Inarguable Pop Classics #5: The Specials –Ghost Town

Inarguable Pop Classics #5: The Specials –Ghost Town

Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Party came to power in 1979 at a time of great discontent, racial tensions and mass unemployment for the people of Britain. The music of Coventry’s The Specials tapped into a wider feeling of malaise amongst the youth in those early years of her destructive reign. Released in 1981, it went to number 1 just as race riots exploded in Brixton, Moss Side and Toxteth, and the band’s politicised message of racial unity was at its’ most prescient.

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