Too Much Too Young
Festive Fifty 1979
About Too Much Too Young
The Specials came from Coventry and their music was a cocktail of sixties soul Jamaican ska and black music played with frantic exuberance; combine this with a multi-cultural monochrome imagery led to svengali and Specials founder member Jerry Dammers finding he had engineered a winning pop formula.
What's interesting
The Two Tone movement major success was to shift dance music with DJ's playing records in nightclubs back to going along for a dance to a live performing band.
Details
- Category
- 40-31
- Publisher / Manufacturer
- Two-Tone Records (TT2)
- Date
- 05-04-1979 UTC
- Rating
- 7
- Original price
- £3