The Specials announced that Terry Hall died after a brief illness, calling him “our beautiful friend, brother and one of the most brilliant singers, songwriters and lyricists.'
FILE - Terry Hall of The Specials performs at Paradiso on June 28, 2022, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Terry Hall, who helped create some of the defining sounds of post-punk Britain as the lead singer of The Specials, has died. He was 63.
Hall joined the band that would become The Specials in the English Midlands city of Coventry in the late 1970s, a time of racial tension, economic gloom and urban unrest. With its mix of Black and white members and Jamaica-influenced style of sharp suits and porkpie hats, the band became leaders of the anti-racist 2 Tone ska revival movement.
The Specials had seven U.K. Top 10 hits before Hall and fellow band members Neville Staple and Lynval Golding left in 1981 to form electropop outfit Fun Boy Three. It scored hits including "It Ain’t What You Do and "The Tunnel of Love." Singer-songwriter Elvis Costello also offered condolences, saying "Terry’s voice was the perfect instrument for the true and necessary songs on ‘The Specials.’ That honesty is heard in so many of his songs in joy and sorrow."
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