Ghost Town

About Ghost Town

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

Peel suggested one of the downsides of when a bans becomes famous he tended to let them go and it was a crying shame he criminally underplayed this record on his show

Details

Category

30-21

Publisher / Manufacturer

Chrysalis

Date

6-12-1981 UTC

Rating

7

Original price

£1.1