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The Story of Two Tone

August 18th, 2008 by Russell Davies

I wish The Specials had stayed with their previous name - The Coventry Automatics, that would really have solidified the West Midlandsness of the Two Tone time. This is a couple of pretty straight-forward documentaries about Two Tone, straight-forward but good. Some archive stuff, some ancient live performances, some reminiscence, good anecdotes. I liked the fact that a French hotel owner expected The Specials to pay for damage done by The Dammed the previous week, because both bands looked like punks. Style-tribe accountability; that’s what we want to see. MP3 for Part One here. Part Two here.

UPDATE: Hopefully the files work properly now.

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