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Original Rude Boy: From Borstal to the Specials - A Life in Crime and Music by
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller notes
- “Used”
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Original Rude Boy: from Borstal to the Specials-A Life in Crime and Music
- Item Height
- 216mm
- Publisher
- Aurum Press
- Topic
- Memorials, Music
- Item Width
- 138mm
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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1979. The dawn of Thatcher's Britain. It's a country crippled by strikes, joblessness and economic gloom, divided by race and class - and skanking to a new beat: 2-Tone. The unruly offspring of white boy punk and rude boy ska, the new music's undeniable leaders were The Specials. Bursting out of Coventry's concrete jungle, their lyrics spoke of failed marriages, petty violence, crowded dancefloors, gangsters and race hate - but with a wit that outshone their angry punk forebears. On stage they were electric, and at the heart of this energy was the vocal chemistry of the ethereal Terry Hall and Jamaican rude boy Neville Staple. In 1961, aged only five, Neville was sent to England to live with his father - a man for whom discipline bordered on child abuse. Growing up black in the Midlands of the sixties and seventies wasn't easy, but then Nev was hardly an angel. His youth was marked by scuffles with skins, compulsive womanising, and a life of crime that led from shoplifting to burglary and eventually borstal and Wormwood Scrubs. But throughout there was music, and now Nev tells how a very bad boy became part of the most important band of the eighties. He remembers sound system battles; the legendary 2-Tone tour with The Selecter, Madness and Dexy's - and their clashes with NF thugs; he recalls the band's increasing tensions and eventual split; his subsequent foray into bubblegum pop with Fun Boy Three; and a new found fame in America, as godfather to the third wave of ska and bands like Gwen Stefani's No Doubt. Raucous and charming Original Rude Boy is the story of a man who done too much, much too young. Neville Staple was a frontman with The Specials, a member of the hugely successful pop trio Fun Boy Three and now tours the world with own his own ska act The Neville Staple Band. www.nevillestaple.co.uk
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Aurum Press
ISBN-13
9781845134808
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94534773
Product Key Features
Book Title
Original Rude Boy: from Borstal to the Specials-A Life in Crime and Music
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Memorials, Music
Publication Year
2009
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
138mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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