Two-tone ska, one of Great Britain’s most influential musical eras, arrived on the heels of Margaret Thatcher-era mass unemployment and ongoing racism following decades of immigration from the West ...
Bardon Quinn and Dante Williams in Steven Knight's This Town - Robert Viglasky/BBC For a brief and rather glorious period at the dog end of the 1970s, the 2 Tone ska movement gripped the nation’s pop ...
Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation, by Daniel Rachel. Akashic Books. 480 pages. $32.95. When I was asked recently what gigs I’d most ...