It is a song known the world over and Jerry wrote it after being inspired by an event to mark Nelson Mandela's 65th birthday ...

Jerry Dammers joins director James Rogan to discuss their documentary series about South African anti-apartheid activist ...

Jerry Dammers has spoken about his leadership of the Spatial AKA Orchestra, which celebrates the work of jazz legend Sun Ra. The former Specials songwriter told Metro that he hoped to break down some ...

The Specials have not been on American soil since a grueling 6-week, coast-to-coast tour launched in January 1980 (one of the colder winter’s in U.S. history) all but broke the band up. Many U.K.

Terry Hall has claimed that The Specials keyboard player and main songwriter Jerry Dammers is missing out by not rejoining the recently-reformed group. The influential ska band reformed in 2008 and ...

Following their highly acclaimed national tour and appearances at Glastonbury and on Later with Jools Holland, Jerry Dammers' Spatial AKA Orchestra return to play a London date at the Barbican. The ...

The spirit of intergalactic jazz traveller Sun Ra watches over the latest project from the Specials and 2-Tone founding father Jerry Dammers: a hypnotically grooving, 19 member cosmic funk ensemble.

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- One of the most important groups of the late '70s British ska revival, The Specials return to the Bay Area to play classic hits and songs from their first new album in two ...

On their first two albums The Specials brilliantly embodied the unfettered possibility of a vital and uniquely imagined post-punk ska until, following epochal single “Ghost Town” in 1981, singer Terry ...

When the Specials’ Jerry Dammers’ launched the 2 Tone label in Britain in 1979, his group was more than just a ska revival band with good taste in covers — they were a multi-racial spearhead of a post ...

The story of how 2 Tone, a record label from Coventry went on to have a global impact. The brainchild of Jerry Dammers saw dance music with a message dominate the charts from 1979.