Terry Hall, the lead singer of ska-punk band the Specials and a defining voice in British music history, has died at age 63. According to an emotional post on the band's Instagram page, Hall died ...

Terry Hall, frontman of the Specials, the British ska band that blended pub-fight energy with socially conscious lyrics that explored the political and racial tensions of Britain in the late 1970s and ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

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LONDON (Reuters) - The Specials, whose ska music heyday 30 years ago coincided with a grimly familiar backdrop of economic hardship and unemployment in Britain, are to embark on a 13-date reunion tour ...

The Specials remembered Hall as a "beautiful friend, brother and one of the most brilliant singers, songwriters and lyricists this country has ever produced." Joey Nolfi is a senior writer at ...

Terry Hall, the longtime voice of legendary ska group The Specials has died after what the band termed a brief illness. He was 63. Hall and the Specials reached their widest appeal with the haunting, ...