Musician Terry Hall, lead singer of The Specials, has died at the age of 63.As the British group was made public through a series of tweets in which they expressed “great sadness” at the loss of their partner.
The official Twitter of the group Ska described Hall as “one of the brightest singer-songwriters and songwriters America has ever produced” and “one of the kindest, funniest, most genuine souls”. They assured that “everyone who knew and loved him” “will miss him deeply” and that “he left behind his outstanding music and deep humanity”.
Terry Hall formed ‘The Specials’ in 1979 and the band released their biggest hit, ‘Ghost Town’, two years later in 1981. Hall was also a member of ‘Fun Boy Three’, ‘The Colourfield’ throughout his music career. He has collaborated with artists such as ‘Terry, Blair & Anouchka’ and ‘Vegas’ and Sinéad O’Connor, Gorillaz and Lily Allen.
‘The Specials’ rose to fame when they combined punk sound with ska; to this mix they add a critical message to the policies that made them popular with the class, conceived by the conservative Margaret Thatcher, the then British Prime Minister. The worker who opposes the measures of the ‘Iron Lady’. In fact, ‘Ghost Town’ topped the British charts for several weeks.