful. And yeah, one for my squeeze over the way...
Happy anniversary to The Fun Boy Three with Bananarama single, “It Ain’t What You Do”. Released this week in 1982. #funboythree #bananarama #terryhall #justdoit #thefunaramatheme
#AlternateFridayMusic
Jan 3 2025
The prompt is Asylum
Fun Boy Three, "The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum)" 1981
I always thought of #FunBoyThree as a side project by 3 members of second-wave #ska band The Specials, but in fact the formation of the group may have been part of #TheSpecials' breakup.
While The Specials used wit to address serious, topical subjects, Fun Boy Three burst onto the scene as off-kilter and downright wacky, from Terry Hall’s exaggerated coif to this single that announced their arrival. The song would be included on their debut eponymous album released the following year.
Perhaps in support of female empowerment, or maybe just to position themselves as a ‘boy band,’ the group associated with the all-female Go-Go's, #TerryHall cowriting “Our Lips Are Sealed" with the #GoGos' #JaneWiedlin, and later with #Bananarama, guesting prominently on each other’s releases.
But never mind all that - let’s have some lunacy.
I.M.
🎵 Skinhead Symphony, Longshot Kick The Bucket, Liquidator, Skinhead Moonstomp 🎵
Ricordando Terry Hall, cantante di The Specials, Fun Boy Three ed altri gruppi , che ha lasciato questo mondo troppo presto due anni fa. #terryhall
Remembering Terry Hall from The Specials, Fun Boy Three, and The Colourfield
(March 19, 1959-December 18, 2022)
#Music, #TerryHall, #TheSpecials, #FunBoyThree, #TheColourfield
"I’ve always been a bit of a loner, and that’s where the songs come from."
Remembering Terry Hall who died today 18th December 2022
#terryhall #photooftheday #music #photography
📸 Gered Mankowitz
Remembering Terry Hall 🖤
March 19, 1959 - December 18, 2022
The Specials - Too Much Too Young
#punkrock #ska #skalegends #skabands #skamusic #terryhall #thespecials #2tone #history #punkrockhistory #otd
