Welcome to the Specials Page :)
 
                           Original Members
        Vocals:  Terry Hall and Neville Staples
        Guitars: Lynval Golding and Roddy Radiation
        Keyboards: Jerry Dammers
        Bass: Sir Horace Gentlemen
        Drums: John "Brad" Bradbury
        Special Guest (alot): Rico Rodriguez, Jamaican trombonist
         
         
    Some History about the Specials:

    1979

    The Specials released "Gangsters" and made their success on the
    U.K. music scene.   Between the years of 1979 and 1981, The Specials had
    seven top ten singles as well as two top five albums.  The Specials also
    formed their own record label which is named 2 Tone Records.

    1981

    Terry, Neville, and Lynval left the Specials to form Fun Boy Three.
    Soon after those three left Roddy left to form his own band called Roddy
    Radiation and the Tearjerkers.  This is when Jerry, Brad, and Horace kept the
    original sound with the name Special AKA.  They got new band members and
    got special guests to fill in the gaps to record the album In The Studio.

    America

    The Specials have gathered loyal and supportive fans.  They have
    never reached the popularity and commercial success that they recieved in
    the UK.  Many of their singles were never released as singles in the US, they
    have only appeared as album tracks.

    -Paraphrased from the liner notes of
                        "The Specials: The Singles Collection"(1991).
     

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    NEWS

    I have finally gotten around to redoing this page.  I was prompted by
    the fact that I found these awesome backgrounds and stuff.  I love
    them.  I hope that you find this page looking cleaner and better.  I am
    on ethernet but I havent gotten around to research what I was wanting
    to do over the summer.  But, I shall get around sometime, I promise.
    In the meantime, enjoy, I have to get my brother to send me the scans
    of the autographs of the Specials and other scans I have at home.  Life
    is a bitch when you go to school away from home ;)

                                                                          1998 CMT